Brian Raffel, DO

Brian Raffel is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and also serves as the Fellowship Program Director. He was born in New York, New York, and raised in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

He attended Penn State University for his undergraduate degree and attended the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University for medical school. He completed a postgraduate fellowship and residency at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. 

His areas of interest include the structural heart.

Original Articles

Merlin, M. A., S. M. Alter, and B. Raffel. "External Blood Loss Estimation Using the MAR Method." Am J Emerg Med 27 (2009): 1085-090.

Wagener, G., B. Raffel, A. Young, M. Minhaz, and J Emond. “Predicting early allograft failure and mortality after liver transplantation: The role of postoperative MELD score” Liver Transplantation. 2013 May 19(5) 534-42

Book Chapters

Brian Raffel, and Sagar S Mungekar. “Anesthesia for Watchman Procedure.” Cardiac Anesthesia: the Basics of Evaluation and Management, 1st ed., Springer, 2021, pp. 465–476.

Case Reports

Chiricolo, Antonio, MD; Pantin, Enrique, MD; Raffel, Brian, DO; Lemaire, Anthony, MD; Lee, Leonard Y., MD; “Ruptured Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm with Coronary Artery to Pulmonary Artery Fistula Presenting as Cardiac Tamponade Diagnosed by Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography”: A Case Report A&A Practice: August 1, 2018 – Volume 11 – Issue 3 – p-68-70

Poster Presentations

Merlin, M. A., S. M. Alter, and B. Raffel. "External Blood Loss Estimation Using the MAR Method." Journal Publication – Am J Emerg Med 27 (2009): 1085-090. Poster Presentation: NAEMSP Annual Conference 2008 – Scottsdale, AZ

Wagener, G., B. Raffel, A. Young, M. Minhaz, and J Emond. “Predicting early allograft failure and mortality after liver transplantation: The role of postoperative MELD score” Journal Publication: Liver Transplantation. 2013 May 19(5) 534-42 Poster Presentation: IARS 5/2011 – Vancouver, Canada

Raffel, B., S. Cohen, D Ramos, A Solina, G George, A Chiricolo, K Rah. “Emergent Awake Tracheostomy for Airway Obstruction from Neck Mass” Poster Presentation: 12/ 2013 Post Graduate Assembly – New York, NY

James T. Tse, M.D., Ph.D., Brian Raffel, D.O., Andrew Burr, D.O., Andrea Poon, B.S., Rose Alloteh, M.D., Shaul Cohen, M.D., Sylviana Barsoum, M.D. “A Simple Nasal CPAP Mask/Circuit Improved Oxygenation and Prevented Severe Desaturation in a Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea under Deep Propofol Sedation during Colonoscopy” Poster Presentation: Anesthesiology 10/2014 – New Orleans, LA

Neeraj Nanavati, MD, Shaul Cohen, MD, Sam Kiel, MD, Robert Jongco, MD, Brian Raffel, DO, Adil Mohiuddin MD, Rotem Naftalovich, MBA, Christine W. Hunter-Fratzola, MD. “Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis” Poster Presentation: Post Graduate Assembly 12/ 2014 – New York, NY

Patel P, Raffel B, Mellender S, Cohen S: “Safely Administering Neuraxial Anesthesia in a Patient with Phosphorylase B Kinase (PBK) and Mitochondrial Complex I (MCI) deficiencies.” Poster Presentation: 14th Annual Symposium on Regional Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine – New York, NY, September 2015

Freire V, Raffel B, Chiricolo A. “Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) as a Diagnostic Modality for Coronary Artery Aneurysms (CAA) and Coronary Arteriovenous Malformations (CAVM)” Poster Presentation: Anesthesiology 2015 – San Diego, CA, 10/ 2015.

Mellender S. MD, Patel P. MD, Cohen S. MD, Raffel B. DO, Shah. S. MD “Safely Administering Neuraxial Anesthesia in a Patient with Phosphorylase B Kinase (PBK) and Mitochondrial Complex 1 (MCI) deficiencies.” Poster Presentation: NJSSA Annual Meeting March 14, 2016, New Brunswick, NJ

Yukhvid, D., MD, Pantin E., MD, Raffel B, DO.: “Does the Ornim c-FLOW