Volume 30, Number 31
http://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology
August 2, 2011
WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK IN THE DEPARTMENT
ALL CLINICAL CONFERENCES ARE OPEN TO ANYONE IN THE DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION PURPOSES.
Today
0630-0730
0630-0700
CQI Clinical Conference. JT-906 Lecture Hall
Kathleen Click, M.D. & Thomas A. Moore, II, M.D., “A Baclofen Overdose”
Prentiss Lawson, M.D. & Rhett Lyerly, M.D., “Lumbar Drain Injection…Injection?”
Pediatric Anesthesia Lecture Series. Collin King, M.D., “Children’s Orientation,” Children’s
Anesthesia Department
Wednesday, August 3
0625-0655
Keyword Lecture Series. Mark Powell, M.D. (Faculty Facilitator: Jim Sparrow, M.D.), “One Lung
Ventilation,” NP-5401 Conference Room
0630
OB Lecture Series. Ryan Swain, M.D. (Faculty Facilitator: Yasser Sakawi, M.D.), “Labor
Epidurals CSE, & Epidural Medications,” WIC 3rd Floor
0730-0800
Critical Care Lecture Series. Jean-Francois Pittet, M.D., “Shock,” NP-7222 SICU Conference
Room
1400-1500
Medical Students’ Lecture. James R. Boyce, M.D., “Airway Management,” JT-906 Lecture Hall
Thursday, August 4
0625-0655
Mini Mock Oral. Nabil Ali, M.D., NP-5401 Conference Room
0630
OB Lecture Series. Hayden Hughes, M.D., “Induction Medications and Muscle Relaxants in
Pregnancy,” WIC 3rd Floor
WIC 3rd Floor
0730-0800
Critical Care Lecture Series. Bill O’Byrne, M.D., “Mechanical Ventilation II”, NP-7222 SICU
Conference Room
1500-1600
Medical Students’ Lecture. Mark Mandabach, M.D., “Foundations of Anesthesiology,” JT-906
Lecture Hall
1600-1700
TEE Lecture Series. Lynn Simons, M.D., “Introduction to TEE,” NP-5401 Conference Room
Friday, August 5
0625-0655
0630
0730-0800
Morning Clinical Conference: CA-1 Basics of Anesthesia Series. Matt Townsley, M.D.,
“Respiratory Physiology,” NP-5401 Conference Room
OB Lecture Series. Ryan Swain, M.D. (Faculty Facilitator: Barry Shaw, M.D.) “General
Anesthesia for Cesarean,” WIC 3rd Floor
Critical Care Lecture Series. Jean-Francois Pittet, M.D., “Stroke Hemorrhagic / Ischemic,”
NP-7222 SICU Conference Room
Monday, August 8
0625-0655
Keyword Lecture Series. Alex Aitken, M.D. (Faculty Facilitator: David Miller, M.D.), “Modes of
Ventilation,” NP-5401 Conference Room
0630
OB Lecture Series. Michael A. Froelich, M.D., M.S., “Anesthesia for Postpartum BTL,” WIC 3rd
Floor
0630
Pain Fellowship Didactic Lecture. Peter Nagi, M.D., “Fellows Welcome to the Pain Clinic –
Orientation to Schedules/Responsibilities,” UAB Highlands 1st Floor Board Room
0730-0800
Critical Care Lecture Series. Mali Mathru, M.D., “Coma / Brain Death,” NP-7222 SICU
Conference Room
1530-1615
Anesthesiology Grand Rounds. JT-906 Lecture Hall
Perry Smith, M.D., “Obstructive Sleep Apnea”
1615-1700
Anesthesiology Grand Rounds. (continued)
Susan Harding Hawkins, M.D., Professor, Medicine – Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care, “Sleep
Deprivation & Signs of Fatigue”
Tuesday, August 9
0630-0730
CQI Clinical Conference. JT-906 Lecture Hall
Joey Clay, M.D. & Amber Brooks, M.D., “Difficult Airway Induced Pneumothorax”
Luke Bracke, M.D., “An Interesting Case”
0630-0700
Pediatric Anesthesia Lecture Series. Travis Defreese, M.D., “Pediatric Airway Management /
Circuits,” Children’s Anesthesia Department
1300-1400
Medical Students’ Lecture. Brad Steenwyk, M.D., “Hemodynamic Monitoring,” NP-5401
Conference Room
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
VA Anesthesiology Clinical Conferences:
July 27, Chuck Jetton, M.D., “Pulmonary Function Tests”
ANESTHESIOLOGY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
The next Anesthesiology Executive Committee Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 9 at 3:30 p.m. in the NP-5401
Conference Room.
–Tony Jones, M.D.
SPIRITUALITY AND MEDICINE COURSE
The Spirituality and Medicine Course will be held the week of August 1 – August 5. Most of the presentations will be held in the
Anesthesiology JT958 Conference Room. From the Anesthesiology Department, Gwen Boyd, M.D., Jason McKeown, M.D., and
Marsha Wakefield, M.D. will participate in the program.
–Gwen Boyd, M.D.
DATE/TIME
Mon. Aug 1
SPEAKER
9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
Mon. Aug 1
3:00 – 4:00
Tues Aug 2
9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
Wed. Aug 3
12:30 – 1:30
1:30 - 230
2:30 – 3:30
3:30 – 4:30
Thurs Aug 4
Gwen Boyd, M.D.
Gwen Boyd, M.D.
9:00 – 10:00
Waid Shelton, M.D.
The I and Thou of Medical Practice
10:00 – 11:00
Ashfaq Taufique
The Basics of Islam
2:00 – 3:00
Chaplain Malcolm Marler
The Healing Power of Presence
3:00 – 4:00
Fri Aug 5
9:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
Christopher Harmon, M.D.
1:00 – 2:00
2:00 – 3:00
Ryan Nash, M.D.
Ryan Nash, M.D.
Short Term Mission
Anesthesiology JT958 Conference Room
Eastern Religions
Meeting Psychological and Spiritual Needs With
Conscience
Encountering Religious Pluralism
The Offense of Religion
James Markert, M.D.
Sandra Frazier, M.D.
Sandra Frazier, M.D.
Jason McKeown, M.D.
Marsha Wakefield, M.D.
Amos Bailey, M.D.
Mike Callahan, M.D.
Narithookil Xavier, M.D.
Narithookil Xavier, M.D.
LOCATION/TOPIC
UAB Highlands 3rd Floor Administrative Conference
Room
Introduction to Spirituality and Medicine
India - From Birmingham and Back
Faculty Office Tower Conference Room 1001
Baha’i Faith
Anesthesiology JT958 Conference Room
Recovering From Addiction
Emotional Intelligence
Anesthesiology JT958 Conference Room
Spirituality and Pain Management
Margin
In Search of a Good Death
Boundaries and Barriers in Medicine
Anesthesiology JT958 Conference Room
THIS MONTH IN DEPARTMENTAL HISTORY
August 1, 1948
In September 1945, classes began at the new University of Alabama College of Medicine in Birmingham. By early 1946, Dean Roy
Kracke had begun a search for a chief of anesthesia for Jefferson-Hillman Hospital where the medical students trained. Dr. Kracke
first offered the position to Dr. John Adriani of the legendary Charity Hospital in New Orleans. When Dr. Adriani turned down the offer,
Dean Kracke then offered the post to Dr. Alice McNeal, an anesthesiologist for more than twenty years at Presbyterian Hospital in
Chicago. A 1921 graduate of Rush Medical College, Dr. McNeal's specialty training included a year of study under Dr. Ralph Tovell at
Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. On April 3, 1946, Dr. McNeal wrote her acceptance letter to Dean Kracke for the position of Chief,
Division of Anesthesiology, Department of Surgery.
By the spring of 1948 Dr. McNeal, unhappy with conditions at the medical school in Birmingham, was considering a lucrative offer
to return to Chicago. In order to keep her, Dean Kracke proposed to create an autonomous anesthesia department at the hospital,
make Dr. McNeal Professor and Chair of that department, and raise her salary to $8,000 per year [several thousand less than the
Chicago offer]. Dr. McNeal accepted Dean Kracke's offer and the Department of Anesthesiology, one of fewer than twenty such
autonomous academic departments in the United States at that time, were officially created on August 1, 1948. Dr. McNeal was one
of the first female chairs of an academic anesthesia department in the United States. More about the department’s history can be
found at http://tinyurl.com/396wqr9
-A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
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