About Lars Andersen
Lars W. Andersen is a physician from Denmark currently in residency. He has been working with the Center for Resuscitation Science since January 2012 where he started as a research student. In 2013, he finished medical school in Aarhus, Denmark and started a 3-year Ph.D. project as a collaboration between Aarhus University and the Center for Resuscitation Science. He graduated from the Ph.D. program in October 2016 and has since worked with the group as an external collaborator. Lars received his M.P.H. from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in March 2016 and is a member of the Advanced Life Support Task Force at ILCOR since July 2016. Lars has been involved in the design and execution of multiple phase II clinical trials and has a special interest in large epidemiological studies and the statistical methods involved. He has primarily published within the fields of cardiac surgery, sepsis, and cardiac arrest. Lars is a reviewer for multiple international journals including, among others, JAMA, CHEST and Intensive Care Medicine and is an editorial board member at Resuscitation.
About Xiaowen Liu
Dr. Liu’s research is focused on human nutritional and metabolic dysfunction in the critically ill patients. After completing 6 years of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences and statistics in university of Wisconsin- Madison, and 3.5 years of postdoctoral training in endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Liu has developed an area of expertise in basic science research, biostatistics and data analysis which is critical for success in translational research. After completion of my post-doctoral training, I became the Lab Director at the Center for Resuscitation Science in BIDMC, which is a multi-disciplinary group of investigators focused on translational research with an emphasis on metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction in the critically ill. As laboratory director I am providing an excellent bridge between clinical investigation and basic science. My research on immunocapture and microplate-based activity and quantity measurement of pyruvate dehydrogenase in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells set is a novel, easy and less invasive way to further understand the role of PDH, a key enzyme linking the glycolysis metabolic pathway to the citric acid cycle and releasing energy via NADH, in human disease. My current work is focused on evaluating mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction across a range of critical illness and the response to potential metabolic resuscitators both in the lab and clinical setting.
About Catherine Ross
Dr. Catherine Ross is a Pediatric Critical Care Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is a graduate of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and completed her Pediatrics residency at UCLA. She completed her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Ross’s past research focused on the use of big data to provide early identification of decompensation on the pediatric care ward and was funded by the Jackson Vaughn Critical Care Research Award. Her current interests include prevention of pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest with the use of peri-arrest vasopressors. She also has a special interest in pediatric massive and sub-massive pulmonary embolism.
