Biography

Prof. Tetsuro Sakai

Department of Anesthesiology

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

2001 Ph.D., Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan

1989 M.D., Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan


Publications (Selected)

  1. Parikh, N.U., Crouch, C., Kumar, S. and Sakai, T. Adult Liver Transplant Anesthesiology Practice in the PostCOVID19 Era in the United States: Survey From the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia. Clinical Transplantation, 40(3), e70509, 2026. 

  2. Jones, J.H. and Sakai, T. The Potential Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Preoperative Optimization and Predicting Risks of Morbidity and Mortality: A Narrative Focused Review. A&A Practice, 19(10), e02061, 2025. 
  3. Hastie, M.J., Mittel, A., Raman, V., Szokol, J., Whittington, R., Bustillo, M. and others. Sexual harassment in academic anesthesiology: a survey of prevalence, sources, impact, and recommendations. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 141(4):856-867, 2025. 
  4. Adelmann, D., Hartmann, J., Moore, H.B., Yockelson, S.R., Dageforde, L.A. and others. TEG® 6s heparin neutralization cartridge for hemostatic assessment of patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. Anesthesiology, 144(1):103, 2025. 
  5. Nanda, M., Gabriel, R.A. and Sakai, T. Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Emotional Intelligence Training in Anesthesiology. Anesthesiology, 143(3):504-508, 2025. 
  6. Rela, M., Pomfret, E., Egawa, H., Bhangui, P., Raptis, D.A., Berenguer, M. and others. Global variation in living donor liver transplantation practices impacts donor and recipient short-term outcomes: Initial insights from the International LDLT Registry. American Journal of Transplantation, 25(8):1735-1745, 2025. 
  7. Katayama, A., Patel, P., Pianelli, A., Wang, R. and Sakai, T. Abdominal organ transplantation: noteworthy literature in 2024. Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 29(2):147-158, 2025. 
  8. Parikh, N., Crouch, C., Kumar, S. and Sakai, T. Adult Liver Transplant Anesthesiology Practice in the Post-COVID-19 Era: National Survey from the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 140(5):353, 2025. 
  9. Hartmann, J., Dias, J., Shilo, A., Bynagari, Y., Garrett, B., Jeske, W., Manukyan, Z. and others. TEG® 6s coagulation testing with a novel heparin neutralization cartridge: Technical validation and determination of normal reference ranges. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 163(1):12-19, 2025. 
  10. Crouch, C.E., Ko, J.S., Hendrickse, A., Kumar, S.S., Little, M., Chae, M.S., Park, S.Y. and others. Exploring anesthesiology management of living donor liver transplantation: Survey from the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia and the Korean Society for Transplantation Anesthesiology. Clinical Transplantation, 38(10), e15428, 2024. 
  11. Katayama, A., Maffucci, P., Domanski, A., Wang, R. and Sakai, T. Abdominal organ transplantation: noteworthy literature in 2023. Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 28(2):113-126, 2024. 
  12. Nguyen, A.V.T., Sakai, T. and Lebovitz, E.E. Economic review of living donor kidney transplantation. In: Living Donor Organ Transplantation, 693-697, 2024. 
  13. Chadha, R., Sakai, T., Rajakumar, A., Shingina, A., Yoon, U., Patel, D., Spiro, M. and others. Anesthesia and critical care for the prediction and prevention for small-for-size syndrome: guidelines from the ILTS-iLDLT-LTSI consensus conference. Transplantation, 107(10):2216-2225, 2023. 
  14. Hiraoka, E., Tanabe, K., Izuta, S., Kubota, T., Kohsaka, S., Kozuki, A., Satomi, K. and others. JCS 2022 guideline on perioperative cardiovascular assessment and management for non-cardiac surgery. Circulation Journal, 87(9):1253-1337, 2023. 
  15. Cerza, D.A., Battista, C.F., Sharma, G. and Sakai, T. Publication Rate of Abstracts Presented at the 2011-2019 Society for Education in Anesthesia Meetings. The Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine: JEPM, 25(3), E707, 2023. 
  16. Nolasco, L., Igwe, D., Smith, N.K. and Sakai, T. Abdominal organ transplantation: Noteworthy literature in 2022. Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 27(2):97-113, 2023. 
  17. Frabitore, S.Z., Brea, F., Emerick, T., Sakai, T., Lebovitz, E. and Adams, P.S. Creating anesthesiologist-innovators: An integrated innovation curriculum addressing barriers to physician-led innovation. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 82, 110947, 2022. 
  18. Hendrickse, A., Ko, J. and Sakai, T. The care of donors and recipients in adult living donor liver transplantation. BJA Education, 22(10):387-395, 2022. 
  19. Sakai, T. Acute kidney injury after adult liver transplantation—Doesn’t intraoperative management matter? Liver Transplantation, 28(7):1131-1132, 2022. 
  20. St Jules, R., Blech, D., Smith, N.K. and Sakai, T. Abdominal organ transplantation: noteworthy literature in 2021. Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 26(2):140-153, 2022.


Personal Details

https://mirm-pitt.net/staff/tetsuro-sakai-md-phd-mha-fasa/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wgevwfgAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tetsuro-Sakai

WoS Researcher ID: HWK-8239-2023

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