Asad Ali Usman, MD, MPH
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care Penn Presbyterian
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Medical Director, Penn Lung Rescue
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
My education and training
- Xavier Avalon School of MedicineMedical School
- University of Illinois College of Medicine at ChicagoResidency
- Boston University Medical CenterResidency
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Español
Spanish
العربية
Arabic
اردو
Urdu
हिन्दी
Hindi
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
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Lancaster General Hospital
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Usman is a Penn Medicine physician.
Qualifications and experience
- Adult Cardiac Anesthesiology, 2024
- Anesthesiology - Critical Care, 2021
- Anesthesiology, 2021
- American Society of Anesthesiologists, National
- Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, National
- International Anesthesia Research Society, International
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, International
- Johnson and Johnson MedTech, National
- Livanova, National
- Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists, Local
- Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, National
- Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, National
- Spectrum Medical, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Gregorio PHP, Toubat O ,Crespo M, Fujimoto R,Mazur Z,Spelde AE,Usman AA ,Biscotti M, Bermudez AC Successful Use of Venopulmonary Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation in a Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, 39(10): 2025,2787-2793
Szeto JJ, Kelly JJ, Huang L, Rekthman D, Han J, Brown C, Usman AA, Szeto W Supra-Aortic Vessel Anastomosis in Arch Reconstruction: An Overview of Existing Techniques and Report of a Novel Anastomotic Device , Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports, 3(3): 2025,566-571
Peev A, Fischman A, Spelde AE, Gordon E, Stein S, Augoustides JT, Weiss SJ, Vernick WJ, Gutsche JT, Usman AA Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography Matrix for In-hospital Hemodynamic Instability and Cardiac Arrest Imaging , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, 39(8): 2025,2222-2224
Smood B, Vasquez CR, Olia SE, Han JJ, Iyengar A, Patrick WL, Helmers MR, Kelly JJ, Richards T, Usman A, Cantu E 3rd, Takeda K, Langer N, Cevasco M. Early Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Initiation May Improve Outcomes in Select Patients With Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry Analysis , American Society of Artificial Internal Organs ASAIO Journal, 71(8): 2025,611-620
Sertic F, Gregorio PH, Tschabrunn C, Broniec G, Bermudez A, Richards T, Alfieris M, Usman AA, Rao S, Salas J, Kasprenski L, Gray K, Chatterjee S, Bermudez C Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a porcine model study , Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Open, 25: 2025,215-224
Wilke TJ, Vail EA, Gold AK, Mannes P, Usman AA, Bezinover D, Cywinski J, Bereisen J, Vanneman MW, Kassel CA 2024 Clinical Update in Liver Transplantation , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 39(6): 2025,1547-1555
Toubat O, Usman AA, Gregario P, Shin M, Spelde AE, Gutsche JT, Cantu E, Biscotti M, Bermudez C Current Intraoperative Mechanical Circulatory Support Strategies for Bilateral Lung Transplantation Surgery , Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Techniques, 31: 2025,210-223
Teran F, Owyang CG, Wray TC, Hipskind JE, Lessard J, Bédard Michel W, Lanthier C, Nazerian P, de Villa E, Nogueira J, Doynow D, Clinton M, Myslik F, Prager R, Arntfield R, Salinas PD, Dieiev V, Woo MY, Thavanathan R, Puskas G, Singh K, Bhat P, Horn J, Buchanan BM, Baig N, Burns KM, Kennedy K, Haines L, Naraghi L, Singh H, Secko M, Singer D, Taylor M, Joyce JM, DeMasi S, Jafry ZM, Phan T, Truong N, Robinson E, Haycock KH, Hansen A, Derr C, West FM, Narasimhan M, Horowitz J, Usman A, Anderson KL, Peng Y, Rola P, Andrus P, Razzak J, Hemmings HC, Panchamia R, Palasz J, Kaviyarasu A, Sands NA, Sutton RM, Abella BS. Development and Implementation of a Multicenter Registry for Resuscitation-Focused Transesophageal Echocardiography , Annals of Emergency Medicine, 85(2): 2025,147-162
Yang Gu , Kunal Panda, Audrey Spelde, Christina Anne Jelly, Jerome Crowley, Jacob Gutsche, Asad Ali Usman Modernization of Cardiac Advanced Life Support: Role and Value of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist Intensivist in Post-Cardiac Surgery Arrest Resuscitation , Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, 38(12): 2024,3005-3017
Hunt ML, Crespo MM, Richards TJ, Bermudez F, Courtwright A, Usman A, Spelde AE, Diamond J, Patel N, Cantu E, Christie J, Clausen E, Cevasco M, Ahya V, Bermudez CA. Lung transplant outcomes after acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal life support: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic , Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 168(3): 2024,712-721.e2