Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

Dr. J. Jeff Andrews speaking at Grand Rounds, June 1998

2006-2007 Academic Year

The University of Alabama School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Alabama School of Medicine designates this educational activity for up to 2 hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

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Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

Monday Afternoons 1600-1650

Jefferson Tower 906 Lecture Hall

[updated 4 May 2007] 

Date	Topic	Lecturer
17-Jul-06	No Pain More Gain: Using Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Total Joint Arthroplasty	Sandra L. Kopp, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
31-Jul-06	Anesthesia Documentation and Its Impact on UAB Hospital Data	Sue Boldin, RN, MSN, CPHQ Program Manager, HIM UAB Hospital
07-Aug-06	The Anesthesia Machine	Russell C. Brockwell, M.D.
14-Aug-06	Chronic Visceral Pain Syndromes in Women: From Bench to Bedside	Ursula Wesselmann, M.D., DTM&H, Dr. Med Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Surgery & Biomedical Engineering Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Maryland
21-Aug-06	The Nature of Medical Errors, Including an Update on the Anesthesiology Quality Assurance Process	Truitt C. Ellis, M.D.
28-Aug-06	Ethics	Arthur M. Boudreaux, M.D.
04-Sep-06	DEFERRED (Labor Day Holiday)
11-Sep-06	Anesthesia for the Patient with a Difficult Airway	James R. Boyce, M.D.
18-Sep-06	Critical Care for the Anesthesiologist: What’s the Latest and Greatest?	Paul Wischmeyer, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, Colorado
25-Sep-06	Neurologic Complications of Regional Anesthesia	Carlos Mantilla, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
02-Oct-06	TRANSLATIONAL PAIN RESEARCH: Opportunities to Link the Lab & Clinic - Cancer Pain: Causes, Consequences and Therapeutic Opportunities	Patrick W. Mantyh, Ph.D., J.D. Professor, Dept of Preventive Sciences, Univ of Minnesota & Gilbert Wong, M.D. Assoc. Director for Clinical Development, ALZA Corp, Mountain View, California
09-Oct-06	History of Caudal Anesthesia	Mark G. Mandabach, M.D.
16-Oct-06	Deferred (Annual ASA Meeting)
23-Oct-06	Arachnoiditis from Neuraxial Anesthesia	J. Antonio Aldrete, M.D. Arachnoiditis Foundation
30-Oct-06	Anestheisa for the Morbidly Obese	Pankaj M. Desai, M.D.
6-Nov-06	TRANSLATIONAL PAIN RESEARCH: Opportunities to Link the Lab & Clinic Visceral Hypersensitivity Disorders Bladder Pain and Neonatal Events Stress and Bladder Pain	Timothy Ness, M.D., Ph.D., Alan Randich, Ph.D., & Meredith Robbins, Ph.D.
13-Nov-06	Arthur Guedel and the History of Anesthesia	Selma Calmes, M.D. Chief of Special Projects Medical Administration Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Sylmar, California
20-Nov-06	Complex Regional Pain Syndrome	Jason McKeown, M.D.
27-Nov-06	PowerPoint: Novacaine for the Brain	Brad Steenwyk, M.D.
4-Dec-06	Muscle Relaxants for Rapid Sequence Induction	Francois Donati, Ph.D., M.D., FRCP(C) Professor of Anesthesiology Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec CANADA
11-Dec-06	Bracial Plexus Blocks	Nabil M.K. Ali, M.D.
18-Dec-06	Epidurals and Spinals	Nabil M.K. Ali, M.D.
25-Dec-06	DEFERRED (Holiday)
1-Jan-07	DEFERRED (Holiday)
8-Jan-07	TRANSLATIONAL PAIN RESEARCH: Opportunities to Link the Lab & Clinic – Spinal Cord Injury Pain	Timothy Ness, M.D., Ph.D. & Scott J. Richards, Ph.D.
15-Jan-07	DEFERRED (Holiday)
22-Jan-07	Mechanistic Approaches to Pain Management for Ambulatory Surgery	Girish Premji Joshi, MB, BS, MD, FFARCSI Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Management Director, Perioperative Medicine and Ambulatory Anesthesia Univ of Texas SW at Dallas Dallas, Texas
29-Jan-07	Intracarotid Drug Delivery: From Skepticism to Regional First Pass Therapies!	Invited Speaker: Shailendra Joshi, M.D. Asst. Prof. of Anesthesiology Columbia University Asst. Attending, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia Univ College of Physicians & Surgeons New York, New York
5-Feb-07	Pathophysiology of Cerebral Ischemia	David S. Warner, M.D. Professor Department of Anesthesiology Duke University Durham, North Carolina
12-Feb-07	Shock	James M. Hunter, Jr., M.D.
19-Feb-07	Fluid Resuscitation	K. David Sanders, M.D.
26-Feb-07	Top 10 Things You Do in the O.R. to Alter Perioperative Outcomes	David A. Zvara, M.D., FAHA Professor Head, Section of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina
5-Mar-07 (1600-1650)	Renal Protection with Volatile Anesthetics	H. Thomas Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Asst. Prof. of Anesthesiology College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Univ. New York Presbyterian Hosp. New York, NY
5-Mar-07 (1700-1800)	Acute Renal Failure: Physiology, Paradigms and a Novel Biomarker	H. Thomas Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
12-Mar-07	TRANSLATIONAL PAIN RESEARCH: Opportunities to Link the Lab & Clinic – Strategic Initiative for Human Subjects and Translational Research for UAB Anesthesiology	Tony Jones, M.D.
19-Mar-07	Surviving Sepsis Campaign	Philip J. McArdle, M.D.
26-Mar-07	Surgical Aspects of Critical Care	Sam Windham, M.D. UAB Dept of Surgery
2-Apr-07 (1600-1650)	The Employment of Anesthetic Agents as Weapons of Warfare: The Chloroform Plot to Hijack the Monitor in 1862 and the Hostage Rescue in Moscow in 2002	Maurice S. Albin, M.D.
2-Apr-07 (1700-1800)	Morbidity & Mortality: Epidemiology and Occupational Health in Anesthesiology	Thomas R. Vetter, M.D. Clin. Assoc. Prof. of Anesthesia Indiana University Medical Director, The Riley Pain Center, Riley Hosp for Children Indianapolis, Indiana
9-Apr-07	Management of the Pediatric Airway	Kelly Conaty, M.D. Pediatric Anesthesiology Children’s Hosp of Alabama Birmingham, AL
16-Apr-07	Transfusion Trigger-Based on Organ Tolerance	Mali Mathru, M.D.
23-Apr-07	What if Beddoes and Davy Had Used Nitrous Oxide for Surgical Anesthesia in 1800?	A. J. Wright, M.L.S.
30-Apr-07	Perioperative Management of Pediatric Patients with URI	Jenny Dollar, M.D. Pediatric Anesthesiology Children’s Hosp of Alabama Birmingham, AL
7-May-07 (1600-1650)	Nitrite-based Therapeutics: Novel Mechanisms for Clinical Delivery of NO in Ischemic Diseases	Rakesh P. Patel, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor UAB Molecular & Cellular Pathology
7-May-07 (1700-1800)	An Integrative Approach to Chronic Pain Medicine	Thomas R. Vetter, M.D. Clin. Assoc. Prof. of Anesthesia Indiana University Medical Director, The Riley Pain Center, Riley Hosp for Children Indianapolis, Indiana
14-May-07	Less Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring	Philip J. McArdle, M.D. & Arthur Boykin, M.D.
21-May-07 (1600-1650)	Anesthesia for Carotid Surgery	R. Clark Cross, M.D.
21-May-07 (1700-1800)	Thoraco-abdominal Aortic Aneurysms	Chuck Jetton, M.D.
28-May-07	HOLIDAY
4-Jun-07	BOARD REVIEW:
11-Jun-07	BOARD REVIEW:
18-Jun-07	BOARD REVIEW:
25-Jun-07	BOARD REVIEW:

Grand Rounds 1998