Director Transplant Anesthesiology
Yale School of Medicine
Madison, Connecticut
Ranjit Deshpande is the Director of Transplant Anesthesiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital & the Director of Point of Care Ultrasound in the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Deshpande received his medical degree from BJMC, Pune, India. Subsequently, he completed a residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Miami, followed by an ACCM Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As part of the Division of Critical Care Medicine, he focuses on clinical care, program development, and teaching. As a perioperative transplant physician, he is involved in preoperative optimization and quality assurance of the liver transplant service. He has successfully led a multidisciplinary critical care team to convert nontraditional spaces like the operating rooms and post-anesthesia care units into critical care locations to prepare for the COVID-19 surge. He and his team developed a novel technique to ventilate multiple patients with one ventilator to overcome the ventilator shortage during the pandemic's peak. In his role as the Director for Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), he has brought POCUS to the bedside and, in the process, educated numerous trainees. His contributions to The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) in organizing and conducting educational sessions, workshops, and podcasts have earned him the SCCM Presidential Citations in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, he was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM),
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST