Tiffany Moon, M.D.
Associate Professor

Medical School

UT Southwestern Medical School (2008)

Internship

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas (2009), Internal Medicine

Residency

UCSF Medical Center (2012), Anesthesiology

• Anesthesia for Morbidly Obese Patients
• Difficult Airway Management
• Thoracic Anesthesia
• Transfusion Medicine, Massive Transfusion Protocols
• Trauma Anesthesia

Featured Publications

Ketamine Use in the Surgical Patient: a Literature Review.

Moon TS, Smith KM, Curr Pain Headache Rep 2021 Feb 25 3 17

Comparing the rate of fiberoptic bronchoscopy use with a video double lumen tube versus a conventional double lumen tube-a randomized controlled trial.

Onifade A, Lemon-Riggs D, Smith A, Pak T, Pruszynski J, Reznik S, Moon TS, J Thorac Dis 2020 Nov 12 11 6533-6541

Sugammadex versus neostigmine for reversal of rocuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade: A randomized, double-blinded study of thoracic surgical patients evaluating hypoxic episodes in the early postoperative period.

Moon TS, Reznik S, Pak T, Jan K, Pruszynski J, Kim A, Smith KM, Lu R, Chen J, Gasanova I, Fox PE, Ogunnaike B, J Clin Anesth 2020 Apr 64 109804

A Positive Cocaine Urine Toxicology Test and the Effect on Intraoperative Hemodynamics Under General Anesthesia.

Moon TS, Pak TJ, Kim A, Gonzales MX, Volnov Y, Wright E, Vu KQ, Lu RD, Sharifi A, Minhajuddin A, Chen JL, Fox PE, Gasanova I, Fox AA, Stewart J, Ogunnaike B, Anesth. Analg. 2020 Apr

The Obese Patient: Facts, Fables, and Best Practices.

Moon TS, Van de Putte P, De Baerdemaeker L, Schumann R, Anesth. Analg. 2020 Apr

Opioid-free and opioid-sparing anesthesia.

Siu EY, Moon TS, Int Anesthesiol Clin 2020 Jan

The influence of morbid obesity on difficult intubation and difficult mask ventilation.

Moon TS, Fox PE, Somasundaram A, Minhajuddin A, Gonzales MX, Pak TJ, Ogunnaike B J Anesth 2019 Feb 33 1 96-102

Recent cocaine use and the incidence of hemodynamic events during general anesthesia: A retrospective cohort study.

Moon TS, Gonzales MX, Sun JJ, Kim A, Fox PE, Minhajuddin AT, Pak TJ, Ogunnaike B J Clin Anesth 2019 Jan 55 146-150

Are morbidly obese patients suitable for ambulatory surgery?

Moon TS, Joshi GP Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2016 Feb 29 1 141-5

Airway management in patients with obesity

Thota B, Jan KM, Oh MW, Moon TS Saudi J Anaesth 2022 16 76-81

 Featured Books

The Obese Patient. In Anesthesiology (3rd ed)

Moon TS, Ogunnaike B, Whitten CW (2015). New York, McGraw Hill

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in obesity. In Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for the Obese Patient

Moon TS, Ogunnaike B (2021). London, Oxford University Press

Induction of General Anesthesia and Positioning in Obesity. In Core Topics in Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Care of the Morbidly Obese Surgical Patient

Moon, TS (2020). London, UK, Cambridge University Press

Nutritional Diseases: Obesity and Malnutrition. In Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease

Moon TS, Jones SB (2021). Elsevier

Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery. In Basic Clinical Anesthesia

Moon TS, Aleshi P (2014). New York, Springer

Advances in trauma anesthesia.. In Advances in Anesthesia

Sappenfield JW, Moon TS. (2016). Philadelphia, Elsevier

Methemoglobinemia. In Essence of Anesthesia Practice, 4th ed.

Moon, TS (2017). Philadelphia, Elsevier

• D Magazine Best Doctors
  Annual Award Selected By Peer Recognition (2020)
• D Magazine Best Doctors
  Annual Award Selected By Peer Recognition (2019)
• Dennis F. Landers, MD, PhD Teaching Award
  Annually awarded to one faculty member who consistently demonstrates enthusiasm for teaching residents (2014)
• Parkland Hospital Circles of Life Award Recipient
  Award given to the faculty physician who most exemplifies compassion, integrity, respect, collaboration, leadership, excellence, and stewardship, as voted on by the Parkland staff. (2014)
• Alpha Omega Alpha
  (2008)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Research Award Recipient
  (2005)

• Trauma Anesthesia Society (2020)
• Association of University Anesthesiologists (2019)
• International Society for the Perioperative Care of Obese Patients (2016)
• National Board of Echocardiography, Diplomate (2014)
• Texas Society of Anesthesiologists (2012)
• International Anesthesia Research Society (2009)
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (2008)