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May 2000
Volume 64 |
Number 5
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FAER REPORT
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| Six New Directors
to Help Strengthen Foundation |
The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER)
Board of Directors is delighted to welcome six new directors who
will join us in our mission of developing the next generation of
physician scientists. Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., has been appointed
as representative to complete the term of Paul G. Barash, M.D. Dr.
Barash resigned his position on the FAER Board due to his new responsibilities
as chair of the Multicenter Study for Myocardial Ischemia. The Board
thanks Dr. Barash for his five years of work with FAER. James F.
Arens, M.D., Joanne Jene, M.D., Monte Lichtiger, M.D., Simon Gelman,
M.D., and Myer H. Rosenthal, M.D., have been nominated to five new
positions on the FAER Board. The following profiles (provided by
the directors) include some, but certainly not all, of the many
activities and interests of these new members.
James F. Arens, M.D.
Dr. Arens is currently the chair of anesthesiology at the University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and was
recently appointed to the prestigious R. Lee Clark Professorship
at that institution. Prior to becoming chair in Houston, Dr. Arens
served as Vice President for Clinical Affairs and CEO of Hospitals
at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas
(1990 99) and as chair of anesthesiology from 1977
90.
Dr. Arens was the recipient of the ASA Distinguished Service
Award in 1997. His many professional involvements with ASA include
serving as current chair of the Committee on Practice Parameters
(since its inception in 1992) and as ASA delegate to the American
Medical Association. He was appointed in 1998 to a three-year
term to represent ASA on the Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology.
He also served as ASA President in 1989.
Dr. Arens is a past president of the American Board of Medical
Specialties (1996), the only anesthesiologist to serve in that
capacity. He has also served as a director of the American Board
of Anesthesiology (1975-87), including as president in 1986. He
served as the American Board of Medical Specialties representative
to the Accreditation Council for Graduation Medical Education
for six years from 1987 through 1993.
Joanne M. Conroy, M.D.
After graduating cum laude from Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire, Dr. Conroy enrolled in the Medical University of
South Carolina (MUSC) College of Medicine in 1979, receiving her
M.D. in 1983. She also completed her residency in anesthesiology
at MUSC, serving as chief resident during her final year.
That same year, Dr. Conroy accepted her first academic appointment
as assistant professor in what was then known as the MUSC Department
of Anesthesiology. She moved up to associate professor four years
later and assumed the responsibilities of full professorship in
1995. She was named interim chair in 1996 and was appointed to
chair of the department in 1997, becoming the first woman to chair
a clinical department in MUSC's history.
Throughout her MUSC career, Dr. Conroy has provided leadership
in many areas for the College of Medicine. She has chaired the
College Admissions Committee since 1992 and has managed several
initiatives in the area of diversity. She headed the Section on
Diversity for the 1995 Strategic Planning Initiative, and in 1993
she launched the College's Diversity Program, "Women in Medicine
& Science." In 1995, she also became the first woman to be
elected president of the medical staff. Since January 2000, she
has been serving as Senior Associate Dean for the College of Medicine,
overseeing the clinical and financial operations of the College
of Medicine and University Medical Associates.
Although she maintains a full clinical load in addition to her
administrative duties, Dr. Conroy continues to pursue strong research
interests in a variety of areas such as pain management, intraoperative
neurophysiologic monitoring and the efficacy of anesthetic agents.
She has published dozens of papers and text chapters on these
and other topics, and she is constantly in demand for invited
lectureships, presentations at clinical and educational symposia
and major program lectures sponsored by device and pharmaceutical
development organizations.
In addition, Dr. Conroy finds time for community education efforts
ranging from scientific presentations at local public schools
to hosting more than 100 operating room visits for children of
staff members who work throughout the university.
Simon Gelman, M.D.
Dr. Gelman graduated from the First Leningrad Medical School
by I.P. Pavlov in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, U.S.S.R./Russia in
1959. In 1965, he received his Ph.D. in physiology in Leningrad.
In 1973, Dr. Gelman emigrated from Russia to Israel, and then
in 1976 he relocated to the United States. He was a Fellow at
Case Western Reserve University and the Metropolitan Hospital
in Cleveland, Ohio. He finished his residency in anesthesiology
in 1979 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and remained
on the faculty. In 1984, Dr. Gelman became vice-chair for research,
and in 1989 became the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology
at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he received
the Alfred Habeeb, M.D., Endowed Chair. The students of Alabama
Medical School elected him as an honorary member of Alpha Omega
Alpha.
In 1992, Dr. Gelman moved to Boston to become the Chair of the
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and also received the Leroy D.
Vandam/Benjamin G. Covino Endowed Chair as Professor of Anaesthesia
at Harvard University Medical School. In 1998, he was awarded
with an honorary fellowship in the Australian and New Zealand
College of Anaesthetists.
Dr. Gelman has authored more than 200 publications in different
areas of anesthesiology and has had more than 120 visiting professorships,
including many named lectures such as the Benjamin Howard Robbins
Lecture, the Myron B. Laver Lecture, the Joseph Artrusio Lecture,
the Ellis Gillespie Lecture, the Leroy D. Vandam Lecture and the
Louis Orkin Lecture.
He has been the editor of several journals, including Anesthesiology,
Anesthesia & Analgesia, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular
Anesthesia, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Pathophysiology and
others. Dr. Gelman has served on numerous hospital, university,
national and international committees and currently serves as
President of the Society of Academic Anethesiology Chairs.
Joanne Jene, M.D.
"I am pleased and honored to have been nominated as a candidate
for the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education
and Research. This opportunity to serve our specialty through
FAER comes at a time when I have completed service to the ASA
House of Delegates and Board since 1985, first as an alternate
delegate, delegate, district director, committee member and later
as a member of the Administrative Council, and finally as ASA
Secretary. This continuum has provided an overview that I believe
will give me an opportunity to further serve our specialty through
research, education and fund-raising efforts.
"Today, as anesthesiologists are being challenged from so many
directions, it is incumbent upon us to continue to provide the
best quality of care possible through our efforts in education,
safety and research. We can do this only by supporting the Foundation.
"I am currently practicing a reduced schedule at Legacy Emanuel
Hospital in Portland, Oregon. My department consists of 32 members
who provide anesthesia services in a Level I Trauma Center, the
Oregon Burn Center and Emanuel Children's Hospital. Overall, the
Oregon Anesthesiology Group consists of 176 anesthesiologists
who provide service in nine hospitals, two ambulatory surgical
centers and extends over a radius of 60 miles from its center
in Portland."
Monte Lichtiger, M.D.
Dr. Lichtiger was born and raised in New York, New York. He
attended Columbia College in New York City, New York, where he
obtained his undergraduate degree in zoology. He later attended
and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He
received his postgraduate training in anesthesiology in Florida
at the University of Miami, where he trained while a National
Institutes of Health fellow. He then spent two years in the U.S.
Air Force at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio,
Texas. After his military service, he returned to Miami to become
a member of the faculty at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
He has written more than 40 articles in the field of anesthesiology.
These include original research, textbook chapters and invited
monographs. He has also made many presentations at national and
international meetings. At present, he serves on the editorial
boards of Current Reviews in Clinical Anesthesia and Current Reviews
for Nurse Anesthetists. He has recently turned his attention to
medical malpractice problems in anesthesiology. He is currently
a member of the ASA Committee on Professional Liability and serves
on the Board of Directors of Anesthesiologists' Professional Assurance
Company.
Dr. Lichtiger has also been active in organized medicine. He
has been a member of the ASA House of Delegates for many years
and has served on the Board of Directors of the Florida Society
of Anesthesiologists since 1988. Last year, he also served as
president of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists.
Myer H. Rosenthal, M.D.
Dr. Rosenthal graduated from the University of Vermont College
of Medicine in 1967. He then joined the U.S. Navy and spent his
internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Following that year, he moved to California where he completed
an anesthesiology residency and a critical care medicine fellowship
at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. After completing of
his training, he returned to the Bethesda naval hospital where
he became the medical director of intensive care in 1972.
In 1975, he left the Navy and went to Stanford University Medical
Center to be an assistant professor of anesthesia and medicine
and the medical director of intensive care. After 22 years in
charge of the intensive care units at Stanford, he stepped down
in 1997 and is currently professor of anesthesia, medicine and
surgery and the program director for anesthesia critical care.
Since he initiated the program in critical care at Stanford, 75
fellows from the specialties of anesthesiology and internal medicine
have completed training in critical care medicine, and 40 percent
of those are currently involved in the academic practice of critical
care.
Dr. Rosenthal was elected as one of the directors of the American
Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) in 1986 and served as president
of that organization in 1997 98. As a member of ABA, he
has participated in the development of the Anesthesia Critical
Care Certification Examination since its inception in 1986. He
is also an elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists
and a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. He has
served on the boards of directors and as committee member and
chair in several anesthesia-related societies and organizations,
including ASA.
His research interests through the years have involved pulmonary
and hemodynamic insufficiency, and he continues to write and lecture
in these areas as well as in others related to the fields of anesthesiology
and critical care. He has authored more than 100 original manuscripts,
review articles, editorials and book chapters.
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