I completed my medical degree and anesthesiology residency training at UBC followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. I have been on staff at Vancouver Acute since 2014 specializing in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, lung transplant anesthesia and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. I am the anesthesia lead for lung transplant anesthesia and the Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia for UBC. My academic interests are in ERAS for cardiac anesthesia and thoracic anesthesia including the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. My early career accomplishments include implementing the use of VA ECMO to support lung transplantation at VGH and using regional anesthesia in patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.

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Thoracic anesthesia, Lung transplantation, ERAS for cardiac surgery, pulmonary hypertension.

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6322-4314

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=travis%20schisler%5BAuthor%5D&sort=date&ac=yes

The Year in Thoracic Anesthesia: Selected Highlights from 2022

Current trends in anesthesia for esophagectomy

Pulmonary Hypertensive Crisis on Induction of Anesthesia

My clinical interests are in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, lung transplant anesthesia and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. I am the anesthesia lead for lung transplant anesthesia and the Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia for UBC. My academic interests are in ERAS for cardiac anesthesia and thoracic anesthesia including the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. My early career accomplishments include implementing the use of VA ECMO to support lung transplantation at VGH and using regional anesthesia in patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.

UBC Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia; VGH Site Lead for the Anesthesia Residency Training Program (2016-2018); Royal College Examiner 2021-present.

Residency training program academic day lectures for thoracic anesthesia. R5 Seminar Series preparations in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia