Neurological Outcomes, Inflammation, and the Blood Brain Barrier in a Murine Model of Cardiac Arrest

Willard W. Sharp M.D., PhD. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Sharp runs an NIH funded basic science laboratory investigating the role of mitochondrial injury and metabolism in cellular injury following cardiac arrest. Recent work has focused on the role of mitochondrial fission and fusion in mediating injury and outcomes in a murine model of cardiac arrest. 

Dr. Sharp received his undergraduate degree in biology and history at Wofford College in South Carolina before pursuing his PhD at the University of South Carolina in Biomedical Science. He completed NIH funded post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Chicago followed by his MD degree at the University of South Carolina. During his medical training he received a Rotary International Fellowship to spend a year at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University studying gene therapy. He then completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan before obtaining a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago. 

Dr. Sharp has experience in mentoring pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, residents, and junior faculty and is interested in encouraging young EM trainees to pursue research in basic science. He is co-founder of an unofficial SAEM basic science and translational science interest group for EM trainees and physicians and is a member of the SAEM and ACEP research committees