Chelsea Messinger, MD, PhD

I am an anesthesiology resident with interests in cardiac anesthesiology, critical care, and perioperative outcomes research. My work applies epidemiologic and causal inference methods to clinical questions.

Roles

Resident Physician, Research Track Anesthesiology · MGH

Editorial Fellow British Journal of Anaesthesia

Post-Doctoral Research Collaborator CAUSALab · Harvard Chan

Education

MD Harvard Medical School

PhD, Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

BA, History of Science & Medicine Yale University · Fulbright Scholar

Emulating Target Trials to Study Perioperative and Critical Care Interventions with Observational Data: Promise and Limitations

Messinger CJ, Bateman BT, Wanis KN · Anesthesiology, 2025

Association Between Congenital Cytomegalovirus and the Prevalence at Birth of Microcephaly in the United States

Messinger CJ, Lipsitch M, Bateman BT, et al. · JAMA Pediatrics, 2020

Effect of Transabdominal versus Transvaginal Cerclage on Preterm Birth and Neonatal Outcomes Among Patients with History of Cervical Insufficiency

Messinger CJ, Hernández-Díaz S, Hofman A, et al. · American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2025

From Association to Action: Why Causal Estimands Matter in Perioperative Studies of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Outcomes

Messinger CJ, Kelleher E · British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2025

Chelsea J. Messinger, MD, PhD