Academic Evening: This event takes place one evening in late April or early May at the Faculty Club, and is an opportunity for fellows, residents, medical students and research associates in the department to present their research and academic work to their colleagues and the faculty. It is organized in the form of a competition. All submitted abstracts are presented as posters, and the top six are selected for oral presentation that evening, and are ranked by a distinguished Guest Judge. The evening ends with a buffet dinner and award presentations. Abstracts for each year are available by clicking the year.
Academic Evening Guest Judges
| 1998: |
Paul Barash, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology
Yale University School of Medicine |
| 1999: |
Warren M. Zapol, MD, Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia,
Harvard Medical School |
| 2000: |
John P. Kampine, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesia, Medical College of Wisconsin, "Anesthesia and the Control of the Respiration" |
| 2001: |
Simon Gelman, MD, PhD, Leroy Vandam/Benjamin Covino,
Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Chairman of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine @ Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA "Pathophysiology of Aortic Cross-Clamping" |
| 2002: |
David Longnecker, MD, Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair
Vice Dean For Professional Services, University of Pennsylvania, "Influence of Anesthesia Providers on Surgical Outcomes" |
| 2003: |
Peter Glass, MD, Chairman, SUNYat Stony Brook
"Challenges for Research Anesthesia" |
| 2004: |
Patricia A. Kapur, MD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA. "Current approaches to maximizing the functional capability of your in – and out-patient PACUs" |
| 2005: |
Mark A. Warner, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, "Who better than anesthesiologists?" |
| 2006: |
Douglas Coursin, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, "Perioperative Glycemic Control & Therapy How Sweet is to be Euglycemic?" |
| 2007: |
Mark F. Newman, MD, Merel H. Harmel Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, “Genetics of Perioperative Outcomes” |
| 2008: |
Jonathan Moss, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman for Research, Anesthesia and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, “Development of peripheral opiate antagonists: morphine’s secrets revealed” |
| 2009: |
Ronald G. Pearl, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, “Perioperative Management of Pulmonary Hypertension” |
| 2010: |
Neal Cohen, MD, MPH, MS, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, "If anesthesia is so safe, do patients still need an anesthesiologist?" |
| 2011: |
Philip D. Lumb, MBBS, FCCM, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA |
| 2012: |
Keith Anthony Jones, M.D., Alfred Habeeb Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL. “Perioperative Management of Pheochromocytoma: Biochemical and Biophysical Rationales” |
Mock Oral Exams: One morning each Spring (usually in March or April), a few weeks prior to the A.B.A Oral Board Exam, CA-2 and CA-3 residents attend a "mock" oral exam. Residents are each assigned a thirty minute exam period with one senior (often an actual Board examiner) and one junior examiner. Examiners conduct the exam identically to the A.B.A. format. At the end of the exam, the examiners critique the resident on their exam performance. Although stressful for all at that moment, residents find this to be a valuable opportunity to practice and prepare for the actual, inevitable, exam and to ask for more opportunities.
E.M. Papper Lecture: This endowed lecture is held each year and is given by an outstanding anesthesiologist with an international reputation. The lecture honors Dr. E. M. Papper, the first Chairman of the Department. Recent lectures have been:
| 1998: |
Dennis Mangano, MD, PhD, Director, McSPI Research Group, Professor of Anesthesiology, UCSF, California, "The Evolution of Perioperative Outcomes Research: Perspectives for the New Millennium" |
| 1999: |
Carol Hirshman, MD, Bendixen Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, "What the BG Dog
Told Us About Asthma and Anesthesia" |
| 2000: |
Ronald D. Miller, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco, "Dreams
and Medical Publications" |
| 2001: |
Carol L. Lake, MD, MBA, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville, "Cardiac Anesthesia: Past, Present, and Future" |
| 2002: |
Henry Rosenberg, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman for
Academic Affairs, Thomas Jefferson University, "Past, Present and Future of Malignant Hyperthermia" |
| 2003: |
Roberta L. Hines, MD, FABA, FANZA, Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, "Anesthesiology’s Odyssey: Innovations in Research and Patient Care" |
| 2004: |
Zeljko J. Bosnjak, PhD, Professor and Vice Chairman, Medical College of Wisconsin, "Anesthetic induced cardio protection" |
| 2005: |
Hugo Van Aken, MD, PhD, FRCA, FANZCA, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Münster, Germany, “Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia/ Analgesia and Outcome” |
| 2006: |
Judy Kersten, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, “Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk” |
| 2007: |
Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Robert Dunning Dripps Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, “Did the 2007 ACC/AHA pre-operative cardiac evaluation guidelines really say that?” |
| 2008: |
Sten GE Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA, Professor, Karolinska Institute Chief of Research and Education, Karolinska University Hospital, Vice Chair of the Nobel Assembly, Chair of the Nobel Assembly (2009), “Choosing Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine” |
| 2009: |
Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD, Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, “Clinical Neurophysiology of General Anesthesia – Induced Loss of Consciousness" |
| 2010: |
Mervyn Maze, MB, ChB, Chair, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco |
| 2011: |
Roger A. Johns, MD, MHS, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "From Gene to Function: RELM Proteins in Pulmonary Hypertension" |
Sydney Winchell Memorial Lecture: This endowed lecture honors Dr. Sidney Winchell, who trained in our department from 1958 – 60. Recent lectures have been:
| 1998: |
Jeevendra Martyn, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital,
"Insights Into Myopathy of Critical Illness" |
| 1999: |
Archibald I. J. Brain, MA, LMSSA, FFARCSI, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, United
Kingdom, "The Laryngeal Mask Airway, Past, Present & Future" |
| 2000: |
Charles Weissman, MD, Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care at Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, "Enhanced Perioperative Care: Challenge for the 21st Century" |
| 2001: |
Frank James, MD, former chair at Wake Forest Bowman Gray, Winston-Salem, NC, "The History of Obstetric Anesthesia, Advances Through the Ages" |
| 2003: |
William Young, MD, Vice Chairman, UCSF, “Emerging Concepts in Physiologic Manipulation of Cerebral Perfusion” |
| 2004: |
Daniel Thys, MD, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology & Chairman, Dept of Anes, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt
"Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Anesthetic Implications"
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| 2005: |
Jeevendra Martyn, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, “Acetylcholine receptors: Interactions with muscle relaxants” |
| 2006: |
Charles W. Hogue, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, "Improving Outcomes for Women Undergoing Cardiac Surgery" |
| 2007: |
Tomoki Hashimoto, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of California San Francisco, Center for Cerebrovascular Research, “Anesthetic Management of Patients with Cerebral Aneurysms” |
| 2008: |
Richard Polin, MD, Interim Chairman of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, “New Concepts in Neonatal Resuscitation” |
| 2009: |
Ezra S. Susser, MD, Dr.PH, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray, Charles Gelman, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University , Mailman School of Public Health, “Life Course Studies: Belated Concerns & Delayed Effects” |
| 2010: |
Isobel M. Russell, MD, PhD, FACC, Professor and Chief of Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Moffitt Long Hospitals, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, “Echocardiography of Congenital Heart Disease In the Adult” |
| 2011: |
Lecture I
John H. Eisenach, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Assistant Professor of Physiology, Mayo Clinic, “Fear Not the Failing Heart”
Lecture II
Simon C. Body, MBChB, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Periopertive and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “Do Genetics Really Make a Difference to Postoperative Cardiac Outcomes?” |
| 2012: |
Lecture I
Charles Chavkin, PhD, Chair of Pain Research and Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington, Seattle, will be presenting the Winchell Memorial Lecture I this Wednesday, April 11th at 12pm in the Anesthesia Library (PH5-139) titled “Therapeutic Potential of Kappa Opioids in Pain and Addiction Treatment”.
Lecture II
Alex S. Evers, M.D., Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, “Preventing Anesthesia Awareness” |
Allen Hyman History of Anesthesia Lecture is the first endowed
lecture of the academic year. Recent lectures have been:
| 1998: |
Douglas Bacon, MD, "The Creation of Infrastructure in
Anesthesiology 1900 - 1960" |
| 1999: |
James T. Goodrich, MD, "A Study of Andreas Vesalius
(1514 – 1564): His Contribution to Modern Anatomical Studies, Personal Trials & Tribulations From Medical Student to Professor:
1974 - 1999" |
| 2000: |
Donald Caton, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetric and Gynecology, University of Florida,
"Social Values and the Pain of Childbirth" |
| 2001: |
Peter E. Dans, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine & Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University,
"Hollywood’s View of the Doctor from the 1930s to the 1990’s" |
| 2002: |
Allen Hyman, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology,
"The History of Infant Resuscitation" |
| 2003: |
John W. Severinghaus, MD, Dr. Me. HA, FRCA, Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Francisco,
"Discovery of Oxygen: Plagiarism Emerges Two Centuries Late"
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| 2004: |
Dr. J. B. Glen and Dr. David Goodale,
"Anesthetic drug discovery - from xylocaine and halothane to diprivan" |
| 2005: |
Sir Ian Kennedy, Chairman, Healthcare Commission, UK, "When Babies Died: Learning Lessons for Healthcare" |
| 2006: |
Frank Lowy, MD, Professor of Medicine & Pathology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, "Staphylococcus aureus: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" |
| 2007: |
Lee Goldman, MD, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor Columbia University Medical Center, “Three decades of cardiac risk in non-cardiac surgery” |
| 2008: |
Richard Smiley, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology (in OB-GYN) and Director of Obstetrical Anesthesia and Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, M. Finster Professor and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, “ John Snow, Father of Two: The Origins of Scientific Epidemiology and Anesthesiology” |
| 2009: |
Andranik Ovassapian, MD, Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care, University of Chicago, “The All-Important Airway: A Historical Review” |
| 2010: |
Theodore H. Stanley, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, “The History of Opioids in Anesthesia – The Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center was Involved” |
| 2011: |
Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD, William Osler Professor of Medicine, Director, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, “Past and Future of Resuscitation from Cardiac Arrest” |
Virginia Apgar Endowed Lecture
Competencies Addressed: Medical Knowledge
Location Change: Alumni Auditorium, Black Building 1st Floor
| 2003: |
Herbert Kleber, MD, Professor, NYPH Psychiatric Institute, "Pharmacotherapy for Drug Addiction" |
| 2004: |
John Driscoll, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, "Dr. Virginia Apgar: Innovator and Advocate" |
| 2005: |
Jeffrey Drazen MD, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, “Pharmacogenetics of Asthma” |
| 2007: |
PD Dr. med. Michael Zaugg, DEAA, Institute of Anesthesiology, E-HOF, University Hospital Zurich, “New Paradigms in Organ Protection: Anesthetic pre- and post conditioning” |
| 2008: |
Steven Shafer, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, “The Anesthetic Pipeline” |
| 2009: |
Laurent G. Glance, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Vice-Chairman for Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine, “Health Care Report Cards: Report on the Report Cards “ |
| 2010: |
Paul R. Knight III, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Microbiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University at Buffalo, NY. “Aspiration Pneumonia (Disambiguation)”. |
| 2011: |
Thomas J. J. Blanck, MD, PhD, Dorothy Reaves Spatz, MD Professor of Anesthesiology, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, New York University School of Medicine, “Clinical Research: Past and Present” |
Two other important social events are the Graduating Resident’s Dinner, to which all the graduating CA3-residents, spouses and faculty are invited and the Welcome Reception for the incoming PGY1-residents.

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