Course Director
Dalia Banks, MD, FASE
Clinical Professor
Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego Course
Co-Director
Timothy Maus, MD, FASE
Clinical Professor
Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology
Director of Perioperative Echocardiography
University of California San Diego
UC San Diego Faculty
Daniel G. Blanchard, MD, FACC
Clinical Professor
Chief of Clinical Cardiology
Director of Cardiology Fellowship
Department of Cardiology
University of California San Diego
Christine Choi, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
Brett Cronin, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Director
University of California San Diego
Byron Fergerson, MD
Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
Swapnil Khoche, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Associate Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship Director
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
Gerard Manecke, MD
Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
Quoc-Sy Nguyen, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego
Visiting Faculty
Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE
Professor of Anesthesiology
Interim Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Sophia Poorsattar, MD
Sophia P. Poorsattar, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Douglas Shook, MD, FASE
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Madhav Swaminathan, MD, FAHA, FASE
Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic and Critical Care
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina