George Anesi

Dr. George L. Anesi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and Core Faculty at the PAIR Center. He is an Attending Physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he sees patients in the medical intensive care units and serves as Director of the Medical Critical Care Bioresponse Program and the Special Pathogen Treatment Unit.

Dr. Anesi’s NIH-funded research program focuses on hospital preparedness and the evaluation of critical care and acute care resources during times of strain to the system, including situations of dynamic strain (i.e., random variation in demand, seasonal trends, epidemics, and disasters) and fixed strain (i.e., critical illness in resource-limited settings domestically and globally). With PAIR Center and external mentors and collaborators, Dr. Anesi has developed novel methods to measure hospital-wide capacity strain, the relationship between capacity strain and changes in care delivery, the relative benefits of intensive care unit care, and various phenomena during the COVID-19 pandemic including divergence between clinician-perceived subjective hospital strain and quantitatively measured objective hospital strain. Ongoing and upcoming research will look to better quantify adaptation, resiliency, and clinician burnout, working towards actionable targets for organizational interventions to improve hospital preparedness. Dr. Anesi has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and is past Chair of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Section on Terrorism and Inhalation Disasters.

Dr. Anesi received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Penn. He also holds a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (Penn) and a Master of Bioethics (Case Western).