Charles Natanson, M.D.

Dr. Natanson's research interests include using large and small animal models of sepsis to study the pathogenesis of – and new therapeutic interventions for – septic shock. Most recently he has investigated the effect of transfused blood at the end of the storage period abilty to in vivo hemolyze to donate more iron and heme and thereby worsen infections.

Dr. Natanson is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Anesthesia Section in the NIH Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department. He also is professor of anesthesia at University of Maryland and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, clinical professor of medicine at George Washington University, and staff clinical anesthesiologist at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and earned a medical degree from Columbia University. He completed an internship and residency in medicine at New York Hospital's Cornell Medical Center, followed by an anesthesia residency at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He joined the NIH Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department in 1981 and became chief of the Anesthesia Section a year later.