Jeremy Lieberman, MD
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Lieberman's research focuses on ways to improve safety and reduce complications for patients having complex spine surgery. Specifically, he investigates how bleeding affects outcomes and how to decrease blood loss during these procedures, ways to reduce spinal cord injury during corrective surgeries for major spine deformities, and ways to reduce both postoperative pain and the use of opioids in spine surgery patients.

Lieberman earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. At UCSF, he trained in general surgery, completed a clinical fellowship in critical care medicine and a research fellowship in critical care medicine. He then completed a residency in anesthesiology at UCSF, serving as chief resident.

Lieberman is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, International Anesthesia Research Society, California Society of Anesthesiologists, and Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care.

In his free time, Lieberman enjoys cooking, which he has studied in Paris. He also enjoys bicycling, Ping-Pong, crossword puzzles and training cats.

• Efficacy of transcranial motor evoked potentials, mechanically elicited electromyography, and evoked electromyography to assess nerve root function during sustained compression in a porcine model.
  Spine 2014 Valone F, Lyon R, Lieberman J, Burch S
• Postoperative Blindness Due to Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Following Spine Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
  JBJS case connector 2014 Valone F, Lieberman JA, Burch S
• Effect of hemorrhage and hypotension on transcranial motor-evoked potentials in swine.
  Anesthesiology 2013 Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Lyon R, Rollins MD
• Fresh and stored red blood cell transfusion equivalently induce subclinical pulmonary gas exchange deficit in normal humans.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2012 Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Toy P, Twiford J, Shimabukuro D, Lieberman J, Looney MR, Lowell CA, Gropper MA
• High oxygen partial pressure decreases anemia-induced heart rate increase equivalent to transfusion.
  Anesthesiology 2011 Feiner JR, Finlay-Morreale HE, Toy P, Lieberman JA, Viele MK, Hopf HW, Weiskopf RB
• Increases in voltage may produce false-negatives when using transcranial motor evoked potentials to detect an isolated nerve root injury.
  Journal of clinical monitoring and computing 2011 Lyon R, Gibson A, Burch S, Lieberman J
• Modi HN, Suh SW, Yang JH, et al. False-negative transcranial motor-evoked potentials during scoliosis surgery causing paralysis. Spine 2009;34:e896–900.
  Spine 2010 Lieberman JA, Berven S, Gardi J, Hu S, Lyon R, MacDonald DB, Schwartz D, Sestokas A, Yingling C
• Mixed-muscle electrode placement ("jumping" muscles) may produce false-negative results when using transcranial motor evoked potentials to detect an isolated nerve root injury in a porcine model.
  Journal of clinical monitoring and computing 2009 Lyon R, Burch S, Lieberman J
• Relative efficacy of transcranial motor evoked potentials, mechanically-elicited electromyography, and evoked EMG to assess nerve root function during sustained retraction in a porcine model.
  Spine 2009 Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Burch S
• Monitoring of nerve root injury using transcranial motor-evoked potentials in a pig model.
  Spine 2008 Mok JM, Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Cloyd JM, Burch S
• The efficacy of motor evoked potentials in fixed sagittal imbalance deformity correction surgery.
  Spine 2008 Lieberman JA, Lyon R, Feiner J, Hu SS, Berven SH
• Visual loss after spinal surgery.
  Anesthesiology 2007 Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Lieberman J, Hu SS
• The effect of age on motor evoked potentials in children under propofol/isoflurane anesthesia.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2006 Lieberman JA, Lyon R, Feiner J, Diab M, Gregory GA
• Fresh blood and aged stored blood are equally efficacious in immediately reversing anemia-induced brain oxygenation deficits in humans.
  Anesthesiology 2006 Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Hopf H, Lieberman J, Finlay HE, Quah C, Kramer JH, Bostrom A, Toy P
• Progressive suppression of motor evoked potentials during general anesthesia: the phenomenon of "anesthetic fade".
  Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology 2005 Lyon R, Feiner J, Lieberman JA
• Optimal head rotation for internal jugular vein cannulation when relying on external landmarks.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2004 Lieberman JA, Williams KA, Rosenberg AL
• Strategies for managing decreased motor evoked potential signals while distracting the spine during correction of scoliosis.
  Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology 2004 Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Grabovac MT, Hu S
• Bilateral cervical nerve infiltration supplements epidural analgesia for sternotomy pain after lung volume reduction surgery.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2003 Dorje P, Woodcock B, Adhikary G, Rodziewicz T, Lieberman J
• Heart rate increases linearly in response to acute isovolemic anemia.
  Transfusion 2003 Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Hopf H, Viele MK, Watson JJ, Lieberman J, Kelley S, Toy P