Dr Wes Ely is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical-care physician with over 25 years of experience in intensive-care medicine. A tenured professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine since 2004, Dr Ely serves as the Grant W. Liddle endowed chair of medicine as physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is also the founder and co-director of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship (CIBS) Center. Dr Ely's research, published in over 450 peer-reviewed publications, has been cited over 65,000 times. He and his CIBS Center team have recently received grants for five COVID-19-related studies.