George L. Anesi, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has advanced training in clinical epidemiology, health services research, high-risk pathogen and disaster preparedness, biomedical ethics, and global health. His NIH-funded research program focuses on hospital preparedness and the evaluation of critical care and acute care resources during times of strain on the system, including situations of dynamic strain (such as random variation in demand, seasonal trends, epidemics, and disasters) and fixed strain (such as critical illness in resource-limited settings domestically and globally).
At Penn, Anesi sees patients in the medical intensive care units and on the rapid response service, and serves as Director of the Medical Critical Care Bioresponse Program and the Special Pathogen Treatment Unit.
Anesi received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Penn. He also holds master’s degrees in Clinical Epidemiology (University of Pennsylvania) and Bioethics (Case Western Reserve University).