Paul E Wischmeyer MD

Summary

• My clinical and research focus is in perioperative care, critical care, and nutrition to help patients prepare and recover from illness and surgery. Research interests include perioperative optimization, nutrition therapy, post-illness lean body mass and functional recovery, and probiotics/microbiome. My research group has been awarded NIH and other peer reviewed grants to perform research ranging from basic mechanistic cell work to large-scale multi-center clinical trials. For his research work and clinical work, Dr. Wischmeyer has received numerous awards from national and international societies including, The Jeffrey Silverstein Award and Memorial Lecture for Humanism in Medicine from the American Delirium Society, The John M. Kinney Award for the most significant contribution to field of general nutrition, the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Awardby the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and The Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Parenteral Nutrition Society (IPENEMA) for significant contributions to the field of nutrition. Dr. Wischmeyer has > 125 peer-reviewed publications in critical care, anesthesiology, and and nutrition, including in the New England Journal of Medicine. Finally, he has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international medical meetings delivering > 600 invited presentations over his career. He has an H-index of 46 with over 7000 citations to his work, including 23 publications with > 100 citations.
  My passion for helping patients recover from illness and surgery arises from his personal experiences as both doctor and patient in the ICU. I have undergone over 20 major surgeries and personally experienced multiple ICU stays due to a childhood GI illness that took more than half my intestinal tract. Thus, preparation for surgery/critical care and recovery from illness are a way of life for Dr. Wischmeyer that he is passionate about teaching his patients and other caregivers worldwide.