Biography
Dr. Jamel Ortoleva, MD, FASE, FCCP completed his undergraduate education with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in December of 2007. He began his medical career in August of 2008 as a student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and was awarded his MD in May of 2012. Dr. Ortoleva completed his internship at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts and completed residency in Anesthesia at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2016. He completed a critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2017 and a Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2018.
Dr. Ortoleva joined Tufts Medical Center as a Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist with heavy involvement in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) cannulation and management, having performed cannulations for multiple modes and for multiple indications including venovenous, standard venoarterial and venoarterial ECMO for patients receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or eCPR and for COVID-19 patients. Additionally, at Tufts, he developed the bedside cannulation kit and expanded the use of TEE for bedside ECMO cannulation.
Dr. Ortoleva began at Boston Medical Center in May of 2023 and is a member of the ECMO team. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology through the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He is the director of research in the department of Anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center and actively involved in research at a multi-institutional level with over 160 peer reviewed manuscripts. He has also written numerous book chapters on mechanical circulatory support and lectures regularly on the subject. He is co-editor for the recently published "Avoiding Common ICU Errors: Second Edition", a textbook with 225 short chapters on various topics in critical care, where his focus was on sections related to cardiovascular critical care including mechanical circulatory support topics such as ECMO. His research interests include mechanical circulatory support decision making, mechanical circulatory support initiation and management, vasoplegia management, right ventricular failure, echocardiography, and resuscitation. He is a fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a co-editor for the Critical Care Section of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. He is a co-chair of the Scientific Oversight Committee for the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.