Nicholas J. Douville

Nicholas J. Douville is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Program Director at the University of Michigan Medical School. His roles include academic leadership in perioperative medicine, clinical practice, and translational research. He holds membership in the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and Precision Health Initiative.

Dr. Douville completed both his MD and PhD at the University of Michigan Medical School in 2013. His research focuses on perioperative outcomes, genetic risk prediction for postoperative complications, acute kidney injury mechanisms, and optimizing anesthesia practices using emerging technologies like real-time EEG monitoring during liver transplantation. He also contributes to large-scale healthcare initiatives like expanding the NIH All of Us Research Program into surgical domains.

His recent work emphasizes multi-center studies on postoperative complications, with notable contributions to understanding genetic factors influencing nausea/vomiting and acute kidney injury. He collaborates across disciplines to integrate genomic data with clinical outcomes, aiming to improve personalized surgical care and reduce perioperative morbidity.

Key research themes include:

• Genetic risk scores for perioperative complications
• Optimizing anesthesia management in high-risk surgeries
• Postoperative pulmonary and renal complications prevention
• Healthcare policy related to precision perioperative medicine

His work has led to novel approaches in intraoperative monitoring and evidence-based clinical guidelines for surgical patient management.