Dr. Baron Shahaf serves as the head of neuroanesthesia at Rambam Medical center after fellowships in neuroanesthesia at Toronto Western Hospital and in neuro trauma and neuro-critical care in St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto both under the University of Toronto.
In her background, Dr. Baron completed MD PhD Cum Laude at the Bruth & Ruth Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology and her Anesthesia Speciality at the Anesthesia Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
As a neuro-anesthesiologist, a neuro-intensivist and a researcher, Dr. Baron’s research is focused on studying brain health of the anesthetized patient, and mainly constantly asking:(1) Can we identify in the preoperative clinic who will suffer from post-operative delirium or cognitive dysfunction and their life would change? (2) Can we identify intra-operatively brain injury, intervene and change the outcome? (3) Can we extend brain monitoring to ICU, protect the brain and prevent further injury? (4) Is there a place for postoperative rehabilitation for patients with cognitive dysfunction? (5) In ICU, can we start early brain rehabilitation for patients with disorder of consciousness and change their outcome? (6) Can we help families, whose world has fallen, and restore communication with their unconscious loved ones?
To answer these questions, Dr. Baron is leading a unique research program for developing single channel EEG markers for the purposes of monitoring and protecting the geriatric patients brain under anesthesia and for rehabilitation of brain injured patients, and particularly patients with severe brain injury and reduced consciousness. Please see her work in (1) identify recall under anesthesia, * Baron Shahaf et al, Scientific Reports. 2019. ** Baron Shahaf et al. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022. *** Baron Shahaf et al. Frontiers in Medicine, 2022. (2) identify brain injury under anesthesia, *Baron Shahaf et al, Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology. 2022. ** Baron Shahaf et al. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2023.
1.Relevant recent publications
a.Shahaf, D.B., Hight, D., Kaiser, H. and Shahaf, G., 2023. Association between risk of stroke and delirium following cardiac surgery and a new EEG index of interhemispheric similarity. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
b. Ginsberg, Y., Shahaf, G., Bakker, P. and Shahaf, D.B., 2023. Single channel intrapartum fetal electroencephalogram (EEG) for early detection of fetal brain hypoxia. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 228(1), p.S586.
c. Shahaf, D.B., Abergel, E., Hoffmann, R.S., Meirovitch, E., Konstadt, S., Feierman, D.E., Derman, R. and Shahaf, G., 2022. Evaluating a Novel EEG-Based Index for Stroke Detection Under Anesthesia During Mechanical Thrombectomy. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, pp.10-1097.
d. Baron Shahaf, D., Weissman, A., Priven, L. and Shahaf, G., 2022. Identifying recall under sedation by a novel EEG based index of attention-a pilot study. Frontiers in Medicine, p.1055.
e.Baron Shahaf, D., Hare, G.M. and Shahaf, G., 2020. The effects of anesthetics on the cortex—lessons from event-related potentials. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 14, p.2.
f. Baron Shahaf, D., Hare, G.M., Baker, A.J., Chenosia, V., Priven, L., Mistry, N. and Shahaf, G., 2019. A new index of coordinated posterior and Anterior evoked eeG to Detect Recall Under Sedation–A pilot Study. Scientific Reports, 9(1), pp.1-11.
g. Baron Shahaf, D., Bar, S., Leiba, R., Dvir, V. and Shavit, I., 2018. Unscheduled adolescents return to the emergency department following acute concussion. Brain injury, 32(3), pp.331-334.
h. Shahaf, D.B., Shahaf, G., Mehta, J. and Venkatraghavan, L., 2016. Intracarotid etomidate decreases the interhemispheric synchronization in electroencephalogram (EEG) during the Wada test. Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, 28(4), pp.341-346.
2.Patents
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TYPE OF A BRAIN INJURY DYSFUNCTION DURING A MEDICAL PROCEDURE.
Dana Baron Shahaf and Goded Shahaf . Patent submitted. November 2021