Christopher M. Heard

Christopher Heard

Christopher M. Heard

Contact Information
UPD 1091 MAIN STREET

219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, New York 14209
Phone: (716) 878-7701
Fax: (716) 878-7316
cheard@upa.chob.edu



Education and Training:

  • Certificate, University at Buffalo School of Medicine (1999)
  • Certificate, University at Buffalo School of Medicine (1996)
  • Certificate, University at Buffalo School of Medicine (1995)

Employment:

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric And Community Dentistry, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine (2008-present)
  • Clinical Instructor, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (2002-present)
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, State University of New York at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (1996-present)
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, State University of New York at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (1996-present)
  • Fellowship in Critical Care, Anesthesiology Residency Program, State University of New York at Buffalo (1995–1996)
  • CA III Resident, Anesthesiology Residency Program, State University of New York at Buffalo (1994–1995)
  • Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care, Leeds General Infirmary (1993–1994)
  • Yorkshire Regional Registrar Rotation in Anaesthesia (1991–1993)
  • Newcastle Hospitals S.H.O. Rotation in Anaesthesia (1989–1991)
  • Senior House Officer in Medicine, Sunderland District General Hospital (1988–1989)
  • Senior House Officer in Anaesthesia, Sunderland Distric General Hospital (1987–1988)
  • Pre-Registration House Surgeon, Sunderland District General Hospital (1987)
  • Pre-Registration House Physician, Sunderland District General Hospital (1986–1987)
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Professional Memberships:

  • American Society of Anesthesiology
  • Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • International Anesthesia Research Society
  • NYSSA
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine

Presentations:

  • "Teaching Pediatric Dental Sedation: A Comparison of Four Different Techniques" ADEA 85th Annual Session and Exhibition (2008)
  • "The Use of Sedation Reversal Techniques: A Case Review" ADEA 85th Annual Session and Exhibition (2008)
  • "A Comparison of Dexmedetomidine and Propofol for Pediatric MRI Sedation" ASA Annual Meeting (2007)
  • "Conscious Sedation for Pediatric Dental Restorations/Extractions: A Case Series" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Dexmedetomidine for the Difficult to Sedate PICU patient: A Case Series" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Dose Dependent effects of Isoflurane in Acute Lung Injury" 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care (2007)
  • "Evaluation of Dexmedetomidine for Sedation of Pediatric MRI Patients" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Impact of benzodiazepines on opiate requirements in the PICU" 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care (2007)
  • "Is it Possible to Attenuate the Pain of Intranasal Drug Administration?" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Opiate Tolerance in the PICU: A 5 year Review" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Propofol use in the PICU: Effect on opiate dosing" 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care (2007)
  • "Setting up a Pediatric Dental Conscious Sedation Clinic: A Multi-Disciplinary approach" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "The Effect of Paralysis on opiate dosing in the PICU patient" 5th World Congress of Pediatric Critical Care (2007)
  • "The Use of Intranasal Naloxone and Flumazenil to Reverse Deep Sedation in the Dental Clinic: A case report" 4th Paediatric Sedation Conference: How to do it safely (2007)
  • "Is it possible to Attenuate the Pain of Intranasal Drug Administration?" American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 60th Annual Session (2007)
  • "Long Distance Transport of Pediatric Heart Patients during ECLS" American Academy of Pediatrics 2006 National Conference and Exhibition (2006)
  • "A revire of the Tongue-lip Fusion for airway obstruction in Pieree Robin Patients" Academy of Pediatric Otolaryngology (2006)
  • "A case series review. The perioperative management for the tongue-lip fusion procedure." Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "A Review of the Clinical Use of Dexmedetomidine for MRI" Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "Is the TISS score still valid in 2006?" Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "Methadone use in the PICU: A 3 year review" Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "PRISM score, A review of its performance over a 5 year period" Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "The variability of PICU admissions over a 5 year period" Annual Scientific Meeting Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2006)
  • "Hyperglycemia in the PICU" SCCM Annual Meeting (2006)
  • "NPO guidelines and chewing gum" SPA (2003)
  • "SSEP A Comparison of Desflurane and Propofol during Spinal Surgery" SPA (2003)
  • "NPO guidelines and chewing gum" Dr. Richard N. Terry Teaching Day (2003)
  • "Renal Failure in the PICU: A 10 year review" CAIII Resident Presentation (2003)
  • "Antibiotic use and outcomes in the PICU" SCCM Meeting (2003)
  • "Opiate tolerance and use in the PICU" SCCM Meeting (2003)
  • "Desflurane causes Greater Depression of Cortical Amplitude of the SSEP than Isoflurane at a BIS of 60" ASA Annual Meeting (2002)
  • "Methadone Use for the Prevention of Opiate Withdrawal in the PICU" SCCM Meeting (2002)
  • "Sedation Monitoring in Children with Mental Retardation using Bispectral Index (BIS) in the PICU" SCCM Meeting (2002)
  • "The use of Propofol during Rapid Opiate weaning in the PICU" SCCM Meeting (2002)
  • "The use of a Double Lumen ETT to stent a Bronchial Stricture in the PICU" SENTAC (2001)
  • "Outcome and safety of a Pediatric Transport Team" AAP Meeting (2001)
  • "Sedation Monitoring of Paralyzed Children by BIS in the PICU" ASA Annual Meeting (2001)
  • "Sedation Monitoring of Paralyzed Children by BIS in the PICU" AAP Meeting (2001)
  • "Neurological complications of regional anesthesia" Dr. Richard N. Terry Teaching Day (2001)
  • "Subdural catheter placement following regional anesthesia" Dr. Richard N. Terry Teaching Day (2001)
  • "The evaluation of the BIS monitor in the PICU" Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting (2001)
  • "ECMO and the PRISM score" Association of Pediatric Anaesthestists Annual Meeting (2001)
  • "Sedation Monitoring of Paralyzed Children by the BIS in the PICU" Association of Pediatric Anaesthestists Annual Meeting (2001)
  • "Use of a Physiology Scoring System during Interhospital Transport of Pediatric patients" Association of Pediatric Anaesthestists Annual Meeting (2001)
  • "Heliox and Low Bias Flow HFOV" SCCM (2001)
  • "Sedation Monitoring of Children by the Bispectral Index in the PICU" SCCM (2001)
  • "A 10 year review of Pediatric Tracheostomy" Triological Society Meeting; ; Eastern Section (2001)
  • "ECMO and the PRISM score" ELISO Meeting (2000)
  • "Regional Anesthesia and Anticoagulation" Dr. Richard N. Terry Teaching Day (2000)
  • "Successful lysis of an obstructive aortic and renal artery thrombus in a neonate on ECMO. Case report." 15th Annual CNMC Symposium on ECMO and Advanced Therapies for Respiratory Failure (1999)
  • "Combined spinal/epidural analgesia for labor pain control" SOAP'98 30th Annual Meeting (1998)
  • "Baseline Stability of Mechanomyography" 72nd IARS (1998)
  • "The Optimum Ratio of Rocuronium and Mivacurium for Maximum Synergistic Effect" 72nd IARS (1998)
  • "Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) in Children - An Anesthetic Technique" 72nd IARS (1998)
  • "Spinal anesthesia reduces the incidence of complications in premature infants undergoing inguinal hernia repair" Pediatric Anesthesiology Conference, 1998 (1998)
  • "Comparison of Pulse Oximetry to Arterial Blood Gas analysis as a method of calculating the PRISM score" 10 Annual Pediatric Care Colloquium (1997)
  • "PICU Questionnaire for HIV Risk Exposure" 10th Annual Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium (1997)
  • "The Validity of APACHE II and Cardiac Risk Scores in a Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) Surgical Intensive Care unit" SCCM Annual Scientific Meeting (1997)
  • "Validation of the Dynamic Objective Risk Assessment (DORA) score in the changing PICU environment" 9th Annual Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium (1996)
  • "Sensori-neural hearing loss following spinal anesthesia for elective caesarian section" Dr. Richard N. Terry Teaching Day (1995)
  • "Paediatric Fibre-optic guided intubation via the LMA-a comparison with direct laryngoscopy" 5th Upstate Academic Anesthesiology Conference (1994)
  • "DOS, A notebook, and a trainee anaesthetist" Society of Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia (1994)
  • "Establishing and auditing a PICU retrieval service." Paediatric Intensive Care Society; Royal Brompton Hospital (1994)
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Contact Information

UPD 1091 MAIN STREET

219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, New York 14209
Phone: (716) 878-7701
Fax: (716) 878-7316
cheard@upa.chob.edu