Penn Medicine Provider
Anesthesiology
Roderic G. Eckenhoff, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP

About me

  • Assistant Dean, Faculty Affairs, Perelman School of Medicine
  • Austin Lamont Professor of Anesthesia

Education and training

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Residency: Northwestern Medical Center
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Eckenhoff is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Vasunilashorn SM, Lunardi N, Newman JC, Crosby G, Acker L, Abel T, Bhatnagar S, Cunningham C, de Cabo R, Dugan L, Hippensteel JA, Ishizawa Y, Lahiri S, Marcantonio ER, Xie Z, Inouye SK, Terrando N, Eckenhoff RG; NIDUS Delirium Network. Preclinical and translational models for delirium: Recommendations for future research from the NIDUS delirium network , Alzheimers Dement: 2023


Eckenhoff RG, Maze M, Xie Z, Culley DJ, Goodlin SJ, Zuo Z, Wei H, Whittington RA, Terrando N, Orser BA, Eckenhoff MF. Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder: State of the Preclinical Science , Anesthesiology: 2020


Evered L, Silbert B, Knopman DS, Scott DA, DeKosky ST, Rasmussen LS, Oh ES, Crosby G, Berger M, Eckenhoff RG; Nomenclature Consensus Working Group. Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018 , Br J Anaesth: 2018


Woll Kellie A, Zhou Xiaojuan, Bhanu Natarajan V, Garcia Benjamin A, Covarrubias Manuel, Miller Keith W, Eckenhoff Roderic G Identification of binding sites contributing to volatile anesthetic effects on GABA type A receptors. , FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 32(8): 2018,4172-4189


Bensel Brandon M, Guzik-Lendrum Stephanie, Masucci Erin M, Woll Kellie A, Eckenhoff Roderic G, Gilbert Susan P Common general anesthetic propofol impairs kinesin processivity. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(21): 2017,E4281-E4287


Ho J, Perez-Aguilar JM, Gao L, Saven JG, Matsunami H, Eckenhoff RG Molecular recognition of ketamine by a subset of olfactory G protein–coupled receptors. , Sci. Signal., 8(370): 2015


Tang Junxia X, Mardini Feras, Janik Luke S, Garrity Sean T, Li Rosie Q, Bachlani Gulnaz, Eckenhoff Roderic G, Eckenhoff Maryellen F Modulation of murine Alzheimer pathogenesis and behavior by surgery. , Annals of surgery, 257(3): 2013,439-48


Hall Michael A, Xi Jin, Lor Chong, Dai Shuiping, Pearce Robert, Dailey William P, Eckenhoff Roderic G m-Azipropofol (AziPm) a photoactive analogue of the intravenous general anesthetic propofol. , Journal of medicinal chemistry, 53(15): 2010,5667-75


Liu R, Loll PJ, Eckenhoff RG Structural basis for high-affinity volatile anesthetic binding in a natural 4-helix bundle protein. , FASEB J., 19(6): 2005,567-76


Eckenhoff RG, Johansson JS, Wei H, Carnini A, Kang B, Wei W, Pidikiti R, Keller JM, Eckenhoff MF Inhaled anesthetic enhancement of amyloid-beta oligomerization and cytotoxicity. , Anesthesiology, 101(3): 2004,703-9


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