Dr. Vadim Gudzenko graduated from Odessa Medical University in Ukraine and soon after moved to the United States, where he completed his residency in anesthesiology at UCLA Medical Center. He subsequently pursued fellowship training in critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Following completion of his fellowship, Dr. Gudzenko was recruited back to UCLA, where he became one of the founding members of the Surgical Critical Care Service at UCLA Medical Center. Over the past 15 years, his clinical practice has focused on cardiac and surgical critical care, with particular expertise in mechanical circulatory support and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Dr. Gudzenko currently serves as Chief of the Critical Care Division in the Department of Anesthesiology at UCLA and Medical Director of the Adult ECMO Program. In addition to his clinical work in the cardiothoracic ICU and liver transplant anesthesia, his academic and research interests focus on outcomes and management of patients supported with mechanical circulatory support and ECMO, as well as educational initiatives aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art use of these technologies in modern critical care.