Curtis L. Baysinger, MD

Curtis Baysinger, MD, received his undergraduate and medical education at Vanderbilt University. After a residency in anesthesiology and an obstetric anesthesia fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Baysinger joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2003 and was the Director of Obstetric Anesthesia from 2008 until the spring of 2014. Dr. Baysinger’s research interests are the effects of maternal temperature on obstetric outcomes, the effects of PDE5 inhibition on obstetric outcomes in preeclampsia, the combined effects of hypoxia and PDE5 inhibition on the feto-placental circulation and the effects of other druggable targets on outcomes in preeclamptic women. With Ray Johnson, MS and John Downing, MD, Dr. Baysinger conducts laboratory investigations using fresh placental tissue in a dual perfused single cotyledon model of the placenta.