Dr. Raghavendran is a trauma, critical care, general surgeon. His primary research interests are lung contusion and aspiration-induced lung injury. Dr. Raghavendran is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a recipient of a National Institutes of General Medical Science (NIGMS) Mentored Clinical Scientist K award from 2006. His current laboratory research focuses on studying the inflammatory mechanisms associated with lung contusion and its interaction with gastric aspiration. The focuses of his clinical interests are with ARDS and ventilator-associated pneumonia. NIGMS offers the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) and the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) in the areas of anesthesiology, clinical pharmacology, and trauma and burn injury to support the development of outstanding academic physician-scientists. These awards provide support for a period of three to five years of supervised research and study to clinically trained professionals who have the commitment and potential to develop into productive, independent investigators. The awards support developmental experiences in either a laboratory or a clinical research setting. Dr. Raghavendra was previously at the University of Buffalo. He completed his surgery residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and his fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at Brown University in Providence, Road Island. He completed his medical education at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry, India. During the last seven years, he was an attending trauma surgeon at University at Buffalo, SUNY and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2007. |
