Board of Directors

Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM

Dr. Boehm focuses her research on strategies to improve outcomes for the critically ill. Her primary research interests include exploration of interventions to improve interprofessional protocol implementation, adherence, and fidelity in the acute care setting; implementation of ICU peer support and diary programs with exploration of the associated patient, staff, and organizational outcomes; and exploration of interventions to reduce the burden of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome.

Niccolo Terrando, PhD

Dr. Terrando is a tenured Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, with secondary appointments in Cell Biology and Integrative Immunobiology at Duke University. His translational research program is funded by multiple awards from the National Institute on Health, foremostly the Institute on Aging. The mission of his laboratory is to understand neuroimmune interactions during delirium following anesthesia and surgery, especially in the context of aging and neurodegeneration.

C. Adrian Austin, MD, MSCR

 I am an Intensivist, Pulmonologist and Geriatrician. My clinical interests are preserving older adults functionality by focusing on disorders of the respiratory system, and managing issues faced by survivors of severe critical illness. My research focuses on reducing the incidence and impact of delirium. Primarily, I am interested in using pharmacogenetics driven medication selection to reduce delirium in the ICU setting. I also have an interest and expertise in using telemedicine for delirium assessment.

Ben Julian Palanca, MD, PhD, MSCI

Dr. Ben Julian Palanca is a tenured Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with an affiliated faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

As a physician-scientist, he leads the Sleepy Brain Lab at investigating novel markers and interventions for neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Palanca’s research efforts focus on three areas: postoperative delirium, treatment-resistant depression, and the interface between anesthetized and sleep states. 

Dr. Palanca is actively involved in Washington University Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep, the American Delirium Society, and the Association of University Anesthesiologists. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the NIH Aging Systems and Geriatric Study Section. He is excited to become a contributing member of the ADS Board of Directors

Heidi Smith, MD, MSC, MSCI

Dr. Heidi AB Smith is a Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who completed fellowships in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care. Dr. Smith's clinical focus is pediatric cardiac anesthesia, providing care to patients with congenital heart disease, and her academic focus is on the impact of delirium on neurocognitive recovery of infants and children in the setting of critical illness.

She has developed highly valid and reliable delirium screening tools adapted appropriately for the developmental variances from the neonatal period to adolescence. She has served as Chair for the Society of Critical Care Medicine ICU Liberation Committee and Pediatric Sedation Taskforce. Dr. Smith founded the ADS-supported Pediatric Special Interest Group (Mini-MINDS) and serves as the Board of Director liaison for Mini-MINDS and the ADS Membership Committee.

Noll Campbell, PharmD, MS

Noll L. Campbell, PharmD, MS is an Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University. Dr. Campbell received his PharmD degree from Butler University, completed a pharmacy practice residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, then a geriatric pharmacotherapy residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. As an investigator with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., his research focuses on the effect of medications on the prevention and treatment of delirium and dementia. His research is funded by the NIH, AHRQ, and industry.

Benjamin Kalivas, MD

Benjamin Kalivas, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina.  He works clinically as a hospitalist and interventional psychiatrist.  He is passionate about education and serves as program director of the Combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Program.  His interest in delirium began with wanting to improve patient care and has grown to exploring patient outcomes and best practice implementation.  He served as co-chair of the ADS Membership and Communication Committee and has attended every ADS meeting since 2017.

Sapina Kapadia, DNP

Dr. Sapina Kapadia is a nurse executive and an advanced practice leader in clinical operations at Mount Sinai Hospital, a large academic health system. She brings extensive geriatrics expertise to the health system. Dr. Kapadia assesses, diagnoses, and manages geriatric syndromes, including delirium, and delivers Age-Friendly care. She implemented a multidisciplinary transitional care program to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults. She currently oversees advanced practice strategy and operations across hospital medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care for diverse, high-acuity patient populations. Dr. Kapadia combines clinical, operational, managerial, and financial strengths to devise and expand models that enhance care delivery, strengthen team performance, and ensure consistent, accountable practices.

Sikandar Khan, MS, DO

Dr. Sikandar Khan (@ICUKhan) is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Indiana University School of Medicine, and a Physician Scientist at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. Through his work as Director of the IU Health ICU Survivor Center, he provides clinical care for survivors of delirium and critical illness. His mission is to improve brain care for patients during and after the ICU. His research is focused on the nexus of acute respiratory failure, ICU delirium, and cognitive and physical function outcomes in ICU survivors.

Heidi Lindroth, FAAN, PhD, RN

Dr. Heidi Lindroth is a practicing ICU clinician-nurse scientist and agile implementation scientist at Mayo Clinic. Her vision is a world without delirium. Her passion for improving delirium care stems from witnessing first-hand the terror and lasting detrimental impact of delirium. Scientific focus areas include the codesigning of technology with patients, care partners, and the healthcare team to reduce delirium severity using data science techniques such as artificial intelligence. Dr. Lindroth joined the American Delirium Society in 2016, co-chairs the social media certificate program, and is thrilled to be a member of the Board of Directors.

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Jose Maldonado, MD, FAPM

Dr. Maldonado is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and by courtesy of Medicine, Surgery and Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Law at Stanford School of Law. He serves as the Chief of the Medical and Forensic Psychiatry Section, and Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Service. In September 2003 Dr Maldonado joined the faculty of Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and served as co-Chair of the Biomedical Ethics committee at Stanford Medical center, for ten years ending in 2009. Dr. Maldonado is director of the Psychiatry & the Law course at Stanford Law School.

John Newman, MD, PhD

Dr. John Newman is a geriatrician physician-scientist, Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF. His mission is to apply advances in the understanding of aging biology to improve the health and preserve the independence of older adults. He leads a translational research program spanning biochemistry, mouse models, and human studies to apply aging biology mechanisms to better understand and reveal new therapeutic targets for delirium. His clinical work focuses on preventing delirium and other complications of hospitalization among older adults.

Esther Oh, MD, PhD

Dr. Oh is the Sarah Miller Coulson Human Aging Project Scholar and a Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her overarching clinical and research interests are in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its interrelationship with delirium. Her work is anchored in building innovative research communities to spur non-siloed, horizontal discussion and networking at all levels and stages of the research and innovation process. Her expertise allows her to link efforts across biology of healthy aging, clinical care, education, and health systems spectrum.

Mark Oldham, MD

Dr. Mark Oldham, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center who completed a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Yale. His clinical work centers on team-based models of proactive psychiatric consultation. He also serves as a deputy editor of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Oldham is supported by a K23 award from the NIA with a focus on the relationship between sleep/wake disturbance and both delirium and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He aims to refine the field’s model of delirium and integrate clinical phenotypes with the various underlying encephalopathies.