Jeremy Lieberman, MD

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Biography: 

Dr. Jeremy Lieberman is an anesthesiologist and critical care specialist who sees patients in the hospital. His patients include those undergoing spine surgery and those in intensive care, and including women who are pregnant or in the postpartum period.

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.

Publications: 
Fournier S, Clark JP, Lieberman JA. Letter to the Editor. Incorrect analysis of motor evoked potential efficacy for pedicle subtraction osteotomy. J Neurosurg Spine. 2020 Jan 10; 1-2.
Lieberman JA, Lyon R, Jasiukaitis P, Berven SH, Burch S, Feiner J. The reliability of motor evoked potentials to predict dorsiflexion injuries during lumbosacral deformity surgery: importance of multiple myotomal monitoring. Spine J. 2019 03; 19(3):377-385.
Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Rollins M, Lyon R, Jasiukaitis P. Correction to: Changes in transcranial motor evoked potentials during hemorrhage are associated with increased serum propofol concentrations. J Clin Monit Comput. 2018 06; 32(3):581.
Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Rollins M, Lyon R, Jasiukaitis P. Changes in transcranial motor evoked potentials during hemorrhage are associated with increased serum propofol concentrations. J Clin Monit Comput. 2018 06; 32(3):541-548.
Feiner JR, Gropper MA, Toy P, Lieberman J, Twiford J, Weiskopf RB. A Clinical Trial to Detect Subclinical Transfusion-induced Lung Injury during Surgery. Anesthesiology. 2015 Jul; 123(1):126-35.
Valone F, Lyon R, Lieberman J, Burch S. 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 (Phila Pa 1976). 2014 Aug 01; 39(17):E989-93.
Valone F, Lieberman JA, Burch S. Postoperative Blindness Due to Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Following Spine Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. JBJS Case Connect. 2014 Apr 09; 4(2):e30.
Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Lyon R, Rollins MD. Effect of hemorrhage and hypotension on transcranial motor-evoked potentials in swine. Anesthesiology. 2013 Nov; 119(5):1109-19.
Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Toy P, Twiford J, Shimabukuro D, Lieberman J, Looney MR, Lowell CA, Gropper MA. Fresh and stored red blood cell transfusion equivalently induce subclinical pulmonary gas exchange deficit in normal humans. Anesth Analg. 2012 Mar; 114(3):511-9.
Feiner JR, Finlay-Morreale HE, Toy P, Lieberman JA, Viele MK, Hopf HW, Weiskopf RB. High oxygen partial pressure decreases anemia-induced heart rate increase equivalent to transfusion. Anesthesiology. 2011 Sep; 115(3):492-8.
Lyon R, Gibson A, Burch S, Lieberman J. Increases in voltage may produce false-negatives when using transcranial motor evoked potentials to detect an isolated nerve root injury. J Clin Monit Comput. 2010 Dec; 24(6):441-8.
Lieberman JA, Berven S, Gardi J, Hu S, Lyon R, MacDonald DB, Schwartz D, Sestokas A, Yingling C. 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 (Phila Pa 1976). 2010 Mar 15; 35(6):717-8; discussion 714-7, 718-20.
Lyon R, Burch S, Lieberman J. 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. J Clin Monit Comput. 2009 Dec; 23(6):403-8.
Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Feiner J, Burch S. 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 (Phila Pa 1976). 2009 Jul 15; 34(16):E558-64.
Mok JM, Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Cloyd JM, Burch S. Monitoring of nerve root injury using transcranial motor-evoked potentials in a pig model. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2008 Jun 15; 33(14):E465-73.
Lieberman JA, Lyon R, Feiner J, Hu SS, Berven SH. The efficacy of motor evoked potentials in fixed sagittal imbalance deformity correction surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2008 Jun 01; 33(13):E414-24.
Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Lieberman J, Hu SS. Visual loss after spinal surgery. Anesthesiology. 2007 Jun; 106(6):1250-1; author reply 1251-2.
Lieberman JA, Lyon R, Feiner J, Diab M, Gregory GA. The effect of age on motor evoked potentials in children under propofol/isoflurane anesthesia. Anesth Analg. 2006 Aug; 103(2):316-21, table of contents.
Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Hopf H, Lieberman J, Finlay HE, Quah C, Kramer JH, Bostrom A, Toy P. Fresh blood and aged stored blood are equally efficacious in immediately reversing anemia-induced brain oxygenation deficits in humans. Anesthesiology. 2006 May; 104(5):911-20.
Lyon R, Feiner J, Lieberman JA. Progressive suppression of motor evoked potentials during general anesthesia: the phenomenon of "anesthetic fade". J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2005 Jan; 17(1):13-9.
Lieberman JA, Williams KA, Rosenberg AL. Optimal head rotation for internal jugular vein cannulation when relying on external landmarks. Anesth Analg. 2004 Oct; 99(4):982-988.
Lyon R, Lieberman JA, Grabovac MT, Hu S. Strategies for managing decreased motor evoked potential signals while distracting the spine during correction of scoliosis. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2004 Apr; 16(2):167-70.
Dorje P, Woodcock B, Adhikary G, Rodziewicz T, Lieberman J. Bilateral cervical nerve infiltration supplements epidural analgesia for sternotomy pain after lung volume reduction surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2003 Jun; 17(3):359-60.
Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Hopf H, Viele MK, Watson JJ, Lieberman J, Kelley S, Toy P. Heart rate increases linearly in response to acute isovolemic anemia. Transfusion. 2003 Feb; 43(2):235-40.