Optimizing perioperative patient care: Monitoring cerebral oximetry with near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in the cardiac OR

Professor Edwin Avery, MD

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.