David L. Reich, MD was named Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in 2004, where he had previously been co-director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. Dr. Reich’s research interests include neurocognitive outcome following thoracic aortic surgery, outcome effects of intraoperative hemodynamics, medical informatics, and hemodynamic monitoring.  He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, 30 invited articles and editorials, and 30 book chapters. He is a member of the International Organization for Terminology in Anesthesia (IOTA) of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and works with International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization and Health Level 7 to create international standards for anesthesia terminology for electronic patient records. Dr. Reich serves on numerous committees and boards of anesthesiology societies.

Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, Dr. Reich received his MD from Jefferson Medical College and completed residencies in surgery at the UCLA Medical Center and in anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Hospital. He is the co-author of Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography: A Companion to Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia.

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