Clinicians, data scientists, and trainees at Rush working together on ICU research, from predictive models to pragmatic trials.
Assistant Professor · Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
J.C. Rojas, MD, MS, is a physician-scientist and quadruple board-certified clinician in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, and Clinical Informatics. His research focuses on clinical data science, critical care informatics, and healthcare equity, with an emphasis on developing and studying the real-world impact of AI in the ICU and in healthcare operations to improve outcomes for critically ill and underserved patients.
Clinically, he practices as an intensivist and pulmonologist. In administrative roles, he serves as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Rush University System for Health, serves on the AI Center of Excellence, directs the Rush Health Equity Analytics Studio within the Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity, and serves as Associate Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
Assistant Professor · Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Kevin G. Buell, MBBS, MS, is a physician-scientist and pulmonary and critical care physician at Rush University Medical Center. His research focuses on individualized treatment effects in critical illness, airway management, and health services research, with particular interests in oxygenation targets, infection, and bedside ultrasound. A central focus of his work involves developing AI-driven approaches to personalize ventilator management for critically ill patients, including applying machine learning to optimize oxygen targets with the goal of reducing ICU mortality. He is an active contributor to the CLIF Consortium, a federated multi-institutional ICU data network.
He serves as site PI for multiple pragmatic multicenter critical care trials at Rush, including MODEM (Mode of Mechanical Ventilation During Critical Illness) and ANGLE (Hyperangulated Versus Standard Geometry Laryngoscope Blade Trial).
Clinically, he cares for patients across a broad spectrum of pulmonary conditions and in the intensive care unit.
The people profiled here are the multidisciplinary core of RICCC. They run pragmatic trials, steward federated ICU data, build methods and tools, and take on biostatistics, regulatory compliance, and research operations. Their skill and commitment are how we move from ideas to evidence and into better care for patients and partners.
We are always happy to hear from clinicians, data scientists, and trainees who want to work on ICU research problems.
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