Paul Wischmeyer

Biography

Paul Wischmeyer’s passion is research, teaching, lecturing, and television reporting on innovative and cutting edge uses of perioperative care, critical care, nutrition, and exercise to help patients prepare and recover from illness and surgery. Essentially, putting real science into how we improve care for patients with interventions such as nutrition/exercise and make it understandable for patients so they can apply it simply to their life and recovery. This work includes NIH/Privately funded research and teaching on preparation for and recovery from critical care, surgery, cancer and other chronic disease. Specifically my work has focused on the role of nutrition, exercise, the microbiome/probiotics, and other nutrition-related interventions such as protein delivery and sports nutrition to improve outcome and quality of life following acute/chronic illnesses. My works spans the entire range of translational research from basic laboratory mechanistic work to large multi-center randomized controlled clinical trials. I have over 115 publications in scientific peer reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and I have given over 600 invited lectures worldwide.

Research Interest

drug addiction in anesthesiologists, other physicians, and patients after illness.