Undergraduate
University of Michigan (Biology)

Graduate
Kellogg School of Management (MBA)

Medical
University of Michigan Medical School

Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Commander, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, 1987- 2006    

Medical Department Head, USS Belknap, Gaeta, Italy, Guided Missile Cruiser, Flagship US Sixth Fleet, 1992 - 94       
 
Field Hospital Anesthesiologist, First Medical Battalion, Camp Pendleton, California, Force Surgical Support Group, First Marine Division, 1999           
 
Battle Group Anesthesiologist, USS Theodore Roosevelt, Norfolk, Virginia, Aircraft Carrier, Battle Group Eight, US Second Fleet, 1998   

 Awards, Honors, Distinctions

Second Prize-Clinical Science, All Campus Research Day, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 2008
 
Best Scientific Paper Nomination, Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 2007 

First Prize-Clinical Science, All Campus Research Day, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 2007

Outstanding Research Addressing Women’s Health, All Campus Research Day, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 2007

First Prize-Clinical Science, All Campus Research Day, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 2004

Golden Apple Teaching Award, Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 2001

Best Scientific Paper Nomination, Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 2001

American Board of Anesthesiology
2006-  Oral Board Examiner, Provisional
2007-  Senior Editor, In-Training Examination
2002-06  Junior Editor, In-Training Examination

Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
2009- Treasurer
2009- Board of Directors
2009- Executive Committee
2006-09 Chair, Education Committee
2007-  Scientific Program Committee
2007-   Annual Meeting Program Committee
2007-  Disbursing Committee
2007-08 Ad hoc Committee on Accreditation for Obstetric Anesthesia
2007-  Ad hoc Committee on Resident Membership
2006-  Ad hoc Committee on Patient Safety 
2003-06  Education Committee
 
Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine
2008-09 Director, Critical Care Course

Society for Education in Anesthesia
2007-  Simulation Committee
2005-08  Membership Committee

Anesthesia and Analgesia
2007-  Ad Hoc Reviewer

Anesthesiology
2005- Ad Hoc Reviewer

International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
2008-  Ad Hoc Reviewer

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
2008-  Ad Hoc Reviewer

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
2004-  Ad Hoc Reviewer, Obstetric Anesthesia

Peer Reviewed Articles

Sullivan JT, Grobman W, Bauchat JR, Grouper S, Scavone BS, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA:. A Randomized controlled trial of the impact of combined spinal-epidural analgesia on the success of external cephalic version for breech delivery. IJOA 2009; Accepted for publication

Ahmad S, Nagle A, McCarthy RJ, Fitzgerald PC, Sullivan JT, Prystowsky J: Postoperative Hypoxemia in Morbidly Obese Patients with and without Obstructive Sleep Apnea Undergoing Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery. Anesth Analg 2008; 107(1): 138-43

Sullivan JT, Grouper S, Walker MT, Parrish TB, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA: Lumbosacral cerebrospinal fluid volume in human subjects using 3-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging. Anesth Analg 2006; 103(5): 1306-10

Scavone BM, Sproviero MT, Wong CA, Sullivan JT, Siddall VJ, Wade LD, McCarthy RJ: An objective scoring system for measurement of resident performance during an obstetric anesthetic scenario on the human patient simulator. Anesthesiology 2006; 105(2):260-266

Wong CA, Ratliff JT, Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, Toledo P, McCarthy RJ: A randomized comparison of programmed intermittent epidural bolus with continuous epidural infusion for labor analgesia. Anesth Analg 2006; 102:904-9

Wong CA, Scavone BM, Peaceman AM, McCarthy RJ, Sullivan JT, Diaz NT, Yaghmour E, Marcus RL, Sherwani SS, Sproviero MT, Yilmaz M, Patel R, Robles C, Grouper S: The risk of cesarean delivery with early versus late labor neuraxial analgesia. NEJM 2005; 352: 655-665

Scavone B, McCarthy RJ, Sherwani S, Yaghmour E, Sullivan JT, Marcus RJ, Wong CA: The efficacy of prophylactic epidural blood patch in the parturient after dural puncture with a 17-Guage Epidural Needle. Anesthesiology 2004; 101:1422-7

Chapters

Sullivan JT: Neuraxial Anesthesia in Obstetric Surgery in Cynthia Wong: Spinal Anesthesia. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007, 281-304

Sullivan JT, Wong CA: The Obese Parturient. in Gracia Hualde: Anesthetic Management of the Obese Patient. Greenwich Medical Media, London, 2004, 325-3

Non-Referreed Papers

Sullivan JT, Scavone BS, Cambic CR, Lee AI, HigginsN, Toledo P, Bauchat JR, Wojciechowski KG: Gerald W. Ostheimer Lecture Syllabus. SOAP 2009, 205-81

Layne-Peterson CL, Sullivan JT: Routine use of brain function monitoring during general anesthesia for cesarean delivery, pro. SOAP Newsletter, Fall, 2006:4-5

Sullivan JT, Cooper JB: Risk management and medicolegal aspects of anesthesia equipment. 2001

Sullivan JT: Surgery before anesthesia. ASA Newsletter, 60(9):8-10, 1996

Sullivan JT: Influences coming to bear on residencies. ASA Newsletter; 60(2):30, 1996

Abstracts

Toledo P, Wong CA, Olson S, Shah NK, Sullivan JT: The effect of autonomic nervous system balance at rest and during parasympathetic challenge on heart rate and blood pressure following spinal anesthesia. SOAP 2009, A-34

Pian-Smith MCM, Birnbach DJ, LeDuc LH, Stiegler MP, Sullivan JT, Raemer DB: Speaking up across authority gradients: An interactive, computer-based exercise to assess long term retention and transferability of simulator lessons. SOAP 2009, A-55

You W, Sullivan J, Chandrasekaran S, Grobman W: Validation of a scoring system to identify women with near-miss maternal morbidity. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;199:S67

Wojciechowski KG, McCarthy RJ, Toledo P, Sullivan JT: A randomized controlled trial of co-administered hydroxyethyl starch 6% versus lactated ringer’s solution on the incidence of maternal hypotension following spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery. Anesth Analg 2008; A-125

Higgins N, McCarthy RJ, Ebvaria MJ, Toledo P, Sullivan JT: The effect of intravenous magnesium therapy on the duration of intrathecal fentanyl analgesia. Anesth Analg 2008; 106:A-11

Wojciechowski KG, McCarthy RJ, Toledo P, Sullivan JT: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Co-Administered Hydroxyethyl Starch 6% Versus Lactated Ringer’s Solution on the Incidence of Maternal Hypotension following Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery. Anesth Analg 2008; 106: A-125

Toledo P, Higgins N, Scavone BM, Sullivan JT, WongCA: A Successful Instrumental Vaginal Delivery in a Parturient With an Extra-Adrenal Pheochromocytoma Anesth Analg 2008; 106: A-82

Bauchat JR, Grobman WA, Sullivan JT, McCarthy RJ, Fitzgerald PC, Wong CA: Effect of combined spinal-epidural analgesia versus systemic opioid analgesia on fetal heart rate for external cephalic version. Anesthesiology 2007; 106, A17

Wong CA, Sullivan JT, McCarthy RJ, Scavone BM, Patel R, Ebvaria MJ: Randomized trial of neuraxial versus systemic analgesia for labor induction: effect on incidence of Cesarean delivery. Anesthesiology 2007; 106, A25

Wojciechowski KG, McCarthy RJ, Sullivan JT, Wong CA: Autonomic nervous system testing using continuous wavelet transformations in term parturients. Anesthesiology 2007; 106, A143

Ahmad S, Sullivan JT, M.D., Fitzgerald PC, McCarthy RJ:  Obstructive sleep apnea does not Increase the risk of episodic hypoxemia following bariatric surgery. Anesthesiology 2006; 105, A371

Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, Grouper S, Patel R, Robles C, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of Combined-Spinal Epidural Analgesia on the Success of External Cephalic Version for Breech Delivery. Anesthesiology 2006; 104, A8

Scavone BM, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA, Sullivan JT, Chassard D: Influence of Chronobiology on Duration of Intrathecal Fentanyl Labor Analgesia. Anesthesiology 2006; 104, A28

Scavone BM, McCarthy RJ, Sullivan JT, Robles CM, Wong CA: Influence of Chronopharmacology on Labor Analgesia. Anesthesiology 2005; 101; A594

Grouper S, Sullivan JT, Walker M, Parrish T, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA: A 3-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Model for the Assessment of Lumbosacral Cerebrospinal Fluid Volume. Anesthesiology 2004; 100; A74

Greenberg S, Sullivan JT, Wong CA: Epidural Abscess After Neuraxial Analgesia in a Healthy Parturient. Anesthesiology 2004; 100; A115

Scavone B, McCarthy RJ, Sherwani S, Yaghmour E, Sullivan JT, Marcus RJ, Wong CA: The Efficacy of Prophylactic Epidural Blood Patch in the Parturient After Dural Puncture with a 17-Guage Epidural Needle. Anesthesiology; 100; A19

Wong CA, Scavone BM, Sullivan JT, Patel R, Robles C, McCarthy RJ: Early Labor Neuraxial Analgesia Does Not Increase the Incidence of Cesarean Delivery. Anesthesiology 2004; 100, A16

Sullivan JT, McCarthy RJ, Fitzgerald PC, Wong CA: A Cluster Analysis Model for Labor Progress and Outcome. Anesthesiology 2003; 98; A68

Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA: Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Is Associated with an Altered Pattern of Oxytocin Use. American Society of Anesthesiology 2002

Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA: Does Type of Analgesia Alter the Pattern of Oxytocin Use? Anesthesiology 2002; V96, A P-48

Wong CA, Scavone BM, Sullivan JT, McCarthy RJ: Randomized Trial of Neuraxial vs. Systemic Analgesia for Latent Phase Labor: Effect of Incidence of Cesarean Delivery. Anesthesiology 2002; V96, A O1-1

Scavone BM, Wong CA, Sullivan JT, McCarthy RJ: Effect of labor Analgesia on Fetal Bradycardia. Anesthesiology 2002; V96, A P-43

Sullivan JT, Scavone BM, Wong CA, Avram MJ: Use of IUPC to Evaluate the Effects of Combined Spinal-Epidural Analgesia on Uterine Contraction Patterns. Anesthesiology 2001; 94, A73