Siva Bhavani, MD, MS, is a physician-scientist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at University of Chicago, where he completed a T32 research fellowship and a Master of Science in Public Health. Dr. Bhavani’s research centers on identifying treatment-responsive sepsis subphenotypes by applying machine learning algorithms to routine bedside vital signs that are available even in low-resource settings.

Dr. Bhavani’s work has received support from the NIH, NSF, ATS, and Kaiser Permanente. Through his NIH career development award, Dr. Bhavani developed the vitals trajectory algorithm, one of the first precision medicine tools for fluid resuscitation in patients with sepsis. The algorithm has been implemented as a clinical decision support tool in the electronic medical record across the Emory Healthcare system as part of the PRECISE trial. Dr. Bhavani’s vision is to translate the machine learning algorithms developed in his lab from paper to practice, and to evaluate the implementation-effectiveness of these algorithms in guiding precision treatment and improving the outcomes of critically ill patients.