Gavin Ovsak, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2020 | Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, US, Business Administration, Masters |
| 2020 | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US, Medicine, Doctorate |
| 2015 | Duke University, Durham, NC, US, Majors in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering |
Postgraduate Training
| 2025-2026 | Data Science Fellow, Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2020-2024 | Resident, Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2025 | Anesthesiology Board Certification |
| 2024 | DEA |
| 2024 | PALS |
| 2024 | ACLS |
| 2024 | BLS |
| 2024 | Texas Medical Board |
Experience & Service
Other Professional Positions
Chief Technology Officer, EasyCV.me, Boston, MA, 2019 - 2024
Software Engineering Intern, Google, Mountain View, California, 2015 - 2015
Technology Transfer Intern, Mayo Clinic Ventures, 2014 - 2014
Software Engineering Intern, Google, Kirkland, Washington, 2013 - 2013
Engineering Intern, Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011 - 2011
Intramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Data, Analytics, and Reporting Informatics (DARI), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - Present
Co-Lead, Breast ERAS Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - Present
Co-Lead, Gyn ERAS Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - Present
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Committee on Patient Safety and Education, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2025 - Present
Member, Committee on Innovation, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2025 - Present
Member, House Staff Quality and Safety Committee, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2021 - 2024
Resident Director, Digital Education and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2021 - 2024
Honors & Awards
| 2022 | Patient Safety Award, ASRA Pain Medicine Conference |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2025. Unexpected Surgical Airway in Endoscopy. Invited. Morbidity and Mortality Review. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. Global Surgery Panel. Panelist. 13th Annual Houston Global Health Collaborative 2025 Conference. Houston, TX, US.
Regional Presentations
- 2019. Modernizing the Surgical Case Log: Boston Children’s Hospital Healthcare Professionals’ Education Poster Presentation. Poster. Boston Children’s Hospital. Boston, Massachusetts, US.
National Presentations
- 2025. An AI Powered Tool for Administering Mock Oral Board Exams. Poster. ASA Annual Meeting 2025. San Antonio, TX, US.
- 2025. Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Standardized Mock Anesthesia Readiness Test (SMART). Conference. International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Annual Meeting, 2025. Honolulu, HI, US.
- 2024. Are Women More At Risk For Permanent Pacemaker Insertion After Cardiac Surgery?. International Anesthesia Research Society Meeting (IARS) and Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA). Seattle, WA, US.
- 2024. Retrospective review of ECMO fibrin sheath occurrence after decannulation. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada, US.
- 2022. Choosing the Right Block: A New Web-Based Tool for Physicians Worldwide. Poster. ASRA Pain Medicine Conference. Orlando, Florida, US.
International Presentations
- 2025. Essentials of Anesthesia for HIPEC Procedures. Invited. Cancer Anesthesia (CAN)-ECHO Indonesia. Jakarta, ID.
- 2025. Onco-Anesthesia: Improving Safety, Recovery, and Cancer Outcomes. Invited. Jakarta, ID.
- 2018. Bayesian Analytics (BA) to Identify Relationships Between Cancer Treatment Regimens, Patient Comorbidities, and Specific Toxicity Risk: ToxScreen Care Demonstration Project. Poster. 2018 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting. Vienna, AT.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Cortes-Mejia, NA, Guerra-Londono, JJ, Islam, T, Lillemoe, HA, Ovsak, GG, Feng, L, Cata, JP. Sugammadex Versus Neostigmine in Return to Intended Oncological Therapy After Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery. Cancers 17(21), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41228345.
- Cortes-Mejia N, Guerra-Londono JJ, Feng L, Gloria-Escobar JM, Lillemoe HA, Ovsak G, Cata JP. The impact of sugammadex versus neostigmine reversal on return to intended oncological therapy-related outcomes after breast cancer surgery: a retrospective cohort study. Perioper Med (Lond) 14(1):92, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40898363.
- Achu-Lopes, R, Tsen, LC, Ovsak, GG, Raheel, NA, Farber, MK, Maeda, A. Upper back, neck, and shoulder pain during labor epidural analgesia. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 60, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39255553.
- Datar, Y, Cuddy, SA, Ovsak, GG, Giblin, GT, Maurer, MS, Ruberg, FL, Arnaout, R, Dorbala, S. Myocardial Texture Analysis of Echocardiograms in Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 37(5):570-573, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38395112.
- Cuddy SA, Datar Y, Ovsak G, Saith S, Murphy SP, Bay CP, Haddad M, Lilleness B, Muralidhar V, Pipilas A, Vuong J, Guardino E, Maurer MS, Ruberg FL, Falk RH, Dorbala S.. Optimal Echocardiographic Parameters to Improve the Diagnostic Yield of Tc-99m-Bone Avid Tracer Cardiac Scintigraphy for Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 15(11):E014645, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36378779.
- Henglin M, Claggett BL, Antonelli J, Alotaibi M, Magalang GA, Watrous JD, Lagerborg, KA, Ovsak G, Musso G, Demler OV, Vasan RS, Larson MG, Jain M, Cheng S. Quantitative Comparison of Statistical Methods for Analyzing Human Metabolomics Data. Metabolites 12(6), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35736452.
- Yeap BY, De Rienzo A, Gill RR, Oster ME, Dao MN, Dao NT, Levy RD, Vermilya K, Gustafson CE, Ovsak G, Richards WG, Bueno R. Mesothelioma Risk Score: A New Prognostic Pretreatment, Clinical-Molecular Algorithm for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34242791.
- Fallah PN, Ovsak GG, Kasper J, Riviello R, Nezerwa Y, Wispelwey B, Osman NY, Kumar. A Longitudinal Case-Based Global Health Curriculum for the Medical Student Clerkship Year, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33324748.
- Ovsak G, Antonelli J, Claggett BL, Henglin M, Kim A, Kim N, Deng K, Rao K, Tyagi O, Watrous JD, Lagerborg KA, Hushcha PV, Demler OV, Mora S, Niiranen TJ, Pereira AC, Jain M, Cheng S. Statistical Workflow for Feature Selection in Human Metabolomics Data, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31336989.
Review Articles
- Ovsak GG, Mena GE, Lasala JD. Intraoperative Management for Enhanced Recovery After Gynecologic Surgery. Clin Obstet Gynecol 68(4):491-500, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41066393.
Editorials
- Ovsak, GG, Gan, TJ. Managing patients taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists. British journal of anaesthesia 136(1):12-14, 2026. PMID: 41162256.
- Ovsak G, Gan TJ. Navigating Patients Taking Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Receptor Agonists: Proceed with Caution. British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Abstracts
- A. Owolabi, Ovsak G, J. Pennycuff, S. Pham, A. Muthukumar, M. Ramirez. Intraoperative Shock Liver during a Liver Trisegmentectomy. ASA Annual Meeting 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Dasani S, Ovsak G, Justice S, Nabzdyk C, Karamnov S. Navigating the rhythms of atrial fibrillation – a tango between clinical outcomes and anesthesia financial implications. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 2024.
- Johnson C, Ramirez L, Majekodumi J, Tsai E, Wang M, Ovsak G. Remimazolam for Procedural Sedation in the Setting of an Interventricular Septum Mass. 2026 Whistler Anesthesiology Summit.
- Fallah PN, Raty S, Tsai J, Taylor J, Ovsak G. Assessing Risk and Outcomes of Preoperative Anemia in Gynecologic Oncology Patients: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Analysis. SGO 2026 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer.
- Ovsak G., Bachour P.. Bayesian Analytics (BA) to Identify Relationships Between Cancer Treatment Regimens, Patient Comorbidities, and Specific Toxicity Risk: ToxScreen Care Demonstration Project. 2018 MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting.
- Crum R., Ovsak G., Yang A., Wu K., Lyn H., Tran A., Docktor M., Kim H., Afshar S.. Modernizing the Surgical Case Log. Boston Children’s Hospital Healthcare Professionals’ Education Poster Presentation.
- Ovsak G., Gosalia N., Zeballos J., Vlassakov K.. Choosing the Right Block: A New Web-Based Tool for Physicians Worldwide. ASRA Pain Medicine Conference.
- Ibanez L., Ovsak G., Farber M.. Integration of A Quantitative Blood Loss and Hemorrhage Alert System for Vaginal Delivery: A Before and After Comparison to Evaluate Postpartum Hemorrhage Outcomes over 8 Year. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Raheel, Ovsak G, Kowalczyk. Trends of tranexamic acid (TXA) use in High-Acuity Obstetric Patients in a High-Resource Setting. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Galanti G, Ovsak G, Reale S. Patient, Temporal and Provider Factors Associated with Unintended Dural Puncture in Obstetrics. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Mootz A., Ovsak G., Vu H., Mai H., Farber M., Taha B., Kim J.. Development of an Obstetric Anesthesia Quality Improvement Framework for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Pilot Study in Vietnam. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Ovsak G., Mootz A., Vu H., Tran C., Tsen L., Kim J., Taha B.. Improving Obstetric Anesthesia Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results of a Pilot Needs Assessment Survey in Vietnam. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Wen M., Ovsak G., Farber M.. Timing of initiation of non-opioid analgesics for post-cesarean delivery pain: a before and after comparison of opioid utilization. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Liao, Ovsak G, Raheel, Farber M, Kowalczyk J. Temporal Trends in Cryoprecipitate and Fibrinogen Concentrate Utilization for Postpartum Hemorrhage from 2015 to 2023. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- Venkatachalam S., Ovsak G., Kim J., Murthy A., Maurer R., Tsen L., Maeda A.. Racial and ethnic disparities in labor epidural analgesia outcomes. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting.
- L Nemani, Ovsak G, L Palmer. Are Women More At Risk For Permanent Pacemaker Insertion After Cardiac Surgery?. International Anesthesia Research Society Meeting (IARS) and Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA).
- Kureti S., Bourgeois C., Ovsak G., Owusu-Agyemang P., Zavala A.M., Siddiqui Z., Tsai J.Y.. Anesthetic Management in Pediatric MRI: A Retrospective Review at a Large Oncologic Referral Hospital Center. 15th European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology Congress.
- Rackley S, Ovsak G, Yan L, Luo C, Nabzdyk C. Mesenteric Ischemia Following Heart Transplantation: A Case Series Review. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 2024.
- Barrett K, Gonzalez Ciccarelli L, Ovsak G, Nabzdyk C, Seethala R, Palmer L, Bartz R, Varelmann D. Retrospective review of ECMO fibrin sheath occurrence after decannulation. Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 2024.
Book Chapters
- SIlva J, Jackson A, Ovsak G. Plastic Surgery and Flap Graft Management of Radial Forearm, VRAM, TRAM, DIEP, and ALT Flaps in Critically Ill Cancer Patients. In: The Oncologic Critical Care Textbook.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified July 22, 2026