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Mihai V. Podgoreanu

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
Box 3094 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
DUMC, Anesthesiology Box 3094, Box 3094, Durham, NC 27710

Overview


Basic-Translational:
1. Systems biology approaches to modeling perioperative cardiovascular injury and adaptation.
2. Mechanisms of perioperative myocardial injury; functional genomics applied to perioperative myocardial injury.
3. Metabolic consequences of perioperative myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
4. Animal models and comparative genomic approaches to study perioperative myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
5. Functional genomics of vein graft disease.
6. Animal models of vein graft disease.
7. Genetic association studies in perioperative medicine.
8. Clinico-genomic risk prediction models for perioperative and long-term adverse cardiovascular outcomes following cardiac surgery.

Clinical:
9. Intraoperative quantification of tissue perfusion by contrast echocardiography.
10. Use of myocardial tissue deformation indices to characterize perioperative ventricular dysfunction/stunning
11. 3-D echocardiographic evaluation of the right ventricle

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Anesthesiology · 2011 - Present Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic, Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology · 2013 - Present Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic, Anesthesiology

Education, Training & Certifications


Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Romania) · 1993 M.D.