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Ning Miao, MD

Senior Staff Clinician


Perioperative Medicine


BS, Hubei Medical University, Wuhan, China
MD, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China


Email: nmiao@cc.nih.gov
Phone:240-350-1374

Portrait of Dr. Ning Miao
Ning Miao, MD

Senior Staff Clinician


Perioperative Medicine


BS, Hubei Medical University, Wuhan, China
MD, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China


Email: nmiao@cc.nih.gov
Phone:240-350-1374


Dr. Ning Miao is a senior staff clinician in the Department of Perioperative Medicine specializing in anesthesiology.


Dr. Miao earned her medical degree at Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, China, in 1987.

She completed a residencey in anesthesia at Tongji Medical University in 1990.

She completed an internship in anesthesiology at the Medical College on Virginia in 1998. She went on to complete her residency in anesthesiology at the Medical College of Virginia in 2001.

Miao N, Mannes A: Doctor-Patient relationship in Anesthesia. CASA bulletin of Anesthesiology 6(3): 2019.

Miao N, Mannes A: Adult tracheoesophageal fistula from disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex-anesthesia concerns and management. CASA bulletin of Anesthesiology 6(3): 2019 (accepted).

Miao N, Mannes A: A case report. Perioperative management of Moya Moya disease. CASA bulletin of Anesthesiology 6(1): 28-33. 2019

Picchioni D, Schmidt KC, McWhirter KK, Loutaev I, Pavletic AJ, Speer AM, Zametkin AJ, Miao N, Bishu S, Turetsky KM, Morrow AS1, Nadel JL, Evans BC, Vesselinovitch DM, Sheeler CA, Balkin TJ, Smith CB: Rates of Cerebral Protein Synthesis in Primary Visual Cortex during Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation, a Study in Human Subjects. Sleep. 2018 Jul 1; 41(7)

Lynch C, Miao N: Volatile anesthetic depression of Ca2+ entry into and glutamate release from cultured cerebellar granule neurons. J. Anesth and Perioper Med. 2017

Sidana A, Walton-Diaz A, Truong H1, Siddiqui MM, Miao N, Shih J, Mannes A, Bratslavsky G, Linehan WM, Metwalli AR: Postoperative elevation in creatine kinase and its impact on renal function in patients undergoing complex partial nephrectomy. Int Urol Nephrol. Jul; 48(7): 1047–1053. 2016

Miao N, Lu X, O'Grady NP, Yanjanin N, Porter FD, Quezado ZM: Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: Implications for Sedation and Anesthesia for Diagnostic Procedures. J Child Neurol December 1, 2012

Miao N, Pingpank JF, Alexander HR, Royal R, Steinberg SM, Quezado MM, Beresnev T, Quezado ZM: Cytoreductive surgery and continuous hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion in patients with mesothelioma and peritoneal carcinomatosis: hemodynamic, metabolic, and anesthetic considerations. Ann Surg Oncol. Feb; 16(2):334-44. 2009

Miao N, Levin SW, Baker EH, Caruso RC, Zhang Z, Gropman A, Koziol D, Wesley R, Mukherjee AB, Quezado ZM: Children with infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis have an increased risk of hypothermia and bradycardia during anesthesia. Anesth Analg. Aug; 109(2):372-8. 2009

Miao N, Pingpank JF, Alexander HR, Steinberg SM, Beresneva T, Quezado ZM: Percutaneous hepatic perfusion in patients with metastatic liver cancer: anesthetic, hemodynamic, and metabolic considerations. Ann Surg Oncol. Mar; 15(3):815-23. 2008

Miao N, Nagao K, Lynch C 3rd: Thiopental and methohexital depress Ca2+ entry into and glutamate release from cultured neurons. Anesthesiology Jun; 88(6):1643-53, 1998

Pajewski TN, Miao N, Lynch C 3rd, Johns RA: Volatile anesthetics affect calcium mobilization in bovine endothelial cells. Anesthesiology Nov; 85(5):1147-56, 1996

Miao N, Frazer MJ, Lynch C 3rd: Volatile anesthetics depress Ca2+ transients and glutamate release in isolated cerebral synaptosomes. Anesthesiology Sep; 83(3):593-603, 1995

Miao N, Frazer MJ, Lynch C 3rd: Anesthetic actions on calcium uptake and calcium-dependent adenosine triphosphatase activity of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Adv Pharmacol 31:145-65, 1994

Miao N, Lynch C 3rd: Effect of temperature on volatile anesthetic depression of myocardial contractions. Anesth Analg.  Feb; 76(2):366-71, 1993

Miao N, Jin SA: The effect of hypotension on electrical bioimpedance in anesthetized dogs. Chinese J. Anesthesiology 1:98, 1991.

Miao N, Bi HS: Canine systemic hemodynamic effects of hypotension induced by tetrandrine or nitroprusside. Chinese J. Anesthesiology 11:23, 1991.

Miao N: The effect of anesthesia and surgery on T cell subpopulation of peripheral blood in children undergoing abdominal surgery. Clinical J. Anesthesiology 6:212, 1990.

Miao N, Bi HS: The effect of deliberated hypotension induced by tetrandrine and nitroprusside on organ blood flow in anesthetized rabbits. Chinese J. Anesthesiology 4:23, 1989.

Miao N, Jin SA: Observation of opiate receptor localization in spinal cord of rat and its significance. Chinese J. Anesthesiology 7:2, 1987.

Miao N, Jin SA: Opiate receptor and morphine mechanism. Anesthesia and resuscitation 5:241, 1984.


  • NIH Director’s Award, 2015
  • Best Chief Resident award in Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical University, China, 1990
  • Outstanding Medical Doctorate student Award, 1986-87
  • Best Medical student Award, 1979

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