Dusica Bajic, MD, PhD
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
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Dusica Bajic, MD, PhD
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Medical School
University of Belgrade School of Medicine
1994
Belgrade
Serbia
Graduate School
Pharmacology
University of Illinois at Chicago
2000
Chicago
IL
Residency
Anesthesia
Yale New Haven Hospital
2007
New Haven
CT
Fellowship
Pediatric Anesthesia
Boston Children’s Hospital
2008
Boston
MA
Certifications
American Board of Anesthesiology (Pediatric Anesthesiology)
Publications
Retrospective analysis of early neurodevelopmental outcomes after esophageal atresia repair at a single institution: short-gap vs. long-gap defect. View Abstract
Acute Dystonic Reaction After Propofol Administration: A Pediatric Case Report. View Abstract
Retrospective analysis of neurological findings in esophageal atresia: Allostatic load of disease complexity, cumulative sedation, and anesthesia exposure. View Abstract
Body size and brain volumetry in the rat following prolonged morphine administration in infancy and adulthood. View Abstract
Infant Perioperative Risk Factors and Adverse Brain Findings Following Long-Gap Esophageal Atresia Repair. View Abstract
Two novel CHD7 variants in patients with typical and mild features of CHARGE syndrome co-occurring with esophageal atresia View Abstract
MRI Atlas of the Infant Rat Brain: Brain Segmentation View Abstract
Impact of Infant Thoracic Non-cardiac Perioperative Critical Care on Homotopic-Like Corpus Callosum and Forebrain Sub-regional Volumes. View Abstract
From the Ground Up: Esophageal Atresia Types, Disease Severity Stratification and Survival Rates at a Single Institution. View Abstract
Infant study of hemispheric asymmetry after long-gap esophageal atresia repair. View Abstract
Head circumference in infants undergoing Foker process for long-gap esophageal atresia repair: Call for attention. View Abstract
Infant Corpus Callosum Size After Surgery and Critical Care for Long-Gap Esophageal Atresia: Qualitative and Quantitative MRI. View Abstract
Neurologic Injury and Brain Growth in the Setting of Long-Gap Esophageal Atresia Perioperative Critical Care: A Pilot Study. View Abstract
Quantitative MRI study of infant regional brain size following surgery for long-gap esophageal atresia requiring prolonged critical care. View Abstract
Neonatal functional brain maturation in the context of perioperative critical care and pain management: A case report. View Abstract
Infant Brain Structural MRI Analysis in the Context of Thoracic Non-cardiac Surgery and Critical Care. View Abstract
Evaluation of Postnatal Sedation in Full-Term Infants. View Abstract
Preoperative Evaluation of the Pediatric Patient. View Abstract
Astrocytic hypertrophy in the rat ventral tegmental area following chronic morphine differs with age. View Abstract
Identifying Rodent Resting-State Brain Networks with Independent Component Analysis. View Abstract
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in the Infant Brain: Methods, Pitfalls, and Potentiality. View Abstract
Probing Intrinsic Resting-State Networks in the Infant Rat Brain. View Abstract
Long-term behavioral effects in a rat model of prolonged postnatal morphine exposure. View Abstract
Endogenous cholinergic neurotransmission contributes to behavioral sensitization to morphine. View Abstract
In: Mattes K, Laubach A, Wang E, Anderson A. (Eds), Pediatric Anesthesiology Board Review View Abstract
Projections from the rat cuneiform nucleus to the A7, A6 (locus coeruleus), and A5 pontine noradrenergic cell groups. View Abstract
Morphine-enhanced apoptosis in selective brain regions of neonatal rats. View Abstract
Periaqueductal gray neuroplasticity following chronic morphine varies with age: role of oxidative stress. View Abstract
Ultrastructural analysis of rat ventrolateral periaqueductal gray projections to the A5 cell group. View Abstract
Ketamine activates cell cycle signaling and apoptosis in the neonatal rat brain. View Abstract
Acute noxious stimulation modifies morphine effect in serotonergic but not dopaminergic midbrain areas. View Abstract
Visualizing acute pain-morphine interaction in descending monoamine nuclei with Fos. View Abstract
Prolonged exposure to ketamine increases brain derived neurotrophic factor levels in developing rat brains. View Abstract
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Dissociated histaminergic neuron cultures from the tuberomammillary nucleus of rats: culture methods and ghrelin effects. View Abstract
Effects of orexin (hypocretin) on GIRK channels. View Abstract
Two different inward rectifier K+ channels are effectors for transmitter-induced slow excitation in brain neurons. View Abstract
Topographic architecture of stress-related pathways targeting the noradrenergic locus coeruleus. View Abstract
Ultrastructural analysis of ventrolateral periaqueductal gray projections to the A7 catecholamine cell group. View Abstract
Periaqueductal gray neurons monosynaptically innervate extranuclear noradrenergic dendrites in the rat pericoerulear region. View Abstract
Projections of neurons in the periaqueductal gray and cuneiform nucleus to pontine noradrenergic neurons [Ph.D. Thesis]; Chicago (IL): Univ. of Illinois at Chicago. pp.224 View Abstract
Projections of neurons in the periaqueductal gray to pontine and medullary catecholamine cell groups involved in the modulation of nociception. View Abstract