Volume 27 Number 3 | Stony Brook, NY | < March 2017 > |
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State of the Department | Visiting Professor | New Faculty | Farewell |
STARS | Kudos | Family News | Resident Spotlight! |
New Publications | Synaptic Communication | Where is That? | Photography Corner |
![]() At the Departmental meeting on February 1, I presented the "State of the Department Address". Here are a few highlights from my talk. Clinical We have expanded our clinical care to two new office sites: Centereach Vascular Office and South Bay GYN Office. The offsite locations, e.g. endoscopy and special procedures are now connected to the EMR system. Our department now covers the CT ICU. The hospital has purchased 3 new TEE machines for the cardio-thoracic service. Education The new "All Day Education Day" has been met with acclaim from the residents. The all-day Wednesday program has didactic lectures, lunch with the Chairman, simulations topics and QA/AI projects. Other educational initiatives include Subspecialty Block Lectures, CT ICU education, Mock Orals and True Learn: a web-based exam prep tool. I am grateful to our Residency Training Program Director Dr. Christopher Gallagher and Associate Director Dr. Joy Schabel. Resident presentations at national meetings (ASA, PGA, SOAP, SPA) continues to be at about 40 per year. The Peter Glass Academic Research Evening held in May 2016, featured 46 posters and Nora Volkow, MD PhD as keynote speaker. Our educational "outreach" includes the Anesthesia Technology Program under the direction of Drs. Maria Lagade and Wesam Andraous with the assistance of Drs. Stephen Vitkun and Linda Cimino, SARAS (Science & Research Awareness Series) directed by Dr. Srinivas Pentyala and Global Health organized by Dr. Sofia Geralemou. Research I am extremely proud to announce that the total NIH funding for the department has reached $6.4 million direct costs. This places Stony Brook Anesthesiology at the number 6 position in the rankings among all academic anesthesiology departments in the US! There are many investigators in the basic science and clinical research arena who have contributed to this success. Congratulations! Dr. Jun Lin was awarded a TRO grant from the School of Medicine. We also have nearly 30 externally and internally funded clinical projects representing the efforts of many clinical researchers. Faculty and Faculty Development We welcomed seven new faculty members over the past year. Dr. Steve Chen has returned to SB at the ASC, Drs. Monte Chin and Vahé Tateosian joined the Pediatric Anesthesiology division, Dr. David Kiamanesh has just arrived and will work in CT ICU and Drs. Joshua Dubnau and Kevin Czaplinski are grant-supported basic scientists. Dr. Simon Guo joined the VA Anesthesiology Division in Northport. 2016 saw the promotions/appointments of Dr. Martin Griffel as Interim Chief Medical Officer, Drs. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero and Grigori Enikolopov as tenured Professors, Drs. Loreta Grecu and Jeremy Poppers as Associate Professors and Dr. Natalia Peunova as Research Associate Professor. Dr. Joy Schabel, our Vice-Chair for Education, was the recipient of the 2016 SOAP Teacher of the Year Award! Other notable accomplishments for the department include the appointments of Dr. Ruchir Gupta as Section Editor for Perioperative Medicine and Dr. Jun Lin as Section Editor for BMC Anesthesia. Dr. Srinivas Pentyala has been awarded patent-notice of allowance. Finally, the ASC was named Long Island's Best Ambulatory Center! Future Going forward, I see an increased emphasis on the role of the anesthesiologist in Enhanced Recovery/Perioperative Surgical Home. We will develop Clinical Pathways with a strong reliance on Informatics. We will provide leadership and training in Improving Patient Outcomes, Increasing Value and Promoting Teamwork. The Department as a whole must help maintain and improve our high quality residency program and must continue to do cutting edge basic, translational and clinical research. Finally, we must promote Faculty Development with a renewed emphasis on Career Development and Leadership Training. I'd like to leave you with a few provocative quotes. Thomas Carlyle said "Anything worth doing is at first impossible" and Thomas Edison recognized that "Vision without execution is Hallucination!!" Let us realize our visions together! ![]() |
![]() We are delighted to have Dr. James Rathmell as our Visiting Professor for March. Dr. Rathmell is Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Rathmell received his masters in Biochemistry and medical degree at Wake Forest University. Dr. Rathmell then completed his residency training with concentration in Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Pain Management at North Carolina Baptist Hospitals. He started his academic career at University of Vermont College of Medicine, and subsequently moved to Boston to continue his endeavors at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rathmell has had many exemplary leadership roles as an educator as well as in patient care. He served as course director in Nurse Anesthesia training, course director in Pharmacology and Clinical Therapeutic, as well as program director in Pain Management training. At the Mass General Hospital, Dr. Rathmell led a successful patient-centered pain clinic as well as a top tier Pain Management fellowship training program. Many of his publications concern improving the safety of pain treatment using image guidance. His text book, Atlas of Image-Guided Intervention in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 1st edition (2007) and 2nd edition (2011), is widely used among pain management fellows. Among his many roles, he is also the Chair for the Pain Medicine Examination Committee and an ABA oral board examiner. In addition, he is an Editor for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, as well as Neuromodulation. Dr. Rathmell will present two lectures while visiting our department. On Tuesday, March 7, he speaks to the residents about "Pharmacological Pain Management, the Evolving Role of Opioids, and Improving Education of Health Care Providers". The next morning at 7:00 am, he will speak at the departmental grand rounds on "The Link Between Acute and Chronic Pain". ![]() |
![]() I have the great pleasure of introducing Dr. Qiao (Simon) Guo, M.D. As a Clinical Assistant Professor, I supervised Dr. Guo’s residency training in the Department of Anesthesia at the Northport VAMC. Dr. Guo is a graduate of Cornell University where he finished a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in May 2004. He received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine in May 2009. He then joined the Anesthesiology Department for his clinical base year internship and went on to complete his Anesthesiology Residency training at Stony Brook from July 2009 until June 2013. He was then was accepted into the Tri-Institute Pain Fellowship program at Weill Cornell Medical Center from July 2013 to June 2014. After completing his fellowship, he was employed as an attending Pain Practitioner at Community Pain Medicine at Queens, NY through October 2015. He then joined our department as a Pain Specialist. Dr. Guo has always provided high quality care to his patients. Through his training in Anesthesiology, he won many awards such as Resident Team Player of the Year for two consecutive years (2012 and 2013), as well as Excellence in Teaching Medical Students for 2011-2012. During his pain fellowship he was finalist in an oral abstract presentation at New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians Symposium. Please welcome Dr. Qiao Guo back to Stony Brook and the Northport VAMC! ![]() New Faculty Member: Dr. David Kiamanesh
![]() We welcome Dr. David Kiamanesh to the department as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kiamanesh attended SUNY Binghamton where he earned a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology and a BA in Economics, graduating summa cum laude in 2005. He earned his medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After graduation, Dr. Kiamanesh was an Anesthesiology Resident and Post Doctoral Resident Fellow at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University from 2009 until 2013. The following year, he stayed at Columbia as a Clinical Fellow and Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow in Critical Care Anesthesiology. That year, Dr. Kiamanesh served as co-Chief Fellow. He remained at Columbia for the next two and one half years as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. Dr. Kiamanesh is certified by the ABA and has a subspecialty certification in Critical Care Medicine. He has several publications regarding hepatic disease, lung ischemia reperfusion injury and left heart failure. He wrote a chapter "Cardiopulmonary bypass and the lung" for the 4th Edition of Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Principles and Practice. Dr. Kiamanesh is working at the CT ICU at Stony Brook Medicine as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. Please welcome him to the department! ![]() |
Drs. Martin Kaczocha and Rany Makaryus have been named Associate Editors for BMC Anesthesiology. They join Dr. James Dilger, Associate Editor and Dr. Jun Lin, Section Editor for the Journal. ![]() |
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James P. Dilger, PhD![]() I am delighted to report that the high school students I have been advising, Anjali Verma, Sarah Adamo and Suselle Contreras, all passed to Round 2 of LISEF! See the November 2016 issue of SleepTalker for the details about their projects. ![]() |
James P. Dilger, PhD |
Eldhose Abrahams, MD Editor's note (JPD): Dr. Abrahams submitted a fantastic collection of seven photos taken during his travels (Thank you!). Click here to view full-size versions of all of them. ![]() |
SleepTalker, the Stony Brook Anesthesiology Newsletter is published by the Department of Anesthesiology
Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY Tong Joo Gan, M.D., Chairman Editorial Board: James P. Dilger, Ph.D.; Stephen A. Vitkun, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D.; Marisa Barone-Citrano, M.A.; Shivam Shodhan, M.D. |