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ACCM Cardiac Anesthesia To Present at SCA Annual Meeting

The 46th SCA Annual Meeting and Workshops will be held April 27-30 in Toronto, Canada. Once again, Hopkins Cardiac Anesthesiology members are making meaningful and important contributions to the meeting and to the society. Dr. Mary Beth Brady, chair of the annual meeting program committee has spearheaded the assembly of another fantastic meeting. Of note – For the first time ever, the SCA annual meeting will be presented in collaboration with the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons (AATS). The Cardiovascular Outcomes Research in Perioperative Medicine (COR-PM) conference, co-chaired by Dr. Jochen Steppan, will prove to be a powerhouse of investigative learning and discovery. Countless members of the division will be speaking, leading workshops, teaching PBLDs, or participating in committee work. All cardiac anesthesia fellows are presenting their work; many ACCM residents are also doing the same. Dr. Karla Objio, CA1, will participate as an SCA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Junior Resident Scholar Program. Drs. Abernathy, Brady and Muehlschlegel serve on the Board of Directors.

Our Mission:

The mission of Hopkins Medicine is excellence in research, education and clinical care. The cardiac anesthesia division has years of success in all 3 categories.

Cardiac surgery and procedures can be complex, invasive, and be accompanied by a great deal of patient and family anxiety. The Cardiac Anesthesia Division at Johns Hopkins represents and practices alongside world renowned cardiac care providers to instill comfort and confidence for patients and families receiving cardiac care. Procedures for cardiac patients are done in some of the most technically sophisticated operating suites in the world. Each cardiac operating suite contains state of the art monitoring equipment including TEE machines with 3D capability to promote the highest quality and safe patient care for each surgical procedure. This care continues during the postoperative period in the critical care suite. Additionally, the Cardiac Anesthesia Division collaborates with the Cardiac Electrophysiology group to support all diagnostic and intervention procedures in the EP procedural suites. Also, Cardiac anesthesia exclusively provides real-time interventional echocardiography guidance for structural heart procedures including percutaneous mitral, aortic and tricuspid valve repair/replacements – as well as for left atrial appendage procedures. Faculty are recognized experts in echocardiography, including 3D echocardiography and interventional echocardiography.

Our Faculty

The Cardiac Division’s faculty are heavily involved in research, addressing fundamental questions of discovery in both basic science and in the clinical domain. With approximately $2 million in annual extramural funding, patients and their families can feel confident in their providers’ techniques and expertise while receiving general anesthesia and continuous vital monitoring in the operating rooms.

The cardiac anesthesia faculty are incredibly involved in education on a local as well as international level. Faculty consistently speak at national and international conferences as well as hold leadership positions in orchestrating these conferences.

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Division Faculty and Clinical Associates

James (Jake) Abernathy, MD, MPH
Division Chief, Cardiac Anesthesiology

Ravie Abozaid, MD

Promise Ariyo, MD

Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE
Vice Chair for Education
Medical Director, Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Director, Intraoperative and Structural Transesophageal Echocardiography

Charles Brown, MD
Director of Perioperative Clinical Research

Brian Bush, MD

Stephanie Cha, MD

Ima Chinedozi, MD

Wei Dong Gao, MD

Lee Goeddel, MD
Associate Program Director Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Fellowship
Director of Perioperative Ultrasound Research

Michael Grant, MD
Director of Anesthesiology for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Director of Clinical Operations

Nadia Hensley, MD
Director of Patient Safety and Clinical Quality
Physician Advisor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Roger A. Johns, MD, MHS

Youn-hoa Jung, MD

Megan Kostibas, MD
Program Director, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship

Laeben Lester, MD
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Airway Program
Course Director, Mark Rossberg Memorial Multidisciplinary Airway Course

Danny Muehlschlegel, MD, MMSc, MBA
Director, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Daniel Nyhan, MD, MMBCh

Sinead Nyhan, MD
Co-Director of Perioperative Medicine, High Risk Cardiovascular Disease

Jochen Steppan, MD, DESA, FAHA
Director of Perioperative Medicine, High Risk Cardiovascular Disease

Giancarlo Suffredini, MD

Joseph Walpole, MD

Cardiac Fellows

Minbo Bai, MD

Joseph Migliazzo, MD

Varun Potluri, MD

Chelsey Santino, MD
Combined ACTA/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Charlie Slowey, MBBS
Combined ACTA/Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Jeffrey Sun, MD

Electrophysiology (EP) Cohort

CRNAs in the EP cohort are expert in providing anesthesia to cardiac patients undergoing minimally invasive procedures such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of dysrhythmias, implantation and removal of pacemakers and defibrillators, device lead removal/revision, implantation of pulmonic valves, the Lariat procedure, electrophysiological studies, cardioversion, and transesophageal echocardiograms. The EP cohort currently has 28 CRNAs. This cohort is under the cardiac anesthesia division and has an excellent collaborative practice with the cardiac anesthesiologists.