Steven Shafer is a professor of anesthesiology at

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. In 2011, the International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology gave him their lifetime achievement award.

Education

Shafer graduated from

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with an A.B. He received his M.D. from Stanford and completed his anesthesia residency at the

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Career

Shafer is the former (2006-2016)

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of ''

Anesthesia & Analgesia ''Anesthesia & Analgesia'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering anesthesia, pain management, and perioperative medicine that was established in 1922. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the International An ...

''. He specializes in the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs. Shafer left Stanford in 2007 to go to

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) is the graduate medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Founded i ...

as a professor of anesthesiology. In 2012, Shafer returned to Stanford as an anesthesia professor in the

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. In addition, he is adjunct associate professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences at the

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. Shafer was a co-founder of PharmacoFore, which subsequently changed its name to Signature Therapeutics. He has held executive positions at other companies, including Pharsight and two software development companies. Shafer appeared as an expert witness in the Michael Jackson manslaughter trial.

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