Background
Dr. Daniel Nyhan is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Nyman serves as the director of the Cardiac Anesthesia Division and fellowship director of cardiac anesthesia at the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He''s also executive vice chairman of the department.
Dr. Nyhan received his B.Sc. degree in physiology and his M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. (honors degree) from the University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins. He performed a fellowship in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Johns Hopkins and a research fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Nyhan joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1987.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Nyhan was an instructor of life sciences at Regional College in Cork, Ireland, and an instructor of physiology at University College Cork–National University of Ireland, Cork.
Dr. Nyhan's research interests include the underlying mechanisms of vascular aging.
He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and is a reviewer for the Anesthesiology journal. He is a member of the Faculty Senate at Johns Hopkins. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Association of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
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