Misha Perouansky

Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, United States of America

POSITIONS HELD:

Faculty Appointments:

1996 – 2000 Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem

2000 – 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin

2001 – present Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin (as Visiting Associate Professor until Jan. 2003)

COMMITTEES:

Departmental:

2002 – 2006 Member, Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference

2004 – present Member, Research and Development

2006 – present Member, John-Kreul Fellowship Committee

2004 – present Director, Case Conferences



National:

2004 – present American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Subcommittee on anesthetic action

2004 – present ASA Subcommittee on experimental neuroscience


HONORS AND AWARDS:

Honors:

1979 – 1986 Recipient of the ‘Bayerische Begabtenfoerderung’ (stipend of the Bavarian State for talented students for the duration of graduate education)

1992 – 1994 Recipient of a research fellowship from the London-based “Foulkes Foundation’, supporting medical graduates involved in research

Awards:

1995, 1996 Outstanding Resident Award & Research Award of the Hebrew University’s Medical Faculty and the “Hadassah” Medical Organization

1996 First Prize at the Resident’s Research Contest of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists

2000 Outstanding Instructor Award of the Hebrew University’s Medical Faculty


SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

2006 - present Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA)
2000 – present Society for Neuroscience
1996 – present American Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present Dane County Medical Society
2000 – present Wisconsin Medical Society
2000 – present Madison Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present International Anesthesia Research Society,
1991 – 2000 Israel Society of Anesthesiologists
1991 – 2000 Israel Society of Neuroscience

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Anesthetic Mechanisms (since 20 April 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 4.8
  Spatial memory is intact in aged rats after propofol anesthesia.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, M Bruce MacIver
  
• 3.0
  Anesthetic-like modulation of receptor function by surfactants: a test of the interfacial theory of anesthesia.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky with F Cliff Rodgers
  
• 3.0
  Comparative effects of halothane, isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane on the electroencephalogram of the rat.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky
  
• 6.6
  General anesthetics activate a nociceptive ion channel to enhance pain and inflammation.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, Christian Zoellner, Benedikt Pannen, Hugh Hemmings
  
• 6.4
  TRPV1 shows dynamic ionic selectivity during agonist stimulation.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, Gyongyi Horvath
  
• 4.8
  Neuroimaging analysis of an anesthetic gas that blocks human emotional memory.
  Recommended by John Mihic, Misha Perouansky with Cliff Rodgers
  
• 6.0
  Clinical Anesthesia Causes Permanent Damage to the Fetal Guinea Pig Brain.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky
  
• 3.0
  Different behavioral effects of neurotoxic dorsal hippocampal lesions placed under either isoflurane or propofol anesthesia.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky with Cliff Rodgers
  
• 3.0
  Synaptic release generates a tonic GABA(A) receptor-mediated conductance that modulates burst precision in thalamic relay neurons.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky
  
• 11.2
  Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, Nanna Finnerup, Hugh Hemmings, Emery Brown, Helge Eilers, David Archer, Cheryl Stucky with Daniel Vilceanu, Michael Schaefer
  
• 9.0
  Ketamine-induced neuronal cell death in the perinatal rhesus monkey.
  Recommended by Sulpicio Soriano
  Dissent by Misha Perouansky
• 6.0
  Anesthesia leads to tau hyperphosphorylation through inhibition of phosphatase activity by hypothermia.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky
  
• 3.0
  Scopolamine prevents dreams during general anesthesia.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky