Winter 2018President’s MessageThe AUA 2018 Annual Meeting—co-hosted by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and The University of Chicago Medicine—in Chicago, Illinois, will soon commence. Education Advisory Board (EAB), Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), and the Host Institution Chairs, Drs. Robert R. Gaiser, Y.S. Prakash, Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, and Charles W. Hogue, have organized a thought-provoking program addressing the latest breakthroughs and trends in academic anesthesia and the practice as a whole. Unity in Medical Practice Serves as an InspirationWinter 2018 NewsletterPresident Donald Trump officially declared U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While this declaration, not unexpectedly provoked polarized reactions, some of which debate the mere existence of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the Jewish state, the facts with respect to medical practice, service and education indeed reflect a unified city of Jerusalem. Continue Reading…The New Year’s Resolutions of a Committed Academic AnesthesiologistWinter 2018 NewsletterRight around January 1, as I’m making the impossibly long list of New Year’s resolutions, I’ll take the opportunity to reflect, as I always do at this time of the year, upon how satisfying and varying this career has been. Continue Reading…AUA: Then and NowWinter 2018 NewsletterI first became aware of the AUA in the spring of 1962. I was invited to give a presentation on a research project that I had just completed on the effect of anesthetics on the apneic threshold. The meeting was co-sponsored by Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, and held one day at each institution. My sponsor was John Severinghaus, a member of AUA. Continue Reading…AUA 2018 Annual MeetingWinter 2018 Newsletter April 28 is Aligned Meeting DayWinter 2018 NewsletterThe attendees of the IARS, AUA and SOCCA Annual Meetings will have the opportunity to take advantage of a special Aligned Meeting and SOCCA Focus on Critical Care Day on Saturday, April 28. The thought leaders in academic anesthesiology will present a wide selection of robust education sessions highlighting pioneering topics in anesthesia and celebrating advances in education, science, research and the art of anesthesiology. Continue Reading…Update on Clinical Research Consortium: Collaborative Research Initiative for Perioperative Clinical and Translational Science MeetingWinter 2018 Newsletter Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation: A New Way to Prevent Opioid Tolerance?Opioid tolerance (OT) and opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) are commonly associated with opioid therapy to treat acute, chronic, and cancer pain. Opioid overdose and deaths are directly related to the development of OT, which is a physiological response to repeated exposure to opioids and requires escalating dose to achieve the desired analgesic effects. In contrast to analgesic tolerance, tolerance to the side effects of opioid therapy such as respiratory depression and constipation does not readily develop. Enhancing Resilience to Decrease Burnout: One Piece of the Wellness EquationThe topic of physician burnout has received increasing national attention over the last decade. A 2008 study of medical students at 7 U.S. medical schools revealed that approximately 50% of medical students experience burnout and 10% experience suicidal ideation during medical school. The first large-scale, multi-specialty study of burnout in U.S. physicians was conducted in 2011. Winter 2018 Newsletter Winter 2018 Newsletter Call for Participants in a Neuroscience SymposiumWinter 2018 Newsletter Dr. Ronald F. Albrecht, Emeritus Professor and former Head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, passed away on August 31, 2017. Richard J. Traystman, PhD / 1942-2017by Jeffrey Kirsch, MD and Paco Herson, PhD Call for Articles for the Spring Issue of AUA UpdateIf you have an idea for an article, an announcement, or an opinion on a recently published article, please submit your proposal/article to Dr. Lisa Wise-Faberowski, MD, [email protected] before Friday, April 13, 2018. If your article is selected for the Spring Issue of Update 2018, we will contact you for editing and formatting! |