Bloodless cardiac surgery, once thought to be an impossibility, is now routine in some centres. Dr Linda Shore-Lesserson's informative keynote address takes us through perioperative interventions for successful bloodless cardiac surgery.
Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD, FAHA, FASE is Professor of Anesthesiology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at North Shore University Hospital.
Dr. Shore-Lesserson received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She was an anesthesiology resident and spent a specialty year in cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology, and National Board of Echocardiography.
Dr. Shore-Lesserson is a clinical and an academic cardiac anesthesiologist who is a Past President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Board of Echocardiography. As an educator she has been Program Chair for numerous national meetings and is currently the general chair of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists’ - PGA Annual Meeting. She is also the third Vice Chair for the ASA Annual Meeting Oversight Committee. In the cardiac community, Dr. Shore-Lesserson is a fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and assumed the role of the Chair of the Surgery and Anesthesia Council (CVSA) of the AHA in the fall 2023. Other multidisciplinary positions include being the anesthesiology lead working with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Society of Extracorporeal Technology on an interdisciplinary project “Best Practices in Perfusion Management”.
She is past- chair of the Committee on Patient Blood Management for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and current President Elect for the Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM).
Dr Shore-Lesserson’s research interests lie in the field of hemostasis and thrombosis as it relates to cardiovascular disease. The results of her research have been published in high impact peer reviewed journals and she lectures frequently at national and international scientific meetings.
