AHA Essay Contest Winners

ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION

C. RONALD STEPHEN RESIDENT ESSAY CONTEST

WINNERS AND PUBLISHED ESSAYS

2005 Contest Winners

First Place:

Christian Gonzalez, M.D., Resident, Department of Anesthesiology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas:
Many Men, Three Wars and One Question: Foundations for the Modern Understanding of Pain.
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 25(2): 1, 4-6, April 2007

Second Place:

Isabel C. Legarda, M.D., Resident, Department of Anesthesiology
Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts:
Revival: On the Eighteenth Century Origins of the Modern Code and the Pioneering Work of Charles Kite and James Elam.

Third Place:

Lori Conklin, M.D., Resident, Department of Anesthesiology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas:
James Young Simpson: The Voice of Reason for the Rights of Women in Labor 156 Years Later.

2004 Contest Winners

First place:

Matthew Mazurek, MD:
University of California San Francisco
Sir William Macewen, a History of Oral Tracheal Intubation for Anesthesia, and a Missed Opportunity

Second Place:

George A. Mashour, MD, PhD:
Harvard University
Altered States: The Psychedelic Research of Henry Knowles Beecher

Third Place:

George A. Swanson, MD:
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Religious Objections and Military Opposition to Anesthetics, 1846-1848
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 23(2): 1, 4-5, 14, April 2005

2003 Contest Winners

First place:

Jason G. Ramirez, M.D.
"Modern Chemical Warfare: A History"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 22(2):4-7, 15, April 2004

Second Place:

Kalyan S. Lingam, M.D.
"'The Masked Marvel'--Pioneer of Pain Management"

Third Place:

Laurie Wright, M.D.
"The Anlet: Anesthesiology's Response to the Needs of the Armed Forces in World War Two"

2002 Contest Winners

First place:

Radha Arunkumar, MD,
Department of Anesthesia
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

"Memories of Sir Robert Macintosh’s Last Resident"

Second Place:

Terry A. Ellis II, MD
Douglas R. Bacon, MD, MA
Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology
Rochester, Minn.

"Lundy’s Hat Trick"

Published as
Ellis TA 2nd, Narr BJ, Bacon DR. Developing a specialty: J. S. Lundy's three major contributions to anesthesiology. J Clin Anesth 16(3):226-229, May 2004

Third Place:

Senthilkumar Sadhasivam, MD
David Lai, MD
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

"Blue Skies Forever: The Enduring Legacy of Sir C.V. Raman and the Origins of the Ohmeda RASCAL"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 22(1):9-11, January 2004

2001 Contest Winners

First Place:

Karl-Heinz Spittler, M.D.
William J. Perkins, M.D.
Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., M.A.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

"The Quest for Anesthetic Depth: Albert Faulconer, Electroencephalography and the Servo Controlled Anesthesia Machine"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 20(3):1,4-6, July 2002

Response by Albin MS. Servo-anesthesia and the search for a residency. Bulletin of Anesthesia History 20(4):3, October 2002

Second Place:

*Matthew D. Krasowski, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Chicago

"Contradicting a Unitary Theory of General Anesthetic Action: A History of Three Compounds from 1901 to 2001."
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 21(3):1, 4-8, 11, 21, July 2003

*Joshua A. Martini, M.D.
Gary V. Vasdev, M.D.
Douglas R. Bacon, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

"Edward Tuohy: the Man, his Needle, and the Growth of Obstetric Analgesia."

Published as

Martini JA, Bacon DR, Vasdev GM. Edward Tuohy: the man, his needle, and its place in obstetric anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 27(5):520-523, Sep-Oct 2002

Third Place:

A.V. Cote, M.D.
C.A. Vachon, M.D.
T.T. Horlocker, M.D.
D.R. Bacon, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

"The Story Behind Louis Gaston Labat's Regional Anesthesia: Its Technique and Application."

Published as

Cote AV, Vachon CA, Horlocker TT, Bacon DR. From Victor Pauchet to Gaston Labat: the transformation of regional anesthesia from a surgeon's practice to the physician anesthesiologist. Anesth Analg 96(4):1193-1200, April 2003

[no awards were given in 1999 or 2000]

1998 Contest Winners

First Place:

Thomas Romanelli, M.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Anesthesiology

"The Origins of Modern Anesthesia throughout the American Experience Spanning the World Wars"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 17(1):1,4-7, January 1999

Second Place::

Gregory Tobias, M.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Anesthesiology

"Continuous Spinal Anesthesia: A Continuous History?"

Published as

Tobias G, Sands RP Jr, Bacon DR. Continuous spinal anesthesia: a continuous history? Reg Anesth Pain Med 24(5):453-457, Sep-Oct 1999

1997 Contest Winners

First Place:

*David C. Lai, M.D.
University of Rochester Medical Center
"Polymath Beneath the Firedamp: The Story of J.B.S. Haldane"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 16(3):1, 3-7, July 1998

Second Place:

*Suresh Kannan, M.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
"Walter Channing and Nathan Cooley Keep: The First Obstetric Anesthetics in America"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 16(1): 6-8, 20, January 1998

Third Place:

*Ricardo Sepulveda, M.D.
University of Florida
"The History of Patient Controlled Analgesia"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 16(2): 1, 4-5, April 1998

Fourth Place:

*Humayun Gazder, M.D.
"Corning, Bier and the Origin of Spinal Anesthesia"

Fifth Place:

*Nancy L. Bruda, M.D.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
"An American Invention: The Art of Anesthesia"

1996 Contest Winners

First Place:

*Major Eric A. Schoenberg, M.D.
Eglin Air Force Base
"The Birth of Scientific Pain Control: S. Weir Mitchell and the Turner's Lane Military Hospital"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 15(1):8-10, January 1997

Second Place:

*Mark A. Postler, M.D.
Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas
"An Historical Perspective on Opium and its Therapeutic Uses throughout the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 15(2): 3-5, April 1997

*Warren S. Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Legends and Fish Stories: The Role of Oral History in Anesthesia Education"

PUBLISHED ESSAY ENTRIES

*Mark Louis Blas, M.D.
University of Florida
"The Early History of Epidural Anesthesia"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 15(3):5-6, 15, July 1997

*Lisa W. Faberowski, M.D.
University of Florida
"Identification of 'Atypical' Cholinesterase"
Bulletin of Anesthesia 16(1):17-20, January 1998

*Pulido J, Bacon DR, Rettke SR. Gaston Labat and John Lundy: friends and pioneer regional anesthesiologists sharing a Mayo Clinic connection. Reg Anesth Pain Med 29(5): 489-493, 2004

*Gary E. Shanks, J.D., M.D.
Pennsylvania State University
"Anesthetic Lessons from Gettysburg and the Civil War"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 15(4):9-11, October 1997

*Laura Slaughter, M.D.
Oregon Health Sciences University
"'A' is for Airway."
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 16(1):15-16, 22, January 1998

*Geoffrey B. Wolf, M.D.
University of Florida
"Gwathmey and the War: An Inspirational Look at Some of His Work during the Early 1900s"
Bulletin of Anesthesia History 15(3):7-8, 13, July 1997