Alex Bukoski PhD DVM DACVAA

From the top of Mt. Whitney (~14,500 feet) in 2018.

Position

Associate Professor

Section Head, Anesthesiology

Veterinary Health Center

Department of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery

College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Missouri

Columbia MO 65211

Education

BS, Iowa State University, Chemistry (Physics), 1999

PhD, University of Virginia, Chemical Physics, 2005

DVM, Virginia-Maryland Regional CVM, 2006

ACVAA Residency, University of Florida CVM, 2007-2010

I'm an Associate Professor of veterinary anesthesiology at the University of Missouri. I completed my PhD on Microcanonical Rate Theory at Surfaces at the University of Virginia with Dr. Ian Harrison in 2005, my DVM from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2006, and my residency at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in 2010. I earned my American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) board certification in 2011.

My position at MU includes teaching veterinary professional students in the classroom and clinic, training anesthesiology residents and interns, research (see below), service, and functioning as a veterinary anesthesiologist in our small and large animal clinics where I anesthetize all creatures, great and small.

Biophysical Foundations of Anesthesia

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Modified SurgiVet LDS3000/DHV1000 anesthesia machine with prototype DolVentTM ventilator driving the bellows. Top row (left to right): Caroline LeBert DVM PhD, David Hodgson DVM DACVAA, Alex Bukoski PhD DVM DACVAA, James Bailey DVM DACVAA. Bottom row (left to right): Veronica Cendejas RVT and Mark Baird RVT.

AAV/APRV for Veterinary Anesthesia

Apneustic anesthesia ventilation (AAV), and the closely related airway pressure release ventilation (APRV), were invented and patented by Dr. John Downs in the 1990's. Our group worked to develop a ventilator and spirometer capable of allowing the application of AAV to both small and large anesthetized veterinary species. To date we have applied this apparatus and methodology to pigs, horses, sea lions, and dolphins.

RRKM Theory at Surfaces

My PhD work with Dr. Ian Harrison at the University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry was aimed at developing and improving a statistical theory of gas-surface reactivity based on Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) theory.

Bukoski A, Blumling D, and Harrison I. Microcanonical unimolecular rate theory at surfaces. I. Dissociative chemisorption of methane on Pt(111). Journal of Chemical Physics 118, 843-871 (2003).
Bukoski A and Harrison I. Assessing a microcanonical theory of gas-surface reactivity: applicability to thermal equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and eigenstate-resolved dissociation of methane on Ni(100). Journal of Chemical Physics 118, 9762-9768 (2003).
Abbott HL, Bukoski A, Kavulak DF, and Harrison I. Dissociative chemisorption of methane on Ni(100): Threshold energy from CH4(2ν3) eigenstate-resolved sticking measurements. Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 6407-6410 (2003).
Abbott HL, Bukoski A, and Harrison I. Microcanonical unimolecular rate theory at surfaces. II. Vibrational state resolved dissociative chemisorption of methane on Ni(100). Journal of Chemical Physics 121, 3792-3810 (2004).
Bukoski A, Abbott HL, and Harrison I. Microcanonical unimolecular rate theory at surfaces. III. Thermal dissociative chemisorption of methane on Pt(111) and detailed balance. Journal of Chemical Physics 123, 094706 (2005).

Interesting Anesthesia Stuff

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