Program Director

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Stephanie DeMasi, MD

Stephanie DeMasi, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a junior investigator in the research division. Her central interest is in the evaluation of time-sensitive interventions for patients with acute, severe illness, such as respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. 

She completed residency in emergency medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham. After her chief resident year, she completed a two-year clinical ultrasound and resuscitation science fellowship. 

Dr. DeMasi joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2023 with NIH funding on the Department of Anesthesiology Training in Perioperative Science T32 grant. During this time, she completed her Master of Science degree in Clinical and Translational Science and published several manuscripts on emergency airway management. She is the primary investigator for the Vanderbilt emergency department Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group (PCCRG), a 25-center network that conducts pragmatic, comparative effectiveness clinical trials of critically ill adults. In 2025, she received an NIH/NHLBI K23 award to conduct a randomized trial comparing sedation-only intubation to intubation with sedation plus neuromuscular blockade among critically ill adults.

Trials

Participating Investigators

• Albany Medical Center – Alex Bracey, MD; Michael Waxman, MD
• Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist– Kevin Gibbs, MD; John Gaillard, MD; Jordan Nogle, DO; Jessica Palakshappa, MD, Lane Smith, MD
• Baylor, Scott & White Health– Shekhar Ghamande, MD; Heath White, DO
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center– Nathan Shapiro, MD, MPH; Alon Dagan, MD
• Brooke Army Medical Center- Steven Schauer, DO
• Denver Health Medical Center- Stacy Trent, MD; L. Jane Stewart, MD, MPH; Anuj Mehta, MD
• Duke University Medical Center– J. Taylor Herbert, MD, PhD; Vijay Krishnamoorthy, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.; Estuardo Fernandez, MD
• Hennepin County Medical Center: Matthew Prekker, MD, MPH; Brian Driver, MD; Sarah Knack, MD, MS; Sydney Hansen, MD; Aaron Robinson, MD, MPH; Heidi Erickson, MD, Robert Reardon, MD, Matthew Spainer
• Ochsner Medical Center- Derek Vonderhaar, MD
• Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center– Matt Exline, MD; Shilpa Sridhar, MD; Patrick Kramer, MD; Matt Barraza, MD
• Oregon Health & Sciences University Hospital – Matt Dillon, MD; Akram Khan, MD; Gopal Allada, MD
• FMOL Health: Our Lady of the Lake -Hollis O’Neal, Jr., MD; Luann Barnett, MD; Christopher Thomas, MD; James Walker, MD, PhD, FCCP; Shannon Alwood, MD
• Lahey Hospital & Medical Center – Avignat Patel, MD; Fraser MacKay, MD; Molly Verderame, PA; Anthony Gray, MD; Susan Stempek, MBA, MMSc, PA-C; Joanne Wozniak, PA-C; Calvin Brown, MD, FAEEM
• Lincoln Medical Center: Jason West, MD
• Louisiana State University School of Medicine: David Janz, MD
• Montefiore Einstein Medical Center- Daniel Fein, MD; Michelle Gong, MD, MS; Ari Moskowitz, MD; Amira Mohamed, MD; Luke Andrea, MD; Veronika Blinder, DO; Rishi Malhotra, MD
• Regions Hospital– Bjorn Westgard, MD, MA; Keith Henry, MD; Broc Schindler, MD; Alexandra Schick, MD
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center: Nida Qadir, MD; Kevin Landefeld, MD
• Rush University Medical Center– Michael Gottlieb, MD, RDMS; Kevin Buell, MBBS, MS; Thomas Alcorn, MD; Karen Jackson, MD; Jie Lie, PhD, RRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, FAARC, FCCM
• Sentara Norfolk General: Xian Qiao, MD 
• Stanford University Medical Center: Amy Kloosterboer, MD; Melissa Vogelsong, MD; June Gordon, MD; Vikram Fielding-Singh, MD, JD, MS
• University of Alabama at Birmingham– Derek Russell, MD; Micah Whitson, MD; David Page, MD; Andrew Barker, MD; Michael Kurz, MD
• University of Colorado at Anschutz– Adit Ginde, MD, MP; Daniel Resnick-Ault, MD; Jason Brainard, MD; Neil Aggarwal, MD; Peter Sottile, MD; Ian Stanley, PhD, MS; David Douin, MD; Benjamin Scott, MD; Sarah Alber, MD
• University of Iowa Health Care– Kevin Doerschug, MD, MS; Olivia Bailey, MD; Yana Zemkova, MD
• University of Maryland Medical Center: Sheetal Gandotra, MD; Gentry Wilkerson, MD; Kami Hu, MD
• University Medical Center New Orleans– David Janz, MD, MSc; Stephen Lim, MD; Amelia Muhs, MD
• University of Mississippi Medical Center: Joseph Brewer, MD
• University of Wisconsin Health University Hospital- Stephen Halliday, MD, MSCI; Majid Afshar, MD, MS; Micah Long, MD
• University of Washington Harborview: Aaron Joffe, MD, Steven Mitchell, MD, FACEP; Andrew Latimer, MD; Nicholas Johnson, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FAHA; Christopher Barnes, MD
• Vanderbilt Health – Jonathan Casey, MD, MSCI; Matthew Semler, MD, MSc; Wesley Self, MD, MPH; Todd Rice, MD; Stephanie DeMasi, MD, MS; Kevin Seitz, MD; Jeremy Walco, MD; Bollinger Stubblefield, M.D, Jin Han, MD, MSc, Alexander Gelbard, MD