General/Multi-Specialty Anesthesiology team members are experts in a wide variety of surgical and procedural specialties. We frequently perform high-acuity anesthetic care for medically complex patients. We provide anesthesiology services for adult patients undergoing surgeries such as bariatric, breast, colorectal, ENT, endocrine, gynecologic, oral, plastic, urologic and vascular. Faculty are experts in the use of advanced airway management, one-lung ventilation, invasive monitoring (i.e., intra-arterial and central venous pressure), treatment of massive hemorrhage, and management of patients with complex medical histories for non-cardiac surgery.
Clinical
Our team provides clinical services in numerous areas including:
- Benign Gynecologic, Breast, ENT, Plastics
- Burns: The William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center provides comprehensive care to children and adults in New York City and the surrounding area who have sustained burn injuries. It is one of the largest burn centers in the country. We staff a dedicated burn operating room three days a week and provide services for dressing changes in the burn intensive care unit. On average, we provide care to over 500 burned patients including patients with >20% total body surface burns.
- Endocrine surgery: Including pheochromocytoma resection.
- Gynecological oncology: Including major tumor debulking cases using hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS): Including orthognathic surgery (Le Fort osteotomies). Techniques used include nasal fiberoptic intubation, induced hypotensive anesthesia, and the use of anti-fibrinolytics.
- Trauma: We are an American College of Surgeons Level 1Trauma Center and are one of the two New York State Level One Trauma Centers in the borough of Manhattan. We are a receiving hospital for 911 calls to the New York City fire department. In our high-volume trauma center, we have >300 Level 1 traumas and >120 Level 2 activations annually. Care for these patients often involves the utilization of massive transfusion protocols (MTP) and point of coagulation testing (ROTEM®).
- Urological surgery: Including robotic prostatectomies, Urologic oncology, and cystoscopic procedures.
- Vascular surgery: We provide care for the following procedures: complex open and endovascular aortic reconstructions, endovascular interventions for peripheral arterial disease, carotid artery revascularization, carotid-subclavian bypass, foot and leg wound debridement, peripheral vascular surgery and amputations.
Education
Resident training includes specialty-specific intraoperative teaching. At the conclusion of each month-long vascular and thoracic anesthesia rotation, residents deliver a presentation to the faculty on a topic of their choice related to a topic of interest discovered during the rotation. All team members contribute to the academic mission of the residency by delivering specialty specific didactic resident lectures. Some faculty provide educational services to other divisions including cardiothoracic, global health, liver transplant, acute pain management, and regional anesthesia
Recent Faculty Extramural Activities
Gunisha Kaur, MD, MA
- Founding Director, Human Rights Impact Lab
- Co-Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights
- Director, Global Health Initiative
- Featured guest on National Public Radio programs: “Science Friday”, “ALL Things Considered”
Adam Lichtman, MD
- Force Medical Officer, New York State Naval Militia, New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, State of New York
- Hotline Consultant-Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States (MHAUS)
- Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Board Examination Question Author, American Board of Anesthesiology
- Committee on Trauma and Emergency Preparedness, American Society of Anesthesiologists
Lori Rubin, MD
- Stanford WellMD Physician Well-being Director Course
- Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing (HSEDD) course. Center for Medical Simulation (CMS)
Jon Samuels, MD
- Committee on Communications-New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
Ralph Slepian, MD
- New York State Society of Anesthesiologists - Post Graduate Assembly Airway Workshop instructor
- PAC Protected Airway Course (Emergency Department) instructor
- Base Camp (Pediatric) airway instructor
Jaroslav Usenko, MD
- MOCA Minute Question Editor-American Board of Anesthesiology
- Committee on Bylaws and Rules-New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
- Committee on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement- New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
Faculty
Adam Lichtman, MD, FASE
Chief, General Anesthesiology
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Diana Anca, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Mariam Ashraf, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Howard Daniel Koff, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Tiffany Lei, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Lori A. Rubin, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Jon Samuels, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Ralph Lee Slepian, MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Jaroslav Usenko, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Dan T. Vu, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Erik Wang, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Daniel Wolfanger, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology