The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

Compassionate Care While You Sleep


Carin Ann Hagberg, M.D.

Joseph C. Gabel Professor and Chair Department of Anesthesiology Carin.A.Haberg@uth.tmc.edu

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Education and Training

  • St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, New Hampshire
  • University of Massachusetts, B.S., Cum Laude, Amherst, Massachusetts
  • M.D., The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas
  • C.B.A., American Society of Anesthesiologists, Certificate of Business Administration
  • Surgery Internship, Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Texas
  • Anesthesiology Residency, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas
  • Chief Resident:  Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas
  • Cardiovascular Anesthesia Mini-Fellowship, Methodist Hospital, Dallas Texas
  • Neuroanesthesia Mini-Fellowship, Zale Lipshy University Hospital, Dallas, Texas

Professional Experience

    • Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, July 2008-Present
    • Interim Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston ,  Houston, Texas, Jan 2008-July 2008
    • Vice Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 2007-2008
    • Professor (Tenure), Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 2005-Present
    • Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 2002-2005
    • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 1998-2002
    • Program Director, Residency Education, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 1996-2000
    • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 1992-1998
    • Program Director, Undergraduate Education, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, 1992-1996
    • Director, Division of Neuroanesthesia, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX 1992-1996, 2000-Present
    • Associate Medical Director, Operative Services, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, 1994-1996
    • Director, Advanced Airway Management, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, 1996-Present

    Certification

    • National Board of Medical Examiners Part I FLEX
    • Diplomat, American Board of Anesthesiology, 1993
    • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 2006
    • Basic Disaster Life Support, 2006
    • Certificate of Business Administration, 2007

    Professional Organizations

    • American Society of Anesthesiologists
      • Committee on Trauma and Emergency Preparedness
    • American Medical Association
    • Association of Women Faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    • European Airway Management Society
    • European Society of Anesthesiologists
    • Harris County Medical Society
      • President, Council of Specialty Societies
    • International Anesthesia Research Society
    • Society for Airway Management
      • Immediate Past President, 2008
      • President, 2006-2007
      • President-Elect, 2005-2006
      • Vice-President, 2004-2005
      • Secretary 299302994
      • Treasurer, 1997-1999
    • Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care
    • Society for Education in Anesthesia
    • Texas Gulf Coast Anesthesia Society
      • President, 1999-2000
      • Vice-President, 1998-1999
      • Secretary/Treasurer, 1997-1998
    • Texas Medical Association
    • Texas Society of Anesthesiologists
      • Nominating Committee for District 7, 2007

    Awards

    • 2005-2008 Best Abstract, Scientific Abstract Competition, Society for Airway Management, 9th & 10th Annual Meeting
    • 2005-2007 Outstanding Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas  
    • 1993-1994 Outstanding Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas  
    • 1993-2007 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Training, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas
    • 2005-2006 Best Abstract, Scientific Abstract Competition at the Society for Airway Management 9th and 10th Annual Meeting
    • 2003 Exceptional Merit Award, Technical Exhibit, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 54th Annual Meeting
    • 2003 The Ellison C. Pierce Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Best Scientific Exhibit in Patient Safety
    • Technical Exhibit, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 54th Annual Meeting

    Research Grants

    • Anticipation of the Difficult Airway: The Preoperative Airway Assessment Form as an Educational and Quality Improvement Tool. Foundation for Anesthesia Education Research, 2008
    • A Randomized Clinical Comparison of the King Systems Disposable Laryngeal Tube Suction (LTS-D) and the ProSeal™ Laryngeal Mask Airway (PLMA) in Adult Patients. King Systems, 2007
    • An Evaluation of the Rapid Airway Management Positioner (RAMP) in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Gastric Bypass Surgery. Patient Transfer Systems, Inc., 2007
    • A Randomized Clinical Comparison of the Intersurgical i-Gel and LMA Unique in Non-Obese Adult Patients during General Surgery. Intersurgical, Ltd., 2007
    • A Randomized, Double-Blind Comparison of Dexmedetomidine and Remifentanil for Sedation during Awake Fiberoptic Intubations. Hospira, Inc., 2006

    Selected Publications

    1. Hagberg CA, Lam N, Abramson S, Vahdat K, Craig J: Dexmedetomidine vs. remifentanil for sedation in awake intubations-A randomized, double-blind trial. Anesthesiology A-14, 2008.
    2. Hagberg CA, Melnikov V, Scarborough , Luong K: Evaluation of the ramp positioner in obese patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery – A pilot study. Anesthesiology A-426, 2008.
    3. Hagberg CA, Khalil B, Garcia T: Comparison of LTS-D, combitube and Pro-seal LMA in adult patients undergoing elective surgery. Anesthesiology A-517.
    4. Hagberg CA, Ferrario L, Vahdat K, Khalil: Comparison of the intersurgical i-GEL and LMA unique in non-obese adult patients – A pilot study. Anesthesiology A-533, 2008
    5. Hagberg CA, Law JA: Video laryngoscopy and the difficult airway – image is everything. Anesthesiology News Guide to Airway Management 2008: 91-98.
    6. Ghelber O, Gebhard RE, Vor S, Hagberg CA, Szmuk: Identification of the epidural space using pressure measurement with the compuflo injection pump – a pilot study. Reg Anesth Pain Med 33:546-52, 2008.
    7. Lam, N, Hagberg C. Novel intubation equipment, In: J Hunter, T Cook, HJ Priebe, M Struys (eds) The Year In Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Vol. 2. Clinical Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 287-304, 2008.
    8. Hagberg C, Henderson J, Pereira K. Anesthesia for laparoscopic procedures. In: E Frezza, M Gagner, M Lee, B Dellamagne (eds) International Principles of Laparoscopic Surgery. Cine-Med, Inc., Woodbury, CT, 2008.
    9. Silverman E, Dunkin BJ, Todd SR, Turner K, Fahy BN, Sukumaran A, Hagberg C, Bass B: Nonsurgical airway management training for surgeons. J Surg Educ. 65(2):101-8, 2008.
    10. Abramson SI, Holmes AA, Hagberg CA: Awake insertion of the Bonfils Retromolar Intubation Fiberscope in five patients with anticipated difficult airways. Anesth Analg 106(4):1215-7, 2008.
    11. Vahdat K, Hagberg CA, Pivalizza E, Tandon N: A comparison of coagulation parameters using hextend vs. crystalloid in intracranial surgical procedures – a pilot study. Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care, 2008.
    12. Lam N, Hagberg C, Bassilli L, The use of video laryngoscopy for combitube exchange in a difficult airway. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 2008.
    13. Hagberg C, Henderson J, Pereira K: Anesthesia for laparoscopic procedures. In: E Frezza, M Gagner, M Lee, B Dellamagne (eds) International Principles of Laparoscopic Surgery. Cine-Med, Inc., Woodbury, CT 2008.
    14. Hagberg CA: Current concepts in the management of the difficult airway. Anesthesiology News Special Edition 2007.
    15. Hagberg CA: Current concepts in the management of the difficult airway. Anesthesiology News 33(5):1-19, 2007.
    16. Brambrink A, Hagberg C. Algorithm for clinical airway management. Karl Storz Endoscopy, Tuttlingen, Germany, 2007.
    17. Hagberg CA, Krier C, Georgi R. The difficult airway. In EB Lobato, N Gravenstein, RR Kirby (eds) Complications in Anesthesiology, 3rd edition, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 96-108, 2007.
    18. Abramson S, Friedman K, Hagberg C: Airway management of a patient with history of difficult airway who refuses to have tracheal intubation awake, In: O Hung and M Murphy (eds) Airway Management and Monitoring Manual. Elsevier, Inc. Philadelphia, PA, 2007.
    19. King B, Hagberg C: Management of the difficult airway. In FM Henretig, C King (eds) Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures 2nd Edition, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Philadelphia, PA, 2007.
    20. Hagberg CA, Georgi R, Krier C: Complications of managing the airway. Benumof’s Airway Management 2nd edition. In: CA Hagberg (ed). Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 1181-1216, 2007.
    21. Frass M, Urtubia R, Hagberg CA: The Combitube: Esophageal/tracheal double lumen airway. Benumof’s Airway Management 2nd edition. In: CA Hagberg (ed). Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 594-615, 2007.
    22. Agro F, Hagberg CA, Reed AP, Cook T: New generation supraglottic ventilatory devices. Benumof’s Airway Management 2nd edition. In: CA Hagberg (ed). Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 502-531, 2007.
    23. Law, JA, Hagberg CA: The evolution of upper-airway retraction: New and old laryngoscope blades. Benumof’s Airway Management 2nd edition. In: CA Hagberg (ed). Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 532-574, 2007.
    24. Hagberg CA, Benumof JL: The American Society of Anesthesiologists’ management of the difficult airway algorithm and explanation - Analysis of the algorithm. Benumof’s Airway Management 2nd edition. In: CA Hagberg (ed). Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, pp. 236-251, 2007.
    25. Hagberg CA, Vogt-Harenkamp CC, Iannucci DG: Successful airway management of a patient with a known difficult airway with the Direct Coupler Interface Video Laryngoscope. J Clin Anesth. 19(8):629-31, 2007.
    26. Hagberg C, Lam N, Brambrink A: Current concepts in airway management in the operating room: A new approach to the management of both complicated and uncomplicated airways. Curr Rev Clin Anesth 28(7):73-88, 2007.
    27. Hagberg CA, Cattano D: Reply to: The Laryngeal Mask Airway for airway management during percutaneous tracheostomy: Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. Anesth Analg 104: 744-5, 2007.
    28. Hagberg C, Lam N, Chan M, Craig J, Iannucci D. Comparison of AuraOnce™ and LMA-Unique™ as an intubation conduit in patients undergoing elective surgery. Anesthesiology A944, 2007.
    29. Hagberg C, Matuszczak M, Holmes A, Luong K. A randomized comparison of laryngoscopy techniques with the video laryngoscope versus the traditional macintosh laryngoscope in obese patients. Anesthesiology A589, 2007.
    30. Hagberg C, Sciard D, Layman R, Luong K. A comparison of laryngoscopy techniques using the video laryngoscope and the traditional macintosh laryngoscope in potentially difficult to intubate patients. Anesthesiology A593, 2007.
    31. Hagberg C, ed: Benumof’s Airway Management: Principles and Practice 2nd edition. Mosby, Inc., St. Louis, 2007.
    32. Hagberg C, ed: Zor Havayolu Yönetimi el Kitabi (The Handbook of Difficult Airway Management). Turkish, Nobel, Istanbul, 2004.
    33. Hagberg C, ed: The Handbook of Difficult Airway Management. Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2000.

    Speaking Engagements

    • Moderator
    • 2008 Society for Airway Management 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
    • 2007  Texas Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas
    • 2007  Society for Airway Management 11th Annual Scientific Meeting with Workshops, Houston, Texas
    • 2007  American Society of Anesthesiologists 58th Annual Meeting, Scientific Papers Program, San Francisco, California
    • Invited Presentations
    • 2008 Refresher Course Lecture Program, Orlando, Florida, “Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2008 Society for Airway Management 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Lecture:  “Pro – Fiberoptic Intubation for the Difficult Airway is the Gold Standard”
    • 2008 ASA 59th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, “Basic and Advanced Airway Management Techniques in Personnel Protection Equipment”; “ASA Difficult Airway Workshop and Airway Simulation”; “Workshop on Thoracic Anesthesia”
    • 2008 Society for Airway Management 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, “Supraglottic Devices”; “Sedation with Remifentanil and Dex for Awake Intubation”
    • 2008  Multimodality Management of Brain Tumors Conference, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, “Anesthetic Considerations in Awake Craniotomies”
    • 2008  The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia Student Association, Houston, Texas, “Airway Management”
    • 2008   World Congress of Anesthesiologists, Capetown, South Africa, “The Unstable Cervical Spine – When is Awake Intubation Really Necessary?”
    • 2008  Ambu Airway Management Symposium, Capetown, South Africa, “Current Concepts in Difficult Airway Management”
    • 2008  Texas Anesthesia Conference for Obstetrics (TACO) and Difficult Airway Workshop, Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, “Alternative Supralaryngeal Airways” and “Extubation of Patients with Difficult to Manage Airways”
    • 2008  Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation, The 33rd Annual Specialty Review Course in  Anesthesiology, Chicago, Illinois, “Review of the ASA Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway”, “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Management of the Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)” and “The Unstable Cervical Sine: When is Awake Intubation Really Necessary?”
    • 2008  Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation, the 55th Annual Anesthesiology Review Course, San Antonio, Texas, “Review of the ASA Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway”, “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Management of the Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)” and “The Unstable Cervical Sine: When is Awake Intubation Really Necessary?”
    • 2008  European Society of Anesthesiologists, 16th Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Current Concepts in Difficult Airway Management”, “New Techniques and Devices in Airway Management Supraglottic Devices”, and “Laryngeal Mask Airway Replaces Endotracheal Intubation – Step Forward or Back?”
    • 2008  Methodist Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Grand Rounds, Houston, Texas, “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Management of the Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea  (OSA)”
    • 2008 – Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Grand Rounds, Houston, Texas, “Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2007  The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia Club Meeting, Houston, Texas, “Difficult Airway Management”
    • 2007  Sixth Annual Emergency and Critical Care Medicine: The Cutting Edge, Palm Beach, Aruba, “Current Concepts in Airway Management”
    • 2007  Ambu, Inc., National Sales Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Supraglottic Airway Devices”
    • 2007  Texas Anesthesia Conference for Obstetrics (TACO) and Difficult Airway Workshop, Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, “Acquiring Difficult Airway Management Skills Beyond Residency” and “Update on Supraglottic Airways”
    • 2007  South African Society of Anesthesiologists, 2007 National Anesthesia Congress, Sun City, South Africa, “What’s New in Airway Management?”, “Airway Management of Cervical Spine Injured Patients”, “Cannot Intubate Nightmare: The Burned Patient and Trauma Patient”, “Extubation of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2007  Methodist Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Grand Rounds, Houston, Texas, Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2007  The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 12th Annual Hands-On Workshop for the Difficult Airway, Houston, Texas, “Special Devices and Techniques”
    • 2007  32nd Annual Specialty Review Course in Anesthesiology, Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, “Review of the ASA Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway” , “Practice Guideline for Perioperative Management of the Patient with OSA”  and “The Uncertain Cervical Spine: When is Awake Intubation Really Necessary?”
    • 2007  The University of California, San Diego Annual Meeting and Clinical Anesthesia Update, California Society of Anesthesiologists, San Diego, California, “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Management of the Patient with OSA” and “So Many Airway Toys!  Which Ones Do You Really Need?”
    • 2007  European Society of Anesthesiologists, 15th Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany, “Laryngeal Mask, Laryngeal Tube, or Combitube – Is There a Best Supraglottic Device?”
    • 2007 – Dannemiller Education Foundation, The 54th Annual Anesthesiology Review Course, San Antonio, Texas, “Review of the ASA Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway”, “Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Management of the Patient with OSA”, and “The Uncertain Cervical Spine: When is Awake Intubation Really Necessary?”
    • 2007  Society for Airway Management, 11th Annual Scientific Meeting with Workshops, Houston, Texas, “Alternative Supralaryngeal Airways” and “What Airway Management Techniques Should We Master?”
    • 2007  Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology, IX International Anesthesia Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Awake Intubation in Patient with Unstable Cervical Spine”, “Anesthetic Management in the Awake Craniotomy”, and “Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2007  Duke University School of Medicine, Anesthesia Camp IV, Laguna Beach, California, “Extubation of the Difficult Airway”, “Awake Intubation in a Patient with Unstable Cervical Spine”, and “So Many Toys!  Which Ones Do You Really Need?”
    • 2007   American Society of Anesthesiologists, 58th Annual Meeting, Refresher Course Lecture Program
    • San Francisco, California, “Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway”
    • 2007  Institut für Anästhesiologie Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, 6th St. Gallen Airway Management Symposium,
    • Gallen, Switzerland, “Invasion of Supraglottic Airway Devices: Boon or Bane?”

Faculty Biography

Carin A. Hagberg, M.D.
  • Carin Ann Hagberg, M.D.
    Joseph C. Gabel Professor and Chair Department of Anesthesiology
    The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
  • Director of Neuroanesthesia and Advanced Airway Management
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 5.020
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: (713) 500-6200
    fax: (713) 500-6208
    e-mail: Carin.A.Hagberg@uth.tmc.edu
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