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Vanessa A. Olbrecht, MD, MBA

Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia

Academic Affiliation

Assistant Professor

Phone 513-636-4408

Email vanessa.olbrecht@cchmc.org

Specialties
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Pediatric general anesthesia; pediatric regional anesthesia; acute pain management; clinical outcomes research
Biography
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Vanessa Olbrecht, MD, MBA, graduated as class valedictorian and Alpha Omega Alpha from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007 and received the William Stewart Halsted award in surgery. She completed her internship in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2008 before transitioning to her Anesthesia residency at the same institution. She joined the faculty of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as an assistant professor within the UC Department of Anesthesiology after finishing her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She received her MBA in 2015 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Olbrecht’s achievements include multiple research publications in major journals focused on clinical outcomes in both surgery and anesthesia. She has presented her work at local and national meetings and has won several awards for these presentations, including a Gertie Marx award and the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia Young Investigator Award.

Education and Training
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BA: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2003.

MD: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2007.

MBA: The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2015.

Internship: General Surgery, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2007-2008.

Residency: Anesthesia, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2008-2011.

Fellowship: Pediatric Anesthesia, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2011-2012.

Certification: Anesthesiology, 2012; Pediatric Anesthesia, 2013.

Publications
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Bateman BT, Olbrecht VA, Minehart RD, Schwamm LH, Leffert LR. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancy: nationwide data and institutional experience.  Anesthesiology. 2012 Feb;116(2):324-333.

Olbrecht VA, Nabaweesi R, Arnold MA, Chandler N, Chang DC, McIltrot KH, Abdullah F, Paidas CN, Colombani PM. Pectus bar repair of pectus excavatum in patients with connective tissue disease. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2009 Sep;44(9):1812-1816.

Olbrecht VA, Arnold MA, Nabaweesi R, Chang DC, McIltrot KH, Abdullah F, Paidas CN, Colombani PM. Lorenz bar repair of pectus excavatum in the adult population: should it be done? Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2008 Aug;86(2):402-408; discussion 408-409.

Olbrecht VA, Abdullah F, Arnold MA, Nabaweesi R, Chang DC, McIltrot KH, Paidas CN, Colombani PM. Upper sternal depression following Lorenz bar repair of pectus excavatum. Pediatric Surgery International. 2008 Jul;24(7):843-846.

Pawlik TM, Olbrecht VA, Pitt HA, Gleisner AL, Choti MA, Schulick RD, Cameron JL. Primary sclerosing cholangitis: role of extrahepatic biliary resection. Journal of the American College of Surgeons.2008 May;206(5):822-830; discussion 830-832. 

Olbrecht VA, Barreiro CJ, Bonde PN, Williams JA, Baumgartner WA, Gott VL, Conte JV. Clinical outcomes of noninfectious sternal dehiscence after median sternotomy. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2006 Sep;82(3):902-907.

Grants
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Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Detect and Predict Pain in Children in the Inpatient and Outpatient Setting. Principal Investigator. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. 2015-2016.

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