Ethan O. Bryson

Dr. Bryson is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He received his MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2001 where he received the Dr. Joseph R. Jagust Award for excellence in Anesthesiology. After completing an Internal Medicine internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, he returned to Mount Sinai Hospital for residency training in Anesthesiology. Upon graduation, Dr. Bryson received the Senior Resident Recognition Award for Outstanding Academic Accomplishments during residency. As a supplement to residency training, Dr. Bryson completed a one-year fellowship in simulation education at the Mount Sinai Human Simulation Center.

Dr. Bryson has published extensively on the utilization of simulation in medical education and the care and treatment of the addicted patient. He is the editor and senior author of the multidisciplinary textbook "Perioperative Addiction" (Springer) and the non-fiction book "Addicted Healers" (New Horizons Press) on the topic of the addicted healthcare professional and has contributed chapters to multiple textbooks. Considered an expert in the field of the potential for addiction among anesthesiologists and the addictive nature of anesthetic agents, he is frequently consulted by Physicians and members of the lay media for comment on such matters.

Dr. Bryson's latest book, "The Opioid Epidemic", explores the political, economic and social history of opioid use with the intent of finding a solution to the current epidemic of opioid misuse and overdose around the world.