Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care
Vice-Chair, Education and Academic Affairs
(773) 702-9922
jklafta
B.S. Honors - 1981 - 1985
Loyola University - Chicago, Illinois USA - Physics
M.D. - 1985 - 1989
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine - Chicago, Illinois USA
Internship - 1989 - 1990
Northwestern McGaw Medical Center - Chicago, Illinois USA - Internal Medicine
Residency - 1990 - 1993
Brigham and Woman's Hospital - Boston, Massachusetts USA - Anesthesiology
Anesthesia for thoracic surgery
Obstetric anesthesia
Anesthesia for thoracic surgery
Medical education
Ficke D, Klafta JM. Preoperative risk stratification of the thoracic surgical patient.
Thoracic Anesthesia: Ready to Practice. Grichnik K, Barbeito A, Shaw A, eds.
McGraw Hill (2011, in press)
Klafta JM: Advances in Lung Isolation. In: Slinger P, ed. Progress in Thoracic
Anesthesia – A Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Monograph: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2004: 29-45
Klafta JM, Mathew M. Auto-PEEP masquerading as loss of lung separation during
thoracoscopy. Anesthesiology 2004; 101:1229-30
Klafta, J: One-lung anesthesia: making it work. Refresher Courses in
Anesthesiology. Vol 31, Schwartz AJ, ed, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
2003: 105-116
Ovassapian A, Glassenberg R, Randel GI, Klock A, Mesnick PS, Klafta JM: The
unexpected difficult airway and lingual tonsil hyperplasia. Anesthesiology 2002;
96:124-32
