Jutta Novalija, MD, PhD

Medical Director of VAMC Simulation Center, Professor

Contact Information

jnovalij@mcw.edu

Education

Dr. Novalija graduated from Medical School at the Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany in 1997, where she received her PhD for her thesis “The endocrine stress response in CABG patients” in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 she was a cardiology resident at the Georg August Universität in Göttingen, Germany. Continuing her training in the US she completed her Internship in Medicine and Residency in Anesthesia at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York, NY in 2000-2004. Dr. Novalija then went on to specialize in cardiac anesthesia and completed her fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA in 2005. Dr. Novalija joined the Medical College of Wisconsin as Assistant Professor in 2005.

                
                    Clinical Expertise
                
                    Anesthesia
Echocardiography, Transesophageal

                    Methodologies and Techniques
                
                    Acetylcholine infusion via brachial artery
Forearm blood flow
Hyperemia

                    Leadership Positions
                
                    Associate Director Cardiovascular Anesthesia Fellowship
Director of Anesthesia Simulation Program MCW
Medical Director Milwaukee VA Anesthesia Preop Clinic
Medical Director Milwaukee VAMC Simulation Center

                    Educational Expertise
                
                    Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Patient Simulation

Research Interests

Dr. Novalija’s research focuses on anesthetic preconditioning of the endothelium in humans. She received a mentored FAER award to study the effect and mechanism of volatile anesthetic conditioning on the endothelium in vivo in 2008. She also is a scholar in the Clinical Research Scholars Program (K30 award) at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Cohort 2007-2009.

No Room to Lean In: A Qualitative Study on Gendered Barriers to Promotion and Leadership.

(Ellinas EH, Kaljo K, Patitucci TN, Novalija J, Byars-Winston A, Fouad NA.) J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 Mar;28(3):393-402.
Anesthesia Preoperative Clinic Evaluation of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Nasal Fiberoptic Videoendoscopy: A Pilot Study Comparison with Polysomnography.

(Jain S, Kallio PJ, Less K, Novalija J, Pagel PS, Ebert TJ.) Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Feb;8(1):e63546.
Moderate, Short-Term, Local Hyperglycemia Attenuates Forearm Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation After Transient Ischemia-Reperfusion in Human Volunteers.

(Ebert TJ, Novalija J, Barney JA, Uhrich TD, Arain SR, Freed JK, Pagel PS.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 Oct;31(5):1649-1655.
Short-Term Angiotensin Subtype 1 Receptor Blockade Does Not Alter the Circulatory Responses to Sympathetic Nervous System Modulation in Healthy Volunteers Before and During Sevoflurane Anesthesia: Results of a Pilot Study.

(Arain SR, Freed JK, Novalija J, Pagel PS, Ebert TJ.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Dec;30(6):1479-1484.
Acute, Severe Chest Pain in the Presence of Known Coronary Artery Disease: New Myocardial Ischemia, Aortic Dissection, or Some Other Evolving Cardiovascular Catastrophe?

(Boettcher BT, Irish SM, Algahim M, Rokkas CK, Plambeck CJ, Novalija J, Pagel PS.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Jun;30(3):841-4.
Unicuspid aortic valve bioprosthesis: a complication of surgery for a left hip Morel-Lavallée lesion?

(De Vry DJ, Schnake PK, Colwell EM, Novalija J, Almassi GH, Pagel PS.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2015 Apr;29(2):545-7.
The effectiveness of oxygen delivery and reliability of carbon dioxide waveforms: a crossover comparison of 4 nasal cannulae.

(Ebert TJ, Novalija J, Uhrich TD, Barney JA.) Anesth Analg. 2015 Feb;120(2):342-8.
An unlikely cause of a new diastolic murmur heard during a routine employment physical exam.

(Pagel PS, Shirazi AQ, Helm CS, Novalija J, Murtaza G, Rashid ZA.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2015;29(3):817-9.
Mechanism of torrential regurgitation in mitral valve endocarditis: the usual chordal rupture-leaflet flail or another more dramatic structural defect?

(Wickliff EM, Weber CA, Wyler von Ballmoos MC, Dague HL, Novalija J, Almassi GH, Pagel PS.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2014 Jun;28(3):854-6.
Malignant hyperthermia crisis: optimizing patient outcomes through simulation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

(Cain CL, Riess ML, Gettrust L, Novalija J.) AORN J. 2014 Feb;99(2):301-8; quiz 309-11.
Is a dissection in the middle of the aortic arch complicating this large ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm?

(Gerstman E, Novalija J, Murtaza G, Hossein Almassi G, Pagel PS.) J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2014 Feb;28(1):202-205.
Simulation of a patient with severe aortic stenosis undergoing emergency abdominal surgery.

(Novalija J, Diaz CD, Drexler CM.) Simul Healthc. 2011 Aug;6(4):250-4.

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