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This story originally appeared here. Thomas E. Cox, MD, an innovative educator and noted mentor and anesthesiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural Rudolph L. and Mary Frances Wise Endowed Chair in Pediatric Anesthesiology. Cox, a professor and vice chairman of education in the Department of Anesthesiology, […]
Leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) visited the Washington University Medical Campus Sept. 20 to hear about strategies to address the opioid crisis, which has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people in the United States since 1999. Eric D. Hargan, HHS deputy, led a roundtable discussion, accompanied by […]
Dr. Umeshkumar Athiraman, M.B.B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine and a neuroanesthesiologist in the General Anesthesiology Division, has received three research grants to study the role of nitric oxide synthase in isoflurane conditioning for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)-induced delayed cerebral ischemia and the role of isoflurane conditioning […]
Two internationally recognized Informaticians join Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). Joanna Abraham and Thomas Kannampallil will be the first joint faculty members in the Washington University Anesthesiology Department (WUDA) and the Institute for Informatics (I2). Joanna Abraham received a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University in May 2010. Prior to […]
Kate Meacham MD, PhD has been awarded an IARS (International Anesthesia Research Society) Mentored Research Award for her project titled “A wireless system for the mechanistic study of spinal cord stimulation.” Dr. Meacham will use the two years of support to develop a novel translational device for investigating mechanisms-of-action of new types of spinal cord […]
Kate Gurba, MD, PhD was recently awarded a Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Research Fellowship grant for her project titled “Preclinical Evaluation of Analgesia Mediated by a Novel Muscarinic M4 Positive Allosteric Modulator”. The opioid epidemic has created an urgent need for effective, nonopioid analgesics, and previous work suggests analgesic efficacy from the M4 […]
The Department of Anesthesiology is pleased to announce that Dr. Arvind Palanisamy, MD, FRCA, won the best paper award for his abstract, ‘Effect of uterine hypercontractility on the placenta and the fetal brain’, at the recently concluded annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) in Miami, FL. In a pregnant rat […]
David Potter, Director of CRNA Activities, is the Winner of the Washington University School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Service Award for 2018. Prior to his career in anesthesiology, David Potter served in the US Navy from 1978 – 1984 as Department Supervisor and Sonar Technician. He returned to school after the Navy and graduated Valedictorian […]
The Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University is pleased to announce that Aaron Norris, MD, PhD will formally be joining the Anesthesiology Residency Program Leadership group serving in the position of Assistant Program Director for Scholarship. This past academic year, Dr. Norris directed the selection and mentorship programs for the Department’s clinician-scientist training programs. Dr. […]
The Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University is pleased to announce that Dr. Douglas Thompson will become Program Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Training Program beginning July 1, 2018. For the past year he has been Associate Program Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Training Program. Dr. Thompson is a graduate of the University of California […]