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The
VCURES leadership is made up of a director and two associate
directors.
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VCURES
Director
Bruce Spiess, MD
Professor and Vice-Chairman of Anesthesiology
Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Director of Research
Department of Anesthesiology
Dr.
Spiess is a graduate of Rush University Medical College
in Chicago Illinois. He trained in anesthesiology at
the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester,
MN. Dr. Spiess sub specializes in the field of cardiothoracic
anesthesiology. Before arriving at VCU, Dr. Spiess was
chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at the University
of Washington in Seattle, WA. Dr. Spiess now serves
as Professor and Vice Chairman of the VCU Department
of Anesthesiology as well as Chief of Cardiothoracic
Anesthesia. Dr. Spiess' major research interests are
in the areas of blood substitutes and the pathophysiology
of coagulation and inflammatory abnormalities in shock.
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VCURES
Associate Director
Rao R. Ivatury, MD
Professor of Surgery
Emergency Medicine and Physiology
Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Department of Surgery
Dr. Ivatury is a graduate of the Andhra Medical College
in India. He trained in general surgery at the Misericordia-Lincoln
Hospital of the New York Medical College in New York
City. Before arriving at VCU, Dr. Ivatury was Professor
of Surgery and Director of Trauma Surgery and Surgical
Critical Care at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health
Center in New York City. Dr. Ivatury now serves as Professor
of Surgery and Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical
Care of VCU's Medical College of Virginia Hospital.
Dr. Ivatury's major research interests include the immunology
of shock and the role of the splanchnic bed in the development
of multisystem organ failure.
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VCURES
Associate Director
Kevin R. Ward, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Physiology
Director of Research
Department of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ward is a graduate of the Tulane University School
of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He trained in emergency
medicine at the University of Pittsburgh followed by
a two-year resuscitation research fellowship at the
Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Before coming
to VCU, Dr. Ward was a senior staff member of the Henry
Ford Health System in Detroit, MI. Dr. Ward's research
interests include noninvasive biosensing and oxygen
transport in shock to prevent the development of sepsis
and multisystem organ failure. Dr. Ward serves as Director
of Research in the VCU Department of Emergency Medicine.
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Drs. Spiess, Ivatury, and Ward were the founding members
of VCURES along with their respective Chairmen (Dr.
Ronald Merrell of Surgery,
Dr.
Carlos Arancibia of Anesthesiology,
and Dr.
Joseph Ornato of Emergency
Medicine). Each of the directors has a committed
research background in various areas of shock which,
when combined, span the disease. The directors invite
you to examine VCURES and will be happy to further discuss
any aspect of the center.
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