Spotlight on: Dr. Raphael Gershon is the Emory Chief of Anesthesiology at Grady, one of Grady’s VP Medical Affairs, and the Medical Director of the Emory Medical Care Foundation, and in 2006, he joined The Program for Countries in Transition at Emory University effort, designed specifically to aid development in transitional countries.  His initial assignment involved focusing on Tbilisi, though he has also reviewed anesthesia services in Kutaisi, as well as smaller cities, such as Gori (the birth place of Stalin). Over the last 5 years, his yearly visits have led to interviewing President Saakashvilli, conferring with the country’s Minister of Health, meeting with the Dean of Tbilisi State Medical University, surveying trauma and anesthesiology services in both Tbilisi and Kutaisi, and helping modernize the practice of Anesthesia through lectures and much donated equipment which he personally brings.  He has gained a sense of where the country is and is guiding its progress regarding trauma care and basic perioperative services.  These changes have been quite prescient given the war with Russia just two years ago. (Read More)