Overview

Dr. Sevransky completed his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and his medical education and the George Washington University of Medicine. He did his internship and residency at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York (Columbia University) and then a fellowship in Critical Care at the National Institutes of Health and in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1999, and served as the director of the MICU at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center from 1999-2011. While at Johns Hopkins, he completed a masters in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Sevransky was recruited to Emory in 2011, where he currently serves as professor of medicine, the director of the Medical ICU at Emory University Hospital, and as the site director for Emory University Hospital, Emory Critical Care Center. He also serves as the founding director for the Emory Critical Illness Research Center ( E-CIRC), a clinical research collaboration between Emergency Medicine, the Emory Critical Care Center, and the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep. In 2024 He assumed the Editor in Chief position for the journal, Critical Care Medicine

Jons clinical, educational and research center on the treatment of patients with life-threatening illness. He is a clinical investigator with a primary interest in the treatment of patients with sepsis and complications of sepsis such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and septic shock. An additional focus of investigation is the identification of patient and hospital related factors that may modify treatment effects of novel agents in clinical trials.

Current research projects include studies looking at early markers of sepsis in patients presenting to the emergency room, attempts to improve the treatment patients with sepsis, including potential prehospital markers, a large cohort trial examining the role of ICU organization and structure on in patient mortality, and is working with a team on ways to decrease the cost and efficiency of sepsis clinical trials using novel trial designs while leveraging the electronic medical record.

Dr Sevransky is past chair of the SCCM Discovery Research Network, , and served as an associate editor for the journal Critical Care Medicine. He was also a founding member of the US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group, He sees patients at Emory University Hospital, and mentors fellows, residents and medical students in clinical investigation in critical care.

Academic Appointment

• Professor Of Medicine, Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Eminent Physician, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research