The COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board helps curate and evaluate the most relevant peer-reviewed research coming out in anesthesiology journals about COVID-19 and synthesizes major takeaways to share with members and the anesthesia community.

Following declarations from the US Department of Health and Human Services and World Health Organization ending the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the IARS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) concluded its review of the scientific literature about SARS-CoV-2 in August 2023. The SAB has reviewed more than 3,100 journal articles and published 1,076 article reviews over the past 42 months. It has been an enormous commitment from the SAB, and the IARS owes our dedicated physician volunteers a huge debt of gratitude for their unwavering participation in this initiative.

COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Board

Members:

Lydia Cassorla, MD, MBA

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Professor Emerita, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

David M. Clement, MD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

St. Joseph Hospital, Winthrop, WA

Robert L. Coffey, MD

Specialty: Pulmonology

Retired Physician

Mount Vernon, WA

Anil Hingorani, MD

Specialty: Vascular Surgery, General Surgery

Vascular Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY

Nancy Kenepp, MD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Associate Professor Emeritus

Temple University, Katz School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Wynnewood, PA

Philip D. Lumb, MB, BS, MD, MCCM, FCCP

Specialty: Cardiac Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor of Trauma Surgery, Director of Research and Data Analytics, Department of Anesthesiology

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Edward S. Schulman, MD, FCCP, FAAAAI, FCPP

Specialty: Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Professor of Medicine; Director (1987-2012), Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Associate Chairman of Medicine for Research (1995-2000); Director, Allergy and Asthma Research Center; Director, Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory

Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Jagdip Shah, MD, MBA

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

Medical College of Virginia – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Midlothian, VA

Robert N. Sladen, MBChB, FCCM

Specialty: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

Allen Hyman Professor Emeritus of Critical Care Anesthesiology

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Roxbury, CT

W. Heinrich Wurm, MD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Chair Emeritus

Tufts Medical Center, Lovell, ME

Guest Contributors:

Jack Lance Lichtor, MD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Retired Anesthesiologist

Yale University, New Haven, CT

Barry Perlman, MD, PhD, CMI

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Chair, Informatics Committee

Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists, Eugene, OR

Jay Przybylo, MD, FAAP, MFA

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Glenview, IL

Content Reviewers:

Jonathan V. Roth, MD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Chairman Emeritus, Department of Anesthesiology; Staff Anesthesiologist

Albert Einstein Medical Center, Dresher, PA

Eugene I. Tolpin, MD, PhD

Specialty: Anesthesiology

ChristianaCare Health Systems, Wilmington, Delaware