Joshua M. Zimmerman
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Joshua M. Zimmerman, MD

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

American Board of Anesthesiology
National Board of Echocardiography (Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography)
National Board of Echocardiography (Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography)

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Anesthesiology -Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification
American Board of Anesthesiology
National Board of Echocardiography (Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography)
National Board of Echocardiography (Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography)

Education history

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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Haskins SC, Bronshteyn YS, Ledbetter L, Arzola C, Kalagara H, Hardman D, Panzer O, Weber MM, Heinz ER, Boublik J, Cubillos J, Hernandez N, Zimmerman J, Perlas A (2025). ASRA pain medicine narrative review and expert practice recommendations for gastric point-of-care ultrasound to assess aspiration risk in medically complex patients undergoing regional anesthesia and pain procedures. Reg Anesth Pain Med.
  2. 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.
  3. Coker BJ, Zimmerman JM (2017). Why Anesthesiologists Must Incorporate Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Into Daily Practice. Anesth Analg, 124(3), 761-765.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Yeates TM, Zimmerman JM, Cahalan MK (2008). Perioperative echocardiography: two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Anesthesiol Clin, 26(3), 419-35.

Review

  1. Vahdatpour CA, Ryan JJ, Zimmerman JM, MacCormick SJ, Palevsky HI, Alnuaimat H, Ataya A (2021). Advanced airway management and respiratory care in decompensated pulmonary hypertension. [Review]. Heart Fail Rev.

Letter

  1. Quinlan AG, Tsai MH, Zimmerman JM (2026). Emerging Utility of Multimodal Large Language Models in Cardiovascular Diagnostics. [Letter to the editor]. J Med Syst, 50(1).