Annual Events

Academic Evening

Our annual Academic Evening takes place every year in late May in the reception area and auditorium of the Milstein Heart Center and is coordinated by Dr. Robert Sladen and Dr. Charles Emala. It is an opportunity for departmental residents, fellows, medical students, postdoctoral students, and research associates to present their research and academic work to their colleagues and the faculty. All submitted abstracts are presented as posters in one of three categories: basic science research, clinical research, or case reports. A faculty selection committee ranks the top two basic science research and clinical research abstracts as well as the best case report, all of which are presented in oral form at the end of the evening. An invited distinguished guest judge selects first- and second-place awards.

Recent guest judges:

2018	George A. Mashour, M.D., PhD Bert N. La Du Professor of Anesthesiology Director of the Center for Consciousness Science anf the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University	University of Michigan Medical School	"Ketamine and Consciousness"
2017	Vesna D. Jevtovic-Todorovic, MD, PhD, MBA Professor of Anesthesia and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology	University of Colorado, School of Medicine	“Anesthesia and the Developing Brain – Do We Have Cause for Concern?”
2016	Beverly Orser, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology, Department of Anesthesia	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center Toronto, Canada	“Cognitive Deficits after Anesthesia and Surgery: Causes and Treatments”
2015	Berend Mets, MB, ChB, PhD FRCA, FFA (SA), Eric A. Walker Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology	Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center	“To Stop or Not: Angiotensin Axis Blockade”
2014	Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD Henry Isaiah Dorr Professor of Research and Teaching of Anesthetics, Harvard Medical School; Anesthetist-in-Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital	Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital	“Intraoperative Mechanical Ventilator”

E. M. Papper Lecture

This endowed lecture is held each year and is given by an anesthesiologist with an outstanding international reputation. The lecture honors Dr. E. M. Papper, the first chair of the department.

Recent lectures:

2017	EVAN D. KHARASCH, MD, PHD Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Director, The Center for Clinical Pharmacology	“Shifting paradigms: Perioperative use of long-duration opioids.”
2016	Laura E. Niklason, MD, PhD Nicholas M. Greene Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University School of Medicine	“State of the Art: Cell Therapies”
2015	Lecture I Bobbie-Jean Sweitzer, MD Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Professor of Medicine, Director, Anesthesia Perioperative Medicine Clinic, University of Chicago	“Evaluation and Optimization of the Higher Risk Patients”
2015	Lecture II Colleen Koch, MD, MS, MBA The Mark C. Rogers Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD	“Hospital-Acquired Anemia: A Hazard of Hospitalization”

Allen I. Hyman History of Anesthesia Lecture

This lecture is traditionally the first endowed lecture of the academic year and explores the breakthroughs and evolution of anesthesiology practices through the years.

Recent lectures:

2018	Jeanine P. Wiener-Kornish, MD Chief, Anesthesia and Critical Care Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine	"Women in Anesthesiology"
2017	Edward D. Miller, MD Dean & CEO Emeritus, John Hopkins Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine	"John Hopkins and the Creation of Modern Medicine Competencies"
2016	Theodore H. Stanley, MD Anesthesiology Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT	“The Opiods Part II: The Story of Fentanyl"

Sydney Winchell Memorial Lecture

These endowed lectures honor Dr. Sydney Winchell, who trained in our department from 1958 to 1960.

Recent lectures:

2017	Keith A. (Tony) Jones, MD Alfred Habeeb Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine President-UA Health Services Foundation Chief Physician Executive-UAB Medicine Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs-School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine	“Perioperative and Acute Care Medicine: A Value Added Proposal for the Next Generation of the Health System.”
2016	Lecture I: Dean B. Andropoulos, MD, MHCM Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, Texas Children’s Hospital	“Dexmedetomidine and Anesthetic Neurotoxicity in the Developing Brain”
2016	Lecture II: E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Research GRECC, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	“Saving the Injured Brain from Acquired Dementia: A New Frontier in Critical Care”
2015	Lecture I: Alexandre Mignon, MD, PhD MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Cochin/Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris Descartes University and School of Medicine	“Serious Games: The Next Generation for Effective Education and Simulation”
	Lecture II: Santhanam Suresh, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine	“Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children”
	Lecture III: Vincent Chan, MD, FRCPC FRCA, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto	“Perioperative Use of Ultrasound for Anesthesia Practice”

Virginia Apgar Endowed Lecture

These endowed lectures honor Dr. Virginia Apgar, the first female professor to hold a full professorship at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and creator of the Apgar Score for quickly determining a newborn infant's health.

Recent lectures:

2018	Dan Berkowitz, M.B.B.Ch., M.D.Professor, Biomedical Engineering Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine	"Blood Vessels That See and Smell, and Airways That Taste: Promiscuous G-Protein Coupled Receptors As Novel Therapeutic Targets."
2017	Jeffrey Kirsch, M.D., Professor and Chair Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Associate Dean for Clinical and Veteran’s Affairs	“Are Anesthetics Neuro-Protectors or Toxins?”
2016	David S. Warner, MD Vice Chair, Research, Chief, Division of Basic Sciences, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology in the School of Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurobiology and Surgery, Duke University	“Advancing Translational Research: Lesions From Study of Acute Brain Injury”
2015	Y. S. Prakash, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology & Physiology, Chair, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic	“Nanoparticles for Targeting Lung Diseases: The Need for Intelligent Design”

Endowed E. M. Papper Lecture in Pediatric Anesthesiology

The inaugural E.M. Papper Lecture in Pediatric Anesthesiology was held in April of 2018.

2018

Paul R. Hickey, M.D.
Anesthesiologist-in-Chief
Professor of Anesthesia

'Ignorance in (Pediatric) Anesthesia"