Collaborators

Consciousness Science & Mathematical Foundations

Alessandro Selvitella, Ph.D.

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne. Alessandro is my primary collaborator on the mathematical and philosophical work. So far we have published the embedding paper (low-dimensional sensory dynamics in recurrent networks) and the caveats paper on the unfolding argument. More to come. He brings the analysis and PDEs; I bring the dynamical systems intuition and the neuroscience. It works.

Aaron Schurger, Ph.D.

Chapman University; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM-CEA, Paris. Aaron and I co-authored the caveats paper on the unfolding argument, showing that it fails when plasticity and temporal dynamics are taken into account. He brings deep expertise in the neuroscience of volition and consciousness.

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

stanleykrippner.weebly.com. Stanley Krippner has decades of foundational work in dream research and altered states of consciousness. We collaborate on the Chaos-State Space Dream Model, which connects SST’s state space framework to the phenomenology of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and sleep-state transitions. His phenomenological expertise provides an essential empirical check on the theoretical framework.

Adam Kiefer, Ph.D.

Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-director of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory. Adam’s background is in complex systems and ecological psychology. We collaborate on analysis of healthcare data using nonlinear dynamical systems methods.

Perioperative Data Science & Clinical Informatics

Meliha Yetisgen, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington. Meliha leads the UW-BioNLP group. We collaborate on NLP applied to perioperative medicine, including ASA Physical Status prediction from clinical text and LLM capabilities in risk prediction.

Allan Simpao, M.D., MBI

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / University of Pennsylvania. Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Medical Systems. We collaborate on generative AI applications in pediatric anesthesia and clinical informatics.

Hannah Lonsdale, MBChB

Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We collaborate on AI and generative AI applications in pediatric anesthesia and academic productivity.

Theodora Wingert, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, UCLA. Board certified in Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, and Clinical Informatics. New collaborator on MPOG and perioperative data science projects.

Dustin Long, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Collaboration on COVID-19 perioperative research and NLP-based surgical site infection detection from clinical notes.

Itay Bentov, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Collaboration on perioperative risk assessment, including the association of liver fibrosis FIB-4 score with perioperative outcomes (MPOG multicenter analysis).

Cardiac Surgery Outcomes

Dominik Steck, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist. Collaboration on phosphate abnormalities and lactic acidosis after cardiac surgery, including MPOG multicenter studies.

Srdjan Jelacic, M.D., FASE

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Core member of the GaviaLabs research group. Collaboration on cardiac surgery outcomes and perioperative safety.

Neurocritical Care & Organ Donation

Abhijit Lele, MBBS, M.D., MS, FNCS

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington / Harborview Medical Center. Director of the Neurocritical Care Service. Collaboration on organ donation management and ASPIRE quality metrics in neurosurgical patients (MPOG multicenter studies).

Phil Yao, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington / Seattle Children’s Hospital. Collaboration on pediatric organ donation after brain death (MPOG multicenter study).

Active Mentees

Ian Jones

NLR/SII biomarkers and dexamethasone in perioperative outcomes.

Chris Eixenberger

Perioperative applications of NLP, including automated classification of SAFE (safety event) reports.

Former Collaborators

Craig Jabaley, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University. Craig and I collaborated on perioperative informatics, sepsis research, mobile health applications, and sugammadex studies across adult and pediatric populations. We had a highly productive collaboration at Emory.

Andrew Walters, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Former Associate Medical Director of PPiQSO. Collaborated on perioperative quality measurement and outcomes research.

Former Mentees

Philip Chung, M.D.

Now faculty at Stanford. Philip was my Bonica Scholar (2019-2024) and my star mentee. He led the JAMA Surgery LLM paper on perioperative risk prediction and developed NLP pipelines for automated ASA Physical Status assignment.