A specialty in critical care medicine and neuroscience provides the foundation for the Neuroscience Section. This section educates and promotes the interdisciplinary practice of critical care medicine by members who share an interest in neuroscience injuries and neurological manifestations of critical illness. The section advises the Society on matters pertaining to neuroscience and supports the research and practice of neuroscience and critical care medicine.
The Neuroscience Section provides members with the opportunity to network with critical care colleagues, influence the neuroscience profession, and strengthen leadership skills. In addition, one can contribute to both the section and SCCM at large through the Neuroscience Section.
Goals:
1. Be a home for intensive care caregivers who have an interest in brain and spine injury
2. Suggest Neuroscience topics to the Society
3. Contribute to the continuing education of general intensivists in topics of neuroscience that all intensivists need to know.
Leadership (2026 - 2027)
Chair: Asma Zakaria, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Chair-Elect: Sahar Fatima Zafar, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Secretary/Treasurer: Angela Hays Shapshak, MD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Past-Chair: Aarti Sarwal, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Members At-Large
Casey Albin, MD, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ivan Da Silva, PhD, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Shraddha Mainali, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Sarah Nelson, BS, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA
Swarna Rajagopalan, MD, MS, FCCM, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, USA
Eljim P. Tesoro, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM, University of Illinois at Chicago College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Trainee Liaison
Paolo Lacanienta, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Council Liaison
Neha S. Dangayach, MD, FCCP, FNCS, FAAN, FCCM, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Board Liaison
Mary J. Reed, MD, FCCM, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
David Y. Hwang, MD, FCCM, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA