Steven Shafer is a professor of anesthesiology at

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. In 2011, the International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology gave him their lifetime achievement award.

Education

Shafer graduated from

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with an A.B. He received his M.D. from Stanford and completed his anesthesia residency at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

Career

Shafer is the former (2006-2016)

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of ''

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''. He specializes in the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs. Shafer left Stanford in 2007 to go to

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as a professor of anesthesiology. In 2012, Shafer returned to Stanford as an anesthesia professor in the

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. In addition, he is adjunct associate professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences at the

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. Shafer was a co-founder of PharmacoFore, which subsequently changed its name to Signature Therapeutics. He has held executive positions at other companies, including Pharsight and two software development companies. Shafer appeared as an expert witness in the Michael Jackson manslaughter trial.

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