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Anesthesiology
Jutta Novalija, MD, PhD

Jutta Novalija, MD, PhD

Medical Director of VAMC Simulation Center, Professor

Contact Information

Education

Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2005
Medicine Internship and Anesthesia Residency, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2000-2004
Cardiology Residency, Georg August Universität in Göttingen, Germany, 1998-2000
MD, PhD, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany, 1997

Clinical Expertise

  • Anesthesia
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal

Methodologies and Techniques

  • Acetylcholine infusion via brachial artery
  • Forearm blood flow
  • Hyperemia

Leadership Positions

  • Associate Director Cardiovascular Anesthesia Fellowship
  • Medical Director Milwaukee VAMC Simulation Center

Educational Expertise

  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • High Fidelity Simulation Training
  • Patient Simulation
  • Simulation Training

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.

Publications

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