Professor of Surgery, UMASS- Baystate, Medical Director Heart and Vascular Critical Care Unit
Heart & Vascular Program, Baystate Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Dr. Engelman is the Medical Director of the Heart, Vascular and Critical Care Units at Baystate Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery at The University of Massachusetts-Baystate, and Tufts University School of Medicine. He started the Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS® Cardiac) Collaborative to nationally standardize best practices. He is led a group of international experts to publish the first consensus guidelines for best practices in enhanced recovery following cardiac surgery. This was recently published in JAMA surgery.
He has organized symposium at multiple international meetings on the topic. He is also the President of the Massachusetts Society of Thoracic Surgeons and also serves on multiple Statewide Oversight committees. Dr. Engelman participates on five national workforces for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Thoracic Surgery. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Baycare PPO and ACO and is Vice President of the local Independent Physician Organization. Dr. Engelman is the principal investigator on multiple research projects, has published over 75 peer-reviewed publications, and participates on two international taskforces (ADQI and KDIGO) standardizing approaches for the prevention of postoperative acute kidney injury. He specializes in advances in critical care medicine, healthcare informatics and finance, multimodal analgesia, and enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery.
In 2016 Dr. Engelman was named the National ACS/STS Health Policy Scholar. He is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management at The Heller School of Brandeis University. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed his Cardiothoracic Surgical training at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University, in Boston. He received his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine.