Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Valerie A. Arkoosh, M.D., MPH

Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Contact information

1105 Penn Tower
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: (215) 694-0885
Fax: (215) 349-8106

Email:
arkooshv@uphs.upenn.edu

Education:
B.A. (Economics)
Northwestern University, 1982.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Nebraska Medical College, 1986.
MPH (Public Health)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2007.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern-Transitional, Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1986-1987.
Resident in Anesthesiology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1987-1990.

Certifications
Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology, 1991.
Recertification in Anesthesiology - voluntary, 2002.
Recertification in Anesthesiology - voluntary, 2009.

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Description of Research Expertise

Clinical trials on intrathecal labor analgesia

Description of Clinical Expertise

Obstetric anesthesia

Description of Other Expertise

Health Policy
State-based health care reform

Selected Publications

Arkoosh VA: Newborn Resuscitation. A Practical Approach to Obstetric Anesthesia. Bucklin BA, Gambling DR, Wlody DJ (eds.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, Page: 275-284, 2009.

Arkoosh VA, Palmer CM, Yun E, Sharma SK, Bates JN, Wissler RN, Buxbaum JL, Nogami WM, Gracely EJ: A Randomized, Double-masked, Multicenter Comparison of the Safety of Continuous Intrathecal Labor Analgesia Using a 28-guage Catheter versus Continuous Epidural Labor Analgesia. [Article accompanied by an editorial] Anesthesiology 108: 286-298, February 2008.

Chamchad D, Horrow JC, Nakhamchik L, Arkoosh VA: Heart Rate Variability Changes During Pregnancy: an Observational Study. Int J Obstet Anesth 16: 106-109, 2007.

Arkoosh VA: Neonatal Resuscitation. Advances in Anesthesia. Lake CL, Johnson JO, McLoughlin TM (eds.). Mosby, Inc., Philadelphia, 23: 75-94, 2005.

Chamchad D, Arkoosh VA, Horrow JC, Buxbaum JL, Izrailtyan I, Nakhamchik L, Hower D, Kresh JY: Heart Rate Variability to Stratify Risk of Obstetric Patients Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia Anesthesia and Analgesia 99: 1818, 2004.

Birnbach DJ, Riley ET, D’Angelo R, Sharma S, Arkoosh VA: A Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Spinal Levobupivacaine with and without Fentanyl for Labor Analgesia Anesthesiology 99(A-1176), 2003.

Arkoosh VA: Amniotic Fluid Embolism In: Shnider and Levinson's Anesthesia for Obstetrics, 4th edition Hughes SC, Levinson G, Rosen M (eds.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Page: 355-360, 2001.

Leighton BL, Topkis WG, Gross JB, Arkoosh VA, Lee SR, Huffnagle HJ, Huffnagle S: Multiport Epidural Catheters: Does the Air Test Work? Anesthesiology 92: 1617-1620, 2000.

Arkoosh VA, Cooper M, Norris MC, Boxer L, Ferouz F, Silverman N, Huffnagle HJ, Huffnagle S, Leighton BL: Intrathecal Sufentanil Dose Response in Nulliparous Patients Anesthesiology 89: 364-370, 1998.

Norris MC, Arkoosh VA, Knobler R: Maternal and Fetal Effects of Isoproterenol in the Gravid Ewe Anesth Analg 85: 389-394, 1997.