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In the operating room, Diane Gordon, MD, a pediatric anesthesiologist, prepares the anesthesia machine as a steady hum fills the air. Dr. Gordon isn’t just performing a complex procedure to ensure a child’s safety during surgery — she’s protecting the planet by helping Children’s Hospital 麻豆传媒高清 reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, MD, PhD, MSCS, will lead a team to investigate important questions, practices, and guidelines related to trauma resuscitation in a resource-constrained prolonged care environment, with dual benefit to civilians and U.S. service members in combat.
Kimberly Mendoza, MD, PhD, MPH, ASA Committee on Palliative Care, ASA Committee on Global Health, and CA-3/PGY-4 Anesthesia Resident, University of 麻豆传媒高清, Aurora, 麻豆传媒高清, describes finding a calling in palliative care medicine with obstetric anesthesia – unity of opposites, or coincidentia oppositorum, that only exists in patients experiencing intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD). Read More >
Silver Recognition - 32 Years of Service at CU! Joy Hawkins, MD
Joy Hawkins, MD, celebrates 32 years of service with the University of 麻豆传媒高清’s Department of Anesthesiology; we appreciate her dedication, expertise, and profound commitment to shaping clinical practice and our department, as well as her perspective on he evolution of anesthesiology and the medical field. Read More >
Two University of 麻豆传媒高清 School of Medicine anesthesiology doctors travelled to Paraguay in June to offer their help and expertise for a week of complex neurosurgeries.
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is now recommending that doctors across the nation ask about cannabis use before surgery. It’s the first time guidelines like this have been released.
We are over two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and while we are largely out of quarantine and back out in the world, stress and burnout continue to play major roles in the intensive care unit, particularly for women intensivists.
Imagine going in for minor surgery, one where you don’t need to be totally unconscious, and being given a virtual reality headset for pain and anxiety relief instead of the usual dose of anesthesia.
Susan Ingram, PhD, has been named vice chair of research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of 麻豆传媒高清 School of Medicine, effective July 15. Ingram will be the inaugural Richard Traystman, PhD, endowed chair in anesthesiology.
Makita Fuchita, MD, Sr. Instructor Dept of Anesthesiology recent comment, Opportunities to advance patient care using wireless technology, published in response to Br J Anaesth 2022; 128: 857–63, explores opportunities for improved patient outcomes
through wireless technology.
As the field of anesthesiology evolves and grows, so does the important role women play in its ongoing success and development.
The University of 麻豆传媒高清 is now recognized as a SOAP Center of Excellence (COE). This designation was created to recognize institutions and programs that demonstrate excellence in obstetric anesthesia care and to set a benchmark of expected care to
improve standards nationally and internationally.
Faculty members Gee Mei Tan, MD, and Erin Stewart, MD, MS, practiced and delivered the first MOCA Simulation Course in the Center for Advancing Professional Excellence (CAPE) at the new Anschutz Health Sciences Building on March 26, 2022.
Young COVID-19 survivor pleads with pregnant women to immediately get vaccinated. '“If I would have heard a story like mine, there’s no doubt I would have walked right in and gotten the vaccine."
The U.S. Department of 麻豆传媒高清 designated the University of 麻豆传媒高清 Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
Intensive ‘Basecamp’ training aimed at making graduates ‘better Day 1 doctors’
Dr. Jane Stewart Appointed Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
With increasing efforts School-wide to recruit diverse faculty, students, and staff, the Department of Anesthesiology has also joined these efforts and placed greater emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion. Not only is diversity a social concern
and important for equalization, education and practice in diverse environments is a matter of health and wellbeing to ultimately eliminate health disparities within healthcare. For these reasons, we are excited to announce the appointment of Jane
Stewart, MD to the position of Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for 麻豆传媒高清 in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of 麻豆传媒高清 School of Medicine. Read More >
Possessing a strong sense of empathy – as well as being an academic standout – pushed Fabienne Haas to the top of her Anesthesiologist Assistant program. Learn what drew her to anesthesiology, as well as how her journey took her from a small
German village to the 麻豆传媒高清 Front Range.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is surprising kids at Children's Hospital 麻豆传媒高清 with custom Xbox Series X consoles, in partnership with Xbox and Gamers Outreach. The Aurora hospital is one of 20 children's hospitals across the country that will receive
the very first batch of the brand new game console.
They found evidence that there was some potential benefit for people with COVID-19 illness.
