New Faculty Spotlight: Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD

Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD 
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
• Hometown: Minneapolis

What drew me to anesthesiology: Anesthesiology is an amazing discipline with diverse subspecialties that span the breadth of patient care with a particular emphasis on providing critical care and palliation to patients in their most vulnerable states, and I love pretty much everything about it.  

Education background: 

• MD, PhD in physiology, UNMC
• BSE in biomedical engineering, University of Iowa 

Professional Memberships: 

• American Society of Anesthesiologists 
• American College of Cardiology 
• American Heart Association 
• American Physiological Society 
• Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars 
• International Anesthesia Research Society 
• Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists 
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 
• American Academy of Pain Medicine 
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia 
• North American Neuromodulation Society 
• International Neuromodulation Society 
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society  
• Alpha Omega Alpha 

What are you most looking forward to as you join the department? 

I am most excited for my elevated role in patient care. We have the capacity and duty to make a profound impact on our patients’ lives, and I take that very seriously. 

Three things people may not know about me:

• I spent most of my time in combined medical and graduate school believing I would forego residency training and pursue a research-only career, but I realized how much I loved taking care of patients as a third-year medical student, and my last eight years of clinical training have been extremely rewarding.  
• I find something about washing dishes therapeutic. 
• I am a fan of the recently relegated Frosinone soccer club. We’ll be back.