We are pleased to share that Jed Wolpaw MD, M.Ed has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Wolpaw serves as Vice Chair for Education and residency program director for the 100+ resident training program. He subspecializes in critical care and attends in the surgical ICUs and in the general adult ORs.

Jed graduated magna cum laude with a degree in History from Brown University. He then received a master’s degree in education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught high school history. Subsequently, he transitioned to medicine, receiving his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. He stayed at UCSF to complete his Anesthesia residency, came to Johns Hopkins for a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, and joined the faculty in 2015.

In addition to running the residency program, he co-runs both the Anesthesiology clerkship and the ICU clerkship. He is the founder and host of Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC), a podcast focusing on interesting topics in anesthesia and critical care, which has more than 60,000 unique listeners each month in more than 100 countries around the world and more than 6 million total downloads.

Dr. Wolpaw has received numerous teaching awards, including the Charles Beattie Teacher of the Year award twice, and the resident advocacy award three times, in recognition of his work advocating for resident well-being. He received the Lisa Heiser Excellence in Education Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2020. Dr. Wolpaw was chosen as one of the inaugural winners of the ASA/SEA Distinguished Educator Award, established in 2019 to honor significant contributions to anesthesiology education. In 2021, Dr. Wolpaw was chosen as the winner of the ASA Excellence in Anesthesia Education Award, the most prestigious national award in anesthesiology education. In 2022, Dr. Wolpaw was the inaugural recipient of the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA) Education Innovation Award.

His scholarship focuses on resident well-being, asynchronous learning, and improving how we teach trainees. He is the immediate past president of AACPD and a board member of SEA.

Dr. Wolpaw is the proud father of 3 amazing daughters and can be found on X @jwolpaw and @accracpodcast.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Wolpaw on this well-deserved achievement.