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Dr. Lis Evered

Investigator of the Month (December 2024): Dr. Lis Evered

Dr. Lis Evered is Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, in the US, and Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Australia, maintaining research teams in both NY and Melbourne. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, with extensive publications and several […]

Michele Cavallari, MD, PhD

How Brain Atrophy and Delirium Team Up to Accelerate Post-Surgery Cognitive Decline in Older People Without Dementia

Contributed by Michele Cavallari, MD, PhD, Center for Neurological Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; and Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife; Boston, MA. Rationale and Objective Postoperative delirium is a common acute confusional state, affecting up to half of older surgical patients [1] and is an established independent risk factor for […]

Susana Vacas

Investigator of the Month (November 2024): Dr. Susana Vacas

Susana Vacas, MD, PhD, is a neuroanesthesiologist, clinician innovator, investigator, and educator at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, where her research focused on the underlying mechanisms and risk factors of perioperative neurocognitive disorders, a set of debilitating, costly, and increasingly pervasive […]

Mark van den Boogaard, RN, PhD

Performance and Validation of Two ICU Delirium Assessment and Severity Tools: A Prospective Observational Study

Contributed by Mark van den Boogaard, RN, PhD, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Background Delirium is common in intensive care unit (ICU) and medium care unit (MCU) settings 1, 2 and associated with number of deleterious short and long-term outcomes, including long-term cognitive impairment. Current guidelines recommend that ICU/MCU patients should be routinely […]

Investigator of the Month (October 2024): Dr. Kendall Smith

Dr. S. Kendall Smith, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, specializing in general anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Her clinical expertise is complemented by a robust research program that focuses on the impact of circadian health on clinical outcomes of hospitalized and critically ill […]

Olivier Huet, MD, PhD

Prevention of postoperative delirium using an overnight infusion of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A pragmatic, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial

Contributed by Olivier Huet, MD, PhD, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Background Postoperative delirium is acknowledged to have a significant negative impact on patient outcome after cardiac surgery including long-term cognitive decline. To date, there is no specific treatment for postoperative delirium 1. Prevention of postoperative delirium primarily relies on patient re-orientation, mobility and […]

Investigator of the Month (September 2024): Dr. Robert Sanders

Professor Robert Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, DABA, FRCA, undertook a BSc in Neuroscience and MBBS (medicine) followed by specialist training in Anaesthetics. During that time, he continued to perform basic neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mervyn Maze. Spurred by those discoveries, he was awarded a Medical Research Council (UK) Clinical Training Fellowship funding […]

Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH

Do Language Disparities Exist in Preoperative Cognitive Screening and Does Language Preference Influence the Association Between Preoperative Cognition and Postoperative Delirium?

Contributed by Angela Chen, BA1, 2; Robert Whittington, MD1; Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH1. 1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2. Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, North Chicago, IL, USA Background Older adults are highly vulnerable to postoperative delirium, particularly […]

Citing a published NIDUS blog post on your CV

When citing a NIDUS blog post on your CV, list it in a section entitled ‘Other Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarship’. For the actual citation, list your name, blog title, organization (NIDUS), and the link to Blog. At the end, add ‘invited blog’ in brackets. This is the format suggested on the Harvard Med School CV template.

Example:
Sam Jones, My Delirium Blog Post, NIDUS, www.deliriumnetwork/my-delirium-blog-post.org (invited blog)