Warren Zapol

Warren M. Zapol (1942 – 14 December 2021[1]) was the emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital from (1994–2008[1]) and the Reginald Jenney Distinguished Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School.

The Warren M. Zapol Professorship in Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital is named in his honor.

Supported by the National Science Foundation, he has led nine Antarctic expeditions to study the diving mechanisms and adaptations of the Weddell seal.

[4] Through that research his team learned how marine mammals avoid the bends and hypoxia (low blood oxygen levels).

In 2003, Zapol and his former research fellow Claes Frostell received the Inventor of the Year award from the Intellectual Property Owners Association for the development of a system to safely deliver inhaled nitric oxide,[5] a technique now used to save the lives of thousands of babies each year that he pioneered with his MGH team.