Dr. Michael C. Grant is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he works clinically as a dual fellowship-trained Critical Care Intensivist and Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist. Dr. Grant’s primary research interests include the application of systems thinking and systems engineering to perioperative medicine, quality improvement and multidisciplinary program development.

Michael is the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Surgical ICU, Director of Clinical Operations for the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and the Institutional Director of Anesthesiology for the Enhanced Recovery Program at Johns Hopkins, where he has overseen the installation of more than twenty care pathways across numerous surgical service lines, with special interest in Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS).

He is actively engaged nationally and internationally through a number of professional societies, including the ERAS® Cardiac and ERAS® International Societies. To date, Dr. Grant has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, participated in numerous guidelines development efforts and delivered more than 100 national and international grand rounds, presentations and lectures.