Meet The Team

Current CAIRO President

Tammy Eaton

Dr. Eaton’s program of research focuses on improving the quality and delivery of care for critical illness survivors and their families. She is also interested in developing interventions to decrease overall symptom burden and improve the quality of life for critical illness survivors. Her dissertation research explored the role of palliative care in critical illness survivors.

CAIRO Post-ICU Clinic Collaborative Co-Chair

Rita Bakhru

Dr. Bakhru is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. She received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and her MD at the University of Michigan. She completed her residency at the University of Michigan and her fellowship and MSCE degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She was on faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine for 9 years where she ran the Wake Forest ICU Recovery Clinic. She transitioned to MUSC in 2023 and has established an ICU Recovery Clinic at MUSC.

CAIRO Post-ICU Clinic Collaborative Co-Chair

Carla Sevin

Dr. Carla Sevin is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her M.D. from the University of South Florida. She trained in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University and completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship there. She received additional subspecialty training at the UniverstitätsSpital in Zürich, Switzerland, and the University of California in San Francisco, CA. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. 

CAIRO Peer Support Collaborative Co-Chair

Anna Lewis

Dr. Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker, and she earned her PhD in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Her clinical work includes mental health, primary care, palliative care, and ICU survivorship experience. Her dissertation focused on post-acute care use and functional outcomes for socially vulnerable serious illness survivors. She currently serves as the senior social worker with the Critical Illness Recovery Center (CIRC) at UPMC Mercy in Pittsburgh, PA.

CAIRO Peer Support Collaborative Co-Chair

Jenna MacDonald

Jenna MacDonald, LMSW, is a licensed social worker with a passion to improve long-term outcomes for ICU survivors and individuals living with long COVID. Jenna began her tenure at the CIBS Center in 2022 and has focused on facilitating support groups and partnering with survivors and colleagues to improve awareness of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome through efforts such as the Walk 4 PICS. Jenna has particular interest in the social consequences associated with critical illness, including employment disruption or loss, financial hardship, and shifts in personal relationships. Prior to her time with CIBS, Jenna served extensively in the local refugee community from 2014-2020, co-founding a reading program for children and organizing holiday and back-to-school drives.

CAIRO Executive Committee Member

Andrea Johnson

Annie Johnson is cochair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Thrive Peer Support Collaborative and a bedside critical care nurse practitioner at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Annie also co-leads the Mayo Clinic ICU Recovery Program.

CAIRO Executive Committee Member

Mark Mikkelson

Dr. Mikkelsen is the inaugural Associate Chief Medical Officer of Critical Care at the University of Colorado Hospital and Chair of the UCHealth Clinical Outcomes Governance Group for Critical Care. Through these roles, he leads and supports a dynamic, world-class critical care organization. The multidisciplinary team of critical care clinicians at the University of Colorado Hospital and UCHealth are collectively driven to inspire the next generation of critical care clinicians, to deliver care of the highest quality to the critically ill and to their family members, and to create and implement innovative science that advances the field of critical care medicine and survivorship.

Former CAIRO President

Aluko Hope

Dr. Hope is associate professor of pulmonary and critical care and is medical director of the OHSU Long COVID-19 Program. He is a physician-scientist whose research focus is on improving the recovery of adults after acute illness.

Dr. Hope served 10 years with Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was the founding director of the COVID-19 Recovery Engagement Clinic at Montefiore-Einstein before joining OHSU.

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Former CAIRO President

Jack Iwashyna

Dr. Iwashyna is a critical care doctor who conducts health services research. His primary interest is in how patients and families can heal from acute serious illnesses like bad infections, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest—including COVID-19. He is dedicated to mentoring young scholars to become truly exceptional scientists.