INVOS Webinar Series

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Wake Forest School of Medicine. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Winston-Salem, NC

Ashish K.Khanna is a staff intensivist & anesthesiologist, associate professor of anesthesiology and associate chief for research with the department of anesthesiology, section on critical care medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Khanna serves on several editorial boards including the Journal of Critical Care and the Annals of Intensive Care. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on several perioperative topics including opioid-related respiratory complications, and the prediction of and monitoring for cardiorespiratory complications within and outside the ICU.

Dr. Thiele is a Charlottesville native and an alumnus of both Charlottesville High School (1997) and the University of Virginia. He attended medical school at Vanderbilt, completed his internship at Northwestern, his anesthesiology residency at UVA and his critical care fellowship at Duke. He is board certified in anesthesiology, critical care, and advanced perioperative transesophageal echocardiography.

He returned home to UVA and Charlottesville in 2011, joining the anesthesiology faculty as an assistant professor and specializing in cardiothoracic anesthesiology and critical care. He is a strong advocate for patient safety and is a member of both the Patient Safety Committee at UVA and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (Committee on Technology). He is the co-director of UVA’s Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program, which focuses on improving patient satisfaction and reducing complications after surgery.

Dr. Avery graduated from University of California, Davis with a degree in Microbiology. He spent one post-baccalaureate year studying physiology at Georgetown University before matriculating to New York Medical College where he passed his Medical Doctorate. He then completed his internship at the University of California, San Francisco and then both his anesthesiology residency as well as Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Avery was recruited to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to assume the role of chief, division of Cardiac Anesthesiology. At UHCMC, he was promoted to the rank of Associate and then full Professor at the Case Western University School of Medicine. He now serves as the Chair of the Transfusion Committee for UHCMC and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital as well as the anesthesiology departmental Vice-Chair of Clinical Research.