Team — Perioperative Outcomes Lab

Faculty & Staff

Maximilian S. Schaefer, MD PhD

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Medical Director, Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence (CARE)
Director of Thoracic Anesthesia
Email:msschaef@bidmc.harvard.edu
Xiaohan Xu, MD

Attending Anesthesiologist at BIDMC
Email:xxu11@bidmc.harvard.edu
Luca J. Wachtendorf, MD

Resident in Anesthesia at BIDMC
Email:lwachte1@bidmc.harvard.edu
Arian Karimitar, MA PhD

Project Manager
Email:akarimit@bidmc.harvard.edu
Jose DaSouza, BS

Data Analyst
Email:jdasouza@bidmc.harvard.edu
Anna Hu, BS

Data Analyst (per diem)
Email:ahu@bidmc.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Sebastian Sahli, MD

Senior Postdoc Research Fellow
Email:ssahli@bidmc.harvard.edu
Carsten Marcus, MD

Senior Postdoc Research Fellow
Email:cmarcus4@bidmc.harvard.edu
Justus P. Student, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email:jstudent@bidmc.harvard.edu
Mathieu Capdevila, MD PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email:mcapdevi@bidmc.harvard.edu
Elena Ahrens, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Student Alumni (Sep 2021 - Oct 2022)
Email:eahrens1@bidmc.harvard.edu

Research Students

Benedikt Wagner

Clinical Research Student Intern
Email:bwagner2@bidmc.harvard.edu
Julie L. Reimers

Clinical Research Student Intern
Email:jreimer1@bidmc.harvard.edu
Gaeul Kim, MD

Research Student Intern
MPH Student at Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Luisa Marie Trefz

Clinical Research Student Intern
ltrefz@bidmc.harvard.edu

Research Collaborators & Affiliates

Haobo Ma, MD

Mass General Hospital (MGH), Boston
Joris Pensier, MD PhD

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Montpellier, France
Research Fellow Alumni (Nov 2024 - May 2025)
Denys Shay, MD

PhD Candidate at Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Béla-Simon Paschold, MD

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Ulm, Germany
Research Fellow Alumni (Jul 2023 - 2025)
Theresa Tenge, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany
Research Fellow Alumni (Sep 2023 - 2024)
Dario von Wedel

Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Research Student Alumni (Sep 2022 - 2023)

Alumni

Luisa Udoh

Clinical Research Student Intern
Mar 2025 - Feb 2026
Tia Kolling

Clinical Research Student Intern
Mar 2025 - Feb 2026
Kara Liebich

Clinical Research Student Intern
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
Ben Braeuer

Clinical Research Student Intern
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025
Maxime Fosset, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nov 2024 - May 2025
Isabel Podolski

Clinical Research Student Intern
Apr 2024 - May 2025
Sophia Riesemann

Clinical Research Student Intern
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
May Hashish, MD

Project Manager
- Feb 2025
Lisa-Marie Wichelhaus

Clinical Research Student Intern
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Lars Kaiser

Clinical Research Student Intern
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Simone Redaelli, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
Ricardo Munoz, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2022-24
Max Hentges, BSc MBBS

Clinical Research Student Intern
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Nikolai Ratajczak

Clinical Research Student Intern
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Eva-Lotte Seibold

Clinical Research Student Intern
Sep 2022 - Sep 2023
Aiman Suleiman, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
Tim M. Tartler

Clinical Research Student Intern
2021-22
Sarah Ashrafian

Clinical Research Student Intern
Basit Azizi

Clinical Research Student Intern
Laetitia Chiarella

Clinical Research Student Intern