Personnel Changes Across the Board: New Board Members, Part 3

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. Following are the final three directors (see the October and November 2002 Newsletters for the previous six).

M. Christine Stock, M.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Since October 2000, M. Christine Stock, M.D. has served the Anesthesiology Department at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine as the James E. Eckenhoff Professor and Chair.

She graduated from Northwestern’s medical school, completed a clinical research fellowship with John Downs, M.D., then returned to Northwestern for anesthesiology residency. During her CCM Fellowship, she rejoined Dr. Downs as his laboratory research fellow.

Dr. Stock joined Emory’s anesthesiology faculty in 1985. Her laboratory studied O2 delivery and the work of breathing, and she engaged in clinical studies, including APRV’s development. At Emory, she served as SICU Medical Director at Grady Hospital, Clinical Director of the Emory University Hospital (EUH) operating rooms, and Chief of Anesthesiology Services at EUH.

Dr. Stock is a past president of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists and the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors. Her textbook Handbook of Mechanical Ventilatory Support has been translated into three languages.

Denham S. Ward, Ph.D., M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

Denham S. Ward, Ph.D., M.D., is Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester. He earned his Ph.D. in Systems Science from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1975. During graduate work at UCLA, he became involved with respiratory research in the department of anesthesiology, which led to an interest in medicine. In 1977, he received his M.D. from the University of Miami. Following an internal medicine internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, he returned to UCLA for anesthesiology residency. After joining the UCLA faculty, his interest in ventilatory control continued, and he also became anesthesiology residency program director. In 1992, he became professor and chair of anesthesiology at the University of Rochester. He has been active in the Society for Education in Anesthesia and the Association of University Anesthesiologists and was president of the Association of Anesthesiology Program Directors, representing that organization at the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies. He also has chaired the ASA Committee on Problem-Based Learning Discussions.

James R. Zaidan, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

James R. Zaidan, M.D., received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine. After completing his surgical internship at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Zaidan entered anesthesiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he also completed a year of fellowship training in cardiac anesthesiology. He served a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Germany after which he and his family moved to Atlanta.

Dr. Zaidan has been a faculty member of Emory University School of Medicine for 25 years. During that time, he has served as Deputy Chair for Education and Chief of Service at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital. Dr. Zaidan received his M.B.A. degree from Emory University Goizueta Business School in 1998. He is a senior associate examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. In 2000, Dr. Zaidan assumed the duties of Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Emory University School of Medicine. He became Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology in 2001.