Critical Care KOLs
About this list
3,448 key opinion leaders work in Critical Care. All 3,448 are basic profiles built from NPPES, OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov.
University of California, San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine have the largest Critical Care groups. They are spread across 482 institutions; the five largest account for 5%.
992 have reported industry payments.
117 carry the Emerging badge for the trajectory of recent publications. The most cited are Gordon Bernard, Eugene Ely and Sudha Jayaraman. Every count comes from public federal and open sources and was last published on November 8, 2026.
- 3,448
- Key opinion leaders
- 992
- Reported industry payments
- 117
- Emerging
- November 8, 2026
- Data as of
How these numbers are counted: sources and methodology.
By the numbers
- $38.5M
- Industry payments reported, program year 2025Source: CMS Open Payments
Where the work is
The institutions with the most profiles on this list. Each links to its own page.
How this list is built
Who is listed: every profile whose published research or registered trial activity places them in Critical Care, read from OpenAlex topics, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. This KOL finder lists the area as a whole, sub-areas included.
How the grid is ordered: enriched profiles first, then by citations on OpenAlex. The directory lists the same people with every filter and sort it offers, including recent and rising activity, and exports the result.
What is never here: scraped contact details, prescription claims data, or a judgment of anyone's influence. Every count on this page is read from a public registry and republished with its source and the date it was last published.
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The 24 most cited
Gordon Bernard, MD
Vanderbilt University
- 431
- publications
- 115
- h-index
- 4
- companies
Eugene Ely, MD
Vanderbilt University
- 928
- publications
- 135
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Sudha Jayaraman, MD
- 139
- publications
- 41
- h-index
Mark Gladwin
University of Maryland, Baltimore
- 1,038
- publications
- 130
- h-index
Vinay Nadkarni, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 1,227
- publications
- 119
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Harold Collard, MD
University of California, San Francisco
- 368
- publications
- 98
- h-index
Craig Coopersmith, MD
Emory University
- 428
- publications
- 73
- h-index
Peter Meaney, MD
- 117
- publications
- 52
- h-index
Lorraine Ware, MD
Vanderbilt University
- 696
- publications
- 106
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Paul Marik, MD
- 1,022
- publications
- 107
- h-index
Theodore Iwashyna, MD
- 643
- publications
- 90
- h-index
Leo Celi, MD, MPH, MS
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 914
- publications
- 81
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Janice Zimmerman, MD
- 121
- publications
- 43
- h-index
Andrew Warshaw, MD
Harvard University
- 724
- publications
- 105
- h-index
Daniel Brodie, MD
Johns Hopkins University
- 667
- publications
- 90
- h-index
- 3
- companies
Patrick Kochanek, MD
University of Pittsburgh
- 1,011
- publications
- 104
- h-index
Kenji Inaba
University of Southern California
- 1,094
- publications
- 97
- h-index
John Marini, MD
Regions Hospital
- 558
- publications
- 76
- h-index
Adrienne Randolph, MD, MSc
Boston Children's Hospital
- 367
- publications
- 77
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Victor Thannickal
- 388
- publications
- 99
- h-index
Carolyn Calfee, MD
University of California, San Francisco
- 544
- publications
- 94
- h-index
- 5
- companies
Kristina Rudd, MD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh
- 118
- publications
- 25
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Kingman Strohl, MD
- 530
- publications
- 88
- h-index
- 14
- companies
Todd Rice, MD
Vanderbilt University
- 534
- publications
- 83
- h-index
- 9
- companies
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