George A. Mashour M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Division of Neuroanesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurosurgery
Faculty, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Faculty, Center for Sleep Science
| 1H247 University Hospital, Box 0048 |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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Dr. Mashour received his M.D. and Ph.D in Neuroscience from Georgetown University and was awarded Fulbright Scholarships for neuroscience research at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and the University of Bonn. He completed his internship, residency, and chief residency in anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as well as fellowship training in neuroanesthesiology at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Mashour’s primary scholarly interest is in consciousness and anesthesia. In his clinical research, he studies intraoperative awareness and has conducted several large studies. In his laboratory, he investigates the effects of general anesthesia on sleep homeostasis. Finally, Dr. his theoretical research group explores network science approaches to assessing consciousness and anesthesia.
- Mashour GA, Wang L, Turner CR, Shanks A, Vandervest JC, Tremper KK. A retrospective study of intraoperative awareness with methodological implications. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2009;108:521-526.
- Lee U, Mashour GA, Kim S, Noh GJ, Choi BM. Propofol induction reduces the capacity for neural information integration: Implications for the mechanism of consciousness and general anesthesia. Consciousness and Cognition 2009; 18(1):56-64.
- Esaki R, Mashour GA. Levels of consciousness during regional anesthesia and monitored anesthesia care: Patient expectations and experiences. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2009; 108(5):1560-3.
- Lee U, Kim S, Noh GJ, Choi BM, Hwang E, Mashour GA. Directionality and functional organization of frontoparietal connectivity during consciousness and anesthesia in humans. Consciousness and Cognition 2009; 18(4):1069-1078.
- Mashour GA, Esaki RK, Tremper KK, Glick DB, O’Connor M, Avidan MS. A novel classification instrument for intraoperative awareness events. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2010; 110(3):813-815.
- Mashour GA, Lipinski W, Matlen L, Walker AJ, Turner A, Schoen W, Lee U, Poe GR. Isoflurane anesthesia does not satisfy the homeostatic need for rapid eye movement sleep. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2010; 110(5):1283-89.
- Lee U, Oh G, Kim S, Noh GJ, Choi BM, Mashour GA. Brain networks maintain a scale-free organization across consciousness, anesthesia, and recovery: evidence for adaptive reconfiguration. Anesthesiology 2010; 113(5):1081-91.
- Pal D, Lipinski WJ, Walker AJ, Turner AM, Mashour GA. State-specific effects of sevoflurane anesthesia on sleep homeostasis: selective recovery of slow wave but not rapid eye movement sleep. Anesthesiology 2011; 114(2):302-10.
- Lee U, Mueller M, Noh GJ, Mashour GA. Dissociable network properties of anesthetic state transitions. Anesthesiology 2011; 114(4):872-81.
- Mashour GA, Orser BA, Avidan MS. Intraoperative awareness: From neurobiology to clinical practice. Anesthesiology 2011; 114(5):1218-1233.
- Avidan MS, Jacobsohn, Glick D, Burnside BA, Zhang L, Villafranca A, Karl L, Kamal S, Torres B, O’Connor M, Evers AS, Gradhwohl S, Lin N, Palanca BJ, Mashour GA. Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population. New England Journal of Medicine 2011; 365(7):591-600.
Books:
- Mashour GA, Editor, Consciousness, Awareness, and Anesthesia, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Mashour GA, Farag E, Editors, Case Studies in Neuroanesthesia & Neurocritical Care, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Mashour GA, Lydic R, Editors, The Neuroscientific Foundations of Anesthesiology, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Editorial Positions:
Editorial Board
Anesthesia and Analgesia
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Science Translational Medicine
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brain and Cognition, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Consciousness and Cognition, Cortex, IEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neurochemical Research, Neurosurgery, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Sleep