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Outcomes Research Consortium is a consortium of more than 85 collaborating investigators. The administrative center for the non-profit consortium is the Department of Outcomes Research at the Cleveland Clinic. However, its members hold individual appointments at more than 25 universities.
Administration
Major Site Directors
Daniel I. Sessler, M.D.
DS@OR.org
Daniel I. Sessler, M.D. went to medical school at Columbia University, and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently chair of the Department of Outcomes Research at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Sessler has published a book on therapeutic hypothermia and more than 350 full research papers. He has trained more than 50 research fellows, given invited lectures at more than 200 institutions, and has total grant support exceeding $14 million, mostly from peer-reviewed sources. Dr. Sessler has received more than a dozen prizes and honors, including the 2002 American Society of Anesthesiology Excellence in Research award.
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Andrea Kurz, M.D.
AK@OR.org
Andrea Kurz, M.D. attended the University of Vienna School of Medicine (1983-1987), and completed an anesthesia residency and fellowship at the University of Vienna (1987-1993). She was then a research fellow in the Outcomes Research Consortium Laboratory in San Francisco and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of California in San Francisco (1993-1996). Subsequently, she was Professor of Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia and General Intensive Care at the University of Vienna. Dr. Kurz was an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Washington University in St. Louis for four years where she directly the Department of Anesthesia Clinical Research Center. She subsequently chaired the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Bern for four years, a period of extraordinary research productivity for the Department. Dr. Kurz is now Vice-chair, Department of Outcomes Research at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Ozan Akca, M.D.
ozan.akca@louisville.edu
Ozan Akca attended medical school in Instanbul, and subsequently completed his anesthesia and critical care training there. He then was a fellow with the Outcomes Research consortium in Vienna for three years. He is now a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Louisville.
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