Current Faculty and Areas of Interest

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Stephen O. Heard, MD - Chair; Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine, sepsis, adult respiratory distress syndrome; catheter-related bloodstream infections

Mark Dershwitz, MD, PhD - Academic Vice-Chair; Professor of Anesthesiology and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetics and antiemetics, anesthesia for vascular surgery, resident education

Shubjeet Kaur, MBBS - Clinical Vice-Chair; Medical Director of Perioperative Services; Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:   Cardiac anesthesia

Mahmoud Aliouche, MD - Co-Director of Thoracic Anesthesia; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Thoracic anesthesia

Arnel Almeda, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional anesthesia

Gustavo Angaramo, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine

Antonio Aponte-Feliciano, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine

Rana Badr, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiothoracic anesthesia

Richard Breed, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Preoperative evaluation, acute and chronic pain management

Andrew Cocchiarella, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Neuroanesthesia, vascular anesthesia, airway management

Bronwyn Cooper, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Quality assurance, obstetric anesthesia

Elifçe Cosar, MD - Co-Director of Thoracic Anesthesia; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, management of the difficult airway

Manisha Desai, MBBS - Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Anesthesia for orthopedic procedures, blood transfusion, anesthesia history, teaching and learning workshops

David Drexler, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Obstetric anesthesia

Eleanor Duduch, MD - Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency;  Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac anesthesia and resident education

Khaldoun Faris, MD - Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Co-Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit; Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine, acute and chronic pain management

Gilbert Fishbein, MD - Chief of Anesthesia, Marlborough Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional anesthesia

Russell Flatto, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional anesthesia

Peter Foley, MD, PhD - Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Pediatric pain management

Farajallah Habib, MD - Director of Transplantation Anesthesia; Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Pediatric anesthesia, acute and chronic pain management, anesthesia for liver transplantation

R. Brian Hennessy, MD - Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac anesthesia

Chandra Joshi, MBBS - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Acute and chronic pain management, neuroanesthesia, anesthesia for liver transplantation

Stephen Kapaon, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiothoracic anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, anesthesia practice management

Issam Khayata, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest: Critical care medicine, acute and chronic pain management

Diana Kouznetsov, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac anesthesia

Robert Lee, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Acute pain management, regional anesthesia, resident and medical student teaching

Jack Leonard, PhD - Professor of Physiology and Anesthesiology;  Areas of Research Interest:  Cellular and molecular events that mediate thyroid hormone action in the brain

Astrid Liland, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Ambulatory anesthesia  

Tanya Lucas, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Obstetric anesthesia

Eileen Maltais, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Ambulatory and regional anesthesia

Raimis Matulionis, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac anesthesia and critical care medicine

Christian Müller, MD - Director of Cardiac Anesthesia; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Cardiac and vascular anesthesia

Costin Negroiu, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional anesthesia, acute pain

Alan Orquiola, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine

Danna Peterson, MB, ChB - Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:   Pediatric anesthesia, ambulatory anesthesia

Andrew Proos, MD - Residency Coordinator, Memorial Campus; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Obstetric anesthesia, regional anesthesia, anesthesia practice management

John Pullerits, MD - Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Pediatric ambulatory anesthesia

Ronald Rubin, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Obstetric anesthesia

Steven Salt, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Resident education

Anthony Schwagerl, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Neurobiology, regional anesthesia

Shaheen Shaikh, MD - Director of Neuroanesthesia; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest: Neuroanesthesia

Zafar Siddiqui, MBBS - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional anesthesia and pain management

Sudershan Singla, MBBS - Director of Ambulatory Anesthesia; Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Ambulatory anesthesia

Babs R. Soller, PhD - Professor of Anesthesiology;  Areas of Research Interest:  Spectroscopic-based, noninvasive measurement of blood and tissue chemistry

Spiro Spanakis, DO - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Pediatric anesthesia

Anil Vyas, MBBS - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Regional and pediatric anesthesia

J. Matthias Walz, MD - Director of Vascular Anesthesia; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Critical care medicine, vascular anesthesia, sepsis, catheter-related bloodstream infections

Rebecca Zanconato, MD - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Areas of Clinical and Research Interest:  Pediatric anesthesia