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Jiri Horak, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship Program Faculty
Intraoperative Echocardiography Service Faculty
Lecturer, Department of Anesthesia
Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia
Anesthesia Chief, Adult Congenital Herat Program
Disaster Plan Officer
ICU Arbitrator
Director of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director, Silverstein 10
Medical Director, LTAC (Long-Term Acute Care)
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Anethesiology and Critical Care
3400 Spruce Street - 680 Dulles Bldg
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fax: 215-349-8133
Education:
MD
Purkynje University, School of Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic , 1988.
Post-Graduate Training
Residency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care , Research Institute for Surgery and TraumatologyBrno, Czech Republic, 1989-1991.
Internship, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1996.
Residency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1996-1999.
Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1999-2000.
Fellowship, Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2001.
Fellowship, Pain and Obstetric Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2001-2002.
Certifications
Board Eligible - Critical Care Medicine by American Board of Critical Care Medicine, 1991.
First Czech Medical Board Examination in Anesthesia and Critical Care, Prague, Czech Republic, 1991.
Board Certified - Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2000.
Board Certified - American Board of Anesthesiology, 2002.
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Selected Publications

Horak JG, Cheung AT, Baum RA, Milas BL, Bavaria JE: Comparison of Transesophageal Echocardiography with Computed Tomography and Angiography for Endovascular Stent Repair of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms. Anesthesiology. ASA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA Page: A-254, Oct 2001.

Augoustides J, Horak J, Mancini J, Pochettino A, Dupont F, Dowling RD: The Use of Intraoperative Echocardiography During Insertion of Ventricular Assist Device. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist Meeting, Vancouver, Canada 2001.

Trauma. Intensive Medicine. Sevcik P, Cerny V, Vitovec J (eds.). Galen, Prague, Czech Republic, Page: 178-216, 2000.

Emergent management of the airway. New pharmacology and the control of comorbidities in cardiac disease, ischemia, and valvular heart disease Crit Care Clin 16(3): 411-427, July 2000.

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