Personnel Changes Across the Board: New Board Members, Part 2


At its August meeting, the ASA Board of Directors confirmed the appointments of nine new directors to the Foundation for Anesthesia Research and Education Board of Directors with terms beginning in October 2002. The following information was provided by the new directors. The remaining directors will be featured in December.


John P. Kampine, M.D., Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

John P. Kampine, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He earned his undergraduate degree, M.D. and Ph.D. in physiology from Marquette University. He completed his internship at the Milwaukee County General Hospital and residency in anesthesiology at Marquette-affiliated hospitals. He was a U.S. Public Health Service Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Marquette University School of Medicine and an NIH Research Associate at the National Institutes of Neurologic Disease and Blindness. He is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and was an ABA examiner for 25 years.
He is Past President of the American Heart Association — Wisconsin Affiliate, the Association of University Anesthesiologists and the Society of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs. His contributions to research were recognized by the American Heart Association Award for Excellence in Research and in 1992 he received the ASA Excellence in Research Award and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science.


Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D., Roswell Park Cancer Institute, University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York

Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D., is Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Lema received his medical training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn followed by an internship at Staten Island Hospital and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Lema holds a Ph.D. in physiology from UB, is Associate Research Professor of Experimental Pathology in the UB School of Graduate Studies and served as Medical Chief of Cancer Pain Service for Roswell Park from 1988-1999.
He is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Anesthesiology including added qualifications in pain medicine; Vice President of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine; Alternate Director, District 4, to the ASA Board of Directors; and Immediate Past President of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists.
He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers and has served on eight editorial boards.


Ronald G. Pearl, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, California

Ronald G. Pearl, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesia, and Associate Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit and the Medical Transport Program, Stanford University and Hospital. After obtaining his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Dr. Pearl completed a residency in internal medicine, a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford. He has served as President of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists and the California Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine, anesthesiology and critical care.
Dr. Pearl serves on the editorial board of Current Opinion in Critical Care and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Physicians. He has published more than 150 articles, abstracts and book chapters.