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Elizabeth Railey White, MD, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
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34 Perelman School of Medicine, 2022.
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Selected Publications

103 Hough MK, Leso CR, Plasencia DM, Joseph TT, White ER: Functionalization of 1,3-Diisopropylbenzene to Probe the Antagonism of Propofol Anesthesia. ACS Chemical Neuroscience December 2025.

144 Jakubiak, A.; Bilal, S.; Hough, M.K.; Kwon, K.B.; White, E.R.: Modulation of Anesthetic-Induced Respiratory Depression in Zebrafish. American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX October 2025 Notes: Selected for Oral Presentation.

186 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 143(4): 1049-1089, October 2025.

e3 Hough, M.K.; Plasencia, D.M.; White, E.R.: Administration of Volatile Anesthetics to Zebrafish Larvae for Behavioral Observation. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). 2e (2022), e67896, June 2025.

d7 Liu, Zhiwei; White, Railey; Eckenhoff, Rod; Weiser, Brian: Biophysical Insights of Ligand Binding to PCNA. Rowan-Virtua Research Day May 2025.

13c 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.

13a 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.

121 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.

118 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.

119 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.

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