The Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine department provides a rich and diverse array of research areas for post-doctoral fellowship training opportunities for PhD, MD, and MD/PhD trainees.
Our postdoctoral training program supports your career development and training in research, promotes collaboration with our renowned investigators, and encourages your contribution to important scientific research.
The goal of the program is to prepare you for the next step in your career in academia and beyond. We have developed a coordinated approach to your program of training. You will benefit from the guidance in your research and in your career development from a mentorship committee, in addition to your faculty preceptor.
Identifying your research passion and a stellar mentor (see Postdoctoral Research Mentors list to the right) is key to a successful fellowship. We encourage all prospective fellows to explore the breadth of the research in the department following the Research links on these pages.
Postdoctoral Research Mentors
Research opportunities are not limited to the given mentors, and can take place with any qualified Johns Hopkins faculty member. For each trainee, an individualized Research Training Program will be formulated with input from the appropriate Mentors and Program Directors. Program mentors are listed in the following table.
| Mentor | Appointment(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Michael J. Caterina, MD, PhD | Professor, Biochemistry; Neuroscience | Molecular Mechanism of Peripheral Nociception and TRP Channel Function |
| Steven P. Cohen, MD | Professor, Anesthesiology | Clinical Trials and Epidemiology of Chronic Pain |
| Nauder Faraday MD | Professor, Anesthesiology; Surgery | Molecular and Cellular Biology of Platelet Function; Pharmacogenomics of antiplatelet therapy; Molecular Determinants of Perioperative Outcome |
| Nicholas Flavahan, PhD | Professor, Anesthesiology | Vascular Biology: Vascular Development and Vascular Disease |
| Steven M. Frank, MD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology; Director, Interdisciplinary Blood Management Program | Blood Conservation; Transfusion Practices |
| Wei Dong Gao, MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Cardiovascular Physiology; Contractile Dysfunction; Heart Failure |
| Allan Gottschalk, MD, PhD Program Director | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Anesthetic Mechanisms; Acute Pain; Sensory Neurobiology; Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience |
| Yun Guan, MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Chronic Pain; Hyperalgesia After Nerve Injury |
| Nikki Heller, PhD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Molecular and cellular immune function in lung diseases; Asthma; ARDS; Cytokine Signaling |
| Elizabeth Hunt, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology; Pediatrics | Resuscitation; Clinical Simulation; Patient Safety; Medical Education |
| Roger A. Johns, MD, PhD | Professor, Anesthesiology | Vascular Biology, Including Pulmonary Hypertension; Molecular Biology of Anesthesia and Analgesia; Health Policy |
| Sujatha Kannan, MD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Nanotechnology; Cerebral Injury and Protection, Neurological Diseases |
| Raymond C. Koehler, PhD | Professor, Anesthesiology Anesthesiology; Environmental Health Sciences (Bloomberg School of Public Health) | Vascular Biology of the Brain; Cerebral Injury After Stroke and Cardiac Arrest |
| Jennifer K. Lee, MD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology | Vascular Biology of the Brain; Hypoxic Neural Injury, Cerebral Protection, Cerebral Autoregulation |
| Paul A. Nyquist, MD, MPH | Associate Professor, Neurology; Anesthesiology; Neurosurgery | Neurologic Outcomes in Critical Care |
| Lewis Romer, MD | Professor, Anesthesiology | Endothelial Cell Adhesion; Cytoskeletal Biology; Pulmonary Hypertension |
| Donald H. Shaffner, MD, PhD | Professor, Anesthesiology; Pediatrics | Neurologic Injury Associated with Cardiac Arrest |
| Frederick Sieber, MD | Professor, Anesthesiology | Geriatric Anesthesiology; Cognitive Function Alterations and Anesthesia |
| Robert D. Stevens, MD | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Radiology | Neural Injury in Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Sepsis; Functional Brain Imaging |
| Albert W. Wu, MD, MPH | Professor, Health Policy and Management; Epidemiology; International Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health); Medicine; Surgery | Long-Term Outcomes of Health Care Delivery |