Sleep in Critical Illness

Gerald L. Weinhouse, MD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA, USA

John W. Devlin, PharmD, MCCM

Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Weinhouse has been a practicing, academic board-certified physician in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine for the past 25 years. He completed his internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital in 1989, spent 2 years doing a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Boston University Lung Center, then completed his pulmonary and critical care training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. He was a staff physician at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City from 1995-1999 and then moved to Boston where he has worked at the Brigham and Women's Hospital ever since. He is a full time clinical member of the Pulmonary/Critical Care division and has been the primary pulmonologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Center since 2007. His primary research interest has been in the relationship between sleep and recovery from critical illness. He co-chaired the sleep section for the 2018 SCCM's Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Critically Ill Adults.

Dr. Devlin has been a critical care pharmacist for more than 25 years. He completed his pharmacy degrees at the University of Toronto, a residency in pharmacy practice at Victoria Hospital/University of Western Ontario, and a critical care research fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital. He is a professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University, and a critical care pharmacist and associate scientist in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. His research focuses on the detection, prevention and treatment of delirium and disrupted sleep in the ICU. He chaired SCCM's 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Critically Ill Adults.