Special Events

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

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, M.D., Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair
Vice Dean For Professional Services, University of Pennsylvania, "Influence of Anesthesia Providers on Surgical Outcomes"
2003: Peter Glass, M.D., Chairman, SUNY at 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, M.D., 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”

Mock Oral Exams: One morning each Spring (usually in March or April), a few weeks prior to the A.B.A Oral
Board Exam, all residents attend a "mock" oral exam. CA-2 and
CA-3 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.
administered exam. 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, M.D., Ph.D., Director, McSPI Research Group, Professor of Anesthesiology, UCSF, California, "The Evolution of Perioperative Outcomes Research: Perspectives for the New Millennium"

1999:

Carol Hirshman, M.D., Bendixen Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, "What the BG Dog
Told Us About Asthma and Anesthesia"

2000:

Ronald D. Miller, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology University of California, San Francisco, "Dreams
and Medical Publications"

2001: Carol L. Lake, M.D., MBA, Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville
"Cardiac Anesthesia: Past, Present, and Future"
2002: Henry Rosenberg, M.D., 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, Ph.D., 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, M.D., Robert Dunning Dripps Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania


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, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital,
"Insights Into Myopathy of Critical Illness"
1999:

Archibald I. J. Brain, M.A., L.M.S.S.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.I., 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, M.D., former chair at Wake Forest Bowman Gray, Winston-Salem, NC
"The History of Obstetric Anesthesia, Advances Through the Ages"
2003: William Young, M.D., Vice Chairman, UCSF
“Emerging Concepts in Physiologic Manipulation of Cerebral Perfusion”
2004: Daniel Thys, MD, F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology & Chairman, Dept of Anes, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt
"Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Anesthetic Implications"
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”   

Allen Hyman History of Anesthesia Lecture is the first endowed
lecture of the academic year. Recent lectures have been:

1998:

Douglas Bacon, M.D., "The Creation of Infrastructure in
Anesthesiology 1900 - 1960"
1999:

James T. Goodrich, M.D. "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"
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, M.D., 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


Virginia Apgar Lecture

2003: Herbert Kleber, MD, Professor, NYPH Psychiatric Institute "Pharmacotherapy for Drug Addiction"
2004: John Driscoll, M.D., 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”
2006: PD Dr. med. Michael Zaugg, DEAA, Institute of Anesthesiology, E-HOF, University Hospital Zurich
“New Paradigms in Organ Protection: Anesthetic pre- and post conditioning”

Three other important social events include the CA1 residents welcome
cruise, the Christmas party in December and the graduating resident’s dinner, to which all the graduating CA3-residents, spouses and
faculty are invited.

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