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Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN is a critical care, perioperative and nutrition physician who serves as a Professor with Tenure of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Dept. of Anesthesiology & Director of the Nutrition Team at Duke Hospital. Dr. Wischmeyer’s clinical and research focus is focused helping patients prepare and recover from critical illness and surgery. His research interests include surgical and ICU nutrition and exercise rehabilitation therapy, parenteral nutrition and personalized nutrition trials, perioperative optimization, post-illness muscle mass and functional recovery, and role of probiotics/microbiome in illness, specifically COVID-19 prevention/treatment. Dr. Wischmeyer has received numerous awards for his work from national and international societies, including the Jeffrey Silverstein Award and Memorial Lecture for Humanism in Medicine from the American Delirium Society, Fellow of Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), the John M. Kinney Award for most significant contribution to the field of general nutrition, the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition where he is also an honorary Fellow of ASPEN (FASPEN). In 2020 he received the ASPEN George Blackburn Clinical Nutrition Mentorship Award, as well as the Excellence in Nutrition Support Education Award from ASPEN, and he has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Parenteral Nutrition Education and Methodology Advancement for significant contributions to nutrition. He has >200 publications (H index-70 and 50 papers with >100 citations) in critical care, nutrition and perioperative care, including publications in New England Journal of Medicine. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national/international meetings, delivering >1000 invited presentations. Finally, he is an advocate and lecturer for improving the patient experience and teaching provider’s to keep CARE as the focus of healthcare.