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Dr. Paul Wischmeyer MD

Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine

Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, is a perioperative, critical care, and nutrition physician who serves as a Professor with Tenure of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. He also serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Dept. of Anesthesiology, Director of the Nutrition Team at Duke Hospital, and Director of Perioperative Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Wischmeyer earned his medical degree with honors at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where he was elected in the honor society of Alpha Omega Alpha for outstanding academic achievement. Research interests include nutrition therapy, post-illness lean body mass and functional recovery, and the new exciting field of the microbiome. Dr. Wischmeyer has over 135 peer-reviewed publications in critical care, perioperative medicine, and nutrition (with an H-index of 47 and 24 papers with > 100 citations) including in the New England Journal of Medicine. Finally, he has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international medical meetings delivering over 600 invited presentations over his career.

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