Jeffrey Carness MD

Education

Fellowship – Critical Care Medicine – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Residency – Anesthesiology – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA
Internship – Transitional – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA
M.D. – Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX
B.S. – Biology / PreMed (summa cum laude), Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

Biography

Jeffrey Carness, MD, FASA, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1998. Upon completion of Marine Corps Recruit Training and Marine Corps Combat Training, he attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey CA. Upon coursework completion, he accepted orders to B Co, Marine Corps Support Battalion, Ft. Meade MD. After separating from the Marine Corps, he matriculated into medical school and accepted his commission in the United States Navy. He subsequently graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas. After completion of an operational tour as 3D Radio Battalion Surgeon, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI, he subsequently completed anesthesiology residency training at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth prior to serving as the Department Chair for Anesthesiology at US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. He then completed a critical care anesthesiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. While on active duty, he deployed in support of overseas operations and had the opportunity, in 2022, to serve as critical care anesthesiologist on board the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership, the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific. During this exercise he served as a subject matter expert and conducted multiple workshops facilitating instruction in POCUS. Dr. Carness has lectured on POCUS at the local, regional and international level, and has served as an instructor at numerous POCUS workshops. He is engaged in research evaluating POCUS instruction, POCUS skill degradation, austere POCUS performance, and preoperative POCUS evaluation. He currently practices critical care anesthesiology at Madigan Army Medical Center.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan

Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology

Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists

Testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography

Certified in Diagnostic POCUS by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Committee member on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Critical Care Medicine Committee

Committee member on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Uniformed Services and Veteran's Affairs Committee

Representative Bibliography

Carness JM, Wilson MA, Lenart MJ, Smith DE, Dukes SF. Experiences with Regional Anesthesia for Analgesia During Prolonged Aeromedical Evacuation. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2017 Aug 1;88(8):768-772. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.4760.2017.

Carness J et al. (2023). Principles of Maritime Expeditionary Anesthesiology. In M. Tadlock & A. Hernandez (Eds.), Expeditionary Surgery at Sea: A Practical Approach (pp. 207-224). Springer International Publishing;

Carness JM, Halliday M, Walrath B. How to Improve Hospital Ship Preparedness. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. Jun 2024. 150(6):1456

Carness JM. The Goldilocks Principle of Perioperative Opioid Administration. Doximity Op-Med. Oct 2023

Carness JM, Kuza CM. Deliberate Oxygen Therapy – How Much Is Too Much of a Good Thing? ASA Monitor. 2023;87(6):33-33. doi:10.1097/01.ASM.0000938860.68159.a4

Carness JM, Wright ZL, Formanek AR III. Acute Congestive Hepatopathy, Diagnosed with Point-of-Care Hepatic Ultrasound in a Patient on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. CASE (Phila). 2023 Mar 1. doi: 10.1016/j.case.2022.12.012. PMCID: PMC9974369.

Carness JM, Lenart MJ. Spinal Anaesthesia for Cesarean Section in a Patient with Vascular Type Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Case Rep Anesthesiol. 2018; 2018:1924725.

Chino K, Carness JM, Claudio O, Haldeman M, Ozaki M. Unrecognized Postoperative Opioid-Induced Movement Disorder: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2021 May 6;15(5):e01448. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001448. PMID: 33955857.