Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Craig M. Coopersmith, MD
An eminent academic surgeon in the area of surgical critical care, Dr. Craig Coopersmith is vice chair of research of the Emory Department of Surgery, program director of the department's Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, and director of the Emory Critical Care Center (ECCC). The ECCC is a national leader in designing, testing, and implementing innovations in critical care.
Dr. Coopersmith has established himself as one of the top investigators of sepsis and shock in the country, and was a member of an international task force of experts that redefined the terms "sepsis" and "septic shock" in 2016. The resulting publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association was named one of the journal's Top Articles of the Decade. He has multiple NIH grants, including a T32 training grant and collaborative studies with Emory transplant immunologist Dr. Mandy Ford that are investigating aspects of the immunological host response in sepsis.
Dr. Coopersmith served as president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine from 2015-2016 and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, which requires its members to have an outstanding record of scholarly achievement in biomedical research. In 2020 he was inducted as a Master of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM) of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), considered the highest designation one can have in critical care.
Program Director, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
Jason D. Sciarretta, MD
Dr. Jason Sciarretta received his MD from Saba University School of Medicine in the Dutch Caribbean in 2005. His general surgery residency began at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and was completed at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, KY. He did his surgical critical care and trauma surgery fellowships at Jackson Memorial Hospital System and Ryder Trauma Center in Miami.
Before coming to Emory, Dr. Sciarretta served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina and practiced at the acute care surgery/trauma & surgical critical care service at Grand Strand Medical Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, which has a Level I trauma center. He was associate program director of the USC general surgery residency based at Grand Strand Medical from 2015-2019, and served as Grand Strand Medical's chief of surgery from 2015-2016 and its chief of staff from 2018-2019.
Dr. Deepika Koganti received her MD degree from the University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine in 2012. She completed a general surgery residency at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 2018, which included one year of clinical and basic science research, and an acute care surgery/surgical critical care fellowship at Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory School of Medicine in 2020. Her articles have been published in a number of leading journals including Annals of Vascular Surgery, The American Journal of Surgery, and The American Surgeon. Her research interests include global surgery and education.