Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Neurocritical Care

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology and Radiological Science

Director of the Division of Informatics, Integration, and Innovation and Precision Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests:

• Transforming health with data science and AI

Robert David Stevens is a physician-scientist and healthcare AI transformation leader working at the intersection of precision medicine, AI, and strategy. Board-certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and neurocritical care, he has special expertise in the care of traumatic brain injury, stroke, and brain hemorrhage, and in the management of patients after cardiac arrest.

Stevens is the director of the Division of Informatics, Integration and Innovation and Precision Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and the associate director of the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Neurocritical Care. An affiliate member of the Malone Center, he additionally holds appointments in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Radiology and Radiological Science, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering; the Institute for Computational Medicine; the Institute for Cell Engineering; and the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging.

Stevens founded the Laboratory of Computational Intensive Care Medicine, an interdisciplinary engineering/medicine research group that designs AI systems to decode high-dimensional health data with the goal of transforming patient care and outcomes via enhanced precision and personalization. His research is supported by JHU, the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the European Union. Stevens is additionally the author of over 230 peer-reviewed articles (h-index = 67) and serves as associate editor for Thorax, Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care, Annals of Intensive Care, and Frontiers in Neurology.

He holds an MD summa cum laude from the University of Geneva and an executive MBA from the International Institute for Management Development Business School.