Virginia Apgar Professor of Anesthesiology
Columbia University
Ruthi Landau is the Virginia Apgar Professor of Anesthesiology and serves as the Division Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia at Columbia University in New York.
She is a Past-President of SOAP, and is the Chair of the SOAP Centers of Excellence (COE) committee, and the new Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia (IJOA).
Dr. Landau is passionate about improving patients’ experience and tailoring approaches to each individuals’ needs. She has authored over 150 articles and is invited to lecture on genomics and anesthesia, optimized labor analgesia, enhanced recovery after cesarean delivery, the opioid crisis, managing obstetric patients during COVID-19, and ethnic/racial disparities in maternal health care.
