Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Resident, Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital 2003 - 2006
  • Internal Medicine Intern, Lenox Hill Hospital 2002 - 2003
  • M.D., Yeshiva University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2002
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, General, Vascular, High Risk Transplant & Critical Care, Anesthesiology 2019 - 2020
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Medical Director, Duke PASS Clinic
    Director, Perioperative Medicine Fellowship
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Delirium
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Zietlow, Kahli E., Serena Wong, Mitchell T. Heflin, Shelley R. McDonald, Robert Sickeler, Michael Devinney, Jeanna Blitz, Sandhya Lagoo-Deenadayalan, and Miles Berger. “Geriatric Preoperative Optimization: A Review.” Am J Med, August 18, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.028.
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    • O’Glasser, Avital Y., Kurt J. Pfeifer, Angela F. Edwards, Jeanna D. Blitz, and Richard D. Urman. “Striving for Evidence-Based, Patient-Centered Guidance: The Impetus Behind the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) Medication Management Consensus Statements.” Mayo Clin Proc 96, no. 5 (May 2021): 1117–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.06.022.
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    • Grant, P. J., J. D. Blitz, and B. Slawski. “2020 Update in perioperative medicine.” Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 21 (December 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcorm.2020.100124.
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    • Goldstein, Benjamin A., Marcelo Cerullo, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Jeanna Blitz, Leila Mureebe, Wendy Webster, Felicia Dunston, Andrew Stirling, Jennifer Gagnon, and Charles D. Scales. “Development and Performance of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Inform Resource Utilization for Elective Operations.” Jama Netw Open 3, no. 11 (November 2, 2020): e2023547. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23547.
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    • Cooper, Lisa, Sarah K. Abbett, Aiden Feng, Rachelle E. Bernacki, Zara Cooper, Richard D. Urman, Laura N. Frain, et al. “Launching a Geriatric Surgery Center: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement.” J Am Geriatr Soc 68, no. 9 (September 2020): 1941–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16681.
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    • Williams, David G. A., Elizabeth Villalta, Solomon Aronson, Sutton Murray, Jeanna Blitz, Virginia Kosmos, Paul E. Wischmeyer, and Paul E. Duke Perioperative Enhancement Team (POET). “Tutorial: Development and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Preoperative Nutrition Optimization Clinic.” Jpen J Parenter Enteral Nutr 44, no. 7 (September 2020): 1185–96. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpen.1824.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna, Jenna Swisher, and BobbieJean Sweitzer. “Special Considerations Related to Race, Sex, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status in the Preoperative Evaluation: Part 1: Race, History of Incarceration, and Health Literacy.” Anesthesiol Clin 38, no. 2 (June 2020): 247–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2020.01.005.
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    • Swisher, Jenna, Jeanna Blitz, and BobbieJean Sweitzer. “Special Considerations Related to Race, Sex, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status in the Preoperative Evaluation: Part 2: Sex Considerations and Homeless Patients.” Anesthesiol Clin 38, no. 2 (June 2020): 263–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2020.02.001.
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    • Aronson, Solomon, Sutton Murray, Gavin Martin, Jeanna Blitz, Timothy Crittenden, Mike E. Lipkin, Christopher R. Mantyh, et al. “Roadmap for Transforming Preoperative Assessment to Preoperative Optimization.” Anesth Analg 130, no. 4 (April 2020): 811–19. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000004571.
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    • Mabry, Christian, Seth Perelman, Jung T. Kim, and Jeanna D. Blitz. “Implementation of a Preoperative Anemia Clinic Utilizing a Minimal Staffing Model.” A a Pract 14, no. 3 (February 1, 2020): 90–94. https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000001131.
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    • Doan, Lisa V., and Jeanna Blitz. “Preoperative Assessment and Management of Patients with Pain and Anxiety Disorders.” Curr Anesthesiol Rep 10, no. 1 (2020): 28–34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40140-020-00367-9.
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    • Allin, Olivia, Richard D. Urman, Angela F. Edwards, Jeanna D. Blitz, Kurt J. Pfeifer, Thomas W. Feeley, and Angela M. Bader. “Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).” J Med Syst 44, no. 1 (December 11, 2019): 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1503-2.
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    • “Paper Abstract.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 67, no. S1 (April 2019): S1–384. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15898.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna D., and Christian Mabry. “Designing and Running a Preoperative Clinic.” Anesthesiol Clin 36, no. 4 (December 2018): 479–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2018.07.001.
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    • Kendale, Samir M., Jing Wang, Jeanna D. Blitz, Steven Calvino, Germaine Cuff, Nicholas Barone, Andrew D. Rosenberg, and Lisa Doan. “A retrospective study of opioid prescribing patterns at hospital discharge in surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea.” Can J Anaesth 65, no. 8 (August 2018): 914–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-018-1152-9.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna D., Samir M. Kendale, Sudheer K. Jain, Germaine E. Cuff, Jung T. Kim, and Andrew D. Rosenberg. “In Reply.” Anesthesiology 126, no. 5 (May 2017): 984–85. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000001590.
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    • Blitz, J. D., K. S. Mackersey, J. C. Miller, and S. M. Kendale. “Objective model using only gender, age and medication list predicts in-hospital morbidity after elective surgery.” Br J Anaesth 118, no. 4 (April 1, 2017): 544–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/aex025.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna D., Marny H. Shoham, Yixin Fang, Venod Narine, Neeraj Mehta, Beamy S. Sharma, Paul Shekane, and Samir Kendale. “Preoperative Renal Insufficiency: Underreporting and Association With Readmission and Major Postoperative Morbidity in an Academic Medical Center.” Anesth Analg 123, no. 6 (December 2016): 1500–1515. https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000001573.
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    • Kendale, S. M., P. N. Lapis, S. M. Melhem, and J. D. Blitz. “The association between pre-operative variables, including blood pressure, and postoperative kidney function.” Anaesthesia 71, no. 12 (December 2016): 1417–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.13632.
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    • Kendale, Samir M., and Jeanna D. Blitz. “Increasing body mass index and the incidence of intraoperative hypoxemia.” J Clin Anesth 33 (September 2016): 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2016.03.020.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna D., Samir M. Kendale, Sudheer K. Jain, Germaine E. Cuff, Jung T. Kim, and Andrew D. Rosenberg. “Preoperative Evaluation Clinic Visit Is Associated with Decreased Risk of In-hospital Postoperative Mortality.” Anesthesiology 125, no. 2 (August 2016): 280–94. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000001193.
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    • Sigmund, Alana E., Elizabeth R. Stevens, Jeanna D. Blitz, and Joseph A. Ladapo. “Use of Preoperative Testing and Physicians' Response to Professional Society Guidance.” Jama Intern Med 175, no. 8 (August 2015): 1352–59. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2081.
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    • Blitz, Jeanna D., Michael Haile, Richard Kline, Lola Franco, Sorosch Didehvar, H Leon Pachter, Elliot Newman, and Alex Bekker. “A randomized double blind study to evaluate efficacy of palonosetron with dexamethasone versus palonosetron alone for prevention of postoperative and postdischarge nausea and vomiting in subjects undergoing laparoscopic surgeries with high emetogenic risk.” Am J Ther 19, no. 5 (September 2012): 324–29. https://doi.org/10.1097/MJT.0b013e318209dff1.
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