The Circuit Pioneers

Centrifugal Voices

Dr. Jason Bartos MD, PhD

Dr. Jason Bartos was born and raised in Maple Plain, MN. He completed his undergraduate work in Chemistry and Psychology at St. John’s University and went on to earn his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Iowa. He then moved to Stanford University School of Medicine where he earned his MD and completed Internal Medicine residency. He moved to the University of Minnesota in 2012 where he completed fellowships in Cardiovascular Medicine, Critical Care Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology.

Dr. Bartos is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, critical care medicine, and interventional cardiology. His clinical interests include cardiac critical care, resuscitation, advanced hemodynamic support, pulmonary embolus, and coronary artery disease and intervention. He is the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit.

Dr. Bartos’s research interests include resuscitation, advanced hemodynamic support, and recovery from cardiac arrest. He has performed research in the field of ischemia and reperfusion injury for 20 years describing the molecular pathways of injury in models of cerebral ischemia and investigating potential therapies to mitigate the effects of reperfusion injury in heart transplantation, myocardial infarction, and refractory cardiac arrest. Dr. Bartos currently works with the Center for Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium to improve survival for patients suffering cardiac arrest. This work has resulted in the development of protocols utilizing rapid transport from the field, peripherally placed veno-arterial ECMO, coronary reperfusion, and subsequent cardiac intensive care to improve outcomes for patients with refractory VT/VF cardiac arrest.

Dr. Demetri Yannopoulos MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI

Dr. Demetris Yannopoulos has dedicated his career to advancing resuscitation science. He has held continuous NIH funding for more than a decade to improve neurological outcomes after prolonged cardiac arrest and is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded ARREST Trial—the first U.S. study to evaluate ECMO for refractory ventricular fibrillation. He also received the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award for innovative work to reduce reperfusion injury after cardiac arrest.

A national leader in resuscitation, Dr. Yannopoulos serves on the American Heart Association’s CPR Guidelines Committee and has helped redefine the role of interventional cardiology in cardiac arrest care. In collaboration with Twin Cities EMS directors, he established the first U.S. ECMO-based resuscitation protocol for refractory VF out-of-hospital arrest, reshaping prehospital and hospital systems.

He also designed the first mobile ECMO truck, supported by the Helmsley Charitable Trust, pioneering a new model of rapid, advanced care for cardiac arrest and stroke patients.

Dr. Erick Itoman

ECMO Director

Assistant Chief - Dept of Medicine

Dr. Ryota Sato

ECMO MD, ECMO Research Lead

Dr. Mark Dennis

Dr. Adam Gottula

Adam is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Center for Resuscitation Medicine and Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium. Board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia Critical Care, he provides clinical care in the Cardiothoracic ICU, Adult Emergency Department, and Mobile ECMO Program.

His clinical and research interests focus on ECPR, cardiogenic shock, critical care transport, and expanding access to advanced resuscitation therapies through innovative systems of care. Dr. Gottula's work has helped advance mobile ECMO and transport-based ECPR strategies aimed at improving outcomes for patients with refractory cardiac arrest.

He serves on the Board of the Air Medical Physicians Association and is Editor-in-Chief of the Air Medical Journal. Dr. Gottula is a nationally recognized speaker and educator in critical care transport, ECPR, ECMO, and resuscitation systems design.

Dr. Dinis Miranda

Dinis is a critical care anesthesiologist working at the CardioThoracic ICU in the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is ECMO director of the Adult ICU. He divides his time at the ICU with his work as a physician at the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), also based in Rotterdam. He is involved in ECMO since 2006 and introduced mobilization of vvECMO and vaECMO. In the ErasmusMC he trained cardiothoracic intensivists to perform ECPR, resulting in an in-house ECPR team 24/7. He also trained the HEMS teams (consisting of anesthesiologists and trauma surgeons) in the Netherlands to perform prehospital ECPR, covering now the entire nation. This is now known as the On-Scene trial. Outside of work, he does triathlons and loves to go sailing.