Dr Marc Roznar
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Marc A. Rozner, PhD, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine in the Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Cardiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX.
Dr. Rozner started his professional career as a computer programmer in 1968, designing application software, operating systems, and battery-powered hardware throughout the 1970s and 80s. He completed his PhD in toxicology and pharmacology in 1980 at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. His work involved free radical production and lipid peroxidation caused by perfluorocarbon (an environmental contaminant) interaction with hepatic microsomes, and he completed a (PhD) fellowship in microbiology and immunology at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He earned his MD in 1990, followed by internship in internal medicine, at the Medical College of Virginia. He trained in anesthesiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.
Dr. Rozner focuses on patients with cardiovascular disease, principally those patients who have a cardiac pacemaker or an implanted cardioverter defibrillator. He has served on two national panels developing practice parameters for the perioperative care of these patients. In addition to delivering anesthetic care, he practices in the pacemaker / defibrillator clinic. He provides support to the Palliative Care and ICU groups for end-of life care for these patients, and he cares for pacemaker / ICD patients undergoing radiotherapy, MRI scans, and other invasive procedures throughout the hospital.
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