Neuroprotection in Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine

David L. Reich, MD, served as the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center from 2004 to 2014, and was named President and COO of The Mount Sinai Hospital in 2013. Dr. Reich's research interests include neurocognitive outcome following thoracic aortic surgery, outcome effects of intraoperative hemodynamics, medical informatics, and hemodynamic monitoring. He has published greater than 130 peer-reviewed articles, 30 invited articles or editorials, and 30 book chapters. He is an associate editor of the text Cardiac Anesthesia and editor of Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care. He is co-editor of the first edition of Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. Dr. Reich serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. He was named the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology in 2004 and received the Jacobi Medallion in 2014.Stephan A. Mayer, MD, FCCM, is the William T. Gossett Chair of Neurology for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. Dr Mayer earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City, and completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in critical care neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Mayer was a founding member and is past-president of the Neurocritical Care Society. His research interests include subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, acute ischemic stroke, and status epilepticus.Suzan Uysal, PhD, has research interest focus on neurocognitive outcome following surgery. She is also an educator and clinician. She teaches Functional Neuroanatomy and Clinical Neuroscience in the internship and postdoctoral neuropsychology training programs in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also teaches a course in Neuropsychology in the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her clinical practice is focused in adult neuropsychological assessment.