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    Adriana Dana Oprea, MD

    Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
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    Director, Endocrine Anesthesia

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    Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

    Director, Endocrine Anesthesia

    Biography

    Dr. Adriana Dana Oprea is dual board certification, both in internal medicine and in anesthesiology. She received her medical degree from Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania in 1998. Following her Internal Medicine residency at Norwalk Hospital, she completed a residency in Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital Her area of academic and clinical interest is preoperative optimization, especially for patients with endocrine and hematologic disorders.

    She serves on multiple American Society of Anesthesiologists committees on Perioperative Medicine, and is the chair of Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) Guidelines and Annual Planning Meeting committees.

    She lectures nationally and internationally on Perioperative Medicine topics (notably on preoperative optimization of patients with diabetes and on oral anticoagulation). She led the development of several SPAQI consensus statements on perioperative medication management and on patients wearing diabetes technology and she authored numerous publications on Perioperative Medicine topics. Dr Oprea is Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, section on Perioperative Medicine.


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    Education & Training

    Resident in Anesthesiology
    Yale-New Haven Hospital (2010)
    Resident in Internal Medicine
    Norwalk Hospital (2003)
    MD
    Carol Davila University of Medicine (1998)
    BS
    Mihai Viteazul National College (1992)

    Board Certifications

    • Anesthesiology

      Certification Organization
      AB of Anesthesiology
      Original Certification Date
      2011

    Research

    Overview

    Medical Research Interests

    Endocrine System; Perioperative Care; Preoperative Care

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Adriana Dana Oprea's published research.

    Publications

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    2022

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