Central Line episode 141: Military Medicine

Commander Jeffrey Carness, MD, FASA

Commander Jeffrey Carness graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas. Subsequently he completed a Transitional Internship and Anesthesiology Residency training at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. After residency, he served as the Department Chair for Anesthesiology at US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. Subsequently, he completed a critical care anesthesiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. CDR Carness has deployed in support of USINDOPACOM and USAFRICOM operations. In 2022, CDR Carness served as critical care anesthesiologist on board the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) during Pacific Partnership, the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific. He currently practices critical care anesthesiology at Madigan Army Medical Center.

A Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology, CDR Carness is a both a fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and a Testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography. He further serves as an adjunct committee member on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Critical Care Medicine Committee. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Brian Brenner, MD, LT, MC, USN

Brian Brenner, MD, LT, MC, USN is a staff anesthesiologist at Naval Medical Center San Diego where works as well as teaches medical students and residents. He is also is assigned to Navy Medicine Casualty Receiving Treatment Ship team 8 (CRTS-8) which activates out of San Diego California to provide medical support aboard LHD amphibious assault ships in times of need. Dr. Brenner is passionate about medical education, global health, and improving outcomes for service members and veterans with chronic pain.

Dr. Brenner is a double graduate of the University of Virginia Medical School where he received his medical doctorate as well completed residency in anesthesiology where he was selected and served as a chief resident in his final year. Dr. Brenner joined the US Navy in 2016 and has had a lifelong desire to serve in the US Navy since the time he was a child growing up in Pensacola FL where he spent time with his grandfather, a naval academy graduate, and father a VA physician. His life experience sparked his interest in anesthesiology and inspired him to research innovative topics in pain medicine during medical school and residency where he had a very productive period of publication and received various accolades for research, medical education, and clinical excellence including: the ASRA Pain Medicine resident/fellow of the year award, the UVA medical student teaching award for residents and fellows, an A&A practice publication case of the month, and a Dean’s resident award for global health. Dr. Brenner plans to complete a fellowship in pain medicine in the near future and he hopes to continue to grow as a physician, mentor, and leader.

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin.  He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.