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Dean Honors Dr. Peter Pronovost, Hopkins Critical Care Physician and Patient Safety Pioneer
On November 18, Dean Edward D. Miller, M.D. hosts a reception in honor of Peter Provonost, M.D., Ph.D., medical director for Johns Hopkins' Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.
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Marking the Milestones and Growing Together
Celebrating significant service milestones with faculty and staff is always an eagerly anticipated fall event on the Johns Hopkins campus, but perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Hopkins Anesthesiology employees were recently feted at a special luncheon for employees celebrating special employment year milestones, held during the annual Employee Recognition week.
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True Leaders in Pain Management
Paul Christo, M.D., M.B.A., Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship, has been named as one of six new fellows of the Mayday Fund, a New York City-based foundation dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree, and consequence of human physical pain. Established in 1992, the Mayday Fund is dedicated to further Shirley Steinman Katzenbach’s commitment to social and medical causes. Her special interest in the treatment of pain forms the core of the Fund’s mission.
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Inaugural Issue of The Monitor
The first issue of the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine newsletter, The Monitor, begins a new channel for celebrating the accomplishments and successes of the faculty, residents, fellows, nurses, and support staff. The summer newstand issue, also available in electronic format, highlights the department's broad scope and its achievements in education, clinical care, and research, as well as the impact on Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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Pass It On: The Next Generation of Anesthesia Technicians
One of the many important roles that Dr. Michael Phelps enjoys as an Anesthesiology faculty member is that of welcoming the newest generation of Anesthesia Technicians for their Hopkins rotation. In part, his interest in this mentoring project stems from the fact that before he became a Johns Hopkins faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology, Phelps began his career in medicine as a critical care technician. Now, as an anesthesiologist at one of the most prestigious academic medical centers in the country, he takes time out of a packed clinical schedule to extend a warm welcome to the Anesthesia Technician program students from the Community College of Baltimore County.
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Chief Resident Continues Leadership Tradition in Pain Medicine Field
The Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program has a long tradition of training future health care leaders, and the current crop of residents is right on track. Chief Resident Dr. Matthew Crooks’ work with anesthesia residents now extends far past the walls of Johns Hopkins. In addition to being named one of the Departments’s two new Chief Residents, Crooks was recently honored with an appointment as the Resident Chair Elect of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA).
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Double Kudos for Pain Division
The Pain Division of Anesthesiology recently scored a major pain research "double hit" with the publication of two papers and editorial reviews in the same issue of Anesthesiology. Dr's. Steven Cohen and Robert Hurley's paper, titled "Randomized Placebo-controlled Study Evaluating Lateral Branch Radiofrequency Denervation for Sacroiliac Joint Pain" appears in the August 2008 issue. It was also the subject of an editorial by James P. Rathmell, M.D. titled "The Promise of an Effective Treatment for Sacroiliac-related Low Back Pain." The Cohen/Hurley paper was followed by a second paper by another Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology pain specialist team, Christopher L. Wu, M.D and colleague Shefali Agarwal, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
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Green... Not Just For Scrubs Anymore
Anesthesiologist Jerry Stonemetz is one clinician in the Johns Hopkins Operating Rooms who has discovered first hand that taking the "green" path in healthcare can be a win-win proposal. In the past year, Stonemetz led a project based in the operating rooms whose goal was to separate recyclable trash from medical waste. As a result of these efforts, Hopkins has less medical waste to dispose of cutting down on over a million pounds of waste each year.
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Chief Resident Pairs with Faculty Member to Research Sex and Gender Differences in Pain Perception
Dr. Meredith Adams is just settling nicely into her year as one of the Department's Chief Residents, but also finds herself in the research spotlight for publishing her first journal article. Collaborating with with Anesthesiology faculty member, Dr. Robert Hurley, she co-authored a paper entitled, "Sex, Gender, and Pain: An Overview of a Complex Field". The paper, which will appear in the July 2008 issue of the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia, explores biomedical research in the field of pain as it relates to differerences in a patient's sex.
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Hello Goodbye
Every summer, the Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine bids an emotional farewell to its graduating residents and fellows at the annual Graduation Dinner.
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Practicing on Plastic: Johns Hopkins Simulation Center
Well-equipped operating rooms and Molly the plastic "Sim Baby" are all part of the $5 million dollar state-of-the-art Johns Hopkins Simulation Center where Hopkins trainers test future doctors in lifelike scenarios.
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Time Names Dr. Peter Pronovost to 100 Most Influential People 2008
For his groundbreaking work in the area of patient safety, Hopkins anesthesiologist Dr. Peter Pronovost has been named by the editors of Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2008.
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Airway Workshops Slated For New Simulation Center
The new Simulation Center in the Outpatient Center building will be the site of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Airway workshops on Monday afternoons from 4-6 p.m. beginning September 8th.
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