Dr. Needham is Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and ofPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He is Director of the “Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery” (OACIS) Group at Johns Hopkins. Clinically, he is an attending physician in the medical intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Critical Care Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program.

Dr. Needham is Principal Investigator on a number of research grants and has authored more than 440 publications. His research interests include evaluating and improving ICU patients’ long-term physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes, including research in the areas of sedation,delirium, early physical rehabilitation, and knowledge translation and quality improvement.