David L. Reich is an American academic anesthesiologist who became President and COO of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in October, 2013. From 2004 to 2014, he served as the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Reich is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology.
Reich was among the first to demonstrate the utility of electronic medical records for large-scale retrospective investigations demonstrating the association of intraoperative hemodynamic abnormalities with adverse postoperative outcomes.
Reich has published over 30 chapters and over 110 peer-reviewed articles. He is associate editor of Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia (Elsevier), currently in its sixth edition, and formerly was Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. He is editor of the text Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of the text "Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography" (Elsevier), both currently in first editions.
Reich graduated from Penn State in 1980 and from Jefferson Medical College in 1982 (Five-Year Cooperative Program in Medicine). He completed two years of general surgery residency at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Reich arrived at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1984, where he completed an anesthesiology residency and a fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesia at in 1987. Hewas appointed Co-Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia in 1990 and was named Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2004. In January 2013 he was named Interim President of Mount Sinai Hospital; in October of the same year he was named President.
His areas of research interest in anesthesiology include informatics, cardiac anesthesia, hemodynamic monitoring, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and practice management.
U.S. Content Director for the International Organization for Terminology in Anesthesia (IOTA) of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
Former Co-Chair of Blood Filtration Committee, American Association of Medical Instrumentation
Former Member, Board of Directors, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
Partial list:
Reich DL (Mar 2010). "Central nervous system protection in cardiac surgery". Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 14 (1): 32–7. doi:10.1177/1089253210362595. PMID 20472620.
Rhee AJ, Fischer GW, Reich DL (2010). "Manifestation of Aortic Root Abscess From Acute Bacterial Endocarditis". J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 25 (1): 192–5. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2010.02.002. PMID 20434926.
Hiratzka LF, Bakris GL, Beckman JA, Bersin RM, Carr VF, Casey D Jr, Eagle KA, Hermann LK, Isselbacher EM, Kazerooni EA, Kouchoukos NT, Lytle BW, Milewicz DM, Reich DL, Sen S, Shinn JA, Svensson LG, Williams DM, Jacobs AK, Smith SC Jr, Anderson JL, Adams CD, Buller CE, Creager MA, Ettinger SM, Guyton RA, Halperin JL, Hunt SA, Krumholz HM, Kushner FG, Nishimura R, Page RL, Riegel B, Stevenson WG, Tarkington LG, Yancy CW, Lewin JC, May C, Bradfield L, Stewart MD, Keller S, Barrett EA, Welsh JM, Brown N, Whitman GR; American College of Cardiology Foundation; American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines; American Association for Thoracic Surgery; American College of Radiology; American Stroke Association; Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; Society of Interventional Radiology; Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Society for Vascular Medicine. 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Thoracic Aortic Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Apr 6;55(14):e27-e129. No abstract available. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.02.015 PMID 20359588
Scurlock C, Mincer JS, Reich DL (Apr 2010). "Invited commentary". Ann Thorac Surg. 89 (4): 1226. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.01.021. PMID 20338339.
Fischer GW, Benni PB, Lin HM, Satyapriya A, Afonso A, Di Luozzo G, Griepp RB, Reich DL. Mathematical model for describing cerebral oxygen desaturation in patients undergoing deep hypothermic circulatory arrest" Br J Anaesth 2010 Jan;104(1):59-66. doi:10.1093/bja/aep335 PMID 19933513
Levin MA, Lin HM, Castillo JG, Adams DH, Reich DL, Fischer GW. (Oct 2009). "Early on-cardiopulmonary bypass hypotension and other factors associated with vasoplegic syndrome". Circulation 120 (17): 1664–71. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.814533. PMID 19822810.
Mazzeffi M, Stone M, Stelzer P, Reich DL. "Anticoagulation Management in a Patient With Antiphospholipid Antibodies Requiring Repeat Sternotomy. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2009 Jun 13. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2009.04.017 PMID 19525127
Reich DL, Galati M (Apr 2009). "An American view American and European anesthesia reimbursement policies' effects on the adoption of novel techniques". J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 23 (2): 140–1. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2009.01.023. PMID 19324281.
Reich DL, Galati M, Krol M, Bodian CA, Kahn RA (Dec 2008). "A mission-based productivity compensation model for an academic anesthesiology department". Anesth Analg 107 (6): 1981–8. doi:10.1213/ane.0b013e31818ca31c. PMID 19020149.
Reich DL (Jun 2008). "Controlling data flow enhances anesthesiology's role in perioperative care". J Clin Monit Comput 22 (3): 221–4. doi:10.1007/s10877-008-9122-3. PMID 19309793.
