Dr. Brian O'Gara is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and attending anesthesiologist and intensivist in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. He joined the Department in 2010 when he started as an anesthesia resident and subsequently became an ICU fellow before joining as staff in 2015.

Dr. O'Gara has had funding from an NIH T32, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Mentored Research Training Grant, and the Binational Research and Development Foundation.  His research focuses on implementing innovative technologies to tackle common perioperative complications such as postoperative delirium.  In recent years he has conducted clinical trials on the feasibility of cognitive prehabilitation in cardiac surgery patients and the potential for intraoperative and postoperative virtual reality to reduce oversedation and it's complications.  

Dr. O'Gara is also the Program Director of the Anesthesia Resident Research Program mentoring young clinician researchers in the Department as they start their careers in academic anesthesia. He works with investigators to refine their research questions and provide mentorship through the initial phases of developing their own research portfolios.