
David Paul Strum, MD, FRCP(C)Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard David Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
6 Dulles
3400 Spruce Street Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Office: 215 662-7832
Education:
B.Sc. Hon (Biology and Mathematics) Acadia University, 1976. MD (Medicine) Dalhousie University, 1980.
Post-Graduate Training
Rotating Internship, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Canada, 1980-1981. Resident in Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto Hospitals, Toronto Canada, 1981-1985. Laboratory Research Fellowship, Anesthetic Pharmacokinetics, University of California-San Francisco, 1985-1987. Visiting Scholar, Operations Research, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-1997.
Certifications
Permanent linkRoyal College Physicians Canada Certification in Anesthesia, 1985. American Board of Anesthesia Certification in Anesthesiology, 1988. American Board of Anesthesia Certification in Critical Care Medicine, 1989. Description of Research ExpertiseOperations researchScheduling of surgical services Modeling of surgical procedure times Capacity planning for surgical services Advances time series analyses for surgical services Description of Clinical ExpertiseRight heart failureThoracic anesthesia Neuroanesthesia CNS effects of low dose anesthesia and sedation Selected PublicationsStrum, DP: JAMA Book Review: The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiac Care, 1st Edition; edited edited by Marco Tubaro, Nicolas Danchin, Gerasimos Filippatos, Patrick Goldstein, Pascal Vranckx, and Doron Zahger. JAMA 307(3): 308-9, 2012.Strum DP, Vargas LG: Comparing Mathematical Distributions as Models for Length of Stay in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine 39(12): A137, 2012. Strum DP, Vargas LG: Modelling length of stay in cardiac critical care using the lognormal distribution. Proceedings of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Page: A120, 2011. Roumani YF, May JH, Vargas LG, Strum DP: Comparing methods for classification with imbalanced data: an illustrative application to an intensive care unit (ICU). Annals of Operations Research in press 2011. Strum DP, Vargas LG: Testing Mathematical Distributions to Model Length of Stay in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Anesthesiology Page: A350, 2011. May JH, Spangler WE, Strum DP, Vargas LG: The surgical scheduling problem: current research and future opportunities. Production and Operations Management 10: 1-14, 2011. Strum DP: JAMA Book Review: Cottrell and Young's Neuroanesthesia, 5th edition. JAMA 305(19): 2014, 2011. Strum DP. Vargas LG: Length of stay in a cardiac intensive care unit is well modelled by a lognormal distribution. Anesthesiology A1592: A1592, 2010. Strum DP, Vargas LG: Turnover times among surgeries: a comparison of the normal and lognormal models. CORS/INFORMS International Meeting Abstracts, Toronto, Ontario Page: MA-11, June 2009. Schonberger, Strum, Moore, Thomson: : Letter to the editor: Observations on Surgical Demand Time Series: Detection and Resolution of Holiday Variance (RE: “Observations on Surgical Demand Time Series: Detection and Resolution of Holiday Variance” Anesthesiology 111(1): 1, 2009.
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