SleepTalker September 2022

Dr. Jonathan Oster joins Faculty

   We are pleased to welcome Jonathan B. Oster, MD, FASA to Stony Brook Anesthesiology! Dr. Oster earned his MD from the University of Illinois. He moved to New York for an anesthesiology residency at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and a Fellowship in Critical Care also at Columbia. He joined North American Partners in Anesthesia and became an attending anesthesiologist at Huntington Hospital.

   From 2013-2022, Dr. Oster served as Vice Chairman of Department of Anesthesia. He has held important positions in North American Partners in Anesthesia: as Regional Director - overseeing clinical issues in the Midwest sites, and as Department Director of Mobile Anesthesia - overseeing credentialing & QA and conducting training for certification. He had also been an Assistant Professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell since 2017.

   Dr. Oster is working in our General Division. Welcome to Stony Brook, Dr. Oster!

Dr. Sofia Geralemou rejoins Faculty

   We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sofia Geralemou back to our department. Dr. Geralemou has a long history with Stony Brook. She earned her MD from the Medical School and was did her residency here from 2007-2011; serving as Chief Resident as a CA-3. She then joined our faculty and stayed through 2019. She worked in private practice for 2 1/2 years, but has now returned to Stony Brook!

   Dr. Geralemou has co-authored several book chapters including Intravenous Anesthetics in the 8th edition of Clinical Anesthesia, Barish PG, Cahalan MK, eds. She also has several peer reviewed publications including "Assessing the value of risk indices of postoperative nausea and vomiting in ambulatory surgical patients".which appeared in Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2016 Dec;29(6):668-673. As an attending, she organized several Global Health missions.

   We are happy to have Dr. Sofia Geralemou back and working in the Neuroanesthesia Division!

   Two Star Cards from patients were recently received on labor and delivery. One recognizing Dr. Giacomo Scorsese and one recognizing Dr. Morgane Factor . Dr. Factor's Star card also recognizes one of the L&D nurses in conjunction. Congratulations!

Visiting Professor Dr. Martin Angst

James P. Dilger, PhD

    Our Visiting Professor this month is Martin S. Angst, M.D., Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Dr. Angst received his Medical Doctorate and Thesis from the Medical School at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He did a residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of Burgdorf, Switzerland and a residency in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Berne. In 1994, he came to the US to do a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Stanford. At Stanford, he moved up steadily through the academic ranks and became Professor in 2011.

    Dr. Angst's research interest is the interplay between anesthesia and the immune system. in his current research, his goal is to identify immune phenotypes that predict the outcome of patients receiving anesthesia and/or analgesia. Ultimately, he would like to devise strategies that reduce the risk of postoperative complications due to the effects of anesthetic drugs on the immune system. He and his colleagues have ongoing support from the NIH and other agencies for investigations such as "B Lymphocyte-Mediated Autoimmunity in Pain after Trauma” and “Signatures of Pain Recovery in Teens (SPRINT)”. Dr. Angst is also receiving support from industry to explore how drugs being developed for neurodegenerative diseases, affect blood leukocytes.

    Dr. Angst has published 120 peer-reviewed papers and over 90 abstracts on subjects ranging from pharmacokinetics, to hyperalgesia, to bioinformatics, to microgravity. He has presented over 60 lectures internationally. He originally planned to visit in March 2020 but we all know what happened! We are delighted that can finally join us at Stony Brook!

• September 20 Resident Lecture: "Neuro-anesthesia: Anesthetic Management of Aneurysms and Vascular Malformations"

• September 20 Grand Rounds: "Biological Determinants of Postoperative Recovery"

Anesthesia Interest Groups

Ursula Landman, DO

   On August 30, we had a joint meeting of the Stony Brook Anesthesia Interest Group and the NYIT-COM Anesthesia Interest Group. A total of 66 students attended! Interest in anesthesiology is booming! I gave an introduction to anesthesiology talk to the group. I discussed our specialty as a career and career paths that can be taken. A lively and comprehensive question and answer period followed. We are looking forward to a fabulous year together.

Tazeen Beg, MD