ASA Monitor Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Steven Shafer, MD, FASA
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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More information about the Board
Kumar G. Belani, MBBS, MS
Pediatric Anesthesiologist-In-Chief, University of Minnesota Health Fairview, Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Belani’s professional interests include pediatric and ambulatory anesthesiology, global collaborations in healthcare, perioperative medicine and patient safety, and metabolic and rare diseases in children.
Languages: English, Hindi, Sindhi, Kannada
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Belani serves on the MHAUS Hotline and is a grant recipient of the NIH DOD, Pfizer, Acacia, and Augustine Biomedical Design.
Daniel Cole, MD, FASA
President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Cole’s professional interests include perioperative medicine, brain health, geriatric medicine, and neuroanesthesia.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Cole is the current president of the APSF and the Executive Director for Professional Affairs for the ABA.
Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA
Associate Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Deutch’s professional interests include practice management, perioperative efficiency, medical economics, cardiac anesthesia/TEE, regional anesthesia, and ambulatory anesthesia.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Pamela Flood, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dr. Flood’s professional interests include the treatment of chronic pelvic pain and multiple aspects of women’s health, including the prevention of chronic pain after childbirth, and the role of multimodal treatment in chronic pain conditions and prevention of persistent opioid use.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Flood is a consultant and shareholder of Concentric Analgesics and shareholder of Resq Pharma.
Daniel A. Friedlander, MD
CA-3 Resident, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
Dr. Friedlander’s professional interests include cardiac anesthesiology, perioperative echocardiography, regional anesthesia, and scientific writing and communication.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
N. Martin Giesecke, MD
Chief of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Dr. Giesecke’s professional interests include cardiovascular and cardiothoracic anesthesiology, and advocacy for the profession of medicine and anesthesiology.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Giesecke sits on the board of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists (as a former president) and the Board of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, serves as President of the Anesthesia History Association, and is an examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Steven Greenberg, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Chicago, Vice Chair, Education, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Director of Critical Care, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
Dr. Greenberg’s professional interests include patient safety, critical care, cardiac anesthesiology, and anesthesiology.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Greenberg is Editor-in-Chief, APSF Newsletter and Secretary of APSF.
Uday Jain, MD, PhD, FACA, FASA
Anesthesiologist, Anesthesia Care Consultants, San Francisco, CA
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Girish P. Joshi, MD, BS, MB, FCAI
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Dr. Joshi’s professional interests include ambulatory anesthesia, postoperative pain management, enhanced recovery after surgery, and perioperative outcomes.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Joshi has received honoraria from Baxter Pharmaceuticals and Pacira Pharmaceuticals.
Gunisha S. Kaur, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Co-Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, New York, NY
Dr. Kaur’s professional interests include global health and human rights.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Kaur receives grant support from the National Institutes of Health, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Cornell University Migrations Initiative, and the President’s Council of Cornell Women. Within the past five years she has received grant support from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs at Cornell University.
M. James Lozada, DO
Obstetric Anesthesiologist, Our Lady of Lourdes Women & Children’s Hospital, Lafayette, LA
Dr. Lozada’s professional interests include healthcare media production and dissemination, patient safety, and maternal health.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Thomas R. Miller, PhD, MBA
Director of Analytics and Research Services, and Director, Center for Anesthesia Workforce Studies,
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Dr. Miller’s professional interests include health economics, anesthesia workforce trends, health services research, systematic reviews and clinical practice guideline development, strategic planning, and financial modeling.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Muhammad Rafique, MBBS, FASA
Professor of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Dr. Rafique’s professional interests include pediatric anesthesia, pediatric airway management, pediatric cardiac anesthesia, and quality improvement.
Languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi
Conflicts of interest: none
Shobana Rajan, MD, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Dr. Rajan’s professional interests include neuroscience in anesthesiology, education in anesthesiology, and monitoring in anesthesia.
Languages: English, Tamil
Conflicts of interest: none
Barbara M. Rogers, MD, MBOE, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Dr. Rogers’ professional interests include preoperative evaluation, neuroanesthesia, diabetes, geriatrics, and lean methodologies.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Vernon H. Ross, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Emeritus, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Language: English
Steven Shafer, MD, FASA
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dr. Shafer’s professional interests are data modeling, the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs, and publication policy and ethics. Since March he has been modeling the Covid-19 pandemic. The R code is freely available at github.com/StevenLShafer/COVID19. Daily updates are distributed by email. Those interested in receiving the updates are welcome to contact steven.shafer@stanford.edu.
His work in pharmacology includes studies of many of the intravenous opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. His focus has been mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These range from conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), models of drug interaction, and models of receptor function that help elucidate mechanisms of drug action. His most recent work has explored whether neural networks offer any benefits over the standard engineering models used in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Dr. Shafer has worked to bring these models to clinicians, investigators, and trainees. Thirty years ago he placed the program Stanpump (“Stanford infusion pump”) in the public domain. Stanpump was an open source software platform for Target Controlled Infusions of anesthetic drugs, as well as the pharmacokinetic engine for most, and perhaps all, commercialized TCI systems worldwide. More recently he developed stanpumpR, an R implementation of pharmacokinetic algorithms for many of the common perioperative drugs. stanpumpR can be accessed at stanpumpR.io. The source code for stanpumpR is available at github.com/stevenlshafer/stanpumpr.
His work in publication policy and ethics follows his 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia. From 2006-2016 two of the most prolific serial academic fraudsters in history were uncovered: Joachim Boldt and Yoshitaka Fujii. He finished his term as EIC with the unenviable record of retracting more papers for research fraud than any previous editor of any journal, ever. This led to a lasting interest in publication policy and ethics. In collaboration with others he continues to develop statistical models to detect fraud, and serve on multiple editorial boards to offer guidance on publication policy and ethics.
He developed an interest in the role of clinical pharmacology to criminal law following his testimony on behalf of the State of California in the trial of Conrad Murray for the death of Michael Jackson. He continues to provide pro bono testimony in criminal cases involving anesthetic drugs.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Shafer is a consultant and shareholder of Concentric Analgesics and consultant and shareholder of Resq Pharma.
Jodi Sherman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, Director, Program in Healthcare Environmental Sustainability, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Karen S. Sibert, MD, FASA
Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Health, Los Angeles, CA
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Sibert is a member of the Editorial Board of Anesthesiology News.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Striker’s professional interests include pediatric anesthesiology and communications.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Lalitha Sundararaman, MD
Harvard Medical School and Founder Member, Prana Institute of Holistic Medicine, Boston, MA
Dr. Sundararaman’s professional interests include ambulatory, out-of-OR anesthesia, and pain medicine.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
Hannah Viroslav, MD
CA-2 Resident, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Dr. Viroslav’s professional interests include critical care anesthesiology.
Language: English
Conflicts of interest: none
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