Wallis T. Muhly, MD

About Wallis T. Muhly, MD

Titles

Attending Anesthesiologist

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care  at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 

Certifications

Anesthesiology – American Board of Anesthesiology

Pediatric Anesthesiology – American Board of Anesthesiology

Awards and Honors

2014, First Place - Safe Keeping Achievement Award presented as part of the CHOP Fifth Annual Quality and Patient Safety Day
2005, Alliance Medical Scholarship Fund Scholarship, Pennsylvania Medical Society
2002, Arthur Mirsky Award for Outstanding Biomedical Science Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2000, College of Natural Sciences Briggs-Kerst Undergraduate Scholarship, Colorado State University
2000, College of Liberal Arts Donna Weyrick Memorial Scholarship, Colorado State University
2000, Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Colorado State University

Leadership and Memberships

Memberships in Professional Organizations

2009-present, American Society of Regional Anesthesia
2008-present, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
2005-present, American Society of Anesthesiologists 

Editorial and Academic Positions

Editorial Positions

2014-present, Anesthesia and Analgesia Case Reports, peer-reviewer
2014-present, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, peer-reviewer
2013-present, British Journal of Anaesthesia, peer-reviewer

Academic and Institutional Committees

2014, Office of Quality Improvement: Clinical team leader for development of an adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) spinal fusion rapid recovery pathway for inpatient care optimization
2012-present, Perioperative Liaison to Orthopedic Surgery (non-scoliosis)

Research Interests

Acute pain management Pediatric regional anesthesia Quality improvement Outcomes based research  

Education & training

Medical Degree

MD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Internship

Transitional Internship - Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Residency

Anesthesiology - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Fellowship

Research - Howard Hughes Institute, Bethesda, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Chronic Pain Management, Perioperative and Pain Medicine - Children's Hospital Boston, Boston MA

Team affiliations

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Publications

Publications

2018

Goodbody CM1, Sankar WN, Flynn JM. Presentation of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: The Bigger the Kid, the Bigger the Curve. J Pediatr Orthop. 2015 Jun 16. [Epub ahead of print]. Read the abstract.

2015

Gurnaney H, Muhly WT, Kramer FK, Cucchiaro G, Ganesh A: Safety of pediatric continuous interscalene block catheters placed under general anesthesia - A single center's experience. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2015 Mar;59(3):377-83. doi: 10.1111/aas.12471.

2014

Muhly WT, Maxwell LG, Cravero JP: Pain management following the Nuss procedure:  A survey of practice and review. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Oct;58(9):1134-9. doi: 10.1111/aas.12376. Epub 2014 Aug 4.

Gurnaney H, Kraemer FW, Maxwell L, Muhly W, Schleelein L, Ganesh A: Ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks in children and adolescents: A longitudinal eight year single center study. Anesthesia and Analgesia  Peter Davis, MD (eds.). Anesthesia and Analgesia, 118(3): 621-7, March 2014.

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters
2015

Wallis T. Muhly, MD and Arjunan Ganesh, MBBS: Infraclavicular Block. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children. Stephen Mannion, Arjunan Ganesh, Gabrielle Iohom, Christopher Daudre and Mark Reisbig (eds.). Cambridge University Press, in press 2015.

Arjunan Ganesh, MBBS and Wallis T Muhly, MD: Performance of Regional Anesthesia in Children. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children. Stephen Mannion, Arjunan Ganesh, Gabrielle Iohom, Christopher Daudre and Mark Reisbig (eds.). Cambridge University Press, in press 2015.