David Mark Polaner, MD

David Mark Polaner, MD

Specialties

  • Children's Title: Attending Anesthesiologist
  • Academic Title: Professor, Anesthesiology
  • On Staff Since: March 2019

  • Biography

    David M. Polaner, MD, FAAP is Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Polaner received his undergraduate education at Yeshiva University and his MD from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York. He trained in pediatrics at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital, and in anesthesiology at University of Washington. Following a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care at Seattle Children’s, he was a research fellow in Warren Zapol’s laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Pediatric Anesthesia team at the MGH. He was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and subsequently became Director of Pediatric Critical Care at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, where he held joint appointments in anesthesiology and pediatrics. From 2000-2018 he was Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Director of the Acute Pain Service and Chief of the Transplant Anesthesia service at Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado.

    Dr. Polaner has lectured at many institutions and symposia in the US, Europe, Israel and the Far East. He is the author of over 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and is co-author and editor, with Robert Holzman and Thomas Mancuso of Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital, of the textbook “A Practical Approach to Pediatric Anesthesia”. 

     

    Board Certification(s)

    Pediatrics
    Anesthesiology
    Pediatric Anesthesiology

    Education

    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
    St. George's School of Medicine, Great River, NY

    Residency

    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
    University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Fellowship

    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Clinical Interests

    general pediatric anesthesia

    transplant anesthesia for children

    pediatric regional anesthesia

    the difficult pediatric airway and respiratory physiology

    anesthesia and mitochondrial disease

    high altitude physiology

    Research Description

    REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND OUTCOMES: I am the co-founder and chairman of the Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Network, a collaboration of pediatric anesthesiology departments seeking to learn more about and improve the practice and safety of nerve blocks and regional anesthetics in children. As an investigator in the GAS Consortium, I am studying the effects of anesthesia in infancy on neurodevelopment.

    PEDIATRIC AIRWAY: I am on the steering committee of the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Registry, and participate in our research studies.

    HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE: I am a particpating investigator at the Colorado Altitude Research Center (ARC) and involved in laboratory and field studies about the effect of high altitude and hypoxia on human physiology.

    Finally, I am an editor of the journal Pediatric Anesthesia, where I get to review the research of other clinician scientists in pediatric anesthesia.

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