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Anesthesia

Significant Accomplishments

Exceptional Year for Education

Our education program had an exceptional year. Our pediatric anesthesia fellowship program, led by Paul Samuels, MD, received RRC-ACGME re-accreditation for five years, the maximum time possible. Kenneth Goldschneider, MD, FAAP, and Eric Wittkugel , MD, edited a book on pediatric anesthesia with a faculty in the pediatric anesthesia department in Melbourne, Australia; 32 faculty in our department were authors.

Twenty four faculty in our department presented 74 national and international lectures on pediatric anesthesia, pain management, and developmental neurobiology, an all-time high. John McAuliffe III, MD, MBA, initiated a monthly teleconference on intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring with the University of Florida, the first such type of conference in the world.

Chronic Medical Pain Center

We launched a Chronic Medical Pain Center this year to expand a multidisciplinary clinic that had involved more than five divisions. The new center, led by Goldschneider and Alexandra Szabova, MD, also creates a basic science and clinical research program. The new center is better positioned to develop new therapies and offer improved in-patient service to children from throughout the Midwest with complex pain conditions.

Noteworthy Leadership

C. Dean Kurth, MD, was elected to the Board of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia and to chair the Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council, the national body for our specialty. Paul Samuels, James Spaeth, MD, and Anna Varughese, MD, MPH, are members of the Pediatric Anesthesia Program Directors, Wake-up Safe Collaborative, and Quality Council, respectively, for the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia. John McAuliffe was elected to the Board of the American Board Neurophysiological Monitoring, the national body for this specialty. Meanwhile, Steve Danzer, PhD, and Andreas Loepke, MD, PhD, served on research study sections for the National Institute for Health and Society of Pediatric Anesthesia.