James M. Blum, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesia

Current Positions

Division of Critical Care Medicine

Education

BS in Computer Science, Alma College, Alma, Michigan
MD in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Research Interests

Being trained as a computer scientist, I entered medicine with the thought of contributing to the improvement of healthcare through data analysis and machine learning. To date, most of my work has used informatics, large datasets, and computational methods to (surgery and the treatment of the critically ill. Most of my interests have centered around the study of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis using these techniques, but the techniques are amenable to research in several different domains in the surgical and critically ill populations.

Selected Publications

Mlsurac, J., Knake, L. A. & Blum, J. M. (2025). The effect of ambient artificial intelligence notes on provider burnout. Appl Clin Inform 16 (2) 252-258. DOI: 10.1055/a-2461-4576. PMID: 39500346. PMCID: PMC11922620 (available on 2026-03-19).
Dornbush, C., Mishra, A., Hrabe, J., Guyton, K., Axelrod, D., Blum, J. & Gribovskaja-Rupp, I. (2025). Remote monitoring after elective colorectal surgery, a pilot study. Surgery 179 108791. DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2024.08.025. PMID: 39307673.
Knake, L. A., Asbury, R., Penisten, S., Meyer, N., Burrell, K., Chuffo Davila, R., Wright, A. & Blum, J. M. (2024). Successfully transitioning an interruptive alert into a noninterruptive alert for central line dressing changes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Appl Clin Inform 15 (5) 965-969. DOI: 10.1055/a-2394-4462. PMID: 39163999. PMCID: PMC11560397 (available on 2025-11-13).
Cramer, E., Kuperman, E., Meyer, N. & Blum, J. M. (2024). Improving naloxone co-prescribing through clinical decision support. Cureus 16 (7) e63919. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.63919. PMID: 39099893. PMCID: PMC11298243.
Lilly, C. M., Kirk, D., Pessach, I. M., Lotun, G., Chen, O., Lipsky, A., Lieder, I., Celniker, G., Cucchi, E. W. & Blum, J. M. (2024). Application of machine learning models to biomedical and information system signals from critically ill adults. Chest 165 (5) 1139-1148. DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.10.036. PMID: 37923292.
Duggal, A., Conrad, S. A., Barrett, N. A., Saad, M., Cheema, T., Pannu, S., Romero, R. S., Brochard, L., Nava, S., Ranieri, V. M., May, A., Brodie, D., Hill, N. S. & VENT-AVOID Investigators (including Blum, J. M.). (2024). Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal to avoid invasive ventilation during exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: VENT-AVOID trial - a randomized clinical trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 209 (5) 529-542. DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202311-2060OC. PMID: 38261630.
Wood, K. E., Pham, H. T., Carter, K. D., Nepple, K. G., Blum, J. M. & Krasowski, M. D. (2023). Impact of a switch to immediate release on the patient viewing of diagnostic test results in an online portal at an academic medical center. J Pathol Inform 14 100323. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpi.2023.100323. PMID: 37520309. PMCID: PMC10384271.
Blum, J. M. & Kuehn, D. M. (2022). Collaborative artificial intelligence in practice: the next steps. Anesthesiology 137 (6) 664-665. DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000004412. PMID: 36413783.
Bartels, K., Frendl, G., Sprung, J., Weingarten, T. N., Subramaniam, B., Martinez Ruiz, R., Lee, J. W., Henderson, W. G., Moss, A., Sodickson, A., Giquel, J., Vidal Melo, M. F., Fernandez-Bustamante, A. & Perioperative Research Network (PRN) investigators (including Blum, J. M.). (2022). Postoperative pulmonary complications with adjuvant regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia alone: a sub-analysis of the Perioperative Research Network study. BMC Anestheiol 22 (1) 136. DOI: 10.1186/s12871-022-01679-5. PMID: 35501692. PMCID: PMC9063185.
Auld, S. C., Harrington, K. R. V., Adelman, M. W., Robichaux, C. J., Overton, E. C., Caridi-Scheible, M., Coopersmith, C. M., Murphy, D. J. & Emory COVID-19 Quality and Clinical Research Collaborative (including Blum, J. M.). (2022). Trends in ICU mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: a tale of three surges. Crit Care Med 50 (2) 245-255. DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005185. PMID: 34259667. PMCID: PMC8796834.