University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas
Vanessa Nomellini, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Burn, Trauma, Acute and Critical Care Surgery at UT Southwestern. Dr. Nomellini earned her MD from Loyola University, where she also earned a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin and her fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 2016, where she developed her research program focused on immune suppression in critically ill trauma and septic patients. She also developed an ICU Recovery Program, where the most complex ICU survivors are followed and managed long term. She was recruited to UT Southwestern in September 2022 to be the director of research for the division. With her success in mentorship, she has also been named as the Associate Program Director for the General Surgery research residents. In this role, she has created more structure to the optional two years the residents have for their professional development through didactic lectures, work in progress presentations, assistance with grant writing, and obtaining additional degrees and certifications. She currently has an R35 from NIGMS focused on both animal and human studies of immune suppression, as well as a Lyda Hill Biomedical Innovation Fund utilizing novel microfluidics devices to characterize neutrophil function in critically ill patients.
Advancing Sepsis Diagnostics: Implementing Novel Biomarkers and Technologies in the ED and ICU
Monday, March 23, 2026
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Central Time
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
