Overview
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at CUMC
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Gender
- Male
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Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Internship: Boston Medical Center
- Residency: Massachussetts General Hospital
- Fellowship: National Institutes of Health
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Board Certifications
- Anesthesiology
- Critical Care Medicine
Honors & Awards
- Armenian General Benevolent Union Scholar, 1991-92
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Univ. of Connecticut Research Foundation, 1989-90
- Northeast Chap. of The Society of Toxicology award for best research abstract; 1987
- University of Connecticut Pre Doctoral Fellowship 1983-84
- Ranked 99% in Medicinal Chemistry National exam, 1981
- Recipient of the Caloust Geulbenkian Scholarship, 1979
- The Abraham N. and Kathryn D. Levy Scholarship; 1979-1981
Research
Anti-inflammatory effects of low-dose ketamine in high-risk cardiac surgical patients Pharmacokinetics of opioids and sedative/hypnotics during selective cerebral perfusion Glycemic control for cardiac surgery
Selected Publications
- Geraldine C.Diaz,Ervant V.Nishanian,John Renz,Milan Kinkhabwala,Jean C,Emond Gebhard Wagener,Anesthetic Management of Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation: A case report.J Cardiovasc Anest in press.
- Shailendra Joshi,Mei Wang,Joshua Etu,Ervant V.Nishanian,(2006) Comparison of Intracarotid Anesthetics for EEG Silence.Submitted to J Neurosurg Anesthesiol.
- Joshi S,Wang M,Etu JJ,Nishanian EV,Pile-Spellman J.,Cerebral blood flow affects dose requirements of intracarotid propofol for electrocerebral silence.Anesthesiology.2006 Feb; 104(2):290-8.
- Basran S,Frumento RJ,Cohen A,Lee S,Du Y,Nishanian E,Kaplan HS,Stafford-Smith M,Bennett-Guerrero E.(2006) The association between duration of storage of transfused red blood cells and morbidity and mortality after reoperative cardiac surgery.Anesth Analg.2006 Jul; 103(1):15-20.
- Bartoc C,Frumento R,Jalbout M,Bennett-Guerrero E,Du E,Nishanian E,A Randomized,Double-Blind,Placebo-Controlled Study Assessing the Anti-inflammatory Effects of Ketamine in Cardiac Surgical Patients.J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth.2006 Apr;20(2):217-22.
- Ma P,Cui X,Wang S,Zhang J,Nishanian EV,Wang W,Wesley RA,Danner RL.Nitric Oxide Post-transcriptionally Up-regulates LPS-induced IL-8 Expression through p38 MAPK Activation.J Leukoc Biol.2004 Jul;76(1):278-87.