Carlos Jose Munoz, MD

Dr. Munoz is the anesthesia director for the Esophageal and Airway Treatment Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s, where he has helped to enhance the program’s multidisciplinary care and development of anesthesia intraoperative protocols. He joined the hospital staff in 2022.

He was previously an anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was part of the esophageal and airway treatment team, and assistant professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. At Boston Children’s, he worked with general surgeons to develop the technique of continuous intraoperative bronchoscopy, and developed a negative pressure test that allows surgeons to evaluate how well a patient’s airway has been repaired.

Dr. Munoz has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and has given many talks internationally, nationally and regionally. Dr. Munoz is passionate about teaching and helping to develop the next generation of experts in pediatric anesthesiology. 

Dr. Munoz earned his medical degree from Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He completed an internship and internal medicine residency at St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. He then completed a residency in anesthesiology at Boston University Medical Center. He also completed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.