Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical care physician. Dr. Ely earned his MD and MPH at Tulane University School of Medicine and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He serves as the Grant W. Liddle endowed chair in medicine and is a physician-scientist and tenured Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also the Associate Director of aging research for the Tennessee Valley Veteran’s Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC) in Nashville, TN. Dr. Ely founded and is the codirector of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center. He has spent over 25 years designing and conducting NIH and VA funded clinical trials and cohort studies in the areas of delirium and acquired-dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD), sepsis, and most recently COVID-19. He has over 550 peer reviewed papers. Dr. Ely is the author of a book of narrative non-fiction entitled Every Deep-Drawn Breath, from which he is donating 100% net proceeds to establish an endowment to help ICU and COVID survivors and their family members rebuild their lives.
Effect of Antipsychotics on Agitation in ICU Delirium: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Trial
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
11:15 AM – 11:25 AM MT