 Ayumi Shintani, PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Dr. Shintani is an associate professor of biostatistics at Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a leading biostatistician for the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health in May 2000. Her dissertational work involved development of mathematical models to describe the emergence of drug-resistant mutants of HIV with implications for treatment strategies. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, she was an instructor at Yale Nursing School teaching advanced statistics to doctoral students. She also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CT. Dr. Shintani is currently co-investigator of variety of NIH supported projects mainly for the area of health services and outcome research. Her research interest is in advancing methodology to analyze data from critically ill patients. She also received a teaching award from Vanderbilt Master of Science Clinical Investigation Program (MSCI) for the academic year of 2004-2005. Upon the invitation from the Japanese government, she is currently teaching basic and advanced biostatistics to a newly established nation's first MSCI program hosted by Tokai University Hospital, Isehara, Japan.
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Site Principal Investigators
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
E. Wesley Ely,MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC
Senior Advisors
Gordon R. Bernard, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC
Research Coordinators
Leanne Boehm, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC
Critical Care Research Nurse
Joyce Okahashi, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Cayce Strength, RN, BSN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Program Clinical Manager
Aimee Hoskins, RN, BSN
Research Nurse
Anesthesiology
Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Elizabeth Card, RN, CPAN, CCRP
Research Nurse IV
Neuropsychology
Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC
Amy Lipsey Kiehl, MA, LPC-MHSP
Research Coordinator
Hillary Warrington, MS
Research Analyst II
Lindsay Anderson, MSW
Research Analyst III
Sleep
Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology
Neuroimaging
John Gore, PhD
Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS
Baxter Rogers, PhD
Physicist
Psychiatry
Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair
D. Catherine Fuchs, MD
Pediatric Psychiatry
Emergency Department
Jin H. Han, MD, MSC
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Delirium
Ty Berutti, MD, MS, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care
Emily Brink, RN, BSN
Research Nurse III
Biostatisticians
Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Amy J. Graves, SM, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC
Research Fellows
Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow
Nathan E. Brummel, MD
Clinical Fellow in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine
ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
Laboratory
Gillian Sills, BS
Research Assistant
Pharmacy
Joanna L. Stollings, PharmD, BCPS
Medical Intensive Care Unit Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Administrative
Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant
Bill Pojedinec, BS
Program Administrative Manager
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