Stephanie

DeMasi

MD

Stephanie DeMasi, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a junior investigator in the research division. Her central interest is in the evaluation of time-sensitive interventions for patients with acute, severe illness, such as respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. 

She completed residency in emergency medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham. After her chief resident year, she completed a two-year clinical ultrasound and resuscitation science fellowship. 

Dr. DeMasi joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2023 with NIH funding on the Department of Anesthesiology Training in Perioperative Science T32 grant. During this time, she completed her Master of Science degree in Clinical and Translational Science and published several manuscripts on emergency airway management. She is the primary investigator for the Vanderbilt emergency department Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group (PCCRG), a 25-center network that conducts pragmatic, comparative effectiveness clinical trials of critically ill adults. In 2025, she received an NIH/NHLBI K23 award to conduct a randomized trial comparing sedation-only intubation to intubation with sedation plus neuromuscular blockade among critically ill adults.