Daniel Sessler

Dr. Sessler attended medical school at Columbia University and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having served as a Professor at the University of California in San Francisco and as Vice-dean for Research at the University of Louisville, he is now the Michael Cudahy Professor and Chair of the Department of Outcomes Research at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Sessler is Director of the Outcomes Research Consortium: the Consortium is the world’s largest clinical anesthesia research group and publishes a full paper every 4 days. Dr. Sessler has published a book on therapeutic hypothermia and more than 630 full research papers including a dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet. His papers have been cited more than 25,000 times, and more than 60 were accompanied by editorials. He has been a principal or co-investigator on grants exceeding $40 million, half from peer-reviewed sources. Dr. Sessler is an editor for Anesthesiology and serves as a reviewer for more than 50 journals. He has given invited lectures at more than 340 institutions. He serves as a director for the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER). Among Dr. Sessler’s awards are a Fulbright Fellowship and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research prize.