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Mayur B. Patel, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Professor of Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Dr. Patel is the Chief of Acute Care Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which carries responsibilities across the domains of trauma, emergency general surgery, burns, and critical care. His research focuses on brain dysfunction and critical illness, as related to traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), long-term cognitive impairment, dementia, and other aspects of ICU survivorship. He is an active member of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center as an Executive Committee member and serves as its Fiscal Officer. Also, he serves the Board of Directors for the Center for Emergency Care Research and Innovation (CERI). His team is working to define the impact of delirium and TBI on long-term cognition, return to work, and neuroinflammation after critical illness and injury among ICU survivors. He is also determining the effectiveness of computerized cognitive rehabilitation in ICU survivors. Dr. Patel has published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Intensive Care Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), JAMA Surgery, & Annals of Surgery, reflecting over 100 peer-reviewed articles, invited reviews, book chapters, and editorials. He has presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has mentored >60 undergraduate, pre-doctoral (MD and PhD candidates), post-doctoral trainees (F and K level resident and junior faculty), and motivated faculty (R level). Dr. Patel leads as the Program Director for Vanderbilt's inaugural NIH/NIGMS (T32 GM135094) two-year Post-doctoral Research Fellowship: Interdisciplinary Training in Injury and Critical Illness.

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