Arterial and venous thrombosis complicating coronary artery bypass grafting after use of epoetin alfa-epbx.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Guinn attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY, where she graduated with AOA honors.  She then completed her anesthesiology residency and fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesia at Duke University Medical Center, staying on as faculty after completing her training. Dr. Guinn served as the Medical Director of the Center for Blood Conservation at Duke University Medical Center from 2013-2022, working with patients who decline transfusion to receive safe care and improved outcomes, and developing an institutional Preoperative Anemia Clinic to diagnose and treat anemia in operative patients at risk for transfusion. She is known nationally for her expertise in management of patients “When Blood is Not an Option” and for preoperative optimization of anemia in surgical patients and is the current Chair for the ASA Committee on Patient Blood Management.  Dr. Guinn is also involved with the American Board of Anesthesiology, serving as an OSCE Committee member and APPLIED examiner for board certification in the anesthesiology. She is the current Interim Division Chief of neuro-anesthesiology, otolaryngology and offsite anesthesia at Duke University. 

Jerrold H Levy, MD, FAHA, FCCM, is Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic) and Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology/Critical Care at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.  He is also an Adjunct Professor in theDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine  and the Centre for Blood Research at the University of British Columbia. Currently, he serves as Vice Chair of the Scientific and Standardization Committees of the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and previously served as Chair of the Perioperative and Critical Care Committee. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Miami, where he was a resident in internal medicine, followed by an Anesthesiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he was Chief Resident, and completed fellowships in Respiratory Intensive Care and Cardiac Anesthesiology. Before Duke, he was Professor and Deputy Chair for Research at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr Levy is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, an Editor for the European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Pharmacology, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and previously served as an Executive Editor for Anesthesiology. His current clinical and research interests include anticoagulation and its reversal, therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat coagulopathy and acute inflammation in critically ill patients and extracorporeal life support, applications of recombinant and purified protein concentrates for treating bleeding and inflammation, and therapeutic approaches to anaphylaxis. He is the author of over 600 publications on PubMed, with over 100,000 citations, an h-index of 112, and an i10-index of 500. He is also fluent in French and conversational in Spanish and Japanese.