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Ben S. Chortkoff, M.D.

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Bio

Dr. Chortkoff was recruited to the University of Utah from the San Francisco Bay Area where he was a managing partner of a private practice anesthesia group.
He has clinical expertise in anesthesia for neuro-surgery, and anesthesia for cancer surgeries, and is currently the Director of Anesthesia Services at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital.

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Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments	Anesthesiology - Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification	American Board of Anesthesiology National Board of Medical Examiners

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments	Anesthesiology - Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification	American Board of Anesthesiology National Board of Medical Examiners

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Academic Office Phone Number	Academic Office Address
(801) 581-6393	School of Medicine Anesthesia 30 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City, UT 84132

Academic Bio

Dr. Ben Chortkoff is the Director of Anesthesia Services at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital (HCH) of the University of Utah. He is board certified and an associate professor (clinical) in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University. In addition to his full time clinical duties, he has an administrative role on the executive committee overseeing the operating rooms at HCH, administrative duties in the financial assessment and planning of the anesthesiology department and the University Medical Group, and is active in bridging the relationships between clinicians and the University’s pharmacy department.

Dr. Chortkoff completed a research fellowship with Dr. Edmund I. Eger at the University of California, San Francisco where he published original research on mechanisms of anesthetic action, and on defining anesthetic effects on memory and awareness. He remained on the faculty at UCSF for four years advancing his research, teaching anesthesia residents, and providing clinical care for patients undergoing surgery.

In 1995 Dr. Chortkoff shifted his focus to dedicated clinical care joining a private practice physician group providing services at a large community hospital in Northern California. He served as a managing and negotiating partner for the group until 2008 when he was recruited to join the faculty at the University of Utah.

In addition to clinical and administrative roles, he teaches medical students, residents, and fellows both in the operating room and in more formal lecture settings. His teaching topics include the implications of anesthetics and analgesics on cancer metastasis and recurrence, the administration of anesthesia for robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery, and economic models of community and academic departments of anesthesiology. He has been actively involved in developing a fellowship program in oncologic anesthesia and hopes to help advance our understanding of the interaction between anesthetics, cancer cells, and the immune system.

Education History

Type	School	Degree
Other Training	David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah Leadership Development for Health Care Executives: Exec. Edu	Certificate
Fellowship	University of California, San Francisco Anesthesia Research	Fellow
Residency	Emory University Anesthesiology	Resident
Internship	Emory University Rotating Internship	Intern
Professional Medical	University of Southern California Medicine	M.D.
Undergraduate	Stanford University Biology	B.S.
Undergraduate	Stanford University Philosophy	B.A.

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