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Joshua M. Zimmerman, MD

Vice-Chair, Perioperative Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

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Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Josh Zimmerman, M.D. is an anesthesiologist with fellowship training in perioperative echocardiography. Dr. Zimmerman's practice emphasizes anesthesia for patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery as well as those with severe cardiovascular disease. As the medical director of the preoperative clinic Dr. Zimmerman has also worked to develop a sophisticated system of preoperative assessment and management that optimizes patient satisfaction and outcome, both in the short and long term.

Specialties

  • Anesthesiology
  • Perioperative Medicine

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Anesthesiology - Professor (Clinical)
Surgery - Adjunct Assistant Professor
Academic Divisions General Surgery
Board Certification American Board of Anesthesiology

Josh Zimmerman, M.D. is an anesthesiologist with fellowship training in perioperative echocardiography. Dr. Zimmerman's practice emphasizes anesthesia for patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery as well as those with severe cardiovascular disease. As the medical director of the preoperative clinic Dr. Zimmerman has also worked to develop a sophisticated system of preoperative assessment and management that optimizes patient satisfaction and outcome, both in the short and long term.

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Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Anesthesiology - Professor (Clinical)
Surgery - Adjunct Assistant Professor
Academic Divisions General Surgery
Board Certification American Board of Anesthesiology

Education History

Other Training The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Medicine
, 2018
Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine
Perioperative Echocardiography
Fellow, 2007
Residency University of Utah School of Medicine
Anesthesiology
Resident, 2006
Internship LDS Hospital
Transitional Medicine
Intern, 2003
Professional Medical Indiana University
Medicine
M.D., 2002
Undergraduate Indiana University
Biology
B.S., 1998

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Griffee MJ, Tonna JE, McKellar SH, Zimmerman JM (2017). Echocardiographic Guidance and Troubleshooting for Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using the Dual-Lumen Bicaval Cannula. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth, 32(1), 370-378.
  2. Coker BJ, Zimmerman JM (2017). Why Anesthesiologists Must Incorporate Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Into Daily Practice. Anesth Analg, 124(3), 761-765.
  3. Griffee MJ, Singleton A, Zimmerman JM, Morgan DE, Nirula R (2016). The Effect of Perioperative Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography on the Management of Trauma Patients. A A Case Rep, 6(12), 387-90.
  4. Markin NW, Gmelch BS, Griffee MJ, Holmberg TJ, Morgan DE, Zimmerman JM (2014). A review of 364 perioperative rescue echocardiograms: findings of an anesthesiologist-staffed perioperative echocardiography service. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth, 29(1), 82-8.
  5. Yeates TM, Zimmerman JM, Cahalan MK (2008). Perioperative echocardiography: two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Anesthesiol Clin, 26(3), 419-35.

The Scope & Other Podcasts

  • Echo 6-1-17
  • Echo Lecture 12-1-16
  • Echo Lecture 6-2-16
  • Echo Lecture 3-17-16
  • Echo Lecture 1-14-16
  • Echo Lecture 1-7-16
  • Echo Lecture 11-19-15
  • Echo Lecture 8-13-15

Videos

Echo Lecture 8-13-15

Echo Lecture 3-17-16

Echo Lecture 6-2-16

Echo Lecture 12-1-16

Echo Lecture 1-7-16

Echo Lecture 11-19-15

Echo 6-1-17

Echo Lecture 1-14-16

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