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Fellowship Program

The Center of Resuscitation Science offers an intensive 3-year fellowship through an NIH-funded T32 training grant which provides rigorous training for a career in translational research in resuscitation medicine. The overarching goal of this fellowship is to develop a cadre of new junior investigators whose research focuses on the etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of potentially lethal conditions requiring resuscitation such as cardiac arrest, septic shock, other shock states, and ARDS. The training provided by the fellowship is multi-disciplinary, with elements spanning the various specialized disciplines in emergency medicine and critical care. Fellowship training takes place primarily at BIDMC, but the program also leverages the world-class expertise and resources of additional faculty members based at Mass General, Brigham and Womens Hospital, MIT, and Boston University Hospital. Fellows will have the option to pursue primarily epidemiologic (big data queries), clinical trials, or lab-based work, but will acquire a working knowledge of all 3 approaches. Each fellow will choose an area of expertise and focus their efforts in this area, but will also be encouraged to collaborate with investigators using different approaches and thus will have ample opportunity for exposure to the full range of translational resuscitation research.

Led by Director Michael Donnino MD and Co-Directors Samir Parikh MD and Murray Mittleman MD DrPH, the program’s faculty mentors are nationally and internationally recognized investigators in various elements of resuscitation science who are actively engaged in translational research using clinical trials, epidemiology/big data, or laboratory research. As a whole, the faculty has thousands of peer reviewed publications, with many in high-impact journals including Nature, The New England Medical Journal, and JAMA. The program’s faculty mentors are equally adept at training junior investigators, having won numerous teaching awards and serving as primary or secondary research mentors for >80 NIH and foundation mentee-driven training awards.

Through this 2-3 year experience, fellows will obtain both didactic and practical training in resuscitation research. The didactic components will include mandatory coursework to provide all fellows with the same base knowledge, more advanced specialized coursework to further the knowledge base in a specific area of interest, and participation in laboratory meetings, departmental and fellowship seminars, and regional and/or national emergency or critical care conference to hone critical thinking and presentation skills. The practical training will include up to 2.5 years of mentored research under the supervision of our faculty mentors, including a primary mentor and an overseeing mentorship committee. Research projects will depend upon which track the fellow enters. Clinical trials fellows will “take over the reins” of an existing clinical trial or sub-study, epidemiology fellows will conduct one or more epidemiological studies using the extensive number of large datasets accessible by the program, while laboratory science fellows will undertake a lab-based project. Research projects will be designed to be feasibly completed during the fellowship period and will necessarily involve collaboration with investigators who specialize in different approaches. To round out both the didactic and research components, there will also be frequent one-on-one meetings with a primary mentor and quarterly meetings with a mentorship team chosen to provide an overall broad training regimen.

The fellow’s T32 experience will culminate with the preparation and submission of a mentored grant proposal to the NIH or a foundational research sponsor. Typical grants of this type include NIH K- and F-series grants as well as foundational equivalents. This grant submission, if successful, will aid the fellow in a seamless transition to the next phase of their academic investigative career. Previous fellows trained by program’s faculty mentors have an exceptional track record in obtaining this sort of mentored funding.

The T32 Resuscitation Science Research Fellowship is open to both MDs and PhDs. Eligible MD candidates include physicians and research fellows specializing in emergency medicine or critical care-related disciplines (adult or pediatric) who have completed at least 3 years of residency. Eligible PhD candidates are postdocs interested in epidemiology and translational research pertinent to resuscitation. In either case, the ideal candidate would be seeking NIH funding following completion of this fellowship with the intent of pursuing an academic research career in resuscitation science. Candidates will be evaluated based on past research experience/performance, academic record, and a subjective evaluation of their potential for leadership in resuscitation research. Candidates must be a US citizen or a legal permanent resident of the US.

Please click here to meet our current fellows. Interested applicants should click the "Apply Now" button at the top right of this page. We request applicants submit two reference letters, as well. The deadline for applications is December 1st.

Thanks for considering applying to our program.

Michael W. Donnino, MD
Director of Center for Resuscitation Science
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, BIDMC Boston, MA

Improving patient lives by advancing the field of resuscitation medicine