SukumarPDesaiMD

Anesthesiology • Boston, MA

Critical Care Medicine

Assistant Professor, Anaesthesia, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Office
75 Francis Street Cwn L1
Brigham And Womens Hospital Dept Of Anesthesiology Peri
Boston, MA 02115
Phone+1 617-732-8210

Education & Training

Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Anesthesiology, 1977 - 1981
All India Institute of Medical SciencesClass of 1977

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1985 - 2025
MA State Medical License 1978 - 2025
American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1325 citations
A clinical sign to predict difficult tracheal intubation: a prospective study
S. Rao Mallampati, Stephen P. Gatt, Laveme D. Gugino, Sukumar P. Desai, Barbara Waraksa
Canadian Anaesthetists' Society Journal. 1985-07-01
9 citations
Medical and ethical challenges during the first successful human kidney transplantation in 1954 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston.
Stanley Leeson, Sukumar P. Desai
Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2015-01-01
5 citations
History of anaesthesia: Nurse anaesthesia practice in the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America).
Christina Tenedios, Sian O'Leary, Mauro Capocci, Sukumar P Desai
European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 2018-03-01

Journal Articles

Swan, Ganz, and Their Catheter: Its Evolution over the Past Half Century
Sukumar Desai, MD, Annals of Internal Medicine

Press Mentions

Sensitive Cardiac Injury Marker Could Reduce Stress Testing for Myocardial IschemiaNovember 7th, 2018