Research Opportunities and Mentorship
We aim to train academic leaders, scientists and scholars in neurocritical care that will contribute to advancing our field. To support our fellows’ career development, we have built a structured mentorship program: Fellows have a primary academic mentor and will have monthly meetings with their program leadership to provide guidance on research projects, funding and grant applications, conference presentations, and fellow-to-faculty transitions.
We offer a broad variety of research opportunities, areas in which we have a strong academic focus include Trauma/Neurotrauma (https://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/researchpub/), Palliative Care (https://depts.washington.edu/pallcntr/research.html), Stroke (http://providerresource.uwmedicine.org/videos/comprehensive-stroke-center), Cardiac Arrest, Pre-hospital medicine/Resuscitation, and Quality Improvement in Critical Care.
Our fellows all have a dedicated academic fund ($1500/year) and will be granted protected time to attend at least one national conference a year.
We have also built internal grant opportunities, which provide bridge funding and support our trainees who aim to pursue a career as clinician scientists.
Current Fellow Projects
– Predicting Extubation Failure Using Neuroimaging Biomarkers and Breathing Patterns (Awarded the Adler TBI Research Grant)
– Examining EEG patterns prior to Cerebral Herniation in Patients Post-Cardiac Arrest
– Clinical utility of quantitative blood volume analysis in severe traumatic brain injury (Awarded the Adler TBI Research Grant)
– Assessing the Ability of a Composite MRI Brain Score to Predict Outcomes in Patients Post Cardiac Arrest
– Associations between Glucocorticoid Treatment and Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
– Developing an Interactive Virtual Curriculum for Death by Neurologic Criteria (Awarded the Washington Innovations in Simulation Health Grant)
– Provider Perceptions of Potential Healthcare Disparity Related to Treatment Decisions of Older Adult Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (Awarded the Adler TBI Research Grant)