Nikolaos Skubas, MD

Appointed
2017

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
St. Louis, MO USA
1996

Residency - University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Anesthesiology
Cleveland, OH USA
1995

Medical Education - Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Medicine
Thessaloniki,
1988

Additional Training

• Medical and Board Certification

   “Ptychion Iatrikis”
  (M.D.), Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6/1988 
• Educational Committee for Foreign Medical Graduates Certificate #440-215-2
• Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology, #27526 (valid indefinitely), April 26, 1996
• Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Special Competency Exam (PTEeXAM), April 28, 1999 
• Diplomate, National Board of Echocardiography, Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (valid through 2019)
• American Board of Anesthesiology Recertification Examination, #27526 (valid through December 31, 2015)
• Doctor in Science (Διδακτορικ? Διατριβ?) “Calcium Channel Blockers and Arterial Grafts in Cardiac Surgery”, Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2001
• Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography, March 2007
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, June 2015

Professional Highlights

• National Committees : 

  Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists

  Co-chair, Annual Comprehensive Review & Update of Perioperative Echo Meeting, 2011- 2017
• Committee on Continuous Medical Education, 2011 - 2017
• Nominating Committee, 2013 – 2017 
• Scientific Program Committee for Annual Comprehensive Review & Update of Perioperative Echo Meeting, 2010 – present
• Education Committee: 2008 – 2011
• Scientific Program Committee for Annual Meeting and Workshops: 2005 – 2009

   American Society of Echocardiography

  Chair of FASE Advisory Committee, 2015 - 2017
• Council on Perioperative Echocardiography representative on ASE’s Education Committee: 2016 - 2017
• FASE Advisory Committee: 2008 – 2011, 2012 – 2015 
• SeeMyHeart Taskforce: 2008 – 2010
• Intraoperative Council Board: 2008 – 2011
• Advocacy Committee: 2011 – 2012  

  American College of Cardiology Foundation and American Heart Association

  Guidelines on Valvular Heart Disease Writing Committee, 2012 – 2014

   Post Graduate Assembly, New York State Society of Anesthesiologists

  Problem-based Lunch Discussion Committee: 2007 – 2014
• Committee on Continuous Quality Improvement and Peer Review: 2015 - 2016

   National Board of Echocardiography 

  Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Basic PTeXAM) Writing Committee, 2009 – present
• Coding of videos for the Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Competency Examination, June 2008
• Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (PTEexam) 2004 Standard Setting Committee, Philadelphia January 14, 2004 

   American Society of Anesthesiologists

  Ad Hoc Committee for Basic TEE Examination, 2010 - present
• Committee on Education Track, Sub-committee on Cardiac Anesthesiology, 2014 - present -
• Committee in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesiology, 2014 -

Certifications

• Echocardiography
• Anesthesiology

Awards & Honors

• Award for Teaching Excellence in the Anesthesiology Clerkship, Weill Cornell Medical College, June 4, 2007
• Award for Teaching Excellence, Weill Cornell Medical College, June 22, 2010

Memberships

• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• International Anesthesia Research Society
• Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Echocardiography
• Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists
• Association of University Anesthesiologists

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