Dr. Lei Gao, MBBS, MMSC, is an Anesthesiologist and Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. He leads the Perioperative Sleep and Brain Health Lab (PSBL), studying sleep/circadian health and postoperative delirium in surgical patients. His lab leverages multiple approaches, including wearable technology, to pave the way for new […]

Allyson Palmer, MD, PhD is a geriatrician and hospitalist with training in geroscience. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Palmer works clinically on the Geriatric Medicine consulting service where she is active in resident and fellow education, and […]

Nicholas S. Reed is an associate professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Population Health and core faculty at the NYU Langone Health Optimal Aging Institute. He combines his training in clinical audiology (AuD, Towson University) and public health with a focus in epidemiology (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) to approach his research […]

Dr. Kelly Atkins is a Clinical Neuropsychologist from Melbourne Australia. She graduated from Monash University in 2021 with a doctorate in Clinical Neuropsychology and completed her registrar training at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, followed by an Australian-American Fulbright Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. In 2023, Dr Atkins received a NIDUS pre-pilot award […]

Blair Golden, MD, MS is a hospitalist with training in health services research and expertise in patient and family communication.  She is a tenure-track faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is the recipient of a National […]

Christina Boncyk, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2013 and stayed in Madison to complete her residency in Anesthesiology at the University […]

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 […]

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 […]