Acute Kidney Injury Prevention

Daniel T. Engelman, MD is the Medical Director of the Cardiac Surgical Critical Care Unit & Inpatient Surgical Services at Baystate Health, in Springfield, MA and Professor of Surgery and Healthcare Delivery & Population Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate. Dr. Engelman is the founder and President of the Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS® Cardiac) International Society, with a mission to standardize evidence based best practices in perioperative care. In 2019, he led an international team to write the first consensus guidelines for cardiac surgical perioperative care in Jama Surgery.  An updated expert consensus manuscript, officially endorsed by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), was published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and presented at the STS Annual Meeting in January 2024.

Dr. Engelman is the Senior Editor for Perioperative Care for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He has over 120 peer-reviewed publications and is the study Steering Committee Chair for the Phase 3 Artemis Trial and the study Principal Investigator for the phase 2 RIP1 Trial for the prevention of postoperative acute kidney injury. He also participates in the Annual Meeting Program Committees for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

He organizes an Annual ERAS Cardiac Summit at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery’s Annual Meeting and similar sessions at the STS and EACTS. Dr. Engelman is an international expert in perioperative critical care medicine, multimodal analgesia, AKI and SSI prevention, and enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery.