Member of the Association of Midwestern Academic Anesthesia Chairmen (AMAAC), sponsor of the annual Midwestern Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC). For more information regarding either AMAAC or the MARC meeting, click here. |
| Dr. Avinash Kumar Selected for Carver College of Medicine Faculty Focus |
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 Congratulations to Avinash Kumar, M.B.B.S., FCCP, Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia. Dr. Kumar is featured on the home page of Carver College of Medicine's web site within their Faculty Focus section as a physician of interest. He states this, "In any endeavor, at any point in time, strive to be a cut above the rest." When asked his advice to the medical students, Dr. Kumar says, "Depth of knowledge will keep you ahead of the pack. Always respect your patients. Seek to make your family proud."
The Department of Anesthesia at The University of Iowa is very proud to claim Dr. Avinash Kumar as one of our own. To view the poster on display throughout the hospital, click here. Read more about Dr. Kumar online at www.medicine.uiowa.edu/ |
| Margaret V. Lunsford Awardees Announced |
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The 2011-2012 Margaret V. Lunsford Award recipients are Brant Rustwick, Abe Sheffield, Genevieve Staudt, and Suraj Yalamuri. Congratulations to each of these individuals. This honor, which includes a monetary gift, is awarded to outstanding senior medical student externs annually, and the selection committee considers strongly those externs who have expressed an interest in pursuing anesthesiology as their medical career specialty. Dr. Lunsford was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1911, received her medical degree from The University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1941, and completed one year of residency training in anesthesiology here at Iowa from 1942-43. She married and moved east with her husband, practicing anesthesiology until her retirement in 1977. A bequest from the estate of Dr. Lunsford was established according to her wish, which was to provide scholarships for medical students interested in entering the field of anesthesiology, based on academic achievement and financial need.
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Abe Sheffield
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| Department Research Grants Awarded |
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James Bates,
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James Bates, Ph.D., M.D., Associate Professor, has been named as co-investigator on a Program Project Grant through the University of Virginia. This project is entitled, “Cellular S-nitrosothiol Signaling in Respiratory Biology,” and is funded for five years. This study examines the importance and mechanisms of action of S-nitrosothiols in the carotid body regulation of ventilation. |
Blanca Marquez
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Blanca Marquez de Prado, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist in the laboratory of Donna Hammond, Ph.D., received a Department of Defense grant for three years. She will be studying the “Role of Nerve Growth Factor in the Inflammatory Response and Pain in a Mouse Neurofibromatosis Model.” The Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program supports this New Investigator Award. |
Christina
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Christina Spofford, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, has received a K08 National Institutes of Health grant. Her project is entitled, “Voltage Gated Sodium Channels in Acute Post Laminectomy Pain,” and she will study acute pain after laminectomy in the rat model. This grant is awarded for a four-year period. |
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Emine Bayman,
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Emine Bayman, Ph.D., has each been promoted to Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2011.
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Christina
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Christina Spofford, M.D., Ph.D., has been promoted to Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2011.
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| Dr. Szeluga Named Vice Chair for Education |
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Dr. Michael Todd has named the first Vice Chair for Education in The University of Iowa’s Department of Anesthesia. Debra Szeluga, Ph.D., M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, is charged with overseeing all educational activities and personnel. She will continue in her position as Program Director for the anesthesia residency. She will bring all of the department’s education leaders and groups together, help solve problems, provide direction, mobilize resources, manage a new educational budget, help implement improvements, and more. |
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| Resident Teacher of the Year Award |
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| Yasser El-Hattab, M.B., Ch.B., M.M.E. |
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From left to right: Dr. Kristi Ferguson, MME Director; Dr. Amy Stier, Pediatrics; Dr. Linda Madson, Psychiatry; Dr. Yasser El Hattab, Anesthesia; Dr. Nicholas Galioto, Family Medicine |
Yasser El-Hattab, M.B., Ch.B., M.M.E., Clinical Assistant Professor, recently graduated from The University of Iowa’s Master in Medical Education program. This program is designed to prepare medical faculty members to educate health professionals, offering an opportunity to specialize in theory and practice of curriculum design, effective teaching, assessment, and other aspects of medical education. |
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| Yasser Karim, M.B., B.Ch., M.Sc., FFARCSI |
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Yasser Karim, M.B., B.Ch., M.Sc., FFARCSI, has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor. Dr. Karim joined our department in 2001, after having held positions in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Among other clinical and teaching contributions to the department, the hospital, and the college, Dr. Karim serves as director of anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy. |
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| Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC) 2011 |
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The annual Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC) took place in Chicago, IL on April 1-3, hosted this year by our department. It was a smashing success! The meeting was both educational and enjoyable. On behalf of Debra Szeluga, M.D., Ph.D., Resident Program Director, a sincere thank you goes out to the many people who made this conference such a success. Twenty-eight residents attended this meeting. Twenty-four residents made presentations at this meeting. Four medical students made presentations at this meeting. Twenty-two faculty members attended this meeting. Twenty-one faculty members helped out as judges. Three faculty members were tri-chairs of this meeting, Drs. Mazen Maktabi, Esther Benedetti, and Brent Hadder. In addition, William Hamilton, M.D. (BA '43, MD '46, R '51, Chair '58-'67) spoke at the meeting, presenting the history of MARC, which HE founded, organizing its first meeting held in Iowa City in 1961. How appropriate that 50 years later, the Department of Anesthesia at The University of Iowa again hosted the meeting, a meeting now too large to be held in Iowa City. Many residents and medical students were awarded prizes for their presentations: Drs. Jessica Jameson, Jessica Kelley, Tejinder Singh, Somchin Puangsuvan, Kathryn Reed, and Brenton Freeman; medical students, Julianne Lee and Brian Cheney. Special congratulations are in order for these individuals. Others to thank for their hard work and enthusiastic support of this meeting: Drs. Robert From, Javier Campos, Michael Todd; all residents, faculty, CRNAs, SRNAs, and fellows who helped man the operating rooms and other clinical areas so that many of the trainees and faculty could participate in the meeting; Donna Merck, Gwen Christenson, Abbey Gilpin, and Lorri Barnes, who helped plan and prepare this meeting. Visit the Association of Midwest Academic Anesthesia Chairmen website. (AMAAC is the organizing body for MARC.) |
| Senior Anesthesia Elective |
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4th year medical students at accredited United States Medical Schools may apply for a 1 month elective in Anesthesia at the University of Iowa. We have a limited number of positions during the months of July, August, September, and October. Check out our great program and get to know our residents and faculty! Please contact Lorri Barnes for more information. |
| Congratulations Dr. Emine Bayman |
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We congratulate Emine Bayman, Ph.D., Associate, who has been named a member of the Editorial Board for Neurosurgery. Neurosurgery is a monthly journal and the Official Journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The Journal has an impact factor of 3 |
| Congratulations Dr. Toshihiro Kitamoto |
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Congratulations to Dr. Toshihiro Kitamoto, Ph.D., Associate Professor, who has been named a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurogenetics The Journal of Neurogenetics is a quarterly journal that publishes papers on behavioral, biochemical, or cellular aspects of neural function, plasticity, aging or disease. The Journal also publishes analyses in the traditional genetic-model organisms, C. elegans, Drosophila, mouse and the zebrafish. |
| Congratulations Dr. Tim Brennan |
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Congratulations to Timothy J. Brennan, M.D., Ph.D., Samir D. Gergis Professor of Anesthesia, Vice Chair for Research, who was awarded an American Academy of Pain Medicine/Pfizer Visiting Professorship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, February 15-17, 2011. The American Academy of Pain/Pfizer Visiting Professorship is awarded to up to eight individuals per year. Award recipients are selected by an independent academic advisory board of experts in the field of Pain Medicine. |
| Check out our most recent department publications |
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 The list below denotes the most recently published articles representing researchers within The Department of Anesthesia, The University of Iowa.
Oral R, Bayman L, Assad A, Wibbenmeyer L, Buhrow J, Austin A, Bayman EO: Illicit drug exposure in patients evaluated for alleged child abuse and neglect. Pediatr Emerg Care 2011; 27:490-5 Bayman EO, Dexter F, Laur JJ, Wachtel RE: National incidence of use of monitored anesthesia care. Anesth Analg 2011;113:165-9 Campos JH: Anaesthesia for robotic surgery: Mediastinal mass resection and pulmonary resections. Anaesthesia International 2011 Spring/Summer; 2:19-22 Epstein RH, Dexter F: Mean arterial pressures bracketing prolonged monitoring interruptions have negligible systematic differences from matched controls without such gaps. Anesth Analg 2011; e-pub ahead of print Dexter F, Candiotti KA: Multicenter assessment of the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale, an instrument that measures patient satisfaction with monitored anesthesia care. Anesth Analg 2011; e-pub ahead of print Dexter F, Masursky D: Psychological biases and their impact on operating room efficiency. Int J Qual Health Care 2011; 23:219 Scurlock C, Dexter F, Reich DL, Galati M: Special article: Needs assessment for business strategies of anesthesiology groups’ practices. Anesth Analg 2011; 113:170-4 Ghoneim MM: Suppressing the mind: Anesthetic modulation of memory and consciousness. Anes Analg 2011; 112:487-8 Ishimoto H, Kitamoto T: Beyond molting-roles of the steroid molting hormone ecdysone in regulation of memory and sleep in adult Drosophila. Fly (Austin). 2011; 5(3): e-pub ahead of print Laur JJ, Chehade JM, Merrill DG: Managing neural dysfunction after regional anesthesia: Experience in a walk-in follow-up clinic. Int Anesthesiol Clin 2011 Summer; 49:44-55 Manion SC, Brennan TJ : Thoracic epidural analgesia and acute pain management. Anesthesiology 2011; 115: 181-8 Miller M, Kumar AB, Callison CR: Refractory caffeine and ergot-induced cervico-cerebral vasospasm and stroke treated with combined medical and endovascular approach. Neuroradiology 2011; e-pub ahead of print Setty S, Kumar AB: Asystole on anesthesia induction in adults: Don’t blame the Succinylcholine alone. Minerva Anestesiol 2011; e-pub ahead of print Smith JJ, Kumar AB, Cutkomp J: Cross-clamping during elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery: A template for two simulation case scenarios. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Health Care. 2011; 6:109-16 Spofford CM, Mohan S, Kang S, Jang JH, Brennan TJ: Evaluation of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) in a rat model of postoperative pain. J Pain 2011; 12:819-32 Calcaterra D, Ueda K, Hashimi S, Brown T, Calva D: Repair of an ascending aortic aneurysm using reduction aortoplasty in a Jehovah’s Witness. J Card Surg 2011; 26:315-5 Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Ledolter J: Meta-analysis of desflurane and propofol average times and variability in times to extubations and following commands. Can J Anaesth 2011; e-pub ahead of print
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