Kurt Drury
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Kurt Drury is a pediatric critical care physician whose research focuses on post–intensive care syndrome, which considers the impacts of critical illness on physical, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning after recovery. Much of his work focuses on sedation and analgesia practices in the intensive care unit (ICU) and how these impact children in the long term. By continuing his research on how sedation drug choice and ICU liberation practices impact post–intensive care syndrome, he hopes to improve the quality of life of children—especially those with brain injury—after they return to their families and schools following ICU admission.
His work has been published in Children, Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric Neurology, Sleep, Hospital Pediatrics, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Health Care Ethics Committee Forum.
Drury completed a BA in biochemistry and political science at Indiana University. He then joined Teach for America and taught high school physics in South Central Los Angeles for two years. He received an MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. He then pursued a pediatrics residency at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn and an intensive care unit fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University, where he also obtained a master of clinical research degree.