Faculty
All our faculty are board-certified in anesthesiology. Many have additional certifications in areas such as pain medicine, critical care medicine and intraoperative TEE. Most have had additional fellowship training and extensive experience in all areas of specialization, including cardiovascular anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, regional anesthesia and transplant anesthesia
Anesthesiologists
Geisinger Medical Center
- S. Mark Poler, MD, Anesthesia Residency Program Director
- Brian Monroe, MD
- Thomas R. Alessi, MD
- Thao Alite, MD
- Robert Bailiff, MD
- David A. Baucom, MD
- Dylan P. Birkett, MD
- Albert Duah, MD
- Yohannes Getachew, MD
- Qingzhong Hao, MD, PhD
- Pankaj Jain, MD
- Karen Johnson, MD, PhD
- David A. Kasputis, MD
- Patrick Konitzer, MD
- Lauren Jill Krasner, MD
- Christopher Kronenwetter, MD
- Yuri Kuras, MD
- Lei Li, MD
- William A. Loder, MD
- Marie E. Minnich, MD
- Stephen J. Minnich, MD
- Robert Moyer, MD
- Steven P. Musgrave, MD
- Christine Noble, MD
- Maxim Novikov, MD
- Kofi Owusu, MD
- Linda Parenti, MD
- Birju Patel, DO
- Konstantinos Pilidis, MD
- Abdel Ragab, MD
- L. Mark Robbins, MD
- Tanisha Robinson, MD
- Thomas Schieble, MD
- Aram Shahinyan, MD
- Darya Shevchenko, MD
- Joseph J. Stemm, MD
- Anasuya Vasudevan, MD
- Paul Weigand, MD
- Xianren Wu, MD
- Kerolos Yousef, DO
- Scott Vaughan, DO
- Li Zhang, MD
- Xiaopeng Zhang, MD
Anesthesiologists
Pain Medicine
- Shaik Ahmed, MD
- Shivang Desai, MD
- Vahid Grami, MD, MPH
- John Han, MD
- Kalyan S. Krishnan, MD
- Tonia Kusumi, MD
- Brian Monroe, MD
- Ryan S. Ness, MD
- Jolly Ombao, MD
- John Quick, MD
- Aram Shahinyan, MD
Anesthesiologists
Geisinger Northeast
- Daniel Callaghan, MD
- Sam Crockett, MD
- Matthew Desciak, MD
- Bharati Anu Eshwar, MD
- Mark Karcutskie, MD
- Sam Lee, MD
- Loreen Mane, MD
- Tejal Metah, MD
- Kimberly Moffat, MD
- Joseph Pellegrino, MD
- Barbara Penetar, DO
- Samuel Plummer, MD
- Seth Reed, MD
- Michael Trakas, MD
- Charles A. E. Steen, MD
Anesthesiologists
Geisinger Community Medical Center
- David Fryzel, MD
- Venkataraman Iyer, MD
- Cynthia Jose, MD
- Jamshid Khademi, MD
- Melissa Lasota, MD
- Kishorkumar, Vekaria, MD
- Kristy Voytek, MD
Anesthesiologists
Geisinger Healthplex State College
Anesthesiologists
Geisinger Lewistown Hospital
- David Bargainnier, DO
- Xiaoling Chen, MD
- Donna Datko, DO
- Vsevolod Dounaevski, MD
- Alfonzo Go, MD
- Eric Long, MD
- Anthony Wang, MD