Dr. Sessler published a book on therapeutic hypothermia, more than 970 full research papers including three-dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA and more than 50 editorials. More than 125 of his papers were accompanied by editorials, and more than 30 were cover articles for major anesthesia journals since 2010. Dr. Sessler’s papers have been cited more than 70,000 times in peer-reviewed articles per Scopus — making him the world’s most published and cited perioperative investigator. He is among the top 0.01% of cited scientists in any field, with an H Index of 126.

Dr. Sessler has been a principal or co-investigator on grants totaling $100 million. He founded and directs the Outcomes Research Consortium. The Consortium is the world’s largest clinical anesthesia research group, and publishes a full paper every other day for a total of more than 2,000 full papers. He was an editor of Anesthesiology for 9 years and is now Senior Editor for Trials at the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. He served as a director for the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) for 8 years. He has given invited lectures at more than 500 institutions. Dr. Sessler’s awards include a Fulbright Fellowship and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research prize.