ASM 2025 Speakers

Fred Mihm is Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, and has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1979. His major area of interest is Critical Care Medicine, Regional anesthesia and the care of complex medical patients requiring high risk anesthetics and surgery. He has a particular interest in a rare, life-threatening endocrine tumor (pheochromocytoma) and has cared for over 300 patients with this condition. After medical school at Saint Louis University, postgraduate training followed in internal medicine at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine campus. Then he changed tracks into anesthesiology at Stanford University. He finished with a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Stanford and Harvard Universities. He has held various leadership positions within the Anesthesia Department, including; Residency Program Director, CCM Fellowship Program Director, Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Co-Medical Director of the intensive care units at Stanford University Medical Center. He has published over 100 articles or book chapters in areas of cardiopulmonary monitoring, regional anesthesia and the preoperative care of pheochromocytoma patients. Aside from his routine academic duties, he has enjoyed volunteering at the San Francisco and San Diego Zoos and the Gorilla Foundation (Woodside, CA) for over 40 years. He has assisted in more than 100 anesthetics involving many rare and exotic animal species (gorillas, giraffes, lions, tigers, elephants, etc). His favorite animal patient was Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language. Dr. Mihm has a passion for Global Health Missions. On many missions he has provided anesthesia for lifechanging plastic/reconstructive surgery for the poor. Some excursions have been entirely educational. He has completed 50 trips (2 years total) to various Central/South American countries, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Most recent trips were to Honduras, Rwanda, Guatemala, Palestine, Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Ethiopia. These experiences provide a poignant connection with the rest of the real world, and a powerful opportunity to give to those patients who can never repay and to equip low resourced providers with practical, bedside education.