Stavros G. Memtsoudis, MD, PhD

Dr. Stavros G. Memtsoudis, board-certified in both anesthesiology and critical care medicine, joined HSS after completing subspecialty training in critical care medicine, cardiac, and thoracic anesthesiology. His expertise lies in the perioperative care of patients with advanced cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. Scientifically, Dr. Memtsoudis has an interest in the fields of cardiopulmonary physiology and national database outcomes research, and has published articles in these fields. Trained in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography, he is interested in the application of this technology outside the cardiac operating room.

Appointments

Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Specialty

Anesthesiology

Subspecialty

Cardiac and Thoracic Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine

Special Expertise

Perioperative Care of the Patient with Cardiopulmonary Disease
Cardiopulmonary physiologic changes after lung surgery
Applications of transesophageal echocardiography
National database outcome research

Awards

Student Fellowship Award, Education and Research Foundation of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 1998
Leonidas Lanzounis Medical Research Award, Hellenic Medical Society of New York, 1999
First Prize Resident Research Award of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2002
Chief Resident–Department of Anesthesiology–Weill Cornell Medical College, 2003
Resident Research Award for Excellence in Anesthesia Research–Weill Cornell Medical College, 2003

Affiliations

American Board of Anesthesiology, Diplomate
American Society of Anesthesiology, Member
Society of Critical Care Medicine, Member
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Member
American Medical Association, Member

Languages

German, Greek

Education

MD, 1999, Georg-August-University Medical School, Goettingen, Germany

Internship

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, New York, 2001

Residency

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Anesthesiology, New York, 2004

Fellowship

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Critical Care Medicine, Cardiac and Thoracic Anesthesiology, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006

Certification

Anesthesiology, 2005
Critical Care Medicine, 2005

State Licensure

Massachusetts, New York  

Stavros G. Memtsoudis, MD, PhD is the author of the following articles on HSS.edu:

Selected Publications

  

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.

Selected Books/Chapters

Memtsoudis SG, Swamidoss C, Psomas M. Anesthesia for adrenalectomy. In: Adrenal glands. Diagnostic aspects and surgical therapy. Linos, vanHeerden (eds.). Springer, New York, 2004, p 287-99.

Behr TM, Memtsoudis S, Vougioukas V, Liersch T, Gratz S, Schmidt F, Lorf T, Post S, Wörmann B, Hiddemann W, Ringe B, Becker W. Radioimmunotherapy of colorectal cancer in small volume disease: Preclinical evaluation in comparison to equitoxic chemotherapy and preliminary results of an ongoing phase-I/II clinical trial. In: Bergmann H, Sinzinger H (eds.). Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical Medicine and Research. Basel/Boston/Berlin: Birkenhäuser, Boston 1999.

Selected Presentations

Memtsoudis SG, Rosenberger P, Loffler M, Eltzschig HK, Mizuguchi A, Shernan SK, Fox JA. Utility of Transesophageal Echocardiography during Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest. Chest 128(4):167S 2005 ,oral presentation American College of Chest Physicians, Montreal, Canada

Memtsoudis SG, Besculides MC, Patil N, Rogers SO. Temporal changes in lung resection surgery, United States 1988 to 2002. Chest 128(40):206S 2005 , oral presentation American College of Chest Physicians, Montreal, Canada

Memtsoudis SG, Swamidoss CP, Besculides MC, Jabali M. Efficiency of care: Can hospital based ambulatory surgery centers learn from free-standing ambulatory surgery centers? Anesthesiology A1345, 183, 2003, oral presentation American Society of Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, CA

Memtsoudis SG, The A, Heerdt PM. Propofol induced hypotension in the elderly: The role of dampened autonomic reflex sensitivity. Anesthesiology A-706: 300, 2002, oral presentation American Society of Anesthesiologists, Orlando, FL

Memtsoudis SG, Behr TM, Sgouros G, Blumenthal RD, Dunn RM, Nebendahl K, Sharkey RM, Goldenberg DM, Becker W. Radioimmunotherapy of colorectal cancer in minimal residual disease and in an adjuvant setting: Evaluation of 131-I-labeled IgG and fragments versus standard chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin in a nude mouse model. Tumor Biology 18 (S2): 10, 1997. Lousanne, Switzerland

 

Research Interests

Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Applications of Transesophageal Echocardiography, National Database Reasearch

Clinical Trials

• Intraoperative Fluid Management During Complex Spine Surgery Using the FloTrac System
• Effect of Optimal Regional Analgesia on Arterial Tone after Total Hip Arthroplasty
• The Effect of Intraoperative Ventilation with Low versus Traditional Tidal Volumes on Markers of Lung Injury during Spinal Surgery.
• The Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on Systemic Inflammatory Markers after Total Knee Arthroplasty