Hugh Hemmings Jr., M.D. Ph.D.

Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Vice Chair of Research in Anesthesiology
New-York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center

Hugh Hemmings Jr., M.D. Ph.D. is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology and Vice Chair of Research in Anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. An internationally known neuropharmacologist, he is an expert in the synaptic effects of general anesthestics and mechanisms of neuronal signal transduction. His research in these areas is supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is active in several national and international societies for anesthesiology and neuroscience, including the scientific advisory board of the Association of University Anesthesiologists.

Dr. Hemmings earned a BS in Biochemistry from Yale College, a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Yale University, and an M.D. from Yale Medical School. His Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Paul Greenyard, Ph.D. was cited in his 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He was an intern in medicine at the Hospital of St.Raphae,l he completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and did fellowship training in cardiac anesthesia at New York-Cornell Medical Center, where he has been a faculty member for 12 years.

Dr. Hemmings has authored more than 100 articles in anesthesiology and neuroscience, and has edited two books, including “Foundations of Anesthesia”, a basic science compendium for anesthesiology, published in 2000.

Hugh C. Hemmings Jr. M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Vice Chair of Research in Anesthesiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
525 East 68th street
New York NY 10021
USA

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