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Visiting Professor Program



July 11-12, 2001
Srinivasa Naga Raja, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Division of Pain Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Topic: Anesthetic and Analgesic Considerations for the Mature Population; Opioids and Chronic Pain: A Tale of Two Centuries.

July 26, 2001
Leonardo J. Lozada, M.D., Head, Section of Anesthesiology for Spine Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Topic: Hypothermic Techniques during Neurosurgery: History-Present-Future.

August 23, 2001
David D. Queen, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, CA. Topic: Compliance Evaluation.

September 20, 2001
Douglas S. Snyder, M.D., Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR. Topic: Preoperative Evaluation and Perioperative Medicine; Is it "Déjà vu all over again?

October 3-4, 2001
Carol A. Hirschman, M.D., H. Bendixen Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Pharmacology, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY. Topic: Beta Adrenergic Signaling in Airway Smooth Muscle: A Novel Protein-Kinase-Independent Pathway; What's New in Anesthesia and Asthma?

October 18, 2001
Raymond Mayewski, M.D., VP and Chief Medical Officer Strong Health Office, Senior VP of Health Affairs, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Topic: Patient Safety: What can We do to Improve Operative Care?

October 24, 2001
Michael O'Reilly, M.D., Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Topic: Implementing an Anesthesia Clinical Information System; Lessons Learned.

October 24-25, 2001
Chuck Assini, Esq., Legal Counsel to the New York State Society of Anesthesioloigsts, New York, NY. Topic: Current Legal Legislative Issues in Anesthesia - Practice Management & Contract Negotiation.

January 9-10, 2002
Jane C. Ballantyne, M.D., Director, Pain Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Topic: Use of Opioids in Chronic Non-Malignant Pain; Does Regional Anesthesia Affect Outcome after Surgery?

February 27-28, 2002
John A. Kellum, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Topic: Treatment Strategies to Minimize Organ Injury; Impact of Pathophysiology of Sepsis.

April 25, 2002
Zahid H. Bajwa, M.D., Director, Arnold Pain Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Topic: Using COX-2 Inhibitors in Multimodal Treatment of Acute Post-Operative Pain.

June 13, 2002
Franklyn Cladis, M.D., Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Topic: Fetal Surgery and Its Anesthetic Implications.

September 18-19, 2002
Kenneth W. Burchard, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH. Topic: Invasive Fungal Infection in Surgical Patients; Adrenal Insufficiency in Critical Illness - The Quest for the Eucorticoid State.

November 19-20, 2002
Linda Shore-Lessersen, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Topic: Perioperative Fluid Therapy: Effects on Coagulation Function; Anesthetic Implications of Anti-Platelet Therapeutics.

December 6, 2002
Jean Luis Vincent, M.D., Head, Department of Intensive Care, University of Brussels, Erasmus Hospital, Belgium. Topic: Impact of Pathophysiology of Sepsis.

February 12-13, 2003
James A. DiNardo, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Topic: Recombinant Factor VIIa; The New Universal Hemostatic Agent; Care of the Child with Congenital Heart Disease.

May 28-29, 2003
Christopher Wu, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Topic: The Effect of Neuraxial Anesthesia-Analgesia on Patient Outcomes; Update on Anticoagulation and RA.

June 18-19-2003
Etsuro Motoyama, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Topic: Hypoxia and Breathing in Infants and Adults; Perioperative Lung Injury in Infants.

November 5-6, 2003
Per Thorborg, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, ICU and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR. Topic: Vasoactive and Hypertensive Therapy in the OR (NYSSA); Management of Massive Transfusion.

February 4-5, 2004
Jeffrey H. Silverstein, M.D., Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Associate Dean for Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Topic: Delirium: Is Anesthesia to Blame if Grandma's Bananas?; Perioperative Beta Blockade in the Elderly.

February 14, 2004
Laurence DiNardo. M.D., VCUHS, A.D. Williams Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Richmond, VA. Topic: Upper Airway Lesions and Airway Management.

February 26, 2003
Jeffrey Katz, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL. Topic: Central Sensitization and Pain Management.

May 12-13, 2004
Aaron F. Kopman, M.D., Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, NY. Topic: Neuromuscular Pharmacology. The Future.

April 15, 2004
James R. Rowbottam, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Topic: The Difficult to Extubate Patient.

September 30, 2004
Paul Tripi, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Pediatrics), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Topic: Parental Presence During Induction of Anesthesia: Compassionate Care or Sheer Madness?

October 14, 2004
Carl Fischer, Jr., M.D., Professor of Clinical Anesthesia and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Topic: Burn Anesthesia: An Overview

November 18, 2004 Michael Ramsay, M.D., F.R.C.A., Chief of Service, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX. Topic: Sedation in the ICU and Perioperative Settings: Current Strategies

April 28, 2005 Christopher Jankowski, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Topic: Cutting Through the Confusion: Postoperative Delirium in the Elderly

May 12, 2005 Mark Boswell, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief Division of Pain Medicine, Director Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH. Topic: Interventional Pain Management for Chronic Spine Pain

May 19, 2005 Masao Takata, M.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Imperial College of London, UK. Topic: Ventilator-induced lung injury: physiological and inflammatory mechanisms

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