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Congratulations to Drs. Sharifpour, Vadlamudi, Spektor and Duggan on their acceptance to A&A Practice, "Abdominal Surgery with Bilateral Rectus Sheath Block, A Case Report." A multi-disciplinary effort between the Cardiac Anesthesia, General Anesthesia and Acute Pain Team!
Congratulations to Drs. Wolf and Lynde for being selected best abstract at the 2019 Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America for their work to increase use of perioperative cephalosporins in penicillin-allergic patients. Their submission described a multidisciplinary effort involving Drs. Sexton and Wiley from ID, Dr. Kuruvilla from Allergy, and Dr. Sharma from the Department of Surgery.
Congratulations to Amit Prabhakar for his recent publication "The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Fibromyalgia: a Comprehensive Review."
Congratulations to Dr. McKenzie Hollon for passing both the National Board of Echocardiography Examination in Critical Care Echocardiography and the National Board of Echocardiography Exam of Special Competency in Adult Echocardiography.
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Woodbury on being selected as the Junior Faculty recipient of the 2019 Albert E. Levy Award for Scientific Research.
Congratulations to Dr. Milad Sharifpour for being awarded the 2019 Frederickson Faculty Development Award for Education.
Dr. Alex Papangelou was selected to lead a panel at the 2019 ASA Conference in Orlando, "Do the eyes have it? Clinical applications of pupillometry and optic nerve monitoring" jointly with expert neuroanesthesia colleagues around the country. Likewise, Dr. Milad Sharifour also had an accepted point-counterpoint presentation "Intra-operative lung protective mechanical ventilation: Is there room to improve outcomes?"
Dr. Alex Papangelou is an invited speaker for the winter meeting of the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists, presenting on “Neuroanesthesiology Potpourri. Dr. M. Sharifpour and Dr. Will Trudo will be presenting their abstract “Remifentanil for RSI in a patient with Malignant Hyperthermia Undergoing Thyroidectomy” at the GSA which was accepted for oral presentation.
Dr. Elizabeth Duggan is a contributor for the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Improvement (SPAQI) quarterly newsletter. Congratulations for her recently published review for the November 2018 publication, "A Practice Update: Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy, ASRA and Pain Medicine Evidence Based Guidelines."
Dr. Cinnamon Sullivan is an upcoming invited Grand Rounds speaker at Mayo Clinic Phoenix presenting two lectures, Livers on the FastTrack, Altered Coagulation in ESLD. Dr. E. Duggan is speaking at Tower Health, an affiliate of Drexel University on the Management of Perioperative Hyperglycemia. Dr. Duggan was also a recent guest for the Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Program, a joint endeavor between the American College of Surgeons and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute.