Danny Muehlschlegel, MD

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Dr. Danny Muehlschlegel is the Mark C. Rogers Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he leads a multi-site perioperative enterprise spanning The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bayview, Howard County, and affiliated sites. He is a practicing cardiovascular anesthesiologist with subspecialty expertise in transesophageal echocardiography and the perioperative care of patients with complex cardiovascular disease. As an NIH-funded physician-scientist, Dr. Muehlschlegel directs a translational research program centered on perioperative genomics and multi-omics in cardiac surgery. His group integrates genome-wide association data, polygenic risk scores, transcriptomics, and emerging digital biomarkers to predict and prevent adverse cardiovascular events after surgery, with postoperative atrial fibrillation as a central clinical anchor. He founded and leads the NHLBI-sponsored TRANSCRIBE and GENEXPRO Surg studies, which together define the genetic and transcriptomic architecture of perioperative myocardial injury and atrial fibrillation. Beyond Hopkins, Dr. Muehlschlegel is the Vice Chair of the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia. He is a member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists and the Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists, and an associate oral board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology, roles through which he helps shape national standards in academic anesthesiology.