Faculty

MICHAEL K. CAHALAN, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology
Clinical Interests: Cardiovascular Anesthesia; Transesophageal Echocardiography
Research Interests: Transesophageal Echocardiography

NATHAN L. PACE, M.D., M.STAT
Professor and Vice Chairman, Academic Affairs
Clinical Interests: Neuroanesthesia
Research Interests: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (Cochrane Collaboration); Applications of Biostatistics (Mixed Effects Models); Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling;

JEFFREY K. LU, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Vice Chairman, Clinical Affairs
Clinical Interests: Transesophageal Echocardiography, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Pediatric Anesthesia
Research Interest: Autism

L. LAZARRE OGDEN, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Vice Chairman, Resident Education
Clinical Interests: Neuroanesthesia
Research Interests: Resident Education

KEVIN L. WETHINGTON, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Vice Chairman, Billing and Information Systems
Vice Chairman, University of Utah Medical Group IT Committee
Director of Information Technology, Department of Anesthesiology
Faculty Scheduling Coordinator, Department of Anesthesiology
Research Interests: Medical and educational applications of information technology

BYRON BANKHEAD, M.D.
Clinnical Instructor
Clinical Interests: Acute pain management, Ultrasound guided nerve blockade
Research Interests: Billing for regional anesthesia

MICHAEL N. BEHRENS, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Critical Care

STEVEN I. BOTT, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Cardiac and Trauma Anesthesia, Air Medical Transport

DAVID H. BRADSHAW, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr. Joseph L. and Pauline Clyde Pace Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Nonpharmacological interventions for relief of acute and chronic pain, including music, guided imagery, yoga, meditation; psychophysiological responses to pain and pain measurement. Current research projects include music engagement for analgesia; attention and the defense response to pain; guided imagery and music for relief of post-operative pain.

JAMES A. BRADWAY, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Closed Circuit Anesthesia

C. RICHARD CHAPMAN, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Pain Research Center
Research Interests: Laboratory Pain Research; Acute Pain, Consciousness Studies

NORMAN J. CLARK, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia; Anesthesia for Neurosurgical Procedures
Research Interests: Anesthetic Effects on Respiratory Drive Mechanism; Awareness During General Anesthesia; Pre-emptive Analgesia

EILEEN R. CSONTOS, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Anesthesia in Developing Countries; Volunteerism in Anesthesia
Research Interests: Acute Pain Management in Pediatrics

SEABURY L. DAVIES, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)

JENNIFER J. DAVIS, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical interests: Acute pain management, regional anesthesia, perioperative anticoagulation
Research interests: Acute pain management in chronic opioid users, peripheral nerve blocks

GARY W. DONALDSON, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Broader Quality of Life and Pain Issues; Structural Equation and Mixed Effects Modeling

RANDAL O. DULL, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor (Anesthesiology & Bioengineering, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
Clinical Interests: inflammation & edema; thoracic anesthesia;
transfusion issues; molecular mechanisms of colloids, fluid management
Research Interests: capillary permeability, inflammation, acute lung
injury, drug delivery, endothelial glycoproteins

TALMAGE D. EGAN, M.D.
Professor
Director, Neuroanesthesia
Clinical Interests: Neuroanesthesia; Intravenous Anesthesia; Obstetrical Anesthesia.
Research Interests: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Intravenous Anesthetics; Computer Controlled Infusions; Pharmacodynamic Drug Interactions; Intravenous Anesthetic Development.

PERRY G. FINE, M.D.
Professor
Clinical Interests: Pain Management; Regional Anesthesia; Medical Ethics; Hospice Care

ROBERT F FINNEGAN, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Chronic Pain

CHARLES E. GALAVIZ, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
Director of Liver Transplant Anesthesia Program
Clinical Interests: Liver Transplant Management, Regional Anesthesia
Research Interests: Application of TEE to Liver Transplant Management, Nerve Stimulator Aided Peripheral Nerve Catheters, Cost of Anesthetic Agents

DHANESH K. GUPTA, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Interests: Neuroanesthesia, Microvascular Reconstruction, Oncologic Surgery
Research Interests: Cognitive Dysfunction after Anesthesia; Awareness under Anesthesia; Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Applications; Pathophysiology of Neurovascular Lesions; Application of Evoked Potentials and Electrophysiologic Monitors of Depth of Anesthesia.

BRADFORD D. HARE, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Clinical Interests: Management of Acute and Chronic Pain; Regional Anesthesia
Research Interests: Conotoxins; Pharmacology of Pain Management

CATHERINE M. HARRIS, M.D.
Director, Ambulatory Surgery
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Ambulatory Anesthesia

MARK HARRIS, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Co-director,  Pre-operative Assessment Clinic
Clinical interests : Neuroanesthesia, Pre-operative Management
Research interests : Pre-operative Management, Clinical applications of
Remifentanil

COURTNEY HENLEY, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

ROBERT C. JACOBSON, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Signal Capture and Processing

KENWARD B. JOHNSON, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Patient Simulation
Clinical Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
Research Interests: Influence of blood loss on the behavior of intravenous anesthetics and Novel approaches to anesthesia resident education using human simulation

STEVEN E. JOHNSON, M.D.
Adjunct Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Regional and Obstetric Anesthesia

HIROSHI KAMAYA, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Director, VA Anesthesia Research Laboratory
Clinical interests: Medical Acupuncture
Research interests: Molecular Mechanisms of Anesthesia, Membrane
Biophysics, Antagonists of General Anesthesia

STEVEN E. KERN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Anesthesia and Pain Research
Research Interests: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling; Computer Controlled Infusions; EEG Analysis; Conopeptides

ANDREI KHOROVETS, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Director of Anesthesia, Huntsman Cancer Hospital
Clinical Interests: Thoracic Anesthesia

ALAN R. LIGHT, Ph.D.
Professor (Research)
Research Interests: Pain Pathways, molecular and cellular mechanisms of analgesia

EVELYN LOOSE, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Clinical interests: Acute Pain Service, OB-anesthesia
Research Interests: Oral Bioavailability of Morphine in Neonates

ANNETTE MACINTYRE. M.D., FRCPC
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interest: Vascular Anesthesia

SALMAN MASUD, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Pediatric and Cardiovascular Anesthesia
Research Interests: Blood Substitutes; Sleep Inducing Neuropeptides

ANTHONY G. MESSINA, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)

YOSHIO NAKAMURA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research)
Clinical Interests: Placebos in Clinical Trials, Information Processing
under General Anesthesia, EEG Monitoring & Analysis, Integration of
Integrative Health Approaches with Allopathic Medicine, Healthy Communities
Movement
Research Interests: Consciousness, Somatic Awareness, Emotion, Placebo
Effects, Meaning Response in Placebo Response, Mind-Body Interactions,
Meditation in Contemplative Traditions, Mindfulness, Functional Brain
Imaging, EEG/MEG, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Theory

DAVID H. ODELL, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)

AKIKO OKIFUJI, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Interests: Behavioral Medicine; Psychological Screening of Pain Patients
Research Interests: Fibromyalgia; Hormonal Influences on Analgesic Responses in Fibromyalgia and Migraine Headaches; Clinical Outcomes and Cost Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Pain Care; Pain and Women's Health

JOSEPH A. ORR, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Clinical Monitoring; Non-invasive Cardiac Output Measurement

RAUL A. PERAGALLO, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Director, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Director, Invasive Procedures Laboratory
Clinical Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia; Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

JEFFREY L. PETERS, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor (Clinical)
Clinical Interests: Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Transesophageal Echocardiography, Regional Anesthesia, Risk Management, Anesthesia Teaching In Developing Countries.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular Physiology

JEFFERY D. PORTH, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Director, Obstetric Anesthesia
Chief Clinical Coordinator

SCOTT P. RICHARDSON, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Director, Orthopedic Anesthesia
Associate Director, Residency Program
Clinical Interests: Cardiovascular and Regional Anesthesia

DEREK J. SAKATA, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
Research Interests: Speeding emergence from general anesthesia, especially with regard to artificially maintained hypercapnic hyperventilation. Pragmatic innovations with regard to engineering in medicine.

KELLY W. SMITH, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)

RICHARD J. SPERRY, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Senior Associate Vice President for Health Sciences
Matheson Endowed Chair, Health Policy and Management
Adjunct Professor, Economics and Political Science
Clinical Interests: Neuroanesthesia; Cervical Spine Disease; Health Care Policy and Economics

THEODORE H. STANLEY, M.D.
Professor
Professor of Surgical Research
Director, Anesthesiology Research Laboratories
Clinical Interests: I.V. Anesthetics; Cardiovascular Anesthesia
Research Interests: Wildlife Immobilization, New Anesthetic Delivery Systems; New Sedatives and Hypnotic; New Narcotics

JEFFREY D. SWENSON, M.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Acute Pain Service
Clinical Interests: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia; Transesophageal Echocardiography
Research Interest: Neuraxial Opioids

MICHAEL C. TIELBORG, M.D.
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Professional Interests: Obstetric Anesthesia, Medical Ethics, Informed Consent issues, Ethical issues surrounding medical research in vulnerable population

DANIEL VEZINA, M.D., FRCPC
Assistant Professor , Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology
Director, Perioperative Echo Service
Director, Cardiology Echo lab, VA Salt Lake City
Clinical Interests: cardiovascular anesthesia, echocardiography
Research Interests: echocardiography (TTE and TTE)

ERNEST VOLINN, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Research )
Research Interests: Psycho-social factors and chronic pain, particularly back pain; outcomes of treatment; international studies of back pain and its treatment

SHARON M. WEINSTEIN, M.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology and Oncology
Director, Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Huntsman Cancer Institute  and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
Clinical Interests: Pain medicine and palliative care
Research Interests: Pain and symptom management, neuropathic pain syndromes, end of life care
Web Page: Pain Medicine and Palliative Care

DWAYNE R. WESTENSKOW, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Bioengineering Division
Research Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical Informatics
Research Interests: Alarm Systems for Patient Monitoring; Artificial Neural Networks; Closed-loop Control of Drug and Gas Delivery; Biomedical Instrumentation
Web Page: http://www.bioen.utah.edu/directory/profile.php?userID=97

K.C. WONG, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Clinical Interests: Orthopedic and Pediatric Anesthesia
Research Interests: Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Physiology

JOHN ZIEGLER, M.D.
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Chief of Anesthesia, VASLCHCS
Clinical Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia; Critical Care Medicine;
Transesophageal Echocardiography"
"Research Interests: Neurologic outcome/protection during cardiac surgery"