AlumniNotes
Dr. Gerald Maccioli A Different Way of Thinking For Dr. Maccioli, it was the culture of leadership that caught his eye. At the time, Joseph Gerald (Jerry) Reves, MD, was chair. “You just couldn’t help but love Jerry,” Dr. Maccioli says. “He was a magnetic guy. He created a leadership culture that Mark (Mark F. Newman, MD, chair from 2001-2014) and Joe (Joseph Mathew, MD, MHSc, current chair) have sustained and is one of the program’s greatest strengths.” Dr. Maccioli has more than two decades of experience leading and overseeing large and complex operations, including development, integration, and implementation of healthcare systems and facilities. He has tackled a number of challenging issues related to certificate of need, scope of practice, healthcare reform and payment reform. According to Dr. Maccioli, the unique approach to problem solving that he learned at Duke has helped him not only to adapt to change but to lead change. “The healthcare system in our country is changing,” says Dr. Maccioli. “As anesthesiologists, we must prove ourselves by adding value to the patient outcome. The one thing I would tell any new physician is that you must be willing to adapt and try new things. If you have the right decision-making architecture, you will be able to rise to the challenge.”
Dr. Torijaun Dallas A Unique Skill Set While trying to decide where he wanted to pursue his medical residency, Dr. Dallas, interviewed at thirteen different places. Duke was the very last school he interviewed at. “Everyone was so approachable ⎯ I just felt a sense of being welcomed,” he says. “After all of those interviews, I knew that Duke was the place I wanted to be.” Like Dr. Buckenmaier, Dr. Dallas mastered a cutting edge technology at Duke that he is using to benefit our service men and women. He is not only extremely knowledgeable but he is passionate about his work. “Serving in the military and ensuring the health and safety of those who fight for peace and for our freedom is one of the most selfless things we can do as medical professionals,” says Dr. Dallas. Dr. Dallas, who is stationed at one of the largest teaching hospitals in the Department of Defense (DOD), says that his skill in performing 3D TEE is in high demand. He is constantly educating eager trainees and staff anesthesiologists on how to
GERALD A. MACCIOLI, MD, FCCM, practiced anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and transesophageal echocardiography for 27 years in North Carolina. He obtained his fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Duke in 1988. In October of 2015, Dr. Maccioli will become the first ever Chief Quality Officer for Sheridan Healthcare with responsibility for multiple specialties. Some of Dr. Maccioli’s greatest accomplishments include serving as Director of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) for North Carolina since 2004, being the only non-academic physician ever elected to serve as President of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, and playing an influential role in developing comprehensive, progressively responsible healthcare reform strategies as the Chair of the American Medical Association (AMA) Committee of Innovators from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Maccioli continues to serve as an assistant consulting professor for Duke Anesthesiology and on several national committees relating to quality and future practice models.
When asked about the most valuable thing he took away from his training at Duke, Dr. Maccioli refers not to a specific skill or technology but to a unique way of thinking. “At Duke, they teach you not only what to do in a clinical situation but to really think about why you are doing it,” he explains. “This decision-making architecture is the most valuable tool in anesthesia training.” This unique perspective and approach to problem solving is something that Dr. Maccioli passes on to his trainees today.
MAJ TORIJAUN DALLAS, MD, completed his medical school internship, residency and fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Duke. He graduated last year and has just returned from a six month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, where he was one of two anesthesiologists at the Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital. This promising young physician is now serving as the head of Vascular Anesthesiology and Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography program at the San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
operate this technology. One of Dr. Dallas’s goals is to establish an intraoperative TEE service with the ability to store images on a hospital-wide database. “This would be an invaluable reference point and research tool that would enable us to become even better at our practice,” he explains. Dr. Dallas feels secure in the knowledge that “lifelong mentors” like Mark Stafford-Smith, MD, and Alina Nicoara, MD, are only a phone call away should he require their expertise.
The Duke Family Tree - A Lasting Legacy
The department is fortunate to have people like Drs. Maccioli, Buckenmaier and Dallas as part of its family tree. Our alumni not only make us proud, they continue to challenge us, teach us and make us stronger. Together, we are taking our specialty to new heights.
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