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.

Dr. Brady Elected to SCA Executive Board

Congratulations to Dr. Mary Beth Brady who was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA). The SCA is an international organization of physicians that promotes excellence in patient care through education and research in perioperative care for patients undergoing cardiothoracic and vascular procedures. Mary Beth has dedicated her academic career to enriching the SCA through numerous contributions. Since her first SCA meeting in 1999, she has delivered lectures, led workshops, participated in task forces and special projects. Dr. Brady served as chair of the SCA Scientific Program Committee for its flagship meetings in 2023 and 2024. She has served on the Board of Directors and will continue to do so in this role. Most importantly to her, and to those of us fortunate enough to be beneficiaries, she has consistently sponsored, coached and supported her friends’ and colleagues’ engagement in the society. In her role of Secretary/Treasurer, Dr Brady joins the SCA Executive Board, comprised of 4 individuals: Secretary/Treasurer, President Elect, President and Immediate Past President.

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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

Brian Bush, MD

Stephanie Cha, MD

Ima Chinedozi, MD

Jeffrey Dodd-o, MD, PhD

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

Varun Potluri, MD

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

Giancarlo Suffredini, MD

Joseph Walpole, MD

Cardiac Fellows

Avi Dobrusin, MD

Brett Heber, MD

Tymoteusz Kajstura, MD

Gaurav Raj Shrestha, MD

Emmanuel Tito, MD

Samira Vithani, 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.

Cardiac CRNAs

Andrew Benson, DNP, MSN, CRNA, FAAN
Deborah Bowling, CRNA
Kelley Clark, MS, CRNA
Joan Chouili, MSN, CRNA
Chuck (Lewis) Eder, MS, CRNA
Gary Gauthier, MSN, CRNA
Kimberly Hall, MSN, CRNA
Emmanuel Ibhaze, CRNA
Wailin Lau, CRNA
Cathy Lawry, CRNA, MS
Barry Lepley, CRNA
Brooke Lester, CRNA
Wai-Ling Lo, MSN, CRNA
Kevin Lopez, MS, CRNA
Scott Manning, MSN, CRNA
Paige McMurtrie, CRNA
Kevin Miller, DNP, CRNA
Tyrenne Mills, DNAP, CRNA
Dipika Patel, DNP, CRNA
Samantha Simmons, MSN, CRNA