Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN

Duke University School of Medicine

Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery

Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN is a critical care, perioperative and nutrition physician who serves as a Tenured Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Dept. of Anesthesiology & Director of the Nutrition Team at Duke Hospital. Finally, he is the founder and Co-Director of the Duke Clinical Nutrition Fellowship. Dr. Wischmeyer’s clinical and research focus is focused helping patients prepare and recover from critical illness and surgery. His research interests include surgical and ICU nutrition and exercise rehabilitation therapy, parenteral nutrition and personalized nutrition trials, perioperative optimization, post-illness muscle mass and functional recovery, and role of probiotics/microbiome in illness. Dr. Wischmeyer receives significant ongoing funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and Industry Sponsors. He has received numerous awards for his work from national and international societies, including the Jeffrey Silverstein Award and Memorial Lecture for Humanism in Medicine from the American Delirium Society, the John M. Kinney Award for the most significant contribution to the field of general nutrition, and the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award and the 2025 Bruce Bistrian Nutrition Mentorship Award of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). He has >245 publications (H index-75 and >60 papers with >100 citations) in nutrition, critical care, exercise, probiotics/microbiome and perioperative care, including publications in New England Journal of Medicine. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national/international medical meetings, delivering over 1000 invited presentations in his career. Finally, he is an advocate and lecturer for improving the patient experience and teaching provider’s to keep CARE as the focus of healthcare.