May 1998
Volume 62 |
Number 5
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COMPONENT SOCIETY NEWS
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| NYSSA Selects
Distinguished Service Recipient, Elects Officers |
Joseph F. Artusio, Jr., M.D., New York, New York, was chosen
as the recipient of the 1998 New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
(NYSSA) Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented
at the opening general session of the 52nd Annual Postgraduate
Assembly on Saturday, December 12, 1998, at the New York Hilton
and Towers in New York City.
At the 51st Postgraduate Assembly last December, NYSSA
elected its 1998 Officers. They are:
President
Margaret G. Pratila, M.D.
President-Elect
Michael S. Jakubowski, M.D.
Vice-President
Kenneth J. Freese. M.D.
Immediate Past President
James P. Burdick, M.D.
Secretary
Phillip N. Fyman, M.D.
Treasurer
Steven S. Schwalbe, M.D.
Assistant Treasurer
Michael H. Mendeszoon, M.D.
First Assistant Secretary
Thel G. Boyette, M.D.
Second Assistant Secretary
Doreen L. Wray Roth, M.D.
ASA Director
Jared C. Barlow, M.D.
ASA Alternate Director
Kenneth J. Freese, M.D.
JAMA Accepts Paper by Member of Pennsylvania Society
ASA member Allan Gottschalk, M.D., University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, had his paper accepted by the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA) on "Preemptive Epidural
Analgesia and Recovery From Radical Prostatectomy." It appeared
in JAMA on April 8, 1998.
JAMA editors contacted Dr. Gottschalk after seeing his
research discussed in the USA Today newspaper following
media coverage of his abstract at the 1996 ASA Annual Meeting.
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