Dr. Kimberly M. Albert is a behavioral neuroscientist and an Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Albert's research interests focus on the interface of cognition and emotion. In particular, she examines cognitive processes that contribute to mood disorders risk and pathological cognitive aging.
Dr. Albert completed her doctoral degree in neuroscience at University of Vermont and a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2019.
Dr. Mayur B. Patel is a board-certified trauma surgeon and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Patel has clinical expertise in brain neurotrauma and cares for patients in the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Patel’s research interests focus on brain dysfunction and critical illness, including the impact of delirium on long-term cognition and the relationship between delirium and dementia among intensive care unit survivors.
Dr. Patel completed medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, a general surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center, a trauma surgery research fellowship at Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida, and a trauma and surgical critical care clinical fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also completed a master in public health degree at Vanderbilt University. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2010.
Dr. Christopher G. Hughes is a critical care anesthesiologist and a Professor of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Hughes has clinical expertise in prevention strategies and therapies of delirium and long-term cognitive impairment after surgery and critical illness. He cares for patients in the Division of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Hughes completed medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine and an anesthesiology residency and a critical care anesthesia fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also completed a master’s degree in clinical research at Drexel University. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2010.
Dr. Jin H. Han is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Han sees patients in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and his research interests focus on delirium and investigating how acute illness affects cognitive aging.
Dr. Han completed medical school at State University of New York and an emergency medicine residency at University of Cincinnati. He also completed a research fellowship and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology at University of Cincinnati. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2005.
Dr. E. Wesley Ely is a critical care pulmonologist and a Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Ely cares for patients with critical illness in the intensive care unit. His research interests focus on the psychological, cognitive, and functional consequences of delirium and its intersection with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Dr. Ely completed a master of public health degree at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency, a pulmonary and critical care fellowship, and a geriatric neuropsychology fellowship at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Ely also completed a lung transplantation fellowship at Washington University. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1998.
Dr. Donald J. Alcendor is a molecular virologist and an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Alcendor’s research interests focus on cytomegalovirus (CMV) trafficking of the central nervous system with a focus on the blood-brain and retinal barriers. He is also interested in the regulation of amyloid beta proteins in the brain parenchyma and their role in Alzheimer’s disease pathology.
Dr. Alcendor completed his doctoral degree in molecular virology at University of California at Davis, a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular virology at the National Institutes of Health, and a postdoctoral fellowship in viral oncology at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Meharry Medical College faculty in 2005.
