Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
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:
- MD, PhD in physiology – UNMC
- Residency – UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
- Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship – UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
- Pain Medicine Fellowship – UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
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?
If I have to choose just one thing, 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.