Career
Academic career
| since 2018 | Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. |
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| 2014 – 2018 | Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. |
| 2010 – 2014 | Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. |
| 2005 – 2010 | Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| 2009 | PhD in Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Biophysics and Physiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, U.S.A. |
| 2005 | Diploma European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care |
| 2003 – 2004 | Cardiac surgery intensive care unit and cardiac anesthesia at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2001 – 2005 | Specialist training,resident in anesthesiology, emergency medicine (Rega) and intensive care medicine at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1998 – 2001 | Specialist training, resident in emergency medicine, anesthesiology, burns & trauma intensive care at the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| 2000 | Doctorate Dr. med., Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1997 | Study fellowship in surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, U.S.A. |
| 1996 | Study visit in anesthesiology, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain |
| 1996 – 1997 | Study of human medicine (practical year) Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany |
| 1991 – 1996 | Studied human medicine at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
Global Health/Humanitarian action projects
| 2021 | Medical Mission Team, Migori, Kenya |
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| 2020 | COVID-ICU Medical Team at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY, U.S.A. |
| 2012 | Visiting Professor and Medical Mission Team, University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh and Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia |
| 2009 | Medical Mission Team, Pokhara, Nepal |
| 2008 | Medical Mission Team, Manila, Philippines |
| 2000 – 2005 | Aiut Alpin Dolomites, Mountain Rescue, Pontives, Italy |
| 1991 – 1996 | Amnesty International Student Group, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Memberships
- German Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)
- Association of German Anaesthetists (BDA)
- International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)
- European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
- Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA)
- Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC)
- Neurocritical Care Society (NCS)
- Heidelberg Medical School Alumni Germany and United States (HAUS)
- 2017-2021 Chairperson ASA American Society of Anesthesiology Committee on Neuroanesthesia (member since 2014)
- Since 2016 Committee Member, ASA American Society of Anesthesiology, Committee on Critical Care Medicine
- 2020 ASA president appointed member of Ad hoc ASA Committee on Life Imbalances
- Reviewer for “PLoS One”, Publisher Public Library of Science
- Reviewer for “Journal of Surgical Research”
Research focus
- Since 2018 Principal Investigator Identification of a phenotype for increased risk of haemorrhage in ECMO, LVAD/RVAD and septic patients (IRB approval # 00110290, University of Utah Grant supported
- 4/2020-4/2021 Principal Investigator Assessment of Patient Characteristics and Treatment Strategies from Critical Coronavirus-2019 Infections (COVID19). Grant supported Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Diseases 3i Initiative University of Utah Medical School
- 2012-2014 Principal Investigator and co-PI on NIH 5R01AG044920-02 with total costs of $264,000.00 plus additional intramural grant support Mechanisms of anesthetics in a rodent model, collaboration with Neurosciences, PI Ann-Charlotte Granholm, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Colorado University Anschutz, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.)