The Founders Lecture in Anesthesiology

The LSU Health Foundation & The Department of Anesthesiology Present the Mack A. Thomas, MD Lectureship in Anesthesiology:

From Anticoagulants to Procoagulants: Perioperative Management of the Coagulation Cocktails

PRESENTED BY: Jerrold H. Levy, MD, FAHA, FCCM

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 5:00pm
CALS Building - 1st Floor, Rooms 1024 and 1026

5:00pm-5:45pm: Opening Wine & Cheese Reception

6:00pm - 7:00pm: Lecture

Jerrold H Levy, MD, FAHA, FCCM

Jerrold H Levy, MD, FAHA, FCCM, is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Surgery (Cardiothoracic) at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Miami, where he was a resident in internal medicine, followed by an Anesthesiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he was Chief Resident, and completed fellowships in Respiratory ICU and Cardiac Anesthesiology. Before Duke, he was Professor and Deputy Chair for Research at Emory University School of Medicine. He is currently Vice Chair of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, CoChair of the DIC Committee, and former Chair of the Perioperative and Critical Care Committee. Dr Levy is an Executive Editor for Anesthesiology and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.  His clinical and research interests include anticoagulation and its reversal, therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat coagulopathy and acute inflammation in critically ill patients and extracorporeal life support, applications of recombinant and purified protein concentrates for treating coagulopathy, anaphylaxis, and pharmacologic approaches to treating biventricular dysfunction and shock.  He is the author of over 500 publications on PubMed with an h-index of 104 and i10-index of 438. He is also fluent in French and conversational in Spanish and Japanese.

Wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold_Levy

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qnH5V28AAAAJ&hl=en

Duke University Website: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jerrold.levy

Twitter: @JerroldLevy

Publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=+levy+jh&sort=date&size=200

For event information contact Caitlin Strother at 504-568-5712 or cstrother@lsuhealthfoundation.org