Biographical Sketch
Samuel A. Irefin, MD, is a Staff Physician in the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is also a Staff Physician in the Transplant Center of the Division of Surgery.
Dr. Irefin has various roles that help foster medical education. He is an Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Anesthesiology Institute and Director of Advanced Core Curriculum in Perioperative Medicine and Pain at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Dr. Irefin was also an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Health Sciences Center of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from July 1999-June 2004.
Currently, he is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in anesthesiology and critical care medicine.
Specialty Interests
acute postoperative pain management, ambulatory anesthesia, anesthesia for bariatric surgery, anesthesia for complicated cardiovascular, anesthesia for ENT and endotracheal and bronchial surgery, anesthesia for ENT surgery, anesthesia for interventional pulmonology, anesthesia for lithotripsy, anesthesia for liver transplantation, anesthesia for major abdominal and vascular surgery, anesthesia for obstetrics, anesthesia for orthopedic surgery, anesthesia for patients with difficult airways, anesthesia for transplant procedures, anesthesia for urological surgery, anesthesia for vascular surgery, anesthesia recovery, blood conservation, blood substitutes, brain protection, clinical pharmacology, clinical research, clinical research on perioperative inflammation, critical care, critical care education, critical care medicine, difficult airway, difficult airway management, education, education in anesthesia, education in anesthesiology, electrophysiologic monitoring, ENT anesthesia, fiberoptic intubation, general and ambulatory anesthesia, general and vascular anesthesiology, general anesthesia, genitourinary and gynecologic anesthesia, genitourinary anesthesia, graduate/medical student education, hepatic transplantation anesthesia, high-frequency jet ventilation, Infectious Diseases, jet ventilation, liver transplantation, malignant hyperthermia, metabolic derangements, MIS anesthesthesia, neuroanesthesia, neuroanesthesiology, neurological critical care, neurophysiological monitoring, neurosurgical anesthesiology, obstetric anesthesia, obstetric anesthesiology, office-based anesthesia, operating room management, ophthalmic anesthesia, orthopaedic anesthesia, outcomes in critical care patients, outpatient anesthesia, patient safety, patient simulation, perioperative anesthesia evaluation, perioperative management, perioperative medicine, physician teaching and training, preoperative assessment, preoperative evaluation, regional anesthesia, regional anesthesia and research, regional anesthesiology, research and teaching clinical anesthesia, residency training, resident education, resident teaching, Sepsis, Shock, solid organ transplantation, Surgical critical care, ultrasound guided blocks, urologic surgery, urology & GYN, vascular anesthesia
Awards & Honors
Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine
Industry Relationships
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family members. As of 7/30/2008,
Dr. Irefin has reported no financial relationship with
industry that is applicable to this listing. Patients
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