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Christopher B. Massa, MS, MD, PhD

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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Attending Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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21 7 BS 23 (Biomedical Engineering) c
36 The Johns Hopkins University , 2006.
21 7 MS 23 (Biomedical Engineering) c
33 The University of Vermont , 2008.
21 8 PhD 17 (Toxicology) c
45 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , 2014.
21 7 MD 15 (Medicine) c
4a UMDNJ/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School , 2016.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

4b Monitoring real-time ventilation distribution in children.
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4c Anesthesia for children with cardiac disease for non-cardiac surgery.
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Description of Research Expertise

7b Measurement and modeling of pulmonary mechanical function, nitric oxide physiology and biological chemistry
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Selected Publications

126 Massa CB, Yehya N, Keim G.: Monitoring Adequacy of Ventilation in High Risk Patients Using Electrical Impedance Tomography: Insight From Unilateral Ventilation. European Congress for Pediatric Anesthesiology October 2025.

1c8 Jenna R Cheminant, Cassandra E Deering-Rice, Christopher B Massa, Ujjwal Adhikari, Jessica Noll, Christopher A Reilly, Alessandro Venosa: Parenchymal and inflammatory responses to ozone exposure in the aging healthy and surfactant protein C mutant lung. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. American Physiological Society, 328(3): L334-L349, 3 2025.

109 Massa CB, Bates JHTR: Pulmonary Mechanical Function and Gas Exchange. Comprehensive Toxicology, 4th Edition. McQueen CA (eds.). Elsevier SCience, Philadelphia, PA, 14(6), 2025 Notes: In Press.

115 Massa CB, Yehya N, Keim G: Dynamic Changes in Ventilation Distribution During Induction and Emergence of Anesthesia by Electrical Impedance Tomography. European Congress for Pediatric Anesthesia 10 2025.

b8 Massa CB: Heterogeniety Of Neonatal Respiratory Disorders: A Comment. Anesthesiology 142(6): 1180-1181, 6 2025.

113 Massa CB, Alexander A: POCUS and Aeration heterogeneity in neonates and how it may vary with different respiratory disorders. Pediatric Anesthesiology Article of the Day. Yaster M (eds.). December 2024.

1b6 Jones Oguh S, Iyer RS, Yuan I, Missett R, Daly Guris RJ, Johnson G, Babus LW, Massa CB, McClung-Pasqualino H, Garcia-Marcinkiewicz AG, Sequera-Ramos L, Kurth CD.: Implementation of an electroencephalogram-guided propofol anesthesia practice in a large academic pediatric hospital: A quality improvement project. Paediatric Anaesthesiology. 34(2): 160-166, Feb 2024.

1ac Yuan I, Missett R, Jones-Oguh S, Massa C, Babus L, Garcia-Marcinkiewicz A, Daly Guris R, Johnson J, McClung-Pasqualino H, Sequera-Ramos L, Subramanyam Iyer R, Kurth C: Implementation of an electroencephalogram-guided propofol anesthesia education program in an academic pediatric anesthesia practice. Pediatric Anesthesia 32(11): 1252-1261, November 2022.

161 Nguyen J, Deering-Rice C, Armstrong B, Massa C, Reilly C, Venosa A: Parenchymal and Inflammatory Cell Responses to Single and Repeated Ozone Exposure in Healthy and Surfactant Protein-C Mutant Lung. Toxicological Sciences. Oxford University Press, 198(1): 107-123, September 2022.

107 Ko R, Massa CB, Saraiya N, Cheung EW: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): Experiences With a New Disease Process. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesia 34(1): 127-131, 2022.

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