CURRENT NEWS July 2013
- New Department Head - Wayne K. Jacobsen, MD -Announcement click here
- Frank Porreca, Ph.D., UA Professor of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology; Neurobiology of Pain Awarded a $2.5 million 5 - year NIH Grant to study Brain Reward Circuits and Relief of Ongoing Pain
WELCOME NEW RESIDENTS!
The resident class of 2016 arrived July 1 with refreshing coolness (the monsoons began that same day). Click Here to check them out
CHANGES AT THE TOP
After 18 years as Head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona, Dr. Steven J. Barker will step down from this role on July 1, 2013. He will remain a member of the faculty, and heavily involved in both teaching and research. Dr. Barker will focus particularly on projects that involve multidisciplinary collaboration between engineering (his first career) and medicine, including research on medical simulation.
Dr. Jacobsen, who has previously served as anesthesiology chair at Loma Linda University Medical Center, has been the Residency Program Director at our department for the past nine years. He and Dr. Barker have collaborated very closely during that time, and will continue to do so.
Dr. Kai Schoenhage has now assumed the position of Clinical Director (Director of Perioperative Services) for the Department of Anesthesiology. In this role, together with Co-Directors from Surgery and Nursing, he oversees and manages all aspects of the operating room environment, equipment and outside locations to improve and maintain efficiency and work-flow. Dr. Schoenhage also serves as Director of our Liver Transplant Anesthesia Team.
With Dr. Jacobsen as Head, Dr. Ryan Matika will become Residency Program Director. Dr Matika has been heavily involved in resident teaching, particularly preparation for written and oral boards, and has developed proven tools for this purpose. Dr. Matika will continue Dr. Jacobsen’s excellent record of recruiting, educating and nurturing our residents. Dr. Matika is trained in Intensive Care Medicine as well as Anesthesiology. He will be assisted by Dr. Kerry Kreidel as our new Associate Program Director.
- Associate Program Director - Kerry Kreidel, MD / Dr. Kreidel served as Chief Resident and continues to serve on the Anesthesia Clinical Competence Committee.
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
Frank Porreca, Ph.D/ UA Professor of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology/ Neurobiology of Pain; Dr. Porreca was awarded a 5 year, $2.5 Million RO1 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH to study Brain Reward Circuits and Relief of Ongoing Pain
- Todd W. Vanderah, Ph.D / UA Professor of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology and Interim Department Head Pharmacology; Mechanisms and pharmacology of acute and chronic models of pain; endogenous opioid systems; sensory neural systems; opioid tolerance; antinociceptive synergy between cannabinoids and opioid.
INCOMING FACULTY
Eric Peters, MD - Jana Gordon, MD - Kelly Arwari, MD (Aug) - Janelle Jambrosic, MD (Oct)