Timothy Daniel Girard BA, MD, MSCI

Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI, is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and a member of the CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illnesses) Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Baylor University and earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He then completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Then then spent over a decade on the faculty at Vanderbilt, where he developed expertise in the study of cognitive impairment due to sepsis, ARDS, and other causes of critical illness; delirium and sedation in the ICU; and liberation from mechanical ventilation. Most recently, Dr. Girard joined the CRISMA Center at the University of Pittsburgh to establish a research program that seeks to understand and enhance long-term recovery from critical illness. His research efforts have included, among others, a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effect of a paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol on short- and long-term outcomes among mechanically ventilated ICU patients; a large, multicenter, randomized controlled trial examining antipsychotics as a treatment for delirium in the ICU; and multiple prospective cohort studies focused on risk factors and outcomes associated with long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness. He has received funding by the National Institute on Aging and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.