Joshua M. Zimmerman
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Joshua M. Zimmerman, MD

Languages spoken: Spanish, English

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

  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Anesthesiology

Board Certification

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

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.

Board Certification and Academic Information

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

Education history

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

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 (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. Regional anesthesia and pain medicine,
  2. Griffee MJ, Tonna JE, McKellar SH, Zimmerman J (2018). Echocardiographic Guidance and Troubleshooting for Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using the Dual-Lumen Bicaval Cannula. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, 32(1), 370-378.
  3. Coker BJ, Zimmerman J (2017). Why Anesthesiologists Must Incorporate Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Into Daily Practice. Anesthesia and analgesia, 124(3), 761-765.
  4. Griffee MJ, Singleton A, Zimmerman JM, Morgan DE, Nirula (2016). The Effect of Perioperative Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography on the Management of Trauma Patients. A & A case reports, 6(12), 387-90.
  5. Markin NW, Gmelch BS, Griffee MJ, Holmberg TJ, Morgan DE, Zimmerman J (2015). A review of 364 perioperative rescue echocardiograms: findings of an anesthesiologist-staffed perioperative echocardiography service. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, 29(1), 82-8.
  6. Yeates TM, Zimmerman JM, Cahalan M (2008). Perioperative echocardiography: two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Anesthesiology clinics, 26(3), 419-35.

Review

  1. Vahdatpour CA, Ryan JJ, Zimmerman JM, MacCormick SJ, Palevsky HI, Alnuaimat H, Ataya (2021). Advanced airway management and respiratory care in decompensated pulmonary hypertension. Heart failure reviews,

Letter

  1. Quinlan AG, Tsai MH, Zimmerman J (2026). Emerging Utility of Multimodal Large Language Models in Cardiovascular Diagnostics. Journal of medical systems, 50(1),