Critical Care Medicine

Neutrophils play a key role in host defense and have an ever-expanding list of roles in health and disease. However, neutrophil dysregulation can lead to catastrophic inflammation. In the intensive care unit, neutrophil dysfunction contributes to pathology in many diseases including sepsis, organ transplant, acute lung injury and stroke.

Research profile

Research in our lab is focused on traumatic brain injury (TBI). Specifically, we are focused on utilizing clinical relevant animal models of TBI to study the effects of secondary insults — intracranial hypertension, hypoxemia and neuroinflammation — after moderate and severe TBI.

Research profile