Alexander Proekt, MD, PHD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Robert Dunning Dripps Professor in Anesthesia II
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Professor of Neuroscience
My education and training
- Medical School: Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Anesthesiology, 2011
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), International
- Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA), National
- Gordon Research Conference on Consciousness Anesthesia and Evolutionary Biology, International
- International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), International
- Neuroscience of Unconsciousness and Reanimation Research Alliance (NEURRAL), University of Pennsylvania, Local
- Penn Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) MSARF (medical student anesthesia research), University of Pennsylvania, Local
- Society for Neuroscience, International
- Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Andrzej Z Wasilczuk, Cole Rinehart, Adeeti Aggarwal, Martha E Stone George A Mashour, Michael S Avidan, Max B Kelz1, Alex Proekt Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Anesthetic Sensitivity , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(3): 2024,e2312913120
C Brennan, A Proekt Attractor dynamics with activity-dependent plasticity capture human working memory across time scales , Nature Communications Psychology, 1(28): 2023
Adeeti Aggarwal, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt Neural assemblies coordinated by cortical waves are associated with waking and hallucinatory brain states , bioarxiv: 2023
Richard Lennertz, Kane O. Pryor, Aeyal Raz, Maggie Parker, Vincent Bonhomme, Peter Schuller, Gerhard Schneider, Matt Moore, Mark Coburn, James C. Root, Jacqueline M. Emerson, Alexandra L. Hohmann, Haya Azaria, Neta Golomb, Aline Defresne, Javier Montupil, Stefanie Pilge, David P. Obert, Hanna van Waart, Marta Seretny, Rolf Rossaint, Ana Kowark, Alexander Blair, Bryan Krause, Alex Proekt, Max Kelz, Jamie Sleigh, Amy Gaskell, Robert D. Sanders Connected consciousness after tracheal intubation in young adults: an international multicentre cohort study , British Journal of Anesthesia, 130(2): 2023,e217-e224
Brennan C, Aggarwal A, Pei R, Sussillo D, Proekt A One dimensional approximations of neuronal dynamics reveal computational strategy , PLoS Computational Biology, 19(1): 2023
J Cichon, AZ Wasilczuk, LL Looger, D Contreras, MB Kelz, A Proekt Ketamine triggers a switch in excitatory neuronal activity across neocortex , Nature Neuroscience, 26: 2022,39-52
Ethan B Blackwood, Brenna P Shortal, Alex Proekt Weakly Correlated Local Cortical State Switches under Anesthesia Lead to Strongly Correlated Global States , Journal of Neuroscience, 42(48): 2022,8980-8996
Adeeti Aggarwal, Connor Brennan, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B Kelz, Alex Proekt Visual evoked feedforward–feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice , Nature Communications, 13(1): 2022,1-6
Ashwin G Ramayya, Andrew I Yang, Vivek P Buch, John F Burke, Andrew G Richardson, Cameron Brandon, Joel M Stein, Kathryn A Davis, H Isaac Chen, Alexander Proekt, Max B Kelz, Brian Litt, Joshua I Gold, Timothy H Lucas Theta synchrony is increased near neural populations that are active when initiating instructed movement , eNeuro, 8(1): 2021
A Proekt, MB Kelz Explaining anaesthetic hysteresis with effect-site equilibration , British Journal of Anaesthesia, 126(1): 2021, 265-278