Carlos Arancibia, MD Professor & Chairman

Graduate: MD (University of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Residency: Anesthesia (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY)
Fellowships/Research: Artificial Organs (Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH), Neuroanesthesia (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Interests: Neuroanesthesia, Surgical Oncology, Operating room clinical management

Faculty by Area of Concentration:

Ambulatory Care

Cardiac

Intensive Care

General

Neuro

Obstetrics

Pediatrics

Regional

Transplant

VA Hospital Faculty

Michael Czekajlo, MD, PhD

Undergraduate: BS Biology (Kean Univ, Union, NJ)
Graduate: MS Biology (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ, Teaneck, NJ); MD (Poznan Univ of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland); PhD Emergency and Disaster Medicine (Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland)
Interests: Critical Care Medicine

Ron Daniel, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS (Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD)
Graduate: MD (Penn State Univ, Hershey, PA)
Residency: Internal Medicine (York Hospital); Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Shock Trauma (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
Interests: Neuroanesthesia, Trauma

Bonnie Deschner, MD Assistant Professor

Graduate: MD (Saba Univ School of Medicine, Saba, Caribbean)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Regional (NYSORA, Columbia Univ, New York, NY)
Interests: Regional, General Anesthesia

James Dore, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Science (Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX)
Graduate: MD (Louisiana State Univ School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Pediatric Anesthesia (Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia, General

Arkadiy Dubovoy, MD Assistant Professor

Graduate: MD (Crimean Medical Univ,Crimea, Ukraine)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Pediatric Anesthesia (Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia, Acupuncture

Michael Fowler, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA (Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina)
Graduate: M.BA (Mercer Univ); MD (St. George’s Univ School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Ambulatory, Regional, Difficult Airway, General

Lindsay Fox, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biology, BA History (Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
Graduate: MD (Univ of Texas, Galveston, TX)
Internship: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)

Lynne Gehr, MD Assistant Professor

Graduate: MD (West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WVA)
Residency: Anesthesia (SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY); Pediatrics (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Critical Care (Univ of VA, Charlottesville, VA); Pediatric Anesthesia (Univ of Pittsburg Medical Center, Pittsburg, PA)
Interests: Critical Care, Pediatrics

Jeff Green, MD Boyan-Keenan Professor of Anesthesia Safety; Dept Vice Chair; Director of Cardiac Fellowship

Undergraduate: BS Psychology (Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Graduate: MD (Ohio State Univ College of Medicine, Columbus, OH)
Residency: Anesthesia (Univ of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesia (Univ of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI)
Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia

Kyle Gunnerson, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate Degree: BS Biology & Chemistry (Kansas Wesleyan Univ, Salina, KS)
Graduate Degree: MD (Univ of Kansas, Kansas City, KS)
Residency: Combined Emergency & Internal Medicine Program (Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI)
Fellowship: Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program (Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA)
Interest: Critical Care Medicine

John Hague, MD Associate Professor

Undergraduate: BS (Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN)
Graduate: MD (Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN)
Residency: Pediatrics, Anesthesia (Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland)
Interests: Pediatrics, Chronic Pain

Francisco Herrera, MD Assistant Professor

Graduate: MD (Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela)
Residency: Anesthesia (Universidad Central Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela)
Fellowship: Critical Care and Transplant (Univ of Miami, Miami, FL)
Interests: Critical Care, Transplant, General

Robert Hope, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biology (James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg, Virginia)
Graduate: MD (VCU Medical Center)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Vascular Anesthesia, Transplant Anesthesia

Keith Howell, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biology (Washington and Lee Univ, Lexington, VA)
Graduate: Medical College of Georgia (Augusta, GA)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Regional, Ambulatory, Orthopaedics

Joanne Hudson, MD Associate Professor

Undergraduate: BS (Univ of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island)
Graduate: MD (Tufts Univ School of Medicine, Boston MA)
Residency: Anesthesia (Massachusetts’s General Hospital, Harvard Univ, Boston MA)
Interests: Obstetric Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, Airway Management, Abdominal Surgery

John Kearney, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA English & American Lit (Univ of California, San Diego, CA)
Graduate: MD (New York Medical College, NYC, NY)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia, General

Gordon Kerr, MBBCh Assistant Professor

Undergraduate/Graduate: MBBCh (Univ of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Residency: Anesthesia (Univ of Natal, Durban, South Africa)
Interests: Regional, Ambulatory

Jeannette Kierce,MD, FAAP Assistant Professor; Director of Pediatrics

Undergraduate: BS Biology (SUNY Oneonta, NY)
Graduate: MS Biology (Univ of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut); MD (St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, Missouri)
Residency: Anesthesia (St. Louis Univ Hospitals, St. Louis, Missouri)
Fellowship: Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Interests: Pediatric Anesthesia, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Ambulatory

Robert Kravetz, MD, FACP Associate Professor

Undergraduate: BA (Yale Univ, New Haven, CT)
Graduate: MD (Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH)
Residency: Internal Medicine (UVA, Charlottesville, VA); Anesthesiology (National Capitol Consortium, Bethesda, MD)
Interests: Medical Student Education, Life Support, Medical Safety

Courtnay Lehman, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA Psychology (Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
Graduate: MD (Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA)
Residency: Internal Medicine (St. Vincent’s Medical Center, New York, NY)
Fellowship: Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care (Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
Interests: Critical Care

Wlodzimierz Lewelt, MD, PhD Associate Professor

Graduate Degree: MD (Medical Academy of Lublin, Lublin, Poland)
Residency: Anesthesia (Medical Academy of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Medical Academy of Lublin, Lublin, Poland)
Fellowship: Neuroanesthesia (National Institute of Health)
Interest: Neuroanesthesia

Kathy Marshall, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biology/Microbiology (Univ of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS)
Graduate: MD (Univ of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS)
Residency: Anesthesiology (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Ambulatory, Regional

Gaetano Menna, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA (Liceo Classico L.V. Pudente, Vasto, Italy)
Graduate: MD (Medical Sch of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Residency: Anesthesia (Anesthesia Dept of Policlinico I La Sapienza, Rome, Italy); Anesthesia (NYU Medical Center, New York, NY)
Interests: Regional, Orthopedics

Mitsuru Nakatsuka, MD Professor Emeritus

Undergraduate:
Graduate: MD (Univ of Keio School of Medicine, Japan)
Residency: Anesthesia (Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT)
Interests: Transplant, Critical Care, Anesthesia in Morbid Obesity, Cardiothoracic, Regional, Medical Acupuncture

Jay Napoleon, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Mechanical Engineering (MIT, Cambridge, MA)
Graduate: MD (VCU Medical Center)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Pain Management (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Acute Pain Management, Regional Anesthesia

Mark Nelson, MD, MEd Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS Biology (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
Graduate: MD (Univ of Kansas, Kansas City, KS); MEd (VCU, Richmond, VA)
Residency: Anesthesia (Univ of Illinois, Chicago, IL)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesiology (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Perioperative Echocardiography, Cardiac Anesthesia, Resident education

Jason Noble, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS (Davidson College, Davidson, NC)
Graduate: MD (Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, PA)
Residency: Surgery (Hahnemann Medical College); Anesthesia (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Brighton, MA)

Pingle Reddy, MD Associate Professor

Graduate: MD (Osmania Medical College, India)
Residency: Anesthesia (Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY); Surgery (Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, NY, NY)
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH)
Interests: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Heart Transplants and Total Artificial Hearts

Lana Rike, DO Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BSN (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
Graduate: MS (Univ of Maryland); MBA (Univ of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD); DO (West Virginia Sch of Osteopathic Medicine)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)

Iolanda Russo-Menna, MD, MEd Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS (Lyceum Scientifico, Italy)
Graduate: MD/DDS (La Sapienza, Rome, Italy); MEd (VCU, Richmond, VA)
Residency: Anesthesia (NYU Medical Center, New York, NY)
Fellowship: Pediatric Anesthesia (Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY); Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia (Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA)
Interests: Pediatrics, Clinical Research, Education

Jagdip Shah, MBBS, MBA Associate Professor

Undergraduate: MBA (VCU Medical Center)
Graduate: MBBS (Gujarat Univ, Gujarat, India)
Residency: Anesthesia (Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY)
Fellowship: (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
Interests: Transplant, Critical Care, PACU, Economics of Medicine

Paras Shah, DO Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BS, MS (Oakland Univ, Rochester, MI)
Graduate: MD (Michigan St Univ, East Lansing, MI)
Residency: Anesthesia(Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit MI)
Interests: General, Robotic Surgeries

Jay Shapiro, MD John Jones Professor of Anesthesia Education; Dept Vice Chair; Residency Program Director

Undergraduate: BA Philosophy (Texas A&M, College Station, TX)
Graduate: MD (Univ of South Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, AL)
Residency: Anesthesia (Univ of South Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, AL)
Fellowship: Pediatric and Adult Cardiac Anesthesia (Univ of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, PA)
Interests: Pediatrics

Bruce Spiess, MD Professor

Undergraduate: BA Biology (Denison Univ, Granville, Oh)
Graduate: MD (Rush University, Medical College, Chicago, IL )
Residency: Anesthesia (Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN )
Interests: Cardiac Anesthesia, General Anesthesia

L. Robert Stallings, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA (Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
Graduate:
Residency: Anesthesia (Letterman Army Medical Ctr, San Francisco, CA)
Interests: Airway Management, General Anesthesia

Charles Williams, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BM Music
Graduate: MM (Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL); MD (Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
Residency: Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Fellowship: Neuroanesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: Neuroanesthesia

Kevin Cunningham, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: AB PreMed Studies (Columbia Univ, Manhattan, NY)
Graduate: MD (Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA)
Residency: Anesthesia (Albert Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesia (Albany Medical College, Albany, NY)
Interests: Regional Anesthesia, Acute Pain Management, Critical Care Medicine, Vascular Anesthesia

Madhavi Earasi, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate/Graduate: BS; MD (Siddhartha Medical College, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Residency: Anesthesia (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Anesthesia (Texas Heart Institute-Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)
Interests: Cardiovascular Anesthesia

Bhavani Kone, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate/Graduate: Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (Kakatiya Med College, Kakatiya Univ, India)
Residency: Anesthesia (Univ of Miami, Miami, FL)
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Anesthesia (Texas Heart Institute-Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)
Interests: Cardiovascular Anesthesia

Denise Lester, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate/Graduate: MD (New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ)
Residency: Anesthesia (Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA)
Fellowship: Pain Management (Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA)
Interests: Pain Management

Bob Litwack, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: BA Philosophy (Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
Graduate: MD (Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
Residency: Anesthesia (Boston Univ-Hahnemann Univ, Boston, MA)
Fellowship: Cardiac Anesthesia (Boston Univ-Hahnemann Univ, Boston, MA)
Interests: Perioperative assessment, Pre-operative Anesthesia Management

Maria Martinez, MD Associate Professor

Graduate: MD (CEBU Institute of Medicine, Philippines)
Residency: Anesthesia (Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA)
Fellowship: Pain Management (Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA)
Interests: General, Pain Management

Jimmy Watkins, MD Assistant Professor

Undergraduate: (Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT)
Graduate: DDS (Baylor Univ, Dallas, TX); PhD (VCU Medical Center); MD (Univ of Alabama, Birmingham, AL)
Residency: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (VCU Medical Center); Anesthesia (VCU Medical Center)
Interests: General Anesthesia