Penn Medicine Provider
Anesthesiology
Alexander Proekt, MD, PHD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP

About me

  • Robert Dunning Dripps Associate Professor in Anesthesia II
  • Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Education and training

  • Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Insurance accepted

My 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.
Dr. Proekt is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

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


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