Visiting Professor Grand Rounds Lectures, Academic Years 2018-2024
| Lecture Date | Visiting Professor | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 5/30/2024 | Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, MAS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology |
| 5/23/2024 | James H. Philip, MD, Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Anesthesiologist and Director of Anesthesia Clinical Bioengineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Improving Clinical Care Using Inhalation Anesthesia Kinetics |
| 5/16/2024 | Ibrahim Sultan, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, UPMC; Executive Vice Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh; Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute | Acute Aortic Dissection: The Pittsburgh Paradigm |
| 4/18/2024 | Britany L. Raymond, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology; Fellowship Director, OB Anesthesiology Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology; Director of in-Utero Fetal Surgery, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Perioperative Ketamine – Helpful, Harmful, or Hogwash? |
| 3/28/2024 | Justin McCray, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Independence Health System, Westmoreland County | A Personal Perspective on Physician Impairment |
| 3/21/2024 | Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, MD, FAES, FAAN, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology; Director, Critical Care Continuous EEG Monitoring; Chair, Neurology Wellness Committee; Consultant, UPMC Sleep Medicine Center; Consultant, Pittsburgh Steelers, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & UPMC | Harnessing the Power of Sleep for Physician Excellence |
| 2/2/2024 | McKenzie Hollon, MD, FASE, Vice Chair, Education; Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine | CBME and the Future of Technology in Education |
| 1/25/2024 | Maria Munoz-Allen, MD, Associate Professor, Clinical Anesthesia; Assistant Director, Regional Anesthesia, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Hospital | Regional Anesthesia: Its Role in the Opioid Crisis |
| 1/18/2024 | Chang Park, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; Associate Program Director, Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Quantity Over Quality: One Institution’s Navigation of the Recent Updates in Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade |
| 11/30/2023 | Alena Rady, DO, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Clinical Track, Yale University; Director of Anesthesia Services for the Electrophysiology and Structural Heart Programs, York Street and Bridgeport Campuses | Unfamiliar Treatment of a Familiar Problem: Watchman and Convergent Procedures for Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation |
| 11/16/2023 | Brian A. Williams, MD, MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System - Acute Pain Medicine | At Long Last, Meaningful Prophylaxis Against the PONV "Big Little Problem" |
| 9/28/2023 | Kristin M. Ondecko Ligda, MD, FASA, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Staff Anesthesiologist, UPMC Mercy; Residency Site Director, UPMC Mercy | Women in Anesthesiology: Paving the Path Forward |
| 5/25/2023 | Uchenna O. Umeh, MD, FASA, Clinical Assistant Professor; Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Management, Weill Cornell Medicine | From Clinical Care to Clinical Trials and Beyond: Examining Disparities in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine |
| 4/20/2023 | Emily L. Sturgill, MD, Lt Col, USAF, Anesthesiology Flight Commander; Deputy Surgical Operations Squadron Commander, 99th Medical Group, Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center | Military Medicine: Air Force Anesthesiology |
| 3/30/2023 | Kristin Krauss, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; Associate Vice Chair for QA/PI, Department of Anesthesiology, Temple University | What Your Cancer Patient Wants You to Know |
| 3/23/2023 | Naudia L. Jonassaint MD, MHS, MBA, MHS, Interim Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery; Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine; Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | The Bias of Metrics: What are We Measuring? |
| 3/16/2023 | Jason Loflen, MD, UPMC Hamot Department of Emergency Medicine | "The Face of Addiction” Physician Wellness Event |
| 2/23/2023 | Loren Smith, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | High-Density Lipoproteins and Acute Kidney Injury |
| 2/16/2023 | Yamaan Saadeh, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan | Intraoperative Positioning Injuries: Anatomic and Practical Considerations |
| 1/26/2023 | Joshua Knight, MD, FASE, Medical Director of Quality; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh | Prehabilitation for Cardiac Surgery: Current State and Future Opportunities |
| 1/19/2023 | Garrett Burnett, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; Program Director, ASA Endorsed Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Course; Director of Operations for Mount Sinai HELPS Simulation Center; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Going Green: Environmental Impact of Anesthesiology |
| 12/15/2022 | Ian Molyneaux, MD, D.ABA, Anesthesiology Residency Program Director; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Critical Care of the Obstetric Patient: An Overview |
| 11/17/2022 | Lee Goeddel MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology/CCM, Johns Hopkins School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Program Director, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Fellowship | Can Preoperative Echocardiography Advance Precision Perioperative Care? |
| 10/20/2022 | Ryan Ball, MD, MBA, FASE, Chief Anesthesiologist, UPMC Passavant; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh | My Patient has an ICD?...I’m Shocked! Identification and Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices |
| 9/22/2022 | Zhongcong Xie, MD. PhD, FASA, Henry Knowles Beecher Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard University; Director, Geriatric Anesthesia Research Unit; Director, Basic Science Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital | Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders - The Mechanistic Insights |
| 9/15/2022 | Kimberly Cantees, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; Clinical Director, UPMC Presbyterian Operating Rooms | The Great Resignation and Surgical Volume - Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? |
| 5/26/2022 | Samhati Mondal (she/her), MBBS, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic and Transplant Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine | Right Ventricle in Transplant Anesthesia – Why It Matters? |
| 5/19/2022 | David W. Healy MD, FASA, University of Michigan Medical School at Michigan Medicine | Head and Neck Anesthesia and Advanced Airway Management |
| 4/21/2022 | Olubukola (Bukky) Nafiu, MD, FRCA, MS, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio | Racial Disparity in Pediatric Surgical Health: Why We Must All Be Health Disparity Researchers |
| 3/31/2022 | Katherine Barefoot, MD, UVA Department of Anesthesiology, Brody School of Medicine | Peace in Practice: A Guide to Finding Resiliency in the Workplace |
| 3/24/2022 | Sudhakar Subramani, MBBS, FASE, University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia | Updates on Regional Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery |
| 3/17/2022 | Nicholas J. Schott, MD, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Evolution of Pain Services and Management in ERAS |
| 2/24/2022 | Trent Emerick, MD, MBA, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Entrepreneurship for Anesthesiologists |
| 2/17/2022 | Ben Alter, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Director, Translational Pain Research, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Power of Placebo - The Translational Opportunities of Endogenous Analgesia |
| 1/27/2022 | Kimberly Rengel, MD, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Division, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center | Thriving, Not Just Surviving - A Vision for Recovery after Critical Illness and Major Surgery |
| 1/20/2022 | Juan P Cata, MD, Associate Professor; Vice-Chair of Clinical Research; Program Director, Cancer Anesthesia Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Influence of Anesthetics on Cancer Recurrence |
| 12/16/2021 | Jacob T. Gutsche, MD, FASE, FCCM, University of Pennsylvania Health System | Penn Lung Rescue Mobile ECMO Service |
| 11/18/2021 | Paige McLaughlin, MD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University | Dealing with Difficult Interactions: A Wellness-Oriented Approach |
| 10/28/2021 | Frank A. Kunkel, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UPMC Passavant | Opioid Awareness Event - Opioids, Addiction: Review and Update |
| 10/21/2021 | Jonathan Gal, MD, MBA, MS, FASA, System Medical Director, Facility Revenue Integrity & Optimization, Mid-Revenue Cycle & Clinical Business Intelligence; System Medical Director, Offsite Ambulatory Surgery Center Anesthesia, Mount Sinai Health System; Associate Professor, Anesthesiology; Director, Governmental & Reimbursement Affairs, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | The Effects of Economic-Related Legislation on Anesthesiologists |
| 9/28/2021 | K. Karisa Walker, MD, MEd, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Milestones 2.0 and the Next Generation of Resident Assessment |
| 9/16/2021 | Shravani Durbhakula, MD, Johns Hopkins University | Curriculum Innovation & Design in Pain Medicine |
| 5/27/2021 | Konstantinos Alfaras-Melainis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UPMC Mercy | Resuscitation in Burn Patients: Can We Do Better? |
| 5/20/2021 | James E. Baumgardner, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, UPMC Presbyterian | Effect of Global Ventilation to Perfusion Ratio, for Normal Lungs, on Desflurane and Sevoflurane Elimination Kinetics |
| 4/29/2021 | Matthew D. McEvoy, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery; Vice-Chair for Educational Affairs; Program Director, Perioperative Medicine Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Preoperative Optimization: Should I Jump on the Bandwagon? |
| 4/15/2021 | Ryan W. Logan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine | Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Health: Disruptions to Sleep and Rhythms as Risk Factors for Substance Use Vulnerability |
| 3/25/2021 | Catherine L. Chen, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care | Perioperative Resource Utilization for Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Cataract Surgery |
| 3/18/2021 | Abiona Berkeley, MD, JD, Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology; Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University | Gossip and Fake News |
| 2/25/2021 | Aymen Alian, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Chief of OB/Gyn Anesthesia, Yale School of Medicine | Waveform Analysis and Noninvasive Intravascular Volume Assessment |
| 2/18/2021 | Ebony Jade Hilton, MD, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Univ. of Virginia | Women in Anesthesiology on Intersectionality of Pandemic & Protest: Shared Vein of Racism |
| 1/28/2021 | Amaresh Vydyanathan, MBBS, MS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Montefiore Multidisciplinary Pain Program | Perioperative Challenges in Special Populations of Chronic Patients |
| 12/17/2020 | Natalie K. Smith, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Associate Director, Division of Liver Transplantation; Fellowship Director, Division of Liver Transplantation; Departmental Wellbeing Champion, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai at Mount Sinai Hospital | Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury: A Focused Review and the Role of the Anesthesiologist |
| 10/29/2020 | Christina J. Hayhurst, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Division; Associate Program Director, Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Director of Clinical Operations, Anesthesiology CCM, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Perioperative Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia - Is it Real? Is it Important? |
| 10/22/2020 | Jaime Hyman, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology; Section Chief, Ambulatory Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine | Video Laryngoscopy: Expanding Roles and Potential Limitations |
| 10/15/2020 | Reid Simmons, PhD, Research Professor; Director, Artificial Intelligence Major Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University | Artificial Intelligence and Society |
| 9/24/2020 | Paul E. Bigeleisen, MD, Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center | The Past, the Present, and the Future of Regional Anesthesia |
| 5/28/2020 | Erik Strauss, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD | A Measuring TAPE for the Lysine Analogues |
| 2/20/2020 | Vivianne L. Tawfik, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; Director, Fellowship in Anesthesia Research & Medicine (FARM) Program, Stanford University School of Medicine | Novel Approaches to Peripheral Pain or The Trials & Tribulations of a Junior Anesthesiologist-Scientist |
| 1/30/2020 | Bala Subramaniam, MD, MPH, FASA Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School; Ellison C. "Jeep" Pierce Endowed Chair of Anesthesia; Staff Anesthesiologist; Director, Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA | Intraoperative Blood Pressure Targets |
| 1/26/2020 | Amit Bardia, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven | Reducing Postoperative Pulmonary Complications: What's New |
| 11/21/2019 | Daniel Katz, MD, Vice Chair of Education; Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY | It’s Time to Get Serious About Serious Games: Utilization of Gaming and Virtual Environments in Healthcare |
| 5/23/2019 | David Goodale, DDS, PhD, Executive Clinical Director, DBG Pharma LLC, West Chester, PA |
Propofol: NEW Insights - Blood Lipids Modulate Anesthetic Drug Actions / Propofol Infusion Syndrome Linked to Mitochondrial Disease |
| 4/25/2019 | Jiro Kurata, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Dept. of Anesthesiology, Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan | Mechanisms of Pain Chronification: Insights from Human Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| 3/21/2019 | Matthew E. Melis, Aerospace Engineer , NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH | To Space and Beyond: What Space Travel Can Teach Us About Patient Safety |
| 2/21/2019 | Mark M. Goldfinger, MD, FAAP, Chair, Clinical Competency Committee, Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio | From Genesis to 1846. The O'Regional Story of Anesthesia |
| 1/31/2019 | Nibras Bughrara, MD, Assistant Professor; Director, Division of Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine; Director, Critical Care Echocardiography Training Program; Faculty, Anesthesiology Residency, Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical College | Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in ACLS: The FEEL Protocol |
| 1/24/2019 | Jed Wolpaw MD, MEd, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; Residency Program Director; Co-Director, Anesthesia Medical Student Education; Co-Director, ICU Clerkship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Reimagining Residency: What Should Training Look Like for Today's Adult Learners? |
| 9/27/2018 | Tekuila Carter, MD, Assistant Professor; Director, Anesthesiology Simulation; Associate Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency, The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Obesity with Obstetric Anesthesia |
| 4/19/2018 | Richard J. Levy, MD, FAAP, Vice Chair for Pediatric Laboratory Research, Department of Anesthesiology; Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY | The Mitochondrial Basis of Fragile X Syndrome |
| 3/29/2018 | Treven Pickett, PsyD, ABPP, Department Chief, Research, National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | Traumatic Brain Injury and Associated Psychological Health Conditions among US Military Service Members |
| 3/22/2018 | Jonathan Bloom, MD, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Podimetrics, Inc. | Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| 3/15/2018 | Christopher Gallagher, MD, Retired Professor of Anesthesiology, State University of New York Stony Brook, New York | Scouting Retirement |
| 2/15/2018 | Lee Fleisher, MD, Robert Dunning Dripps Professor of Anesthesia; Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Health System | Strategies to Reduce Cardiac Risk of Noncardiac Surgery |
| 1/18/2018 | Alex S. Evers, MD, Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology; Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO | The Fallacy of Persistent Post-Operative Cognitive Decline |
| 9/28/2017 | Laurent Glance, MD, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology; Professor of Anesthesiology; Professor of Public Health Sciences; Senior Scientist, RADN (adjunct), University of Rochester School of Medicine | Can We Do Better? Can Quality Measurement Help? |