2003 ASA Annual Meeting Update
The 2003 Annual Meeting in San Francisco will include
more sessions than ever before. Each Problem-Based Learning
Discussion (PBLD) will be offered twice, and more Basic
Science Reviews and panels will be available. Six workshops
are new this year: Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Handheld
Computers, Management of Patients Exposed to Weapons
of Mass Destruction, Neurological Examination for the
Pain Physician, Ophthalmic Regional Anesthesia and a
cadaver workshop. The cadaver workshop will be held
on Saturday and Sunday.
In a departure from the traditional schedule, all Refresher
Course Lectures, Clinical Updates and Basic Science
Reviews will begin one-half hour earlier than in the
past.
For preregistrants, name badges and tickets will be
sent in the mail, as was done in 2002. Registration
will open on Friday, October 10, at 3 p.m. in Hall D
of the Moscone Center.
One of the major changes for the 2003 Annual Meeting
concerns continuing medical education (CME) certificates.
Because of new AMA requirements for reporting and awarding
CME credit, the certificates for the Annual Meeting
will be mailed in November. Further, CME credit will
be awarded for ASA’s educational sessions only.
CME credit will not be awarded for time spent in committee
meetings, the House of Delegates sessions and other
political activities. Specifics of the reporting process
will be provided in future NEWSLETTERs and on the ASA
Web site.
To underscore the importance of science at the Annual
Meeting, the Scientific Paper Poster Sessions have been
moved out of the exhibit hall. They will be in Hall
D of the Moscone Center on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hall D also is the location of the Registration Area.
Each day’s posters will be available for viewing
the entire day, instead of for a two-hour period.
A reception for attendees will be held in the exhibit
hall on Sunday, October 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The
reception allows unopposed time with the exhibitors.
Each registrant will receive one complimentary drink
ticket. Additional beverages can be purchased.
The Committee on Local Arrangements has added a special
event for Monday night, October 13. The Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra will perform exclusively for ASA at
the historic Herbst Theater. American’s most exciting
period-instrument orchestra is renowned for historically
informed performance of Baroque, classical and early
romantic music on original instruments.
Registration booklets are scheduled to be mailed the
first week of June. Online registration will be available
at that time at <www2.ASAhq.org>.
The preregistration deadline is September 10,
2003.
Component
Society News:
Anesthesiologist Elected Speaker of Illinois Medical
Society
Longtime ASA Political Action Committee Chair, Rodney
C. Osborn, M.D. (1994-01), was elected Speaker of the
House of Delegates of the Illinois State Medical Society
(ISMS) during its annual meeting on April 15, 2003.
Dr. Osborn practices at Methodist Medical Center of
Illinois, the Proctor Hospital and Saint Francis Medical
Center, all in Peoria, Illinois, and also is a clinical
faculty member at the University of Illinois College
of Medicine in Peoria.
An active member of ISMS, Dr. Osborn has served on various
councils and committees and was Vice-Speaker of the
House of Delegates from 2001-03. He is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Central Illinois Medical
Review Organization, the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists
and the American Institute of Parliamentarians. He is
an active member of the ASA committees on Bylaws, Governmental
Affairs, Legislative Review and Professional Liability.
Dr. Osborn received his medical degree and completed
a four-year residency at Northwestern University Medical
School.
His term as ISMS Speaker of the House of Delegates runs
from April 2003 through April 2004.
In
Memoriam
Notice
has been received of the death of the following
ASA members: |
Smith L. Asbill, M.D.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 6, 2002 |
Robert W. Foulke, M.D.
Sun City West, Arizona
February 15, 2003 |
Edith R. Papa, M.D.
Cape Coral, Florida
March 24, 2003 |
Tarlochan S. Bhathal,
M.B.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
April 15, 2003 |
M. Jack Frumin, M.D.
Menlo Park, California
April 8, 2003 |
John A. Pierce, M.D.
Wethersfield, Connecticut
February 2, 2003 |
Eugene H. Boyle, M.D.
Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
April 7, 2003 |
Egidio Fulchiero, M.D.
Niantic, Connecticut
December 12, 2002 |
John F. Riordan, M.D.
Park Rapids, Minnesota
March 29, 2003 |
Gerald A. Burger, M.D.
Casper, Wyoming
January 30, 2003 |
Ross S. Funch, M.D.
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
December 20, 2002 |
Peter J. Roffey, M.D.
Seattle, Washington
January 5, 2003 |
Donato J. Carbone, M.D.
St. Petersburg, Florida
January 18, 2003 |
Vijay R. Gholkar, M.D.
Kansas City, Missouri
December 26, 2002 |
Antoinette Schamoi, M.D.
Los Angeles, California
September 15, 2002 |
Joel S. Carr, M.D.
Southlake, Texas
March 5, 2003 |
Charles R. Greenhalgh,
M.D.
Littleton, Colorado
September 23, 2002 |
Donald C. Schlotter, M.D.
Sandpoint, Idaho
January 23, 2003 |
Wan-Fa Cheng, M.D.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
January 14, 2003 |
Richard B. Johns, M.D.
Weslaco, Texas
December 9, 2002 |
Delbert F. Small, M.D.
Spokane, Washington
February 14, 2003 |
Dwight E. Conklin, M.D.
Galesburg, Illinois
January 30, 2003 |
Thomas S. Kelly, M.D.
Lyndhurst, Ohio
December 20, 2002 |
Wendell Stevens, M.D
Lake Oswego, Oregon
March 25, 2003 |
Joseph Dobkin, M.D.
Laguna Woods, California
December 27, 2002 |
Ahsanul K. Khan, M.D.
Yorba Linda, California
March 4, 2003 |
Stephen M. Stowe, M.D.
New York, New York
December 16, 2002 |
Dale C. Evans, M.D.
Ventura, California
April 14, 2003 |
George A. Morales, M.D.
Bethesda, Maryland
March 15, 2003 |
Arthur F. Wolber, Jr.,
M.D.
Bakersfield, California
December 14, 2002 |
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