Neuroprotection in Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine

David L. Reich, MD, served as the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center from 2004 to 2014, and was named President and COO of The Mount Sinai Hospital in 2013. Dr. Reich's research interests include neurocognitive outcome following thoracic aortic surgery, outcome effects of intraoperative hemodynamics, medical informatics, and hemodynamic monitoring. He has published greater than 130 peer-reviewed articles, 30 invited articles or editorials, and 30 book chapters. He is an associate editor of the text Cardiac Anesthesia and editor of Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care. He is co-editor of the first edition of Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. Dr. Reich serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. He was named the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology in 2004 and received the Jacobi Medallion in 2014.


Stephan A. Mayer, MD, FCCM, is the William T. Gossett Chair of Neurology for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. Dr Mayer earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City, and completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in critical care neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Mayer was a founding member and is past-president of the Neurocritical Care Society. His research interests include subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, acute ischemic stroke, and status epilepticus.

Suzan Uysal, PhD, has research interest focus on neurocognitive outcome following surgery. She is also an educator and clinician. She teaches Functional Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neuroscience in the internship and postdoctoral neuropsychology training programs in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also teaches a course in Neuropsychology in the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her clinical practice is focused in adult neuropsychological assessment.

Christopher S. Ahuja, MD
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
Institute of Medical Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

Aws Alawi, MD
Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York

Zirka H. Anastasian, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

John G. Augoustides, MD, FASE, FAHA
Professor, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Karsten Bartels, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado

Jess W. Brallier, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Marco Carbonara, MD
Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS
Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore
Policlinico
Milan, Italy

Eugene Chang, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Neeraj Chaudhary, MD, MRCS, FRCR
Assistant Professor, Departments
of Radiology and Neurosurgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jan Claassen, MD, PhD
Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York

Neha S. Dangayach, MD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology
Institute of Critical Care Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Biomedical Engineering
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Lauren E. Dunn, MD
Stroke Division, Department of Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

Michael Fehlings MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FRSC, FCAHS
Professor of Neurosurgery
Vice Chair Research
Department of Surgery
Halbert Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration
Co-Chairman Spinal Program
University of Toronto
Head Spinal Program
Senior Scientist McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Toronto Western Hospital
University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario

Jared W. Feinman, MD
Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rebecca Feldman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Translational and Molecular Imaging
Institute and Department of Radiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Charles L. Francoeur, MD, FRCPC
Critical Care Division, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
CHU de Québec-Université Laval
Québec, Canada

Jonathan S. Gal, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Nishant Ganesh Kumar, MD
Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Joseph J. Gemmete, MD, FACR, FSIR
Professor, Departments of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Otolaryngology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Julius Griauzde, MD
Neurointerventional Radiology Fellow, Departments of Radiology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lucy He, MD
Resident Physician, Department of Neurological Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee

Eric J. Heyer, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology and Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

Travis R. Ladner, MD
Resident Physician, Department of Neurological Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Ronald M. Lazar, PhD, FAHA, FAAN
Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair in Learning and Memory
Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at UAB
Director, Division of Neuropsychology
Department of Neurology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

David S. Liebeskind, MD, FAAN, FAHA, FANA
Professor of Neurology and Director, Neurovascular Imaging Research Core
Director, UCLA Cerebral Blood Flow Laboratory
Associate Neurology Director, UCLA Stroke Center
UCLA Department of Neurology
Los Angeles, California

G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief,
Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
UW Medicine Research & Education Endowed Professor in Anesthesiology
Adjunct Professor of Medicine,
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
UW Medicine Regional Heart Center
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Carlos Marquez de la Plata, PhD
Director of Rehabilitation Research, Pate Rehabilitation
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Stephan A. Mayer, MD
William T. Gossett Endowed Chair, Department of Neurology
Co-Director, Neuroscience Institute
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, Michigan

Diana Mayor, MD
Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto
Western Hospital, University Health Network
Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario

J Mocco, MD, MS
Professor and Vice Chair for Education
Department of Neurological Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Aditya S. Pandey, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Axel Petzold, MD, PhD
UCL Institute of Neurology, Molecular Neuroscience
Queen Square, London

Joseph H. Pitcher, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow
Maine Medical Center, Department of Critical Care Services
Portland, Maine

Jonathan J. Ratcliff, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology
Emergency Neurosciences and Neuroscience Critical Care
Emory University School of Medicine
Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center, Grady Memorial Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Neurosciences
Department of Neurology, Division of Neurocritical Care
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

David L. Reich, MD
President and COO
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Michael Reznik, MD
Neurocritical Care Fellow
Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Neurology
New York, New York

David B. Seder, MD, FCCP, FCCM, FNCS
Interim Department Chief and Director of Neurocritical Care
Maine Medical Center Critical Care Services
Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, Maine

Magdy Selim, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Stroke Division, Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Tarek Sharshar, MD, PhD
General Intensive Care Medicine
Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris,
Raymond Poincaré Hospital
University of Versailles
Garches, France
Laboratory of Human Histopathology and Animal Models
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Nino Stocchetti, MD
Department of Physiopathology and
Transplantation, Milan University
Neuro ICU Fondazione IRCCS Cà
Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Milan, Italy

Michael Tymianski, MD, PhD
Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto
Western Hospital, University Health Network
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario

Suzan Uysal, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Matthew A. Warner, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Division of Critical Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Joshua Z. Willey, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Stroke Division, Department of Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

David W. Wright, MD, FACEP
Associate Professor
Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery
Director, Emergency Neurosciences
Director, Injury Prevention Research Center, at Emory
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Guohua Xi, MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan