Gavin Ovsak, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2020 | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US, Medicine, Doctorate |
| 2020 | Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, US, Business Administration, Masters |
| 2015 | Duke University, Durham, NC, US, Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science |
Postgraduate Training
| 2020-2024 | Anesthesiology Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Experience & Service
Other Professional Positions
Chief Technology Officer, EasyCV.me, Boston, MA, 2019 - 2024
Technology Transfer Intern, Mayo Clinic Ventures, 2015 - 2014
Software Engineering Intern, Google, Mountain View, California, 2015 - 2015
Software Engineering Intern, Google, Kirkland, Washington, 2013 - 2013
Engineering Intern, Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011 - 2011
Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Gyn ERAS Committee, 2025 - Present
Member, House Staff Quality and Safety Committee, 2021 - 2024
Resident Director, Digital Education and Technology, 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.
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. 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. Onco-Anesthesia: Improving Safety, Recovery, and Cancer Outcomes. Invited. Jakarta, ID.
- 2025. Global Surgery Panel. Panelist. 13th Annual Houston Global Health Collaborative 2025 Conference. Houston, US.
- 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
- 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. PMID: 34242791.
Other Articles
- 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. 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. PMID: 31336989.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified June 26, 2025