 Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D., is a staff physician with the Tennessee Valley VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Care Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health – Section of Hospital Medicine, and the Center for Health Services Research. He earned his medical degree at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. He then completed residency and chief residency at the University California, San Francisco and completed a health services research fellowship at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His recent research efforts have included the development and validation of risk-adjusted quality measures for the purposes of benchmarking performance in intensive care unit as well outcomes research for common acute hospital conditions. He is currently working with the Center of Quality Aging, and the VA Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC) to improve efforts in the translation of important clinical research findings into broader clinical practice, with the goal of reducing the burden of delirium and adverse safety events among hospitalized patients. This involves both the testing of quality improvement strategies as well as the development of quality metrics to assess provider / hospital practice. For more details of his work, please contact him for a copy of his Curriculum Vitae.
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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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