Johanna Blair de Haan, MD
Johanna Blair de Haan, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Regional Anesthesiology, Acute Pain Medicine, and Perioperative Ultrasound
Fellowship Program Director, Regional Anesthesiology, Acute Pain Medicine, and Perioperative Ultrasound
Assistant Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency Program
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 713-500-6229
Educational Teaching Philosophy:
The practice of medicine is just that: a practice. No one comes out of the womb knowing everything about anything. Every day that we come to work, we learn and grow. I try to stay in touch with my inner medical student, my inner intern, my inner resident and inner fellow; I try to remember what I struggled to learn and know at each stage. It’s incredibly rewarding for me to watch new third year medical students get excited after they successfully place an IV or successfully intubate the trachea. As our newly matched residents progress through their intern year, it’s exciting for me to watch them grow as new physicians. Once those new physicians progress from their clinical base year to their first year of clinical anesthesia, it’s so fun to get to watch them go from not knowing where the alcohol swabs are, to managing trauma resuscitation in the operating room like they’ve been doing it all of their lives. Once our residents move on to fellowship, I love getting to watch them learn how to direct residents in procedures and in anesthesiology knowledge. It’s quite a different thing to learn how to do something for yourself, but learning how to direct and teach is quite another. I always challenge our regional anesthesiology fellows to, by the end of their fellowship year, be able to direct a resident through a peripheral nerve block or thoracic epidural without needing to put their hands on the instruments themselves. Another passion of mine is clinical research, especially in clinical anesthesiology and regional anesthesia. Using regional anesthesia techniques for management of acute pain, especially with our unique trauma population, requires an extreme amount of creativity and willingness to try new things. Having residents and fellows work with me through these moments is super rewarding and reminds me every day why I went into medicine in the first place. I am so honored by the opportunity to work with our trainees and watch them develop their passions.
Areas of Expertise
• Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine
• Perioperative Point of Care Ultrasound
• Point of Care Transthoracic Echocardiography
• Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma
• Liver Transplant Anesthesiology
• Trauma Anesthesiology
• Operating Room Scheduling and Board Running
Current Educational Activities
• Assistant Program Director for the Anesthesiology Residency Program
• Program Director for the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship
• Instructor for Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Simulation Lab
• Faculty for the American Society of Regional Anesthesiology in Point of Care Ultrasound
Honors and Awards
• Dean’s Teaching Award 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• Acute Pain Medicine Faculty of the Year Award 2019, 2022, 2023
• Regional Anesthesiology Faculty of the Year Award 2020, 2022, 2023
• Outstanding Resident of the Year in Anesthesiology 2016
• Neuroanesthesia Resident of the Year 2016
• Acute Pain Resident of the Year 2015
• ENT Anesthesiology Resident of the Year 2014
Publications
1. Yu D, Hernandez N, de Haan JB, Vu D. Ultrasound-Assisted Paramedian Thoracic Epidural. Reg. Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Feb;43(2):220. PMID 29356776.
2. de Haan JB, Hernandez N, Sen S. Erector Spinae block for postoperative analgesia following axillary hidradenitis suppurativa resection: a case report. Local Reg. Anesth 2018 Nov 15;11:87-90. PMID 30532584.
3. Stephens CT, de Haan JB, Gumbert SD, Pivalizza EG. Use of the Bougie Endotracheal Tube Introducer in Unstable Cervical Spine Airway Management? Anesth Analg. 2018 Dec;127(6):e112. PMID 30300180.
4. de Haan JB, Hernandez N, Dean S, Sen S. Surgical Anesthesia for Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty with Quadratus Lumborum and Fascia Iliaca Block. Proc (Bayl Univ. Med Cent). 2019 May 21;32(3):438-439. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2019.1600179. PMID: 31384215.
5. Pivalizza EG, de Haan JB. Limitation of the Internationalized Normalized Ratio in Guiding Perioperative Plasma Transfusion. Anesth Analg. 2019 Jan;128(1):e14. PMID 30379675.
6. de Haan JB, Markham T, Ghebremichael S. Considerations of a Resident Recruitment Committee on the USMLE Step 1 Examination. Acad Med. 2019 Jul;94(7):922-923. PMID: 31241567.
7. Hernandez, N, de Haan JB, Clendenin, Meyer DE, Ghebremichael S, Artime C, Williams G, Eltzchig H, Sen S. Impact of Serratus Plane Block on Pain Scores and Incentive Spirometry Volumes After Blunt Chest Trauma. Local Reg. Anesth. 2019 Aug 2;12:59-66. Doi: 10.2147/LRA.S207791. PMID: 31447581.
8. de Haan, JB, Chrisman OM, Lee L, Ge M, Hernandez N. T4 Erector Spinae Plane Block Relieves Postdural Puncture Headache: A Case Report. Cureus. 2019 Nov 26;11(11):e6237. Doi: 10.7759/cureus.6237. PMID: 31807394.
9. Hernandez N, Ghebremichael SJ, Sen S, de Haan JB. Opioid-Free Cesarean Section with Bilateral Quadratus Lumborum Catheters. Local Reg. Anesth. 2020 Feb 7;13:17-20. doi: 10.2147/LRA.S238026. PMID: 32104062.
10. de Haan JB, Tabba S, Lee LO, Ghebremichael S, Sen S, Shoham D, Hernandez N. Posterior Quadratus Lumborum Block for Labor Analgesia: A Case Report. AA Pract. 2020 May;14(7):e01193. doi: 10.1213/XAA.0000000000001193. PMID: 32371824.
11. de Haan JB, Yu D, Hernandez N, Sen S. Preventing Reintubation with the transverse thoracic muscle plane block. Ann Card Anaesth 2020;23:540-1. PMID: 33109825.
12. Gumbert SD, Nwokolo OO, Markham T, Ramirez-Chapman AL, Schakett BE, deHaan JB, George RM, Williams GW, Pivalizza EG. Observations and Suggestions for Millennial Resident Applicant Interviewees. Anesth Analg. 2016 Jun; 122(6):2065-6. Doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001232. PMID: 27195649.
13. Balogh J, Chen A, Marri T, de Haan JB, Guzman-Reyes S. Quadratus Lumborum 2 Block as the Sole Anesthetic Technique for Open Hernia Repair in Multimorbid Patients. Cureus. 2020 Aug 12;12(8):e9697. Doi: 10.7759/cureus.9697. PMID: 32923287.
14. de Haan JB, Hernandez N, Dean S, Sen S. Surgical anesthesia for revision total hip arthroplasty with quadratus lumborum and fascia iliaca block. Proc (Bayl Univ. Med Cent). 2019 May 21;32(3):438-439. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2019.1600179. PMID: 31384215.
15. Markham TH, de Haan JB, Guzman-Reyes S, Zaki JF, Ghebremichael SJ, Artime C, Pivalizza EG. Anesthesiology Resident Performance on the US Medical Licensing Examination Predicts Success on the American Board of Anesthesiology BASIC Staged Examination: An Observational Study. J Educ Perioperative Med. 2020 Jul 1;22(3):E646. doi: 10.46374/volxxii-issue3-Markham. PMID: 33225016.
16. Markham TH, de Haan JB, Guzman-Reyes S, Brollier LD, Campbell AN, Pivalizza EG. Potential harm of Elimination of Score Reporting for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Examination to Anesthesiology Residency Selection. Anesth Analg. 2021 Jan;132(1):275-279. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005235. PMID: 33031347.
17. Sen S, de Haan JB, Guvernator G, Kwater AP, Langridge XT, Freet DJ, Ge M, Hernandez N. Lumbosacral paraspinal interfascial plane blocks for pain control after feminizing genital gender affirmation surgery. Pain Manag. 2021 May;11(3):277-286. doi: 10.2217/pmt-2020-0062. PMID: 33533275.
18. Sen S, Hernandez N, Langridge XT, Lamaris GA, Ge MA, de Haan JB. Continuous erector spinae plane block for acute pain control in chest wall reconstruction of extensive traumatic degloving injury. Trauma Case Rep. 2021 Feb 10;32:100415. doi: 10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100415. PMID: 33665311.
19. Hernandez N, Guvernator G, Ansoanuur G, Ge M, Tabansi P, Le TT, Obeidat SS, de Haan J. Relief of Secondary Headaches with High Thoracic Erector Spinae Plane Block. Local Reg. Anesth. 2020 Jun 22;13:49-55. doi: 10.2147/LRA.S249250. PMID: 32606918.
20. Hernandez N, Sen S, de Haan JB, Haskins S, Pawa A. The Novel use of Biplane Imaging for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2021 Jul 15. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.4097/kja.21290. PMID: 34265201.
21. Kwater AP, Hernandez N, Artime C, de Haan JB. Interscalene Block for Analgesia in Orthopedic Treatment of Shoulder Trauma: Single-Dose Liposomal Bupivacaine versus Perineural Catheter. Local Reg. Anesth. 2021 Dec 7;14:167-178. doi: 10.2147/LRA.S303455. PMID: 34908874.