Co-Leader of the Career Development & Outreach Core

John Devlin, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM, FCCP is a professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University. On top of that, he is a critical care pharmacist, an associate scientist in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. As a delirium investigator, his research focuses on the detection, prevention, and treatment of delirium. What’s more, he also focuses on disrupted sleep in the ICU and the pharmacoepidemiology of delirium in critically ill adults.

During his career, he has mentored multiple ICU pharmacists through a long standing critical care fellowship/PhD program. Also, Dr. Devlin chaired SCCM’s 2018 pain, agitation, delirium, immobility and disrupted sleep international clinical practice guidelines. He also helped lead SCCM’s ICU Liberation quality improvement collaborative. Currently, Dr. Devlin serves on an ATS research task force focused on identifying research priorities for sleep in the ICU. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critical Care Medicine and Pharmacotherapy and a past president of the American Delirium Society.