Volume 38 Number 6 | Stony Brook, NY | < December 2022 |
PGA Meeting Presentations
Abstracts
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Pain Symposium Presentations
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Dr. Lin Awarded Cancer Research Grant
Dr. Jun Lin has been awarded a $360,000 grant from New York State under the Peter T. Rowley Breast Cancer Research Program. The grant, "Effect of general anesthetics and adjuvant therapy on brain metastasis of breast cancers" will be supported for the next two year. Congratulations!! |
Dental Anesthesiology News
Ralph Epstein, DDS
The news from the Division of DA is that we have completed our match for the academic year starting July 2023. We did extremely well and will have the following four new residents starting in July:
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Anesthesia Technician News
Melissa A. Day, MS, CRNA, CCRN
Please join me in welcoming J'selle McGuire to our Anesthesia Technician Team! J'selle graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Health Science with a concentration in Anesthesia Technology from Stony Brook University in May 2021. She recently completed her Anesthesia Technician internship in July 2022 and joined the Anesthesia Technician Team, September 29, 2022. Welcome to our Anesthesia Technician Team J'selle! |
MILD Simulation Session
Joshua Rismany, MD and Elizabeth Watson, MD
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From the CBY/Kids Table!
Vincent Bargnes, MD
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Swimming with the Sharks at ASA
Ursula Landman, DO, FAOCA
This year at the ASA meeting, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) hosted a "Swimming with the Sharks" event. Various FAER students pitched their innovative ideas to a panel of experts, in the format of the Shark Tank television show. OMS3 students Sonia Amanat and Edward Piscitelli pitched their virtual reality teaching tool for epidural placement. They did not place among the six finalists but they did received helpful feedback. It was a great learning experience for the students! On November 1st, Dr. Stephen Vitkun spoke to the Anesthesia Interest Group on airway management. We had an enthusiastic turnout who enjoyed the lecture and they are looking forward to our next meeting. If anyone is interested in speaking with the group -please contact me further information. |
New Publication
Figure from Komatsu et al 2022
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Synaptic Communication
James P. Dilger, PhD
My mathematical mind will not let this occasion pass without including some numbers. The history of a departmental newsletter goes back to 1996 when Dr. Paul Poppers was Chairman and I was Vice-Chair for Research. At the urging of Dr. Mario Rebecchi, I started a monthly research newsletter. Of course, it was hard copy only at this point. This kinda petered out after two years. Sometime after Dr. Peter Glass' arrival as Chair, the newsletter was reconceived as a general newsletter and began publishing in January 2001. Patricia Owens, Dr. Glass' administrative assistant at the time, suggested the name "SleepTalker" and it stuck! We published a paper version nearly every month until 2014. At some point, we included a pdf version on the departmental website. From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Helene Benveniste, who was Vice-Chair for Research at the time, published a quarterly Research Newsletter. After Dr. Gan's arrival in 2014, we changed to the current SleepTalker format in which it is embedded in an email and appears in html format on the web. These 92 issues, from May 2015 to the present, are archived on the website. While browsing through some of the early issues of the newsletter, I came across one from 2004. The Department noted its 25th Anniversary with a special issue containing remembrances by several of the departmental pioneers. You might enjoy reading it. In addition to thanking Drs. Glass, Gan and Bergese for their support of the newsletter, I want to mention Dr. Steve Vitkun, who has been on the editorial board since 2015 and stopped me from committing clinical faux pas. In recent years, I have had a twenty-something liaison to prevent me from committing generational/cultural faux pas: Drs. Shivam Shodham, Richard Tenure, Ramanjot Kang, and Murad Elias. Actually, they did much more than that! The Chair's administrative assistants kept me informed of personnel news, department events, and clinical heroics. Special thanks to Patricia Owens, Cathy Homburger, and Marisa Barone-Citrano! It would be hard to list all of their names, but I also thank members of the department: division chiefs, researchers, alumni, photographers, poets, and philosophers who contributed their insights and talents for newsletter articles over the years! Quite literally, I could not have done it without you! When I get inspired to do so, I'll contribute a "Synaptic Communication" blurb to a future issue of the newsletter! Farewell! |
Photography Corner
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Where on Campus is That?
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SleepTalker, the Stony Brook Anesthesiology Newsletter is published by the Department of Anesthesiology
Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY Sergio D. Bergese, MD, CBA, FASA, Interim Chairman Editorial Board: James P. Dilger, PhD; Ana Costa, MD; Murad Elias, MD |