Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

By focusing on the perioperative period, she seeks to improve both the information patients receive during the perioperative evaluation in terms of their brain health assessment and also develop potential approaches for neuroprotection during the period of surgery and postoperative recovery.

• Addressing gaps in primary care diagnosis of cognitive impairment via a telephone-based nurse consultation.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Shin SY, Goode CA, Bui NM, Premkumar M, Hill-Sakurai LE, Bernstein Sideman A, Kiekhofer RE, Chodos AH, Dulaney S, Wynn MJ, Barreto Chang OL, Possin KL
• Defining the role of Interleukin-6 for the development of perioperative neurocognitive disorders: Evidence from clinical and preclinical studies.
  Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023 Barreto Chang OL, Maze M
• A novel approach for the detection of cognitive impairment and delirium risk in older patients undergoing spine surgery.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Barreto Chang OL, Whitlock EL, Arias AD, Tsoy E, Allen IE, Hellman J, Bickler PE, Miller B, Possin KL
• Age-Related Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders: Experimental Models and Druggable Targets.
  Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology 2022 Barreto Chang OL, Possin KL, Maze M
• ASA Monitor
  Moving Forward: 2022 Committee on Professional Diversity's 2nd Virtual Doctors Back to School Program 2022 Christine Vo and Odmara L. Barreto Chang
• Ketamine-Associated Intraoperative Electroencephalographic Signatures of Elderly Patients With and Without Preoperative Cognitive Impairment.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2022 Barreto Chang OL, Kreuzer M, Morgen DF, Possin KL, García PS
• Burst Suppression During General Anesthesia and Postoperative Outcomes: Mini Review.
  Frontiers in systems neuroscience 2022 Pawar N, Barreto Chang OL
• ASA Monitor
  Reaching Out During Challenging Times: The First Virtual Doctors Back to School ProgramTM Event 2021 Odmara L. Barreto Chang, Daniel P. Corsino, Crystal C. Wright
• A case report: anaphylaxis to cefazolin during renal transplant surgery.
  Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2021 Hemati K, Gierat S, Roll GR, Barreto Chang OL
• A little help from our friends: intra-operative endoscopy for the extraction of an ingested foreign body.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2011 Barreto-Chang O, Palmer O, Ready J, Hwang J
• Diagnosis of pilomatricoma using an otoscope.
  Pediatric dermatology 2010 Barreto-Chang OL, Gorell ES, Yamaguma MA, Lane AT
• Vitamin D--deficient rickets in a child with cow's milk allergy.
  Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 2010 Barreto-Chang OL, Barreto-Chang O, Pearson D, Shepard WE, Longhurst CA, Longhurst C, Greene A
• Regulation of Neuronal Survival and CREB-Dependent Transcription by CaV1.2 L-Type Calcium Channels
  Regulation of Neuronal Survival and CREB-Dependent Transcription by CaV1.2 L-Type Calcium Channels 2010 Barreto-Chang OL
• Calcium imaging of cortical neurons using Fura-2 AM.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2009 Barreto-Chang OL, Dolmetsch RE
• Parcs is a dual regulator of cell proliferation and apaf-1 function.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2008 Sanchez-Olea R, Ortiz S, Barreto O, Yang Q, Xu CJ, Zhu H, Yuan J
• The C terminus of the L-type voltage-gated calcium channel Ca(V)1.2 encodes a transcription factor.
  Cell 2006 Gomez-Ospina N, Tsuruta F, Barreto-Chang O, Hu L, Dolmetsch R
• Bcl-2 transfection via herpes simplex virus blocks apoptosis-inducing factor translocation after focal ischemia in the rat.
  Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2004 Zhao H, Yenari MA, Cheng D, Barreto-Chang OL, Sapolsky RM, Steinberg GK