Miklos D. Kertai, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Dr. Kertai received his medical degree from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, and his PhD degree from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Kertai then went on to complete his Fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital in Harefield, the United Kingdom prior to taking a position as Faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri. After two years as Faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, he went on taking a position as a Faculty at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He is currently at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Currently in the Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Dr. Kertai has been involved in perioperative outcome and genomics research. His research interests include perioperative and long-term cardiac risk assessment and management, genomics and perioperative cardiac risk profiling, and perioperative pharmacogenomics. Dr. Kertai is the author and co-author of several book chapters in the field of cardiovascular anesthesiology and surgery. He has been a frequent speaker at international conferences about the importance of perioperative cardiac risk assessment and management. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles as a first author or as a co-author in scholarly journals with national and international circulation. Many of his peer-reviewed publications have been selected and used by national and international guidelines to formulate recommendations for the assessment and prevention of cardiovascular complications after surgery.