Dr. Sessler attended medical school at Columbia University, and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently Vice-president for Clinical Research at UTHealth in Houston. Dr. Sessler has published more than 1,000 full papers including three-dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA. More than 145 of his papers were accompanied by editorials, and more than 30 were cover articles for major anesthesia journals since 2010. His papers have been cited 70,000 times in peer-reviewed articles per Scopus — making him the world’s most published and cited perioperative investigator (H Index 126). He is among the top 0.01% of cited scientists in any field. He has given more than 500 invited presentations, including more than two-dozen eponymous lectures. Dr. Sessler has been a principal or co-investigator on grants totaling $100 million. He founded and directs the Outcomes Research Consortium. The Consortium is the world’s largest anesthesia research group; it publishes a full paper every other day, for a total of more than 2,300 papers.