Anesthesiology and Critical Care T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program

Anesthesiology and Critical Care NIH T32 Trainers

Current and/or Incoming Trainers (Mentors) for Physician Postdoctoral Research Training in Perioperative Medicine (PPRTPM)

Perioperative Health Services Research

Perioperative Health Services	Primary Department	Research Interests
Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSPH (Director)	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	The advancement of patient safety with the use of implementation science to advance health equity, high-quality health care, and population health.
Jason Christie, MD, MSCE	Medicine	Translational research studies of the risks, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes of acute lung injury in the transplant and non-transplant critically ill populations.
Scott Halpern, MD, PhD	Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy	Combining empirical approaches from the fields of epidemiology, health services research, and the decision-making sciences with conceptual work grounded in moral philosophy.
Mark Neuman, MD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Understanding the health-system level determinants of long-term outcomes of surgery and acute care among older adults
Nadir Yehya, MD, PhD	CHOP- Anesthesiology & Critical Care	All aspects of pediatric critical illness, with a particular emphasis on epidemiology of acute respiratory failure, acute respiratory syndrome (ARDS), and mechanical ventilation.

Perioperative Neuropharmacology Research

Perioperative Neuropharmacology Faculty	Primary Department	Research Interests
Alexander Proekt, MD, PhD (Director)	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience
Seema Bhatnagar, PhD	CHOP-Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Understanding why some individuals are vulnerable or resilient to the potentially adverse effects of chronic stress and how chronic stress contributes to the development of affective and anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
Julie Blendy, PhD	Pharmacology	The molecular basis for the biochemical and behavioral changes associated with chronic drug use and addiction.
Grace Brannigan, PhD	Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden	The mechanisms underlying general anesthetic actions, employing high performance computing and molecular dynamics simulation to investigate biophysical interactions of proteins, membranes, and small molecules.
Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Anesthetics & Psychedelic Actions in Cerebral Cortices
Akiva Cohen, PhD	CHOP-Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Injury-induced altered brain excitability, circuit rearrangement and synaptic function
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD	Neuroscience	Representation of information in thalamocortical networks. Intracellular and optical recordings in vivo.
Manuel Covarrubias, PhD	Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University	The molecular mechanisms governing the function and regulation of voltage-gated potassium channels expressed in the nervous system.
Deborah Culley, MD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Perioperative neurocognitive disorders in older adults.
Roderic Eckenhoff, MD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Molecular pharmacology of anesthetics and perioperative neurocognitive disorders.
Amelia Eisch, PhD	CHOP-Anesthesiology & Critical Care	How adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus influences normal behavior and cognitive functioning, as well as abnormal functioning, specifically psychiatric, and neurological disorders.
Raquel Gur, MD, PhD	Psychiatry	The study of brain and behavior in psychosis across the lifespan, employing translational research integrating basic and clinical neuroscience.
Max Kelz, MD, PhD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	How general anesthetic drugs, which vary drastically on a molecular level, all lead to the same endpoint of unconsciousness/hypnosis.
Tod Killbaugh, MD	CHOP-Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Metabolism and mitochondrial bioenergetic dysfunction in in vitro and in vivo models of critical illness alongside exploring therapeutic approaches for organ failure.
Brian Litt, MD, PhD	Neurology	Epilepsy, EEG, Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Stimulation, Implantable devices, network neuroscience, deep brain stimulation, functional imaging, neuroengineering, biomedical engineering, computational neuroscience.
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Neural circuits contributing to anesthetic hypnosis and recovery
Vladimir Muzykantov, MD, PhD	Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics	To boost mechanistic and spatiotemporal precision, effectiveness and safety of pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular, pulmonary, oncologic, metabolic, neurologic and other diseases.
Huafeng Wei, MD, PhD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Investigating the role of intracellular calcium dysregulation on neuronal apoptosis, autophagy and neurodegeneration in cellular and animal models featuring various neurodegenerative diseases, especially in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Perioperative Pain Research

Perioperative Pain Medicine Faculty	Primary Department	Research Interests
Gregory Corder, MD, PhD (Director)	Psychiatry	The neural basis of how the brain generates the perception of pain, and how pathological dysfunction within these brain networks promotes the transition to chronic pain and drug abuse.
Michael Ashburn, MD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Large, multi-center clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of analgesics for the treatment of chronic pain.
Julie Blendy, PhD	Pharmacology	Molecular Basis of Addiction and Depression
Amelia Eisch, PhD	CHOP- Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Neural circuitry underlying opioid addiction and neurological disorders.
John Farrar, MD, PhD	Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics	Efficacy of pain therapeutics, design of pain clinical trails, and functional brain imaging in people with pain.
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Opioid and opioid receptor pharmacology, specifically the molecular recognition mechanism of opioids and their receptors using biophysical, biochemical, thermodynamic, protein engineering, and high-resolution structural approaches and the pharmacological effects of opioid receptor agonists.
Wenquin Luo, MD, PhD	Neuroscience	Molecular, Genetic, and Behavioral Studies of Somatosensation
Mark Neuman, MD, MSc	Anesthesiology & Critical Care	Understanding the health-system level determinants of long-term outcomes of surgery and acute care among older adults
Rosemary C Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN	School of Nursing	Instrument development and testing of patient-reported outcome measures, advancing the translation of pain science to practice, and care of patients with cancer-related pain and military service members and Veterans experiencing pain from combat-related injuries.