Anesthesiology Faculty

Chronic Pain Fellowship
WRNMMCB
Bethesda MD
(2012 -- 2013)

Master of Strategic Studies
Air War College
Montgomery AL
(2009-2013)

Anesthesiology Residency
Harvard University BIDMC
Boston MA
(2002 -- 2005)

Transitional Internship
Midwestern University -SJOFMC
Olympia Fields IL
(2001 -- 2002)

Osteopathic Doctorate
Midwestern University
Downers Grove IL
(1997 -- 2001)

Masters of Business Administration
Western New England College
Springfield MA
(1995 -- 1997)

Bachelor of Science
United States Military Academy
West Point NY
(1987 -- 1991)

Boston University, BA 1987-1991
Boston University, MA 1991-1993
USUHS, MD 1998-2002
NCC Internship OB/GYN 2002-2003
NCC Resident in Anesthesiology 2003-2006
NCC Chief Resident, Anesthesiology 2005-2006
Washington Hospital Center, Cardiac Anesthesia/Transesophageal Echocardiography 2006

CDR Hudson is an Associate Professor and serves as the 4th Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in the Uniformed Services University. She received her bachelor and master’s degrees at Boston University while attending on a full athletic scholarship. After completing her master’s degree in 1993, she worked at the Department of Public Health in Augusta, Maine where she authored several reports and publications including a sentinel report in JAMA on the emerging public health threat of cryptosporidiosis. In 1994, she received a direct commission with the Navy and entered active duty as a Naval Environmental Health Officer. After a brief assignment to the Philadelphia Shipyard as Department Head of Preventive Medicine, she transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs to work in the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses as an epidemiologist. After separating from the Navy, CDR Hudson worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation in Washington, D.C. While at RAND, she authored multiple publications for the Science and Technology Policy Institute and the National Defense Research Institute.

In 1999, CDR Hudson reentered the navy as a USU medical student. At USU, she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society and won numerous academic awards. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology in 2006 at the National Capital Consortium. In her final year of residency, she was selected to be Chief Resident. She completed subspecialty training in cardiothoracic anesthesia at the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. and earned board certification in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography in 2007.

In her first year following residency, she deployed in support of the Global War on Terror to Djibouti, Africa 2007-2008. Following this deployment, she returned to NNMC Bethesda/Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s, where in addition to her clinical work and teaching, she chaired the MEDCEN’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for six years, served on the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff and was core faculty for the NCC residency in Anesthesiology.

In 2012, CDR Hudson was posted to USU Department of Anesthesiology, where she served as a principal investigator and associate investigator for multiple clinical research projects, presented research at several national conferences and authored multiple publications. She also led the Department’s Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesia (MOCA) program, which provides required training for military anesthesiologists around the globe. In 2017, she was awarded an USUHS Impact Award for her work advancing simulation education. In addition to her support of medical student education at USU and graduate medical education at WRNMMC, she has served on USU’s Medical School Admissions Committee and has been active in recruiting prospective students and reaching out to college prehealth advisers to assure that USU consistently attracts America’s best and brightest into military medicine.

1996-2000 Doctor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2000-2001 Transitional Year Internship, William Beaumont Army Medical Center
2001-2004 Anesthesiology Residency, National Capital Consortium

2011 Doctor of Philosophy, Nursing University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
2007 Master of Science, Nursing: Clinical Research Management University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
2003 Bachelor of Science, Nursing University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
1996 Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL

Dr. Michaelson was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps (Reserves), Army, from ROTC. He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1996 from Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Michaelson then accepted positions within the 536th Support Battalion (Forward) Texas Army Reserve National Guard as a Supply Officer and Maintenance Control Officer. His concurrent civilian work at Bechtel International included Subcontract and Contract Administrator responsibilities (1997-2001). Dr. Michaelson then changed careers and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Nursing with a BSN in 2004. After graduation, he worked as an Emergency Department and Chest Pain Unit staff nurse at Howard County General Hospital, in Columbia, MD for approximately three years.

Dr. Michaelson continued his education and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (2011) focusing on the altered calcium homeostasis in dystrophic skeletal muscle at the University of Maryland. The Department of Veterans Affairs then awarded Dr. Michaelson a Postdoctoral Nursing Fellowship (2012-2015) in Dr. Christine E. Kasper’s Lab at the Uniformed Services University. His postdoctoral research investigated how implanted heavy metals altered the fatigability and susceptibility of eccentric injury in skeletal muscle. Dr. Michaelson accepted a Research Assistant Professor position within the Department of Anesthesiology in 2016. He currently performs the diagnostic caffeine halothane contracture test (CHCT) for the Malignant Hyperthermia Diagnostic Laboratory for military and civilian subjects. His research now investigates calcium homeostasis differences between malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) and malignant hyperthermia non-susceptible (MHN) subjects using a B-lymphocyte model.

Extramural/ Intramural Funding

2015 - 2020 $2.5 million
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Exertional Related Injuries in the Service Member.”
Program Project Grant, ANE-80-3397, Project 3, Biomarkers for ERI
CAPT Dale Szpisjak (PI) Luke Michaelson (Co-PI).

2014 – 2017 $71,178
“CNG Channel Expression and cAMP Levels in Human B-Cells: A Pilot Study,”
Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Nursing Services Pilot Study Award
Luke Michaelson (PI), Sheila Muldoon (Co-PI), Colonel Susan Perry (Co-PI), Christine Kasper (Co-PI)

2013 – 2014 $75,000
“Pilot Study of Fatigability, and Eccentric Injury Comparison Between Skeletal Muscle of Heavy Metal (Tungsten, Nickel/Cobalt) Imbedded F344 Rats and Non-Heavy Metal Imbedded Rats,”
Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Nursing Services Pilot Study
Luke Michaelson (PI), Christine Kasper (Co-PI)

2009 - 2011 $83,375
Stress Induced Ca 2+ Dysregulation in MDX Mouse Skeletal Muscle Fibers
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) in Nursing Research
1F31NR011245-01
Luke Michaelson (PI), Christopher Ward (PhD Advisor)

2010 - 2011 $3,500/yr
Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association, Inc.
Promise of Nursing Regional Faculty Fellowship Program
Luke Michaelson (PI), Christopher Ward (PhD Advisor)

2007 – 2009 $30,000/yr
Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Services Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology
(T32) AR007592
Luke Michaelson (Research Assistant)

2006 – 2009 $35,000/yr
Department of Education: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship
Luke Michaelson (Fellow)

Recent Presentations

September, 2017
Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States
RyR1 Pathogenic Variant in an Unpublished Malignant Hyperthermia Case From 1984
Michaelson, L.P., Sambuughin, N.,Voelkel, M., Muldoon, S.M., Szpisjak, D.F.

September, 2017
Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States
Comparing Malignant Hyperthermia and Exertional Rhabdomyolysis/Heat Illness: A CHCT and RYR1 Analysis
O. Mungunsukh, O., Michaelson, L.P., Sambuughin, N., Muldoon, S.M., Deuster, P., Voelkel, M., Szpisjak, D.F., O’Connor, F.G., Capacchione, J.F.

April, 2017
Experimental Biology 2017
Recovery from Fatigue and Injury in Rat Muscle Embedded with Heavy Metals
Michaelson, L. P., Lovering, R.M., Tossini, N., Kasper, C.E.

May, 2015
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Research Day
Comparison of Skeletal Muscle Eccentric Injury in F344 Rats Embedded With and Without Tungsten Alloy (Tungsten, Nickel, Cobalt)
Michaelson, L., Pratt, S., Lovering, R., Ward, C.W., Kasper, C.E.,

October, 2014
Greater District of Columbia American Physiological Society Meeting
Evaluation of the Cyclic Nucleotide Gated Channel in Human B-lymphocytes From Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptible and Malignant Hyperthermia Non-Susceptible Persons
Michaelson, L., Muldoon, S., Perry, S., Sambuughin N., Kasper, C.E.

Teaching

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Graduate Courses
2016 Malignant Hyperthermia section in RNA 602 Applied Biochemistry for Nurse Anesthetists
2014 Immunology section in GSN 603 Advanced Physiology
2013 Muscle Physiology section in GSN 603 Advanced Physiology
2013 Quantitative Data section in PHD 813 Theoretical Models

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Undergraduate Courses:
2011 - 2013 Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology; Alterations in Fluid and Electrolyte Balance sections in NUR 315 Pathopharmacology

Graduate Courses
2012 - 2013 Membrane Signaling and Special Lipids sections in NUR 616 Biochemistry for Nurse Anesthesia

1982. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Ph.D. Public Health Sciences (Gastroenterology)

Dr. Sharma received several international post-doctorate fellowships such as: 1. Commonwealth Foundation Research Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith hospital London, England, 2. Post-doctorate fellowship in Gastroenterology at Karolinska Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and 3. NSERC fellowship in Neurosciences at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Canada. Dr. Sharma also worked as a Research Associate at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Canada to study the mitochondrial functions and mutations in inherited metabolic disorders. Dr. Sharma subsequently moved to United States to join Dr. Ajay Varma's lab at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda,MD as Research Associate to work on mitochondrial functions, oxygen and fuel sensing, and cell signalling in TBI and cancer. Dr. Sharma is now Research Associate Professor and Research Director in Anesthesiology Department. She is also running a well funded lab on mitochondrial targeted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in TBI, PTSD, hemorrhagic shock, and polytrauma in animal models.

1987 BS United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
1991 MD Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
1992 Medicine Intern Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA
1995 Anesthesiology Resident University of California, San Francisco, CA
1998 Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007 MPH Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD