Episode 186: Opioids in Patients with Liver Disease

Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD, FASA

Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD, FASA, is a professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine and director of anesthesiology critical care fellowship. Dr. Akhtar is the past-president of Society for the Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia with special interest in perioperative care. His friends call him “Shams."

Dr. Akhtar received his medical degree from Aga Khan University, Karachi Pakistan, followed by an anesthesiology residency at Stony Brook, NY. He went on to do a fellowship in anesthesiology critical care at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with second fellowship in vascular anesthesia at Yale School of Medicine. Since graduating from training, he has been affiliated with Department of Anesthesiology and held various educational and administrative positions at Yale School of Medicine. He has presented on various topics nationally and internationally.

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin.  He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.