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July 1997
Volume 61 |
Number 7
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| 1997 ASA Clinical
Forum Program |
Gregory K. Unruh, M.D., Chair
Committee on Clinical Forum
The Clinical Forum sessions at the 1997 ASA Annual Meeting will
be held Monday through Wednesday, October 20-22, at the San Diego
Convention Center. Last year's Clinical Forum presentations were
informative, interactive, challenging and fun, and we believe
the sessions this year will live up to that challenge.
The Clinical Forum format is designed to allow a panel of experts
to delve into designed cases informally and discuss their clinical
management decisions. Remember, the Clinical Forum is a chance
to interact with and question the experts, and the sessions
are free!
The cases to be discussed will be printed in the 1997 Annual
Meeting Program book so that participants in the Clinical Forum
may review and study them prior to attendance. Some of the sessions
will provide expanded case summaries and outlines of the important
and controversial issues for those who attend. Each Clinical Forum
session is scheduled for 90 minutes, and the moderator will be
keenly interested in facilitating audience discussion with the
panelists.
Of special interest this year will be a multidisciplinary session
on ethics, moderated by Gail A. Van Norman, M.D., investigating
the topics: "Should Doctors Kill Their Patients?" and
"Should Some Colleagues Be Put Out to Pasture?" Dr.
Van Norman's panel includes anesthesiologists trained in ethics
as well as a priest, a professor of philosophy, the circuit judge
who overturned the Washington State law prohibiting physician-assisted
suicide and the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the State
of Washington who argued for the legality of prohibiting physician-assisted
suicide before the U.S. Supreme Court. This should be dynamite!
The Committee on Clinical Forum has assembled the following panels:
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia
Moderator: Paul N. Samuelson, M.D., University of Alabama
at Birmingham Medical Center
Panelists: Patrick E. Curling, M.D., Baylor College of
Medicine; Katherine P. Grichnik, M.D., Duke University Medical
Center; Peter G. Hild, M.D., University of Kansas Medical Center
Ethics
Moderators: Gail A. Van Norman, M.D., University
of Washington; Brian K. Ross, M.D., University of Washington;
Ian H. Wright, M.D., University of Washington
Panelists: Perry G. Fine, M.D., University of Utah
Health Sciences Center; David M. Rothenberg, M.D., Rush-Presbyterian-St.
Luke's Medical Center; Richard Ward, M.D., University of Washington;
Margaret Battin, Ph.D., University of Utah; William L. Williams,
Office of Attorney General of Washington; Hon. Andrew J. Kleinfeld,
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
General and Trauma Anesthesia
Moderator: Kenneth J. Abrams, M.D., Elmhurst Hospital
Center/Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Panelists: Donald S. Prough, M.D., University of
Texas Medical Branch; Antonio F. Sanchez, M.D., University of
California at Irvine; Elizabeth C. Behringer, M.D., University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Neuroanesthesia
Moderator: Susan Black, M.D., University of Florida College
of Medicine
Panelists: W. Scott Jellish, M.D., Loyola University Medical
Center; Michael E. Mahla, M.D., University of Florida College
of Medicine; Cheri A. Sulek, M.D., University of Florida College
of Medicine
Obstetric Anesthesia
Moderator: David J. Birnbach, M.D., St. Luke's-Roosevelt
Hospital Center
Panelists: Sanjay Datta, M.B., Harvard Medical School;
Joy L. Hawkins, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center;
Gerard M. Bassell, M.D., University of Kansas at Wichita School
of Medicine
Adult Outpatient and Geriatric Anesthesia
Moderator: Charles H. McLeskey, M.D., Texas A&M College
of Medicine
Panelists: Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, M.D., University
of Chicago; Charise T. Petrovitch, M.D., Providence Hospital;
Joseph H. Blunk, M.D., Melbourne Ambulatory Surgery Center
Chronic Pain Management
Moderator: Carol A. Warfield, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Panelists: F. Michael Ferrante, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine; Richard B. Patt, M.D., University of Texas
at Houston; John C. Rowlingson, M.D., University of Virginia Health
Sciences Center
Pediatric Anesthesia
Moderator: Mark A. Rockoff, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Panelists: Peter J. Davis, M.D., University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine; Lynda J. Means, M.D., Indiana University School
of Medicine; Niall C. Wilton, M.D., University of California at
San Diego
Critical Care/Recovery Room Problems
Moderator: Michael J. Murray, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Medical
School
Panelists: Steven J. Allen, M.D., University of Texas at
Houston Medical School; Richard C. Prielipp, M.D., Bowman Gray
School of Medicine; Robert N. Sladen, M.B., Duke University Medical
Center
Gregory K. Unruh, M.D., is Associate Professor
and Director of Residency Education for the Department of Anesthesiology,
Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
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