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Edmund H. Jooste, MBChB, DA

Job Title Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
412-692-5260 Phone
412-692-8658 Fax

Education and Training

Medical School:

1995 MBCHB, University of Pretoria, South Africa
1997 DA, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg South Africa

Residency:

2004 Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

Fellowship:

2005 Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

Memberships

  • Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society
  • Pennsylvania Medical Society 
  • American Medical Association
  • Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Health Professionals Council of South Africa

Board Certifications

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support   
  • Advanced Trauma Life Support
  • Advanced Pediatric Life Support

Awards

  • Central Line Committee Member, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
  • Assistant Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Director, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
  • Operative and Invasive Procedure/Tissue Review Committee, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
  • First Prize, Resident Research Essay Competition, Association of Anesthesiologists (ASA) National Annual Meeting, New Orleans
  • 2002, 2005 First Prize, New York Academy of Medicine Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Research Competition
  • First Prize, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Anesthesiology’s Seventh Annual Academic Evening
  • First Prize, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Anesthesiology’s Fifth Annual Academic Evening
  • Class Representative, First Year Anesthesia Residency
  • Class Captain, Medical School
  • Head Prefect, Boarding School, High School
  • Head Prefect, Elementary School

Publications

  • Jooste EH, Chalifoux T, Broadman LM. A perioperative strategy for the placement of a thoracic epidural catheter in a pediatric patient on high-dose enoxaprin. Paediatr Anaesth. 2007 Sep;17(9):907-9.
  • Jooste EH, Book review- Syndromes; Rapid recognition and perioperative implications; Bissonnette B, Luginbuehl I, Marciniak B, Dalens B. ISBN 0-07-135455-7. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2007 Feb 104(2):475.
  • Jooste EH, Zhang Y, Emala CW. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents' Differential Bronchoconstrictive Potential in Guinea Pig Airways. Anesthesiology. 2006 April;106(4): 763-773.

    View Dr. Jooste's full list of publications from PubMed.

Last Update

March 2, 2009
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