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December 2000
Volume 64 |
Number 12
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| 2000
ASA Annual Meeting Highlights |
There is a reason San Francisco is often
referred to as Everyone's Favorite City: It just seems
to be everyone's favorite city. The 2000 Annual Meeting held on
October 14-18 drew 17,015 ASA members, guests, spouses and exhibitors.
This amount represents the third largest Annual Meeting attendance
in ASA's history, behind only (you guessed it) San Francisco (18,377
in 1994) and just short of San Diego's record (17,676 in 1997).
Highlights of the 2000 ASA Annual Meeting included the installation
of ASA President Neil Swissman, M.D., of Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr.
Swissman has served as President-Elect (2000), First Vice-President
(1999), Treasurer (1997-98), Assistant Treasurer (1994-96), Director
(1989), Alternate Director (1987-88, 1991-93) and as an ASA Delegate
(1983-87). Dr. Swissman is a private practitioner in Las Vegas
and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Nevada-Reno
College Medical School, Reno, Nevada.
Election of Officers
Barry M. Glazer, M.D., was installed as President-Elect.
Dr. Glazer has served as Speaker of the House of Delegates (1994-00),
Vice-Speaker of the House of Delegates (1991-94), Alternate Director
(1987-91), Delegate (1980-91) and as Chair of the Committee on
Communications (1989-91). He is Staff Anesthesiologist and former
Chair (1986, 1989-90, 1995-96) of the Department of Anesthesiology,
St. Francis Hospital Center, Beech Grove, Indiana.
James E. Cottrell, M.D., was elected as First Vice-President.
He has served as Vice-President for Scientific Affairs (1998-00),
Chair and Vice-Chair of the Section on Annual Meeting and Chair
of four ASA committees. Dr. Cottrell is Professor and Chair, Department
of Anesthesiology, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Practice,
State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn,
New York; Regional Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Long Island
College Hospital, Brooklyn; Chief of Anesthesiology, Kings County
Hospital Center, Brooklyn; Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology,
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Bruce F. Cullen, M.D., was elected Vice-President for
Scientific Affairs. Dr. Cullen has served as Chair, Committee
on Scientific Exhibits (1983-85), Committee on Refresher Courses
(1989-90), Committee on Scientific Papers (1991), Section on Annual
Meeting (1993); Vice-Chair, Section on Annual Meeting (1992),
Section on Education and Research (1995-00); and has been a member
of numerous ASA committees. Dr. Cullen is currently a staff member
in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington,
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.
ASA 2001 Officers
The 2001 ASA officers are (front row from left): Barry M.
Glazer, M.D.; Ronald A. MacKenzie, D.O.; ASA President Neil
Swissman, M.D.; James E. Cottrell, M.D.; (middle row) Roger
A. Moore, M.D.; Thomas H. Cromwell, M.D.; Peter L. Hendricks,
M.D.; Eugene P. Sinclair, M.D.; (back row) Bruce F. Cullen,
M.D.; Candace E. Keller, M.D.; and Orin F. Guidry, M.D. (Photography
by Chad Evans Wyatt) |
Thomas H. Cromwell, M.D., continues as ASA Secretary (1999-present).
Dr. Cromwell has served as Director (1993-99) and Delegate (1985-93);
Chair (1989-95) and member of four House of Delegates reference
committees; member, committees on Governmental Affairs, Communications,
Professional Diversity, Practice Management and Quality Improvement,
and Professional Liability. He is Chair, Department of Anesthesiology,
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
Peter L. Hendricks, M.D., maintains his position as Assistant
Secretary (1999-present). Dr. Hendricks has served as Director
(1996-99); Chair, Committee on Anesthesia Care Team (1996-97);
member, committees on Ethics, Governmental Affairs, Standards
of Care, Professional Liability, and Economics; and member, House
of Delegates Reference Committee and Board of Directors Review
Committee. He is Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical
Center East, Birmingham, Alabama.
Roger A. Moore, M.D., was re-elected as Assistant Treasurer
(1999-present). He has served as Director (1995-98); Alternate
Director (1992-95); member, Board Committee on Scientific Affairs
(1996-98); Secretary-Treasurer (1996-99) and member, ASAPAC Board
of Trustees (1991-99); and three ASA committees. He is Director
of Pediatric Anesthesia and Attending Anesthesiologist, Deborah
Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey.
Eugene P. Sinclair, M.D., was re-elected as Speaker of
the House of Delegates (1999-present). Dr. Sinclair has served
as Vice-Speaker of the House of Delegates (1994-99); Director
(1987-94); Alternate Director (1984-86); and Member of several
committees and task forces. He is Medical Director, Healthsouth
Surgery Center, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Candace E. Keller, M.D., remains Vice-Speaker of the House
of Delegates (1999-present). She has served as Alternate Director
(1991-99); member, committees on Quality Improvement, Membership,
Physician Resources, Professional Diversity, and Anesthesia Care
Team; Chair, Young Physicians Liaison Committee to AMA (1989-91);
and Chair, House of Delegates Reference Committees (1997). Dr.
Keller is Staff Anesthesiologist, Wesley Medical Center and Forrest
General Hospital, Hattiesburg, and Mississippi Baptist Medical
Center, Jackson, Mississippi. She is also Assistant Clinical Professor
of Anesthesiology, University of Mississippi School of Medicine,
Jackson, Mississippi.
Awards and Honors
The 2000 ASA Award for Excellence in Research was presented to
Carol A. Hirshman, M.D., E. M. Papper Professor of Anesthesiology
and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University,
New York, New York.
Burton S. Epstein, M.D., received the 1999 ASA Distinguished
Service Award. Dr. Epstein is Professor Emeritus in Anesthesiology
and Pediatrics at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,
and has been a seminal figure in ASA for four decades.
Betty P. Stephenson, M.D., was elected as recipient of
the 2000 Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Stephenson was ASA President
in 1991. She is retired and resides in Sugar Land, Texas.
The ASA Media Award was, for the first time, presented to three
different individuals in three different mediums. Thomas C.
Shives, M.D., was honored for his radio segment All About
Anesthesia that aired in December 1999 on KROC-AM, Rochester,
Minnesota. Denise Grady received the award for her article
What's Missing in Childbirth These Days? Often the Pain that was
published in the New York Times on October 13, 1999. Ms. Grady
was the first two-time recipient, having received this award also
in 1998. Meryl Lin McKean, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Missouri,
won in 2000 for her report Herbal Medicines and Surgery, which
aired on the Fox network-owned television station in June 1999.
The Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture was delivered by
James F. Arens, M.D., 1989 ASA President, and Professor and
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, Texas. His lecture was titled The Rovenstine
Legacy 40 Years Later in Y2K.
The first-place Scientific and Education Exhibit Award was given
to Michael J. Louthan, M.D., Peter C. Houck, M.D.,
Phillip S. Gibbs, M.D., and George J. Sheplock, M.D.,
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana,
for their Transesophageal Echocardiography: A Multimedia Tutorial.
Exceptional Merit Awards were given for the following exhibits:
- Central Venous Catheters An Interactive Educational CD-ROM,
submitted by Olivier Wenker, M.D., University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- Learning the Fundamental of Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy Through
Simulation-Based Exercises, submitted by John J. Shaefer
III, M.D., David G. Metro, M.D., Randolph B. Wood, M.D., and
Rene M. Gonzalez, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
- Use of the Internet for Preoperative Review of Same-Day Surgery
Patients, submitted by Michael L. Kentor, M.D., John Lutz,
M.D., Carolyn Coulson, B.S.N., David Sinclair, M.D., and Leonard
Firestone, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Simulation-Based Training in Applying the ASA Difficult Airway
Algorithm, submitted by John J. Shaefer III, M.D., Randolph
B. Wood, M.D., David G. Metro, M.D., and Rene M. Gonzalez, M.D.,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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