Dr. Sessler attended medical school at Columbia University, and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published a book on therapeutic hypothermia and more than 850 full research papers including two-dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet. More than 100 of his papers were accompanied by editorials, and more than two-dozen were cover articles for major anesthesia journals. His papers have been cited 40,000 times — making him the world’s most published and cited anesthesiologist. He is among the top 0.02% of cited scientists in any field. Dr. Sessler has been a principal or co-investigator on grants totaling more than $65 million. He founded and directs the Outcomes Research Consortium. The Consortium is the world’s largest clinical anesthesia research group, and publishes a full paper every 3 days. He was an editor of Anesthesiology for 9 years, and serves as a director for the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER). He has given invited lectures at more than 400 institutions. Dr. Sessler’s awards include a Fulbright Fellowship and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research prize.