Episode 156: Inside the Monitor - The Road to and from the Perioperative Experience

Muhammad B. Rafique, MD

Muhammad B. Rafique, MD, is an associate professor at Loyola University Medical Center just outside of Chicago, Illinois. His areas of clinical interest are pediatric anesthesia and pediatric cardiovascular anesthesia.

After finishing medical school in Lahore, Pakistan, Dr. Rafique travelled to the U.S. where he interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, for his residency. He then completed a one-year fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor, and later joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as an associate professor and consultant pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist. Dr. Rafique has been married to his wife Chanda Babur for almost 16 years and they have three children aged 10, 8, and 7. 

Igor Tkachenko, MD, PhD

Igor Tkachenko, MD, PhD, is an associate professor and attending anesthesiologist at Loyola University Medical Center. He earned his MD and PhD degrees from Odessa National Medical University in Ukraine. Dr. Tkachenko completed his anesthesiology residency at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Before joining Loyola University, he worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center for over 12 years. Dr. Tkachenko is passionate about pediatric anesthesia and is actively involved in medical education. He is a recipient of Stephen Slogoff, MD Award for the Best Teacher of the Year 2020-2021.

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA

Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending physician with US Anesthesia Partners-Florida and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.

Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.