Affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Christina Jelly, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She works as a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and an intensivist in the cardiac surgical ICU.  She completed her anesthesia residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also served as chief resident.  She then completed her Cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at MGH and her Critical Care Fellowship at Vanderbilt.  She is currently the co-director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound at Vanderbilt and also serves on the ECMO team. Her primary clinical and research interests are perioperative and point-of-care echocardiography, mechanical circulatory support, and global cardiac anesthesia care.