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Joanne Shay

Joanne Shay, MD

Critical Care Medicine

Anesthesiology

Accepting New Patients
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • French
  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Female

About Joanne Shay

Professional Titles

  • Medical Director, Center for Perioperative Optimization

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Background

Dr. Joanne Emily Shay is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include anesthesiology.

Dr. Shay serves as the director of Pediatric Remote Anesthesiology Division at the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

A native New Yorker, Dr. Shay attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago. She completed her residency at the University of Chicago and returned there after a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She earned her M.B.A. from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Dr. Shay was on the faculty at D.C. Children’s for a number of years before entering private practice. She missed the academic environment and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins.

Her research interests include pediatric pain management in the developmentally disabled population, medical acupuncture for pain, regional anesthesia and peripheral nerve blocks in children and remote anesthesia services.

Centers and Institutes

Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Research Interests

Acupuncture for the treatment of pain in children, Business of medicine, Medical acupuncture, Pediatric pain management in the developmentally disabled population, Peripheral nerve blocks in children, Regional anesthesia and peripheral nerve blockade for acute pain in children, Remote anesthesia services for diagnostic studies and non-operative procedures in children and patients with special needs

Lab Website

Joanne Shay Lab - Lab Website

  • The Joanne Shay Lab primarily conducts research on pediatric pain management techniques. Our studies have explored pain management in special-needs children and patients, and we have studied non-traditional pain management methods, such as regional anesthesia and peripheral nerve blocks in children, medical acupuncture, and remote anesthesia services. We also have an ongoing interest in the business of medicine.

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
    • 601 North Caroline Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Children's National Hospital

    Fellowship, Anesthesiology, 1990

    The University of Chicago Medical Center

    Residency, Anesthesiology, 1989

    University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

    Medical Education, MD, 1986

    Board Certifications

    Anesthesiology

    American Board of Anesthesiology, 1991

    Insurance

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    • Aetna
    • CareFirst
    • Cigna
    • First Health
    • Geisinger Health Plan
    • HealthSmart/Accel
    • Humana
    • Johns Hopkins Health Plans
    • MultiPlan
    • Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
    • Point Comfort Underwriters
    • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
    • UnitedHealthcare
    • Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)