Pratik Pandharipande MD, MSCI, FCCM

Pratik P. Pandharipande, MD, FCCM, is a professor of anesthesiology and surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the co-director of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His research focus is on the epidemiology of ICU-associated brain injury (manifested acutely as delirium and chronically as cognitive impairment) and in improving survivorship. He has conducted seminal studies evaluating the role of sedation in these brain dysfunction outcomes. He is also involved in projects related to understanding the pathophysiology of delirium, including inflammation, amino acid perturbation, and endothelial dysfunction.