The Department of Anesthesiology

Terrance Nowell, MD

Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Division of Critical Care

Clinical Focus

Cardiothoracic and Critical Care Anesthesiology

Education

Medical School
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN, 2018

Residency
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, 2022

Fellowships
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, 2023
Critical Care Medicine, 2024

Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, Adult Cardiac Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
National Board of Echocardiography, Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

Current Publications

Fogelson B, Baljepally R, Tran P, Heidel E, Nowell TC, Morvant B, Ferlita S, Weston S, Amro A, Ferraro K, Spires Z, Nadkarni S.
Sex-based differences in hemodynamic response to anesthesia type during TAVI and early transvalvular gradient changes. J Clin Med. 2025 Sep 23;14(19):6693. doi: 10.3390/jcm14196693.

Fogelson B, Baljepally R, Morvant B, Nowell TC, Heidel RE, Ferlita S, Weston S, Amro A, Spires Z, Ferraro K, Patel P.
An increase in mean aortic valve gradients the day after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: The effects of evolving anesthesia techniques. J Clin Med. 2025 May 8;14(10):3272. doi: 10.3390/jcm14103272.

East LF, Hamilton LA, Christianson T, Nowell T, Ryan M, Rowe AS.
Multimodal pain control in headaches associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clin Neuropharmacol. 2025 Mar 10. doi: 10.1097/WNF.0000000000000631. Online ahead of print.

Current Presentations

Bly C, Perkerson J, Nowell T, Peters W. The impella effect: Navigatin tcd interpretation in the setting of mechanical circulatory support; 2) dissecting the pressure problem: navigating invasive monitoring in a postpartum aortic dissection with marfan syndrome. Presented at Anesthesiology 2025 (ASA); 2025 Octber 10; San Antonio, TX.

Evers C, Nowel T. Aortic leaflet perforation secondary to infective endocarditis in a parturient patient. Presented at The Carolinas and Tennessee 2025 Anesthesiology Conference; 2025 Sept - 12; Asheville, NC.