Department / Division:
Anesthesiology

Address:
Durham VA Medical Center
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705

Office Telephone:
919-286-6938

• MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1989

• Anesthesiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1995

• Thoracic/Vascular/Liver Transplant Anesthesia, Johns Hopkins University (Maryland), 1997

Clinical Interests:
Cardiac, thoracic, and vascular anesthesia; perioperative care; transesophageal echocardiography (intraoperative and diagnostic)

Research Interests:
Pulmonary hypertension in setting of end-stage liver disease, treatment of pulmonary hypertension with inhaled prostacyclin, cardiovascular responses to inhaled vasodilators, transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function, delirium and cognitive dysfunction after noncardiac surgery

Representative Publications:
Schroeder RA. Predictive indices of morbidity and mortality after liver resection. Ann Surg. 2006 Oct;244(4):637. (2006) Abstract

Schroeder RA. Pulmonic valve endocarditis in a normal heart. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2005 Feb;18(2):197-8. (2005) Abstract

Schroeder RA, Mark JB. Is the valve OK or not? Immediate evaluation of a replaced aortic valve. Anesth Analg. 2005 Nov;101(5):1288-91. (2005) Abstract

Schroeder RA, Collins BH, Tuttle-Newhall E, Robertson K, Plotkin J, Johnson LB, Kuo PC. Intraoperative fluid management during orthotopic liver transplantation. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2004 Aug;18(4):438-41. (2004) Abstract

Kuo PC, Douglas AR, Oleski D, Jacobs DO, Schroeder RA. Determining benchmarks for evaluation and management coding in an academic division of general surgery. J Am Coll Surg. 2004 Jul;199(1):124-30. (2004) Abstract

Marroquin CE, Tuttle-Newhall JE, Collins BH, Kuo PC, Schroeder RA. Emergencies after liver transplantation. Semin Gastrointest Dis. 2003 Apr;14(2):101-10. (2003) Abstract

Schroeder RA, Kuo PC. Organ Allocation and Clinical Management of the Organ Donor. In: Kuo PC, Schroeder RA, Johnson LB, editors. Clinical Management of the Transplant Patient. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001. p201-227. (2001)

Schroeder RA, Rafii AA, Plotkin JS, Johnson LB, Rustgi VK, Kuo PC. Use of aerosolized inhaled epoprostenol in the treatment of portopulmonary hypertension. Transplantation. 2000 Aug 15;70(3):548-50. (2000) Abstract

Schroeder RA, Ewing CA, Sitzmann JV, Kuo PC. Pulmonary expression of iNOS and HO-1 protein is upregulated in a rat model of prehepatic portal hypertension. Dig Dis Sci. 2000 Dec;45(12):2405-10. (2000) Abstract

Schroeder RA, Kuo PC. Nitric oxide: physiology and pharmacology. Anesth Anal 1995;81:1052-9. (1995)