Dale Needham, MD

Professional Titles

• Medical Director, Critical Care Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program
• Director, Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) Group

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
• Outcomes After Critical Illness & Surgery (OACIS)

X Profile

https://www.twitter.com/drdaleneedham

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Videos

• Dr. Dale Needham | Pulmonary & Critical Care Rehabilitation

• Johns Hopkins Medicine: Early Mobility in the ICU

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Long COVID Isn’t as Unique as We Thought | Vox (March 2021)

  Many Survivors of This Lung Disease Lose Their Jobs | Futurity (May 2017)

  A New Awareness of Mental Health in ICU Patients | Restore (Spring 2017)

  Depression Common After Time Spent in ICU | U.S. News & World Report (August 2016)

  A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma: Get Patients Up | The New York Times (January 2009)

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Lab Website

Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery Group - Lab Website

• The Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery Group is focused on understanding and improving patient outcomes after critical illness and surgery. Research projects include improving long-term outcomes research for acute respiratory distress syndrome/acute respiratory failure (ARDS/ARF) patients; examining the long-term outcomes for acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) patients; and evaluating the effects of lower tidal volume ventilation and other aspects of critical illness and ICU care on the long-term physical and mental health outcomes of ALI/ARDS patients.

Research Summary

Dr. Needham has over 400 publications, with his research focused on advancing medical care in the intensive care unit to improve patients’ long-term outcomes (LTO), including physical, psychological, and quality of life status after critical illness (details at: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pulmonary/research/outcomes-after-critical-illness/). He is focused on innovative research aimed at improving methods of physical rehabilitation to reduce muscle weakness and functional impairment, as well as preventing and treating delirium in the intensive care unit (see https://www.johnshopkinssolutions.com/solution/amp/activity-mobility-promotion-amp-icu/).  His research interests also include patient safety, quality of care, and “knowledge translation” of evidence-based therapies into clinical practice.  He is a Principal Investigator on many federally-funded, peer-reviewed grants, including these completed studies:  NIH-funded ARDSNet Long-Term Outcomes Study (ALTOS), the Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients (ICAP) study, and the ImproveLTO national infrastructure grant aimed at advancing clinical research methodology for improving acute respiratory failure patients’ outcomes after hospital discharge.

PubMed - Publications

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=needham+dm

Selected Publications

• Needham DM, Sepulveda KA, Dinglas VD, Chessare CM, Aronson Friedman L, Bingham Iii CO, Turnbull AE. Core Outcome Measures for Clinical Research in Acute Respiratory Failure Survivors: An International Modified Delphi Consensus Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 May 24. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201702-0372OC. [Epub ahead of print]

• Ruhl AP, Huang M, Colantuoni E, Karmarkar T, Dinglas VD, Hopkins RO, Needham DM; With the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. Healthcare utilization and costs in ARDS survivors: a 1-year longitudinal national US multicenter study. Intensive Care Med. 2017 May 26. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4827-8. [Epub ahead of print]

Honors

• Honorary Membership, American Physical Therapy Association, 6/2/20
• Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), 4/6/19
• Highly Cited Researcher in Science and Social Science, Web of Science, 1/1/19