Participating Sites
Currently twelve centers across the United States are participating in the MINDDS II clinical trial.
Participating Site Investigators
At each participating site efforts are led by a diligent team of clinical research faculty, research coordinators and study staff. Without their hard work and dedication this innovative clinical trial would not be possible.
Amit Bardia, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Amit Bardia is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia and the Program Director of the Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship within the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In addition to being a cardiac anesthesiologist and cardiothoracic intensivist, he is an NIH-funded researcher with a keen interest in perioperative outcomes research aimed at improving health care delivery.
Sergey Karamnov, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Sergey Karamnov is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Karamnov is the Director of Cardiac and Thoracic Anesthesia Research at BWH, with previous research spanning risk factors and outcomes in cardiac surgery, including atrial fibrillation.
Mihai Podgoreanu, MD
Duke University Hospital
Dr. Podgoreanu is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University Hospital and Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology. Dr. Podgoreanu’s research interests focus on perioperative cardiovascular injury and adaptation, mechanisms of myocardial injury, vein graft disease and clinico-genomic risk prediction for long-term adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
Shahzad Shaefi, MD
Dr. Shahzad Shaefi is Vice Chair for Professional Affairs and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Shaefi's research program is focused on translational and clinical research surrounding the protective effects of different admixtures of oxygen administered perioperatively, as well as prevention and treatment of perioperative neurocognitive disorders following cardiac surgery.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Ben Palanca is a tenured Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with an affiliated faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. As a physician-scientists, Dr. Palanca’s research interests focus on characterizing the mechanisms whereby anesthetic agents alter intracortical and subcortical neural networks and impair cognitive processes to generate unconsciousness.
Ben Palanca, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
Frederic Billings IV, MD
Dr. Frederic T. (Josh) Billings IV is Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Billings’ research interests include evaluating and affecting mechanisms of surgery-induced organ injury, with a focus on the impact of oxygen tension on putative mechanisms of organ injury, in clinical trials, cohort studies, and preclinical models.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Karsten Bartels, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Dr. Bartels is the Robert Lieberman Endowed Chair of Anesthesiology and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Bartels research has focused on health services research in perioperative medicine, including studies to explore the efficiency and quality of postsurgical pain management.
Patrick Odonkor, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Odonkor is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Anesthesiology Chief for the Cardiothoracic Division. His research interests span cardiac xenotransplantation, improvements in perioperative management during cardiac surgery and cardiovascular procedures and potential effects of autologous normovolemic hemodilution on cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury.
Andrew Feider, MD
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Dr. Feider is Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Feider’s research interests include liver transplantation, transesophageal echocardiography, left ventricular assist devices and studies in cardiothoracic anesthesiology.
Vivek Moitra, MD
Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Moitra is the Allen I Hyman, MD Professor of Critical Care Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, as well as the Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Co-Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Program Director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. His clinical and research interests include intraoperative resuscitation and the long-term outcomes of the chronically critically ill.
Charles Hogue, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Hogue is the James E. Eckenhoff Professor of Anesthesiology and Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Hogue’s research focuses on investigating methods to reduce organ injury from cardiac surgery, particularly neurological and renal complications. He has also previously received funding from the NIH to examine the role of estrogen replacement therapy as a means for providing neuroprotection for elderly women undergoing cardiac surgery.
Matthias Eikermann, MD
Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. Matthias Eikermann is the Chair of Anesthesiology at Montefiore and the Francis F. Foldes Professor of Anesthesiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Eikermann’s research focuses on the generation and analysis of highly granular pharmaco-physiological patient data from the electronic health record to understand the effects of new medications on patients’ recovery from surgery or critical illness.
