Dr. Badjatia established the Section of Neurocritical Care in the Program in Trauma and is currently Professor and Academic Vice Chair in the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his Neurology residency at Emory University and training in Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Badjatia has been an active member of SCCM since 2002 and elected Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in 2011. He has also been active in the Neurocritical Care Society (FNCS), having served twice on the Board of Directors, as well as Associate Editor for Neurocritical Care from 2009- 2017. Currently, he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurotrauma, Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management and Neurocritical Care ON CALL. His research interests focus on targeted temperature management strategies, impact of nutrition and metabolism on recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage, and development of clinical decision support tools in traumatic brain injury using continuous physiologic data. Funding sources for this work includes the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, and the Neurocritical Care Society.