James E. Cottrell, MD, FRCA, is Dean for Clinical Practice, Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of
Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Regional Chairman of Anesthesiology at Long Island College Hospital
and Lutheran Medical Center and past Chair of Kings County Medical Hospital Center – all in Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. Cottrell has served as President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), President of the Society of Academic
Anesthesiology Chairs, and President of the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and is the 2004 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care. He was the Rovenstine Lecturer at the Annual Meeting of the ASA in 2008 and at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologist’s (NYSSA) Post Graduate Assembly Meeting in 2004. He also received the NYSSA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1966.
Dr. Cottrell has delivered more than 200 presentations around the world, authored more than 125
papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and co-edited three major textbooks. He also wrote Under the Mask, a book designed to increase patient safety by increasing public understanding of anesthesiology, and he has published anesthesiology –related pieces in The New York Times, Newsday, and The Washington Post.
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