Physicians

Chief of Anesthesia, VA Medical Center

Departments / Divisions

• Anesthesiology / Anesthesiology-VAMC
• Medicine / Medicine - Cardiology

Address
DUMC 3094
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone
919-286-6938

Fax Telephone
919-286-6853

Training

• MD, Stanford University School of Medicine (California), 1978

Residency

• Anesthesia, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (California), 1979-1980
• Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Affiliated Hospitals (Massachusetts), 1981-1982

Clinical Interests
General and cardiothoracic anesthesiology; transesophageal echocardiography

Research Interests
1.  Technology assessment defining the accuracy, clinical performance, and utility of new forms of cardiovascular monitoring during the perioperative period

2.  New clinical applications of transesophageal echocardiography

3.  Role of cardiovascular monitoring in reducing morbidity associated with cardiac surgery

4.  Practice guideline development, training, and certification for perioperative transesophageal echocardiography, pulmonary artery catheterization, and cardiovascular monitoring

5.  Patient safety improvement through clinician training and education and medical device design

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician has no reported relationships with industry.

Representative Publications
Schroeder RA, Bar-Yosef S, Mark JB. Intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring.  In: Willerson JT, Cohn JN, Wellens HJJ, Holmes DR, editors.  Cardiovascular Medicine, Third Edition.  London: Springer-Verlag, Ltd; 2007.  p. 2515-47. (2007)

Mark JB, Slaughter TF.  Cardiovascular monitoring.  In:  Miller RD, editor.  Miller’s Anesthesia, Sixth Edition.  Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2005.  p. 1265-1362. (2005)

Pittman J, Bar-Yosef S, SumPing J, Sherwood M, Mark JB.  Continuous cardiac output monitoring with pulse contour analysis:  A comparison with lithium indicator dilution cardiac output measurement.  Crit Care Med 2005;33:2015-21 (2005)

Faehnrich JA, Noone RB Jr, White WD, Leone BJ, Hilton AK, Sreeram GM, Mark JB. Effects of positive-pressure ventilation, pericardial effusion, and cardiac tamponade on respiratory variation in transmitral flow velocities. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2003 Feb;17(1):45-50. (2003) Abstract

Roizen MF, Berger DL, Gabel RA, Gerson J, Mark JB, Parks RI Jr, Paulus DA, Smith JS, Woolf SH. Practice guidelines for pulmonary artery catheterization. An updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Pulmonary Artery Catheterization. Anesthesiology 2003;99:988-1014. (2003)

Garcia-Rodriguez C, Pittman J, Cassell CH, Sum-Ping J, El-Moalem H, Young C, Mark JB. Lithium dilution cardiac output measurement: A clinical assessment of central venous and peripheral venous indicator injection. Crit Care Med. 2002 Oct;30(10):2199-204. (2002) Abstract

Shanewise JS, Cheung AT, Aronson S, Stewart WJ, Weiss RL, Mark JB, Savage RM, Sears-Rogan P, Mathew JP, Quiñones MA, Cahalan MK, Savino JS. ASE/SCA guidelines for performing a comprehensive intraoperative multiplane transesophageal echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography Council for Intraoperative Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Task Force for Certification in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1999 Oct;12(10):884-900. (1999) Abstract

Mark JB: Atlas of cardiovascular monitoring. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1998. (1998)