A Nisar Akbar MD MBA

Chief and Chairman Department of Anesthesiology Ascension St Joseph Hospital Chicago

800 W. Central Rd.Department of AnesthesiaArlington Heights, IL 60005
Phone+1 847-618-7140
Fax+1 847-618-0228

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Education & Training

Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated HospitalsResidency, Anesthesiology, 1992 - 1995
Aurora Health CareInternship, Internal Medicine, 1991 - 1992
King Edward Medical UniversityClass of 1987

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Certifications & Licensure

IL State Medical License 1997 - 2029
VA State Medical License 2023 - 2028
WI State Medical License 1992 - 2027
CA State Medical License 1996 - 2026
MI State Medical License 1996 - 2015
American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

7 citations
Patient-related acceptability of implementing preoperative screening for at-risk opioid and substance use.
Adam Akbar, Heidi Rieck, Samantha Roy, Reem Farjo, Yolanda Preston
Pain Medicine. 2023-08-01
27 citations
Skin resident memory CD8+ T cells are phenotypically and functionally distinct from circulating populations and lack immediate cytotoxic function
JA Seidel, Milica Vukmanovic-Stejic, Bojana Müller-Durovic, N Patel, Judilyn Fuentes-Duculan
Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 2018-09-12
23 citations
Transamidase site-targeted agents alter the conformation of the transglutaminase cancer stem cell survival protein to reduce GTP binding activity and cancer stem cell ...
C Kerr, H Szmacinski, M L Fisher, B Nance, J R Lakowicz
Oncogene. 2017-05-25

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