Faculty

Elizabeth Railey White, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Graduate Group Affiliations

Pharmacology

Contact information

John Morgan Building 310
3620 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:
e.railey.white@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education:
BS (Chemistry)
University of Kentucky, 2007.
MD
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015.
PhD (Chemical Biology)
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015.
Cert. (Research Mentor Training: Effective Communication and Aligning Expectations)
Perelman School of Medicine, 2022.

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Selected Publications

Liu, Zhiwei; White, Railey; Eckenhoff, Rod; Weiser, Brian: Biophysical Insights of Ligand Binding to PCNA. Rowan-Virtua Research Day May 2025.

Morgan K. Hough, Thomas T. Joseph, E. Railey White: Propofol Derivatives as Antagonists: Quantum Mechanical Insights from Behavioral Studies in Zebrafish. Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA March 2025.

Sasha Bilal, Alex Jakubiak, Morgan Hough, Railey White: A Novel Free-Swimming Zebrafish Model for Assessing Anesthetic-Induced Respiratory Depression. International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI March 2025.

Hough, M.K.; Plasencia, D.M.; White, E.R.: Administration of Volatile Anesthetics to Zebrafish Larvae for Behavioral Observation. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 2025 Notes: Accepted for Publication.

Vincent, Kathleen F.; Pal, Dinesh; Xie, Zheng; Fox, Aaron P.; White, E. Railey; Kelz, Max B.; Garcia, Paul S.; Calderon, Diany Paola; Plourde, Gilles; Vlisides, Phillip E.; Solt, Ken: Current and Developing Approaches for Facilitating Emergence from General Anesthesia. Anesthesiology 2025 Notes: Accepted for publication.

Alex Jakubiak, Sasha Bilal, Railey White: Dose-dependent Effects of General Anesthetics on Mandible Movement Rate in Larval Zebrafish. 78th Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology (PGA78), New York, NY December 2024.

Diana M Plasencia, Liam H Rodgers, Alexys R Knighton, Roderic G Eckenhoff, E Railey White: Antagonism of Propofol Anesthesia by Alkyl-fluorobenzene Derivatives. Scientific Reports 14(15943 ): 1-11, July 2024.

Alexis Dispensa, E. Railey White, Roderic G. Eckenhoff, Zhiwei Liu, Brian P. Weiser: Identification of a Novel Cryptic Binding Site on PCNA. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA) February 2024.

Diana M. Plasencia, Liam H. Rodgers, Alexys R. Knighton, Roderic G. Eckenhoff, E. Railey White: Antagonism of Propofol Anesthesia by Alkyl-fluorobenzene Derivatives. Research Square (preprint) Page: PREPRINT (Version 1), January 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3846123/v1.

Alex Jakubiak, Diana Plasencia, Elizabeth Railey White: Dose-Dependent Effects of General Anesthetics on Mandible Movement Rate of Embryonic Zebrafish. Discovery Day 2023 Philadelphia, PA November 2023.