Alexander Mittnacht, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Alexander Mittnacht, M.D. is a Professor in Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. He specializes in both adult and pediatric cardiac anesthesia, and is the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia at the Mount Sinai Medical Center New York. His research and clinical interests include fast-tracking in pediatric cardiac anesthesia, monitoring and in particular cerebral oximetry in children and adults undergoing cardiac surgery, anesthetic considerations and monitoring in patients undergoing procedures in the electrophysiology lab, and transesophageal echocardiography. Dr Mittnacht frequently lectures on those topics at national and international meetings.