Bio
Dr. Carvalho is the Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology and Maternal Health, Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and Professor (Courtesy) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University Medical Center. He is the Past President of the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP), and founder the SOAP Center of Excellence for Obstetric Anesthesia Care Designation. He has published extensively in the field of Obstetric Anesthesia with over 400 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, book chapters and commentaries, with more than 15000 citations and an h-index score of 67. He has received several NIH, pharmaceutical and institutional grants, and won numerous research awards including three Best Research Papers at SOAP scientific meetings. Dr. Carvalho has won both the early and late-career Teacher of the Year awards at SOAP, and was voted Teacher of the Year at Stanford University’s Departments of Anesthesia. He has presented at over 400 regional, national and international meetings and visiting professorships. He was been awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the SOAP, the Ellis N. Cohen Achievement Award from the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and the Distinguished Service Award from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. He serves/has served on numerous national medical society committees and medical journal editorial boards, and as an advisor/consultant to the World Health Organization. His clinical and translational research and scholarly activities cover cesarean and labor analgesia, perinatal pharmacology and immunology, obstetric hemorrhage, and postpartum recovery.
