Episode 199: Inside the Monitor - Current State of Academic Anesthesiology and Its Path Forward

Manuel Pardo Jr., MD

Manuel Pardo Jr., MD, is a professor of clinical anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care. He completed his anesthesiology residency and critical care fellowship at UCSF before joining the faculty in 1997. During his career, Dr. Pardo established the department’s anesthesia simulation center, served as residency program director for a decade, and was the vice chair for education for two decades. Nationally, he is a board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology and chairs the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Academic Anesthesiology.

Dr. Pardo's professional interests include medical education, simulation-based education, residency training, academic anesthesiology, and perioperative patient care, with clinical expertise in anesthesia for liver transplantation, critical care medicine, and preoperative evaluation.

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, FASA

Dr. Ashish Khanna is professor of anesthesiology and surgery and vice-chair of research with the department of anesthesiology, section on critical care medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC.

His research interests include prediction of post-operative respiratory and cardiac events on the regular nursing floor using wearable monitoring, use of large datasets for perioperative outcomes research, effects of hypotension in critically ill patients and use of novel vasopressors and biomarkers in shock states in the ICU. Dr. Khanna has more than 250 peer reviewed papers (h-index 55), two dozen book chapters, editorials, invited non-peer reviewed articles, and has been invited to talk about this work at prestigious national and international forums. He is currently serving as a board member for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and has previously chaired the SCCM Discovery research network and was program co-chair for the 2023 congress. He is a prior recipient of the SCCM Distinguished Service and Distinguished Investigator awards. He also serves as chair for the ASA committee on critical care medicine and is a former board member for the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and the American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Medicine (ASER-PM).

Dr. Khanna’s work has been awarded funding by FAER, NIH/NCATS KL2, NIH/NHLBI R01 and R13, Wake Forest intramural CTSI and several industry and foundation grants.

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending physician with US Anesthesia Partners-Florida and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.

Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.