This year marked a major technology shift for the Department, as the Biennial Program moved onto the world wide web platform. For the first time, as familiar faculty faces drifted into the Garrett Room to hear the presentations in person, they also heard Director John Ulatowski warmly greet a new, virtual global audience during a live webcast of the event. Webcasting the entire event this year made it possible for busy clinicians, educators and researchers to watch either the live event in part, or its entirety, or to opt to view the archive webcast based on their own schedules. It also opened up the Dome’s historic doors for alumni or anyone with a pc and an internet connection, inviting all to join the prestigious event. Full Story >>

The Fifth Robert A. Abraham, M.D. Endowed Lectureship in the Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine will be held Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 7:00 a.m. in Hurd Hall in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Abraham Lecturer will be James C. Eisenach, M.D., the F. M. James, III Professor of Anesthesiology, Physiology and Pharmacology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Editor-In-Chief, Anesthesiology. Dr. Eisenach’s lecture is entitled: "Obstetric Pain: Acute and Chronic”. Full Story >>

Dr. Merel Harmel is a man synonymous with the word “first.” He became the first Anesthesiology resident at Johns Hopkins in 1945. He received the first National Research Council Fellowship in Anesthesiology, for which he left Hopkins to go to the University of Pennsylvania. He also founded the first Anesthesia Department at three separate universities: State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center (1952), the University of Chicago (1968), and Duke University (1971). And the first for which Harmel is probably most well known was his participation in the first Blalock-Taussig "blue baby" shunt procedure. Full Story >>

May brings with it a much anticipated rite of passage, the annual Class Graduation for Medicine and Graduate schools. This year, teaching medical students and mentoring graduate students in Anesthesiology laboratories yielded some remarkable fruit for our Department Faculty and Residents and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Full Story >>

Dr. Jennifer K. Lee, a clinical fellow in Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, was recently awarded a one-year $75,000 FAER Research Fellowship Grant, one of nine grants approved by the FAER Board of Directors in April 2009 to support the research of promising anesthesiologists. Dr. Lee will work with her mentor, Raymond C. Koehler, PhD, on her research topic “Cerebrovascular Autoregulation after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.” Full Story >>

Imagine a country in Africa with only one anesthesia physician in a population of three to five million people. Or a more developed African country with one anesthesia physician for each million residents. This lack of anesthesiologists is the reality for many of the 54 countries and over one billion people who reside in Africa. To address this and other challenges facing anesthesiologists in Africa, the Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine will co-sponsor the 4th All Africa Anaesthesia Congress (AAAC), created to address pain, anesthesia and critical care medicine issues within Africa. Full Story >>

Debra Anne Schwinn, M.D., Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, delivered Anesthesiology Grand Rounds on Thursday, April 30th. Dr. Schwinn’s lecture, "Perioperative Genomics: Defining the Vulnerable Patient," was broadcast live to the Hopkins community and is now viewable in the ACCM archives. Click the following link to view Dr. Schwinn's Grand Rounds Presentation. Launch Media Player >>