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UCSD Anesthesiology Faculty

Farshad M. Ahadian, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
M.D. - St. Louis Univ Sch of Med
Anes - Wilford Hall Medical Center 
Specialty - Pain Management/  Research
fahadian@ucsd.edu

Benjamin I. Atwater, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Stanford University
Anes - UCSD
Fellowship - Pain UCSD
Specialty - Pain Management
batwater@ucsd.edu

Dalia Banks, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Cairo University
Anes - Yale University
Fellowship - Cardiothoracic, Harvard University
Specialty - Cardiothoracic and Regional Anesthesia
dabanks@ucsd.edu

Richard Bellars, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Georgetown Univ
Anes - UCSD
Specialty - Regional Anesthesia
rbellars@ucsd.edu

Jonathan L. Benumof, M.D.

Professor
M.D. – USC
Anes - Columbia/Presbyterian
Fellowship - Research, UCSD
Clinical management of the difficult airway; detection of products of lipid peroxidation in expired gases; one lung ventilation
jbenumof@ucsd.edu

Michael L. Bishop, M.D.
Clinical Professor
M.D. - UCSF
Anes - Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education
Specialty - General and Orthopedic Anesthesia

mlbishop@ucsd.edu

Wendy Campana, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. - Pennsylvania State University
Cytokine signaling mechanisms in sensory neurons and Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system
wcampana@ucsd.edu

Leon Chang, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
M.D. - Tufts Univ College of Medicine
Anes - UCSD
lchang@ucsd.edu

Ching-Rong Cheng, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Taipei Medical College
Anes - University of Louisville
Specialty - Simulation Technology
cheng4817@yahoo.com

John C. Drummond, M.D.
Professor
M.D. - University of Toronto
Anes - University of Toronto
Variables influencing post-ischemia cell survival; role of neurohormones (prostaglandins) in the evolution of cerebral injury in ischemia; motor-evoked potentials in spinal cord ischemia
jdrummond@ucsd.edu

Ronald Dueck, M.D.
Clinical Professor
M.D. - University of Manitoba
Anes - UCSD
Fellowship - Research,  UCSD
Anesthetic management of patients with COPD, asthma, and CHF; Anesthesia technology development.
rdueck@ucsd.edu

Mark Greenberg., M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesia and Pediatrics
M.D. - Emory University
Pediatrics Res. - UCSD
Anesthesia Res. - UCSD
Pediatric Anesthesia, Pain, Neo-natology, and Critical Care
mgreenberg@ucsd.edu

Randolph Hastings, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
M.D. - UCSD
Ph.D. - UCSD
Anesthesia - UCSF
Pharmacology and molecular biology of pulmonary epithelium
rhhastings@ucsd.edu

Brian M. Ilfeld, M.D., M.S.

Associate Professor In Residence
M.D. - UCSF
Anes - UCSF
Fellowship - Regional Anesthesia, Univ of Florida
MS Degree - Clinical Investigation, Univ of Florida
Specialty - Regional Anesthesia and human subjects clinical research
bilfeld@ucsd.edu

 

Robin L. Guiab  M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
M.D. - Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Anes - Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship - Obstetric and Cardiac Anesthesia - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Specialty - Obstetric and Cardiac Anesthesia
rguiab@ucsd.edu

Joel A. Kaplan, M.D.
Clinical Professor
M.D. - Jefferson Medical College
Anes - Univ of Pennsylvania
Fellowship - Cardiovascular Physiology & Pharmacology,
Cardiac Anesthesia, Univ of Pennsylvania
Speciality - Cardiac Anesthesia
jkaplan@ucsd.edu


Nicholas J. Kormylo, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - University of Utah
Anes - UCSD
Fellowship - Pain  UCSD
Specialty - Pain Management
nkormylo@ucsd.edu

Hasan S. Khawaja, M.D
.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Ross University
Anes - Stony Brook University Hospital
hkhawaja@ucsd.edu


Krzystoff Kuczkowski, M.D
.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Medical Academy,
University of Lodz, Poland
Ph.D. - UCSD
Anesthesia - Univ of Mississippi
Medical Center
Fellowship - OB Anesthesia,
Colombia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons
kkuczkowski@ucsd.edu

Daniel Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor,
Anesthesia and Pediatrics
M.D./Ph.D. - Univ of Texas, Southwestern Med Ctr at Dallas
Pediatrics Res - UCSD
Anesthesia Res - UCSD
Fellowship - Paediatric Anesthesia & Intensive Care
Great Ormond St Hospital, London
Specialty - Cardiothoracic & Pediatric Anesthesia, Critical Care
d8lee@ucsd.edu

Albert Y. Leung, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
M.D. - Univ Pittsburgh
Anes - - UC Davis
Fellowship - Pain, UCSD
Central mechanisms of pain, pharma-cological and non-pharmacological interventions
ayleung@ucsd.edu

Vanessa Loland, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. -
Anes - UCSD
Fellowship - Regional Anesthesia, UCSD
Specialty - Regional Anesthesia
vloland@ucsd.edu

Gerard R. Manecke, M.D.

Clinical Professor
Interim Department Chair
M.D. - SUNY at Stony Brook
Anesthesia - SUNY at Stony Brook
Specialty -Cardiac Anesthesia
gmanecke@ucsd.edu

Edward R. Mariano, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical School, Georgetown Univ
Anesthesia Residency, Stanford
Fellowship - Ped Anesthesia,  Stanford University
Specialty - Regional and Pediatric Anesthesia
ermariano@ucsd.edu

Martin Marsala, M.D
Professor
M.D. - Safarik University Medical School
Specialty:  Replacement therapy in spinal and brain injury
mmarsala@ucsd.edu

William J. Mazzei, M.D.

Clinical Professor
Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs
M.D. - Harvard Medical School
Anesthesia - Mass. General Hospital
Ischemia monitoring; anesthesia for cardiac surgery; optimization of OR practice
wmazzei@ucsd.edu

John P. McCarren, MD
Clinical Professor
Chief, Thornton Hospital
M.D. - UCSD
Anes - UCSD
jmccarren@ucsd.edu

Sidney Merritt, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. -  Oregon Health  Sciences
Anes  - UCSF
  Fellowship - Pediatric Anesthesia, Children's Hospital, Boston
skmerritt@ucsd.edu

Anushirvan Minokadeh, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - Louisiana State University
Anesthesia - SUNY Downstate Hospital
Fellowship - Critical Care - Johns Hopkins Hospital
aminokadeh@ucsd.edu

Mark M. Mitchell, M.D.
Clinical Professor
Chief,  San Diego VA Hosp
M.D. - UCSD
Anesthesia - Mass. General Hospital
Properties of esophageal doppler systems in characterizing cardiovascular function
mmitchell@ucsd.edu


James Modir, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
M.D. - Medical College of Wisconsin
Anesthesia  -  UCSD
jmodir@ucsd.edu

Tobias Moeller-Bertram, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor,
Anesthesia and Pediatrics
M.D. - Univ of Hamburg, Germany
Anesthesia - UCSD
Fellowship - UCSF Pain Management
Chronic Pain Management
tmoellerbertram@ucsd.edu

Hemal H. Patel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin
Research Interest: Myocardial/cerebral ischemia repurfusion injury; caveolae/caveolins; mitochondrial function
.
hepatel@ucsd.edu

Piyush Patel, M.D.
Professor
M.D. - University of Manitoba
Anes - University of Manitoba
Fellowship - Research, UCSD
Cerebral ischemic preconditioning; stem cell transplantation and CNS regeneration.
ppatel@ucsd.edu

Preetesh P. Patel, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D.- Mercer Univ School of Medicine
Anes - Emory University
pppatel@ucsd.edu

David M. Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
M.D. - UCSD
Ph.D. - Jefferson Medical College
Anes - UCSD
Fellowship - Research, UCSD
droth@ucsd.edu

Stephanie Resnick, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - University of Missouri-Kansas School of Medicine
Anes - Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center
stresnick@ucsd.edu

Ramon Sanchez, M.D .
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. -  UCSD
Anes - UCSD
Anesthesia for solid organ trans-plantation (liver, kidney, pancreas)
rsanchez@ucsd.edu

NavParkash S. Sandhu, M.S., M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
M.D. - Panjab Univ, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital
Anes - New York Univ Medical Center
Specialty - Regional  Anes
nsandhu@ucsd.edu

Gerhard Schulteis, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Neural plasticity in response to environmental stimuli
gschulteis@ucsd.edu

Robin Seaberg, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
M.D. - UCSD
Anesthesia - UCSD
Specialty :Physician Impairment/Addiction
rseaberg@ucsd.edu

Veronica I. Shubayev, M.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor M.D. - Dahestan Medical Academy, Russia
Fellowship - Research, UCSF, UCSD
Extracellular proteases and cytokines in axon-axon and axon-glia interactions in nerve regeneration
vshubayev@ucsd.edu

Linda Sorkin, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D. - University of Michigan
Recording from spinal nociceptive neurons; spinal release of prostaglandins and peptides
lsorkin@ucsd.edu

Martin H. Straznicky, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
M.D. - St. George's Univ School of Medicine
Anesth - Univ of New Mexico
Fellowship - Cardiac Anes UCSD
mstraznicky@ucsd.edu

Mark Wallace, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
Director, Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine
M.D. - Creighton University
Anesthesia - University of Maryland
Fellowship - Pain Medicine, UCSD
Human experimental pain models for drug efficacy; analgesic efficacy of smoked cannabis
mswallace@ucsd.edu

Sandra Wilcox, M.D., M.P.H
Clinical Professor
Quality Improvement Coordinator
M.D. - George Washington Univ.
MPH - Uniformed Services Univ.
Anes -  Brigham & Women's Hosp.
Fellowship - OB/Regional Anes,   Brigham & Women's Hospital
Interests - Health Care Admin.
slwilcox@ucsd.edu

Lawrence Weinstein, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Proefssor
M.D.--SUNY Brooklyn College of Medicine
Anesthesia Residency--Massachusetts General Hospital
OB Fellowship--UCSD
laweinstein@ucsd.edu

William C. Wilson, M.D.
Clinical Professor
M.D. - Temple University
Anes - UCSD
Fellowships - Critical Care, UCSF;
Cardio-thoracic anesthesia., UCSD
Interests: Trauma and Emergency Airway Management; Resuscitation; Pulmonary Physiology
wwilson@ucsd.edu

Tony L. Yaksh, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research
Professor of Pharmacology
Ph.D. - Purdue University
Pharmacology of pain and analgesia; neurotransmitter release; toxicology of spinal drugs
tyaksh@ucsd.edu


Professors Emeriti, Off-campus

Jordan Katz, M.D.
M.D. - Chicago Medical School
Anes - Columbia/Presbyterian
Tenure at UCSD: 1977-1994

Robert R. Myers, Ph.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pathology
Ph.D. - UCSD
Pathogenesis of neuropathy; neuro-toxicology; mechanisms of pain.
Tenure at UCSD: 1976 - 2007
rmyers@ucsd.edu


Laurence S. Reisner, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology and Reproductive Medicine
M.D. - UCSF
Anesthesia - UCLA
Anesthesia and analgesia in obstetric patient; Pregnancy-induced hypertension
lreisner@ucsd.edu

 

Lawrence J. Saidman, M.D.
M.D. - University of Michigan
Anesthesia - UCSF
Tenure at UCSD: 1972 - 1997
Chairman: 1974 – 1986

Harvey Shapiro, M.D.

M.D. - University of Pennsylvania
Anes - University of Washington
Tenure at UCSD: 1976-1995
Chairman: 1987-1995

N. Ty Smith, M.D.
M.D. - Harvard Medical School
Anes - Mass. General Hospital
Tenure at UCSD: 1971-1994


 

 

 
 

 


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