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Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Anesthesia
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address500 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94117
Phone415-514-3755
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0002-6868-4301 Additional info
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    My research centers on understanding cognitive change over time in older adults, particularly as it relates to surgery and anesthesia, using population-based data sources. I am also interested in potentially modifiable risk factors for adverse anesthesia-related outcomes, including myocardial and cerebral ischemia, perioperative mortality, and postoperative delirium.

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    Impact of Elective Total Joint Arthroplasty on Longitudinal Cognitive Change in Older Adults
    NIH/NCATS KL2TR001870Aug 2, 2019 - Jul 31, 2021
    Role: KL2 Scholar
    Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
    NIH/NIA P30AG044281Aug 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2020
    Role: Research Scholar
    Impact of Coronary Revascularization on Longitudinal Cognitive Change in the Elderly
    NIH/NIA R03AG059822Aug 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Creation of the Anesthesia Research Council. Anesth Analg. 2020 Oct; 131(4):1300-1303. Culley DJ, Kelz MB, Koch CG, Eisenach JC, Neuman MD, Whitlock EL, Robertson RM, Cooper T, Pomerantz P. PMID: 32925351.
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    2. Use of Remifentanil for Open in utero Fetal Myelomeningocele Repair Maintains Uterine Relaxation with Reduced Volatile Anesthetic Concentration. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2020 Sep 10; 1-7. Marsh BJ, Sinskey J, Whitlock EL, Ferschl MB, Rollins MD. PMID: 32911467.
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    3. Postoperative delirium: why, what, and how to confront it at your institution. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Aug 10. Curtis MS, Forman NA, Donovan AL, Whitlock EL. PMID: 32796170.
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    4. Pediatric Distraction on Induction of Anesthesia With Virtual Reality and Perioperative Anxiolysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Anesth Analg. 2020 Jun 30. Jung MJ, Libaw JS, Ma K, Whitlock EL, Feiner JR, Sinskey JL. PMID: 32618627.
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    5. Implications of postoperative cognitive decline for satisfaction with anaesthesia care. Br J Anaesth. 2020 09; 125(3):e273-e275. Whitlock EL, Liu X, Lin HM, Deiner S. PMID: 32611526.
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    6. The Frailty Syndrome: Anesthesiologists Must Understand More and Fear Less. Anesth Analg. 2020 06; 130(6):1445-1448. Whitlock EL, Whittington RA. PMID: 32384332.
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    7. Surgery and persistent cognitive decline: a commentary and an independent discussion. Br J Anaesth. 2020 03; 124(3):229-234. Whitlock EL, Grisell Diaz-Ramirez L, Avidan MS. PMID: 31839254.
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    8. Three blind mice: a tail of discordant trials. Br J Anaesth. 2020 02; 124(2):121-125. Whitlock EL, Avidan MS. PMID: 31676036.
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    9. Aging Gracefully: The Evolution of Perioperative Care for Older Adults. Anesthesiol Clin. 2019 Sep; 37(3):xv-xvi. Whitlock EL, Whittington RA. PMID: 31337489.
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    10. Intraoperative dexmedetomidine to prevent postoperative delirium: in search of the magic bullet. Can J Anaesth. 2019 04; 66(4):365-370. Donovan AL, Whitlock EL. PMID: 30710259.
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    11. Are we overdosing older patients? Br J Anaesth. 2019 09; 123(3):257-258. Whitlock EL, Sleigh J. PMID: 30915995.
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    12. Cognitive Change After Cardiac Surgery Versus Cardiac Catheterization: A Population-Based Study. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 04; 107(4):1119-1125. Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Avidan MS, Glymour MM. PMID: 30578068.
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    13. Depth of Propofol Sedation and Postoperative Delirium: The Jury Is Still Out. JAMA Surg. 2018 11 01; 153(11):996. Whitlock EL, Finlayson E. PMID: 30090922.
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    14. We may be Homo sapiens, but anaesthetists are merely apes when evaluating risk. Br J Anaesth. 2018 Oct; 121(4):702-705. Aranake-Chrisinger A, Whitlock EL, Avidan MS. PMID: 30236232.
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    15. Estimating pediatric general anesthesia exposure: Quantifying duration and risk. Paediatr Anaesth. 2018 06; 28(6):520-527. Bartels DD, McCann ME, Davidson AJ, Polaner DM, Whitlock EL, Bateman BT. PMID: 29722100.
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    16. Improved analgesia and reduced post-operative nausea and vomiting after implementation of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway for total mastectomy. BMC Anesthesiol. 2018 04 16; 18(1):41. Chiu C, Aleshi P, Esserman LJ, Inglis-Arkell C, Yap E, Whitlock EL, Harbell MW. PMID: 29661153.
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    17. Central venous pressure monitoring in living donor kidney recipients does not affect immediate graft function: A propensity score analysis. Clin Transplant. 2018 05; 32(5):e13238. Adelmann D, Bicknell L, Niemann CU, Feiner J, Roll GR, Burdine L, Whitlock EL. PMID: 29526051.
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    18. Do Not Resuscitate and the Surgical Patient: Not a Contradiction in Terms. Anesth Analg. 2017 11; 125(5):1438-1440. Whitlock EL, Lane RK. PMID: 29049106.
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    19. Incidence and Management of Umbilical Artery Flow Abnormalities during Open Fetal Surgery. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2018; 43(4):274-283. Sinskey JL, Rollins MD, Whitlock E, Moon-Grady AJ, Vu L, Feiner JR, Ferschl MB. PMID: 28848121.
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    20. Association Between Persistent Pain and Memory Decline and Dementia in a Longitudinal Cohort of Elders. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 08 01; 177(8):1146-1153. Whitlock EL, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Glymour MM, Boscardin WJ, Covinsky KE, Smith AK. PMID: 28586818.
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    21. CHRONIC PAIN PREDICTS ACCELERATED MEMORY DECLINE AND DEMENTIA. Innovation in Aging. 2017 Jul 1; 1(suppl_1):467-467. E.L. Whitlock, L. Diaz-Ramirez, M. Glymour, J. Boscardin, K.E. Covinsky, A.K. Smith. .
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    22. Perioperative Mortality, 2010 to 2014. Survey of Anesthesiology. 2016 Jun 1; 60(3):124. Elizabeth L. Whitlock, John R. Feiner, Lee-lynn Chen. .
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    23. In Reply. Anesthesiology. 2016 06; 124(6):1419. Whitlock EL, Feiner JR, Chen LL. PMID: 27187132.
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    24. Perioperative Mortality, 2010 to 2014: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry. Anesthesiology. 2015 Dec; 123(6):1312-21. Whitlock EL, Feiner JR, Chen LL. PMID: 26492481.
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    25. Importance of "default" intraoperative ventilator settings. BMJ. 2015 Sep 30; 351:h5125. Whitlock EL. PMID: 26423454.
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    26. Harms associated with single unit perioperative transfusion: retrospective population based analysis. BMJ. 2015 Jun 12; 350:h3037. Whitlock EL, Kim H, Auerbach AD. PMID: 26070979.
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    27. Psychological Sequelae of Surgery in a Prospective Cohort of Patients From Three Intraoperative Awareness Prevention Trials. Survey of Anesthesiology. 2015 Jun 1; 59(3):147-148. Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Thomas L. Rodebaugh, Afton L. Hassett, Amy M. Shanks, Ellen Kolarik, Janet Houghtby, Hannah M. West, Beth A. Burnside, Erik Shumaker, Alex Villafranca, W. Alex Edwards, Cheri A. Levinson, Julia K. Langer, Katya C. Fernandez, Renee El-Gabalawy, Elizabeth Y. Zhou, Jitender Sareen, Eric Jacobsohn, George A. Mashour, Michael S. Avidan. .
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    28. Blood Transfusion and Postoperative Delirium. Current Anesthesiology Reports. 2015 Mar 1; 5(1):24-32. Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Matthias Behrends. .
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    29. Postoperative Delirium in a Substudy of Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients in the BAG-RECALL Clinical Trial. Survey of Anesthesiology. 2015 Feb 1; 59(1):4-5. Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Brian A. Torres, Nan Lin, Daniel L. Helsten, Molly R. Nadelson, George A. Mashour, Michael S. Avidan. .
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    30. Psychological sequelae of surgery in a prospective cohort of patients from three intraoperative awareness prevention trials. Anesth Analg. 2015 Jan; 120(1):87-95. Whitlock EL, Rodebaugh TL, Hassett AL, Shanks AM, Kolarik E, Houghtby J, West HM, Burnside BA, Shumaker E, Villafranca A, Edwards WA, Levinson CA, Langer JK, Fernandez KC, El-Gabalawy R, Zhou EY, Sareen J, Jacobsohn E, Mashour GA, Avidan MS. PMID: 25383719.
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    31. Blood Transfusion and Postoperative Delirium. Current Anesthesiology Reports. 2014. Whitlock EL, Behrends M.View Publication.
    32. Postoperative delirium in a substudy of cardiothoracic surgical patients in the BAG-RECALL clinical trial. Anesth Analg. 2014 Apr; 118(4):809-17. Whitlock EL, Torres BA, Lin N, Helsten DL, Nadelson MR, Mashour GA, Avidan MS. PMID: 24413548.
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    33. Delirium. Neurologic Outcomes of Surgery and Anesthesia. 2013 May 1; 13-20. Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Michael S. Avidan, Sharon K. Inouye. .
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    34. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Surgery, Intensive Care, and Intraoperative Awareness. Neurologic Outcomes of Surgery and Anesthesia. 2013 May 1; 47-56. Elliott Karren, Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Thomas L. Rodebaugh, Michael S. Avidan. .
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    35. Brain Monitoring With Electroencephalography and the Electroencephalogram-Derived Bispectral Index During Cardiac Surgery. Survey of Anesthesiology. 2012 Oct 1; 56(5):210-212. Miklos D. Kertai, Elizabeth L. Whitlock, Michael S. Avidan. .
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    36. Brain monitoring with electroencephalography and the electroencephalogram-derived bispectral index during cardiac surgery. Anesth Analg. 2012 Mar; 114(3):533-46. Kertai MD, Whitlock EL, Avidan MS. PMID: 22253267.
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    37. Relationship between bispectral index values and volatile anesthetic concentrations during the maintenance phase of anesthesia in the B-Unaware trial. Anesthesiology. 2011 Dec; 115(6):1209-18. Whitlock EL, Villafranca AJ, Lin N, Palanca BJ, Jacobsohn E, Finkel KJ, Zhang L, Burnside BA, Kaiser HA, Evers AS, Avidan MS. PMID: 22037642.
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    38. Postoperative delirium. Minerva Anestesiol. 2011 Apr; 77(4):448-56. Whitlock EL, Vannucci A, Avidan MS. PMID: 21483389.
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    39. Dynamic quantification of host Schwann cell migration into peripheral nerve allografts. Exp Neurol. 2010 Oct; 225(2):310-9. Whitlock EL, Myckatyn TM, Tong AY, Yee A, Yan Y, Magill CK, Johnson PJ, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 20633557.
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    40. Ropivacaine-induced peripheral nerve injection injury in the rodent model. Anesth Analg. 2010 Jul; 111(1):214-20. Whitlock EL, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Moradzadeh A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 20442258.
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    41. Fibrin glue mitigates the learning curve of microneurosurgical repair. Microsurgery. 2010; 30(3):218-22. Whitlock EL, Kasukurthi R, Yan Y, Tung TH, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 20063379.
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    42. Bipolar electrocautery: A rodent model of Sunderland third-degree nerve injury. Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2010 Jan-Feb; 12(1):40-7. Moradzadeh A, Brenner MJ, Whitlock EL, Tong AY, Luciano JP, Hunter DA, Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 20083740.
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    43. Processed allografts and type I collagen conduits for repair of peripheral nerve gaps. Muscle Nerve. 2009 Jun; 39(6):787-99. Whitlock EL, Tuffaha SH, Luciano JP, Yan Y, Hunter DA, Magill CK, Moore AM, Tong AY, Mackinnon SE, Borschel GH. PMID: 19291791.
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    44. Transgenic models of nerve repair and nerve regeneration. Neurol Res. 2008 Dec; 30(10):1023-9. Magill C, Whitlock E, Solowski N, Myckatyn T. PMID: 19079976.
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    45. R416 – Bipolar Cautery: Sunderland Third Degree Nerve Injury Model. Otolaryngology. 2008 Aug 1; 139(2_suppl):p182-p183. Arash Moradzadeh, Michael Joel Brenner, Elizabeth Whitlock, Janina Paula Delpilar Luciano, Terence Michael Myckatyn, Hunter Daniel, Alice Tong, Susan E. Mackinnon. .
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    46. The impact of motor and sensory nerve architecture on nerve regeneration. Exp Neurol. 2008 Aug; 212(2):370-6. Moradzadeh A, Borschel GH, Luciano JP, Whitlock EL, Hayashi A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 18550053.
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    47. Pregabalin does not impact peripheral nerve regeneration after crush injury. J Reconstr Microsurg. 2007 Jul; 23(5):263-8. Whitlock EL, Moradzadeh A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 17876729.
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    48. Binary imaging analysis for comprehensive quantitative histomorphometry of peripheral nerve. J Neurosci Methods. 2007 Oct 15; 166(1):116-24. Hunter DA, Moradzadeh A, Whitlock EL, Brenner MJ, Myckatyn TM, Wei CH, Tung TH, Mackinnon SE. PMID: 17675163.
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    49. The green tea polyphenol, epigallocatechin-3-gallate inhibits telomerase and induces apoptosis in drug-resistant lung cancer cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Aug 17; 360(1):233-7. Sadava D, Whitlock E, Kane SE. PMID: 17585882.
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    50. Influence of needle tip position on injectate spread in 406 interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injections. Radiology. 2007 Jun; 243(3):804-11. Whitlock EL, Bridwell KH, Gilula LA. PMID: 17463137.
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