I'm Jenni Ross Majumdar, PhD, CRNA — a nurse anesthetist and nurse scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering, assistant professor at Hunter-Bellevue, and author of Art of Anesthesia. I write about the science, safety, and human stories behind anesthesia — and about the nurses who make it safe.
Anesthesia is one of the most common experiences in medicine — and one of the least understood. My work spans the operating room, the lab, the classroom, and the page, all aimed at the same thing: making that work, and the people who do it, easier to understand.
A practicing CRNA at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2015, delivering anesthesia care to patients undergoing cancer surgery.
A funded research program on perioperative anxiety, distress, and recovery in cancer surgery; the nurse anesthesia workforce; and the safety and well-being of the profession. 27+ peer-reviewed publications.
View scholarship →Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Assistant Specialty Director of the Nurse Anesthesia DNP program at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, CUNY, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nurse Anesthesia Education.
More on teaching →A Substack publication, plus essays and commentary explaining what actually happens in the operating room.
Explore my writing →What a CRNA actually is, why you may never notice us, and why we don't leave the room — not even for the bathroom.
Read on Substack →What postoperative nausea really is, why patients fear it more than pain — and how we prevent it.
Read on Substack →The strange intimacy of being the person who keeps you safe — and the one you'll never remember.
Read on Substack →Weekly, plain-language writing on how anesthesia actually works. More than a thousand subscribers, built from scratch in the publication's first six months.
I speak nationally on anesthesia and perioperative care, symptom science in cancer surgery, and nurse anesthesia education. Recent venues include the AANA Annual Congress, Oncology Nursing Society Congress, ASCO Quality, and Weill Cornell Department of Anesthesiology Grand Rounds.