Valerie Armstead, MD, FAAP, DABA

Clinical Interests

• Airway management
• Regional anesthesia (especially plane blocks)
• Vascular biology
• Anesthesia effects on eukaryotic cells
• Alternative methods of anesthetic delivery
• Disparities in healthcare, education & nutrition

Educational Background

• Fellowship, Pediatric Cardio-thoracic Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital at the Houston Medical Center, Houston, TX, 2010
• Fellowship, Liver Transplant Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989
• Fellowship, Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Washington Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 1987
• Residency, Anesthesiology, Barnes & Affiliated Hospitals, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1986
• MD, Washington University at St. Louis School of  Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1981
• BA, Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1977

Certifications

• Anesthesiology
  • Sub-specialty of Pediatric Anesthesiology

Memberships

• Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists
• Philadelphia Society of Anesthesiologists
• New Jersey Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• Association of University Anesthesiologists
• American Academy of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology subsection
• American Medical Association
• American Heart Association
• American Society of Echocardiography
• National Medical Association
• American Medical Women's Association
• American Psychological Society
• National Physician's Alliance
• Doctors for America
• Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
• Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
• Nitric Oxide Society

Digital Bibliography

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Additional Publications

D'Souza, G, Armstead, VE: Chapter 11: Sickle Cell Disease Chronic Pain Issues, in Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice, Editors: Surresh S and McClain B, Publisher: Springer, 2011

Armstead, VE: Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Newsletter: Pro Con, Endotracheal Tubes vs. Supraglottic Airways, Summers, 2011.

Armstead, VE. Master An Uncooperative Child with a Difficult Airway, in Master Techniques in Upper and Lower Airway Management, First Edition, Editor: Rosenblatt W, Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia, 2015: 154.

Armstead, VE. Master Pediatric Airway Foreign Bodies, in Master Techniques in Upper and Lower Airway Management, First Edition, Editor: Rosenblatt W, Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia, 2015:158.

Armstead, VE: Pediatric sedative methods: An update. Anesthesia and Analgesia 86(Supplement):1-5, 1998.

ASTM F2560-06, Standard Specification for Supralaryngeal Airways and Connectors, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2006, www.astm.org (Committee member).