Giovanna Ramirez Barbieri, MD

Dr. Ramirez Barbieri is a Research fellow at the Center for Resuscitation Science. She is a graduate of San Marcos University, Lima, Peru. She started a one-year program at the Harvard School of Public Health on Principles and Practice of Clinical Research. She completed her Research Fellowship at the Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Cardiovascular under the sponsorship of Harvard Medical School. She was involved in multiple projects focusing on mitochondrial transplantation as a method of cardio and pulmonary protection. She was entrusted with leading a project to demonstrate the efficacy of mitochondrial transplantation as a potential treatment for cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury in the large animal model. She is an active member of the Illinois Peruvian American Medical Society helping them bring medical aid to poor communities in Chicago and Peru.
Giovanna’s current focus is on research related to post-cardiac arrest care to pursue her main interest in cardiovascular ischemia diseases.

Ying Loo, BS

About Ying Loo

Ying was born in Hong Kong and spent part of her childhood there before moving to the U.S. She attended Northeastern University and graduated in 2018 with a degree in Health Science and double minors in Biology and Global Health. During her undergraduate years, she worked as an EMT-B for Fallon Ambulance Service and was also on the executive board for Northeastern’s student-run, volunteer EMS organization for two years. Ying started with the Center for Resuscitation Science shortly after graduation, and is excited to learn from everyone on the team and to continue her passion in emergency medicine.

Parth V. Patel, RN

About Parth Patel

Parth first started working for the Center for Resuscitation Science as an intern when he went to Boston University graduating with a degree in Human Physiology. He then began working as a research assistant and eventually became the reasearch coordinator for the team. Parth has a background in IT and computer programming and even started up his own software company. Before he started nursing school at Northeastern University, Parth began to help the team out by pulling electronic data from the EMR systems at BIDMC. With SQL, he can pull all sorts of clinical data to automate studies, run queries for possible grants, and automate other research aspects. After graduating nursing school, Parth has begun working as a research nurse and data analyst for the team.

Lise Witten, BS

About Lise Witten

Lise is a Medical Student from Denmark doing a research year at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has previously worked as a Junior MD in a small coastal hospital in Greenland, and has plans to travel with Doctors Without Borders in the future. Her research is focused on Critical Care and Resuscitation Science.

Sebastian Wiberg, MD

About Sebastian Wiberg

Sebastian Wiberg has a medical degree from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, he is affiliated with Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet and Center for Resuscitation Science. Sebastian is pursuing a PhD degree focusing primarily on clinical trials involving post-cardiac arrest care, and he is scheduled to complete the PhD programme in the spring 2018. In addition to post-cardiac arrest care, Sebastian is interested in other aspects of critical care in the intensive care setting.