
Joanne Shay, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
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
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
- Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
- 601 North Caroline Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-6945
- fax: 410-614-8204
Expertise
Education
Children's National Hospital
Fellowship, Anesthesiology, 1990The University of Chicago Medical Center
Residency, Anesthesiology, 1989University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 1986Board Certifications
Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, 1991Insurance
- 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)