Wallis T. Muhly, MD Wallis T. Muhly, MD, is an Attending Anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Areas of Expertise: Regional anesthesia, Anesthesia for orthopedic surgery, Quality improvement Locations: Main Campus; Specialty Care & Surgery Center, King of Prussia, S. Goddard Blvd.; Specialty Care & Surgery Center, Bucks County; Specialty Care & Surgery Center, Brandywine Valley Appointments and Referrals: 1-800-TRY-CHOP (1-800-879-2467) Education and Training Medical SchoolMD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA InternshipTransitional Internship - Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA ResidencyAnesthesiology - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA FellowshipResearch - Howard Hughes Institute, Bethesda, MD Pediatric Anesthesiology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Chronic Pain Management, Perioperative and Pain Medicine - Children's Hospital Boston, Boston MA Board CertificationAnesthesiologyPediatrics Anesthesiology Titles and Academic Titles Attending AnesthesiologistCo-Director, Pediatric Anesthesia and Sedation CourseInstructor, Pediatric Anesthesia Boot CampAssistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Departments and Services Pain Management Program Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care MedicineGeneral Anesthesiology Research Interests Acute pain management Pediatric regional anesthesia Quality improvement Outcomes based research Publications Papers2015 Gurnaney H, Muhly WT, Kramer FK, Cucchiaro G, Ganesh A: Safety of pediatric continuous interscalene block catheters placed under general anesthesia - A single center's experience. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2015 Mar;59(3):377-83. doi: 10.1111/aas.12471. 2014 Muhly WT, Maxwell LG, Cravero JP: Pain management following the Nuss procedure: A survey of practice and review. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Oct;58(9):1134-9. doi: 10.1111/aas.12376. Epub 2014 Aug 4. Gurnaney H, Kraemer FW, Maxwell L, Muhly W, Schleelein L, Ganesh A: Ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks in children and adolescents: A longitudinal eight year single center study. Anesthesia and Analgesia Peter Davis, MD (eds.). Anesthesia and Analgesia, 118(3): 621-7, March 2014. Abstracts2014 Muhly WT, George P, Maxwell LG, Gurnaney HG, Capuco A, Kraemer FW, Ganesh A: A Retrospective Comparison of Ropivacaine and Chloroprocaine Continuous Epidural Analgesia for Management of Post Thoracotomy Pain in Infants American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting October 2014. 2013 Muhly WT, Maxwell LG, Cravero JP: Postoperative management of patients following the Nuss procedure: A survey of practice. American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting October 2013. BooksChapters 2015 Wallis T. Muhly, MD and Arjunan Ganesh, MBBS: Infraclavicular Block. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children. Stephen Mannion, Arjunan Ganesh, Gabrielle Iohom, Christopher Daudre and Mark Reisbig (eds.). Cambridge University Press, in press 2015. Arjunan Ganesh, MBBS and Wallis T Muhly, MD: Performance of Regional Anesthesia in Children. Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children. Stephen Mannion, Arjunan Ganesh, Gabrielle Iohom, Christopher Daudre and Mark Reisbig (eds.). Cambridge University Press, in press 2015. Posters and PresentationsInvited lectures 2015 "Multimodal Analgesia and the Management of the Heroin Addicted Adolescent on Suboxone Maintenance Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion for Idiopathic Scoliosis." Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Winter Meeting, Problem Based Learning Discussion, Phoenix, AZ, March 2015. "A neonate with multiple congenital anomalies for thoracotomy. Risks and benefits of multi-modal analgesia in the youngest patients." Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Winter Meeting, Problem Based Learning Discussion, Phoenix, AZ March 2015 2014 "A Retrospective Comparison of Ropivacaine and Chloroprocaine Continuous Epidural Analgesia for Management of Post Thoracotomy Pain in Infants." American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Poster Presentation, New Orleans, LA, October 2014. 2013 "Postoperative management of patients following the Nuss procedure: A survey of practice." American Society of Anesthesiologists, Poster Presentation, San Francisco, CA, October 2013. Awards and Honors 2014, First Place - Safe Keeping Achievement Award presented as part of the CHOP Fifth Annual Quality and Patient Safety Day 2005, Alliance Medical Scholarship Fund Scholarship, Pennsylvania Medical Society 2002, Arthur Mirsky Award for Outstanding Biomedical Science Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 2000, College of Natural Sciences Briggs-Kerst Undergraduate Scholarship, Colorado State University 2000, College of Liberal Arts Donna Weyrick Memorial Scholarship, Colorado State University 2000, Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Colorado State University Editorial and Academic Positions Editorial Positions 2014-present, Anesthesia and Analgesia Case Reports, peer-reviewer 2014-present, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, peer-reviewer 2013-present, British Journal of Anaesthesia, peer-reviewer Academic and Institutional Committees 2014, Office of Quality Improvement: Clinical team leader for development of an adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) spinal fusion rapid recovery pathway for inpatient care optimization 2012-present, Perioperative Liaison to Orthopaedic Surgery (non-scoliosis) Leadership and Memberships Memberships in Professional Organizations 2009-present, American Society of Regional Anesthesia 2008-present, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia 2005-present, American Society of Anesthesiologists