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George Mychaskiw, DO

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
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Shreveport, LA 71103
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Primary Specialty

Anesthesiology

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71103
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General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Anesthesiology
Dr. Mychaskiw, Professor/Vice Chair and Director of Perioperative Services, is a cardiac and pediatric anesthesiologist, with nearly 30 years of experience in academic medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, ABA Pediatric Anesthesiology, American Osteopathic Board of Anesthesiology and has been certified in Transesophageal Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography. Dr. Mychaskiw completed medical school at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and anesthesiology residency and fellowships at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Mychaskiw has an extensive background in health policy and medical education and is a graduate of the AOA’s Health Policy Fellowship. Additionally, Dr. Mychaskiw has a research interest in high pressure biology and neurologic injury and has previously served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine for over a decade. He is one of the Founding Editors and serves on the Editorial Board of Medical Gas Research.Dr. Mychaskiw has an extensive background in medical and higher education development and was the originator/co-founder of the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University (BCOM) and served as its Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer. BCOM is one of the nation’s most innovative medical colleges and has been, in every year since its 2016 opening, the most diverse osteopathic medical college in the country. He is also responsible for the development of 3 other medical schools in the United States and is an expert in both medical college and hospital start-up.In 2012, Dr. Mychaskiw was selected as the Founding Chair of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia Medical Director of Perioperative Services at the new Nemours Children’s Hospital, in Orlando, Florida. A $400 million dollar project of the AI DuPont Charitable Trust, Nemours Children’s Hospital was the first new children’s hospital to be built in the U.S. in nearly 40 years. Prior to that, Dr. Mychaskiw served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Drexel University, the largest medical school in the U.S.Additionally, Dr. Mychaskiw has served as Vice Chair of Anesthesiology at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, where he led the opening of a new pediatric operating facility and development of a pediatric cardiac surgery program. Dr. Mychaskiw has authored over 100 articles and book chapters, including works on hospital, medical school and operating room management, high pressure biology and volatile anesthetic pharmacology. He has given hundreds of lectures around the world and has led a research enterprise that has done groundbreaking work in the treatment of stroke, neonatal asphyxia and other neurologic injury and disease.

Medical School

Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience - Doctor of Osteopathy

Internship

Yale New Haven Hospital - Transitional Internship

Residency

Yale - New Haven Hospital - Anesthesiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital - Cardiac/Pediatric Anesthesiology

Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology - Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, American Osteopathic Board of Anesthesiology - Anesthesiology

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