Dr. E. Wesley Ely

Dr. E. Wesley Ely has over 20 years of experience and is board certified in critical care medicine. He earned his BS in biology, his MPH, and his MD from Tulane University. He then went on to complete his post-graduate training with an internal medicine residency and a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University. He stays active in his field as a member of multiple professional societies, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Chest Physicians. This expert developed the primary tool, the confusion assessment method (CAM-ICU), by which delirium is measured in intensive care units worldwide. Formerly, he held positions as the medical director of the chronic lung failure clinic and an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Wake Forest University as well as an attending physician in the adult cystic fibrosis clinic and the medical director of lung transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is currently a professor of medicine, the co-director of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center, and an intensivist and pulmonary and critical care consultant at a medical school in Tennessee and its affiliated medical center. He is also an attending physician at a VA medical center in Tennessee.