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Advancing Anesthesiology: Highlights from the 70th Annual AUA Meeting at Washington University

Washington University in St. Louis had the honor of hosting the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA) for its 70th Annual Meeting at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center on March 22-24. The 2024 AUA Annual Meeting brought together esteemed experts and scholars in academic anesthesiology marking this occasion as the AUA’s first university-affiliated meeting in over a decade.

Announcing our 2024-2025 Chief Residents 

Karam Atli, MD, Ryan DeAngelis, MD, and Parita Sutaria Jani, MD, have been selected as the Chief Residents for the 2024-25 academic year.

Highlights from the Second Annual Women of WUDA Retreat 

The Women of WUDA (Washington University Department of Anesthesiology) hosted its second annual retreat on Saturday, March 9, at Holmes Lounge on the Danforth Campus. Over 100 women from the department gathered to connect and network, hear from women in medicine, and participate in wellness activities.  

Mimicking exercise with a pill (Links to an external site)

Associate Professor, Bahaa Elgendy, PhD, and his colleagues are working to recapitulate the benefits of exercise with a pill. This discovery could lead to a new way to treat muscle atrophy and other medical conditions in people, including heart failure and neurodegenerative disease.

APP Leadership Announcement

We are excited to announce the appointment of Trish Wilkinson, ACNP-BC, as the Director of APP Clinical Operations within the Division of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology. In tandem, we are pleased to also announce Sarah Cooley, AGACNP-BC, and Shawn Reynolds, MS, MSPAS, PA-C, as Co-Assistant APP Directors.

Revolutionizing Clinical Pain Research: A Shift Toward Patient-centered Engagement (Links to an external site)

The Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT), including Simon Haroutounian, PhD, MSc, and Katie Holzer, PhD, LCSW, brought together a diverse group of participants from academia, industry, funding and regulatory agencies, and people with lived experience (PWLE) of pain, to developed recommendations for advancing patient engagement in clinical pain research.