highlights & strategic accomplishments series of Case Conferences, Journal Clubs, Complications’ Management Conferences, Interdisciplinary Panels, Research Seminars and Teaching Seminars rounded out the Department’s educational offerings in 2010. To share our knowledge and expertise in the field of regional anesthesia, the Department offers an annual Regional Anesthesia Symposium entitled “Controversies and Fundamentals in Regional Anesthesia”. This course is designed to educate anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, residents and fellows in the practice of regional anesthesia for the orthopaedic surgical patient. Our 14th Annual Symposium took place on Saturday, May 15th, 2010. The program, featuring guest faculty from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina, focused on optimizing safety while maintaining resources in regional anesthesia practices during the next decade. We also held several other successful educational conferences in 2010. Our 4th Annual Pain Awareness and Management Symposium took place at HSS in September. This soldout course, primarily designed for clinicians involved in the treatment of acute pain, featured international experts in the field. Additionally, we continued our annual sponsorship of international conferences in Istanbul, Turkey, and Florence, Italy. Chaired by Dr. Semih Gungor and Dr. Leonardo Paroli respectively, these conferences allow us to extend the HSS brand internationally and have been exceedingly well received by the European anesthesia community.
teachers of the year 2010
❮❮ Dr. Enrique Goytizolo, Fellows’ “Teacher of the Year,” 2010.
Dr. Goytizolo was a previous recipient of this award in 2006.
❮❮ Dr. Kethy Jules-Elysee, Weill Cornell Medical College Residents’ “HSS Teacher of the Year,” 2010.
Dr. Jules-Elysee previously received the same honor in 2007.
Departmental Training Programs “I learned so much and was able to work with some of the nicest Attending staff that I have ever met. This rotation was the best educational experience that I have had in residency.” —2010 CA3 Rotating Resident ■ Residency Programs
The Department’s commitment to teaching residents, fellows and medical students is paramount. Our long-standing formal affiliation with Weill Cornell Medical College has remained the cornerstone of our residency program for more than two decades. We are also very proud of our educational affiliation with the residency program at Johns Hopkins Medicine, a program now in its ninth year. Over the past several years, we have also entered into new academic affiliations with the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Washington, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital. We are dedicated to these
relationships and to the opportunity to continually evaluate and improve the educational experience we provide to our residents. ■ Fellowship in Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine
Crucial to our educational mission to train the next generation of regional anesthesia consultants is our Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Program. Our 2010 graduates, chosen from an application pool of over 60 excellent candidates, participated in a one-year fellowship allowing them to develop regional anesthesia-specific clinical expertise and a more academic approach to regional anesthesia. In 2010, we reached a milestone when our Department graduated HSS’ 75th Fellow in Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine. Our Department has also led the initiative to formalize standards for regional anesthesia fellowships across North America. We are responsible
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