Razvan Azamfirei, MD, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Philadelphia, PA razvan@azamfirei.com https://azamfirei.com

Education

  • 2019-2024 MD , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  • 2020-2024 PhD , George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology, Targu Mures, Romania
  • 2015-2019 MS , Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • 2015-2019 BS , Yale University, New Haven, CT

Postgraduate Training

  • 2024-2028 Resident in Anesthesiology , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Awards and Honors

  • 2024 Samuel Novey Prize in Psychological Medicine
  • 2022 Student of the Year— League of Romanian Students Abroad
  • 2021 Presidential Citation Award— Society of Critical Care Medicine

Professional Memberships

  • International Anesthesia Research Society
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine (Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, 2020-2024)

Editorial Positions

  • 2024 — present Reviewer, Annals of Internal Medicine (frequent)
  • 2023 — present Reviewer, Critical Care Medicine (frequent)
  • 2021 — present Reviewer, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (frequent)
  • 2020 — present Reviewer, The Journal of Critical Care Medicine (frequent)
  • 2023 — present Reviewer, Trials (frequent)
  • 2023 — present Reviewer, BMJ Open
  • 2020 — present Reviewer, Critical Care
  • 2024 — present Reviewer, Critical Care Explorations
  • 2022 — present Abstract Reviewer, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • 2025 Reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • 2024 Reviewer, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science
  • 2024 Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • 2024 Reviewer, Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
  • 2023 Reviewer, Journal of Pain Research
  • 2020 — 2023 Reviewer, Medicine

Bibliography

Original Papers

  1. LaRosa JM, Lenker H, Azamfirei R, Morgenstern S, Wieczorek B, Brown KM, Shilkofski N, and Kudchadkar SR. Development and evaluation of a simulation-based early mobility curriculum for pediatric intensive care nurses. Nurs Crit Care (2025). doi: 10.1111/nicc.13215
  2. Carullo P, Khan S, Nause‐Osthoff R, Gupta R, Xie J, Azamfirei R, Tran L, and Wang T. Understanding Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Interest. Pediatr Anesth (2024). doi: 10.1111/pan.15049
  3. Azamfirei R, Behrens D, Padilla S, Madden K, Goldberg S, Geno M, Manning M, Piole M, Madsen E, Maue D, Abu-Sultaneh S, Awojoodu R, Wang N, Needham DM, Neufeld K, and Kudchadkar SR. Delirium Screening in Critically Ill Children. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2024). doi: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003555
  4. Azamfirei R, Procaccini D, Lobner K, and Kudchadkar SR. The Effects of Intraoperative Methadone on Postoperative Pain Control in Pediatric Patients. Anesth Analg (2024). doi: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006548
  5. Salvagno M, De Cassai A, Zorzi S, Zaccarelli M, Pasetto M, Sterchele ED, Chumachenko D, Gerli AG, Azamfirei R, and Taccone FS. The state of artificial intelligence in medical research. PLoS One (2024). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309208
  6. Azamfirei R, Mennie C, Fackler J, and Kudchadkar SR. Pediatric Critical Care Illness Severity Toolkit. J Crit Care Med (2024). doi: 10.2478/jccm-2023-0033
  7. Antar AA, Yu T, Demko ZO, Hu C, Tornheim JA, Blair PW, Thomas D, Manabe YC, and OutSMART Study Group. Long COVID brain fog and muscle pain are associated with longer time to clearance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from the upper respiratory tract during acute infection. Front Immunol (2023). doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1147549
  8. Azamfirei R, Mennie C, Fackler J, and Kudchadkar SR. Development of a Stata Command for Pediatric Risk of Mortality Calculation. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2023). doi: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003149
  9. Azamfirei R, Mennie C, Dinglas VD, Fatima A, Colantuoni E, Gurses AP, Balas MC, Needham DM, and Kudchadkar SR. Impact of a multifaceted early mobility intervention for critically ill children – the PICU Up! trial. Trials (2023). doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07206-2
  10. Procaccini D, Lobner K, Azamfirei R, and Kudchadkar SR. Melatonin for anaesthetic indications in paediatric patients. Anaesthesia (2021). doi: 10.1111/anae.15249
  11. Antar AA, Yu T, Pisanic N, Azamfirei R, Tornheim JA, Brown DM, Kruczynski K, Hardick J, Cox A, Pekosz A, Heaney C, Thomas D, Blair PW, and Manabe YC. Delayed Rise of Oral Fluid Antibodies, Elevated BMI, and Absence of Early Fever Correlate With Longer Time to SARS-CoV-2 RNA Clearance in a Longitudinally Sampled Cohort of COVID-19 Outpatients. Open Forum Infect Dis (2021). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab195
  12. Demko ZO, Antar AA, Blair PW, Lambrou AS, Yu T, Brown DM, Walch SN, Armstrong DT, Mostafa HH, Keruly JC, Thomas D, Manabe YC, and Ambulatory Covid Study Team. Clustering of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Households of Patients Diagnosed in the Outpatient Setting in Baltimore, Maryland. Open Forum Infect Dis (2021). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab121
  13. Blair PW, Brown DM, Jang M, Antar AA, Keruly JC, Bachu VS, Townsend JL, Tornheim JA, Keller SC, Sauer L, Thomas D, Manabe YC, and Ambulatory Covid Study Team. The Clinical Course of COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting. Open Forum Infect Dis (2021). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab007
  14. Manabe YC, Reuland C, Yu T, Azamfirei R, Hardick J, Church T, Brown DM, Sewell T, Antar AA, Blair PW, Heaney C, Pekosz A, and Thomas D. Self-Collected Oral Fluid Saliva Is Insensitive Compared With Nasal-Oropharyngeal Swabs in the Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Outpatients. Open Forum Infect Dis (2020). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa648
  15. Crane MA, Chang HA, and Azamfirei R. Medical Education Takes a Step in the Right Direction. JAMA (2020). doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.2950
  16. Georgescu AM, Banescu C, Azamfirei R, Hutanu A, Moldovan V, Badea I, Voidazan S, Dobreanu M, Chirtes IR, and Azamfirei L. Evaluation of TNF-alpha genetic polymorphisms as predictors for sepsis susceptibility and progression. BMC Infect Dis (2020). doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-4910-6
  17. Badea I, Azamfirei R, Grigorescu BL, Raduly G, Hutanu A, Petrisor M, Lazar AE, Almasy E, Fodor RS, Man A, Szederjesi J, Gurzu S, Azamfirei L, and Georgescu AM. The role of interleukin-6 as an early predictor of sepsis in a murine sepsis model. Rom J Morphol Embryol (2019).

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters

  1. Azamfirei R. ChatGPT and Neuroprognostication. Crit Care Med (2024). doi: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000006265
  2. Azamfirei R. Artificial Intelligence. J Crit Care Med (2023). doi: 10.2478/jccm-2023-0017
  3. Azamfirei R, Kudchadkar SR, and Fackler J. Large language models and the perils of their hallucinations. Crit Care (2023). doi: 10.1186/s13054-023-04393-x
  4. Abeles E and Azamfirei R. Reflections on a Year of SARS-CoV-2. J Crit Care Med (2021). doi: 10.2478/jccm-2021-0005
  5. Azamfirei R. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus. J Crit Care Med (2020). doi: 10.2478/jccm-2020-0013