2025 Bruce Selya Awardee Sean Monaghan, MD

Sean Monaghan, MD, is a board-certified surgeon affiliated with Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, an assistant professor of surgery at Brown University and a member of the division of trauma and surgical critical care and the division of surgical research.

Dr. Monaghan’s research focuses on improving the care of sepsis patients with RNA sequencing data. It attempts to understand the biology of RNA splicing in critically ill trauma and surgical patients using acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a model disease.

As part of Brown University Health’s 32nd Annual Research Day on November 7, 2025, Dr. Monaghan will deliver a presentation titled, “Sepsis and Innovation.”