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Research Not Taken for Granted: Announcing 2004 Award
Recipients
he Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
(FAER) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the
award recipients from the August 2004 submissions.
FAER received 25 grant applications during the August
2004 submission period, of which eight received funding.
Following is a list of the funded investigators and
a brief summary of their studies as provided by the
investigators.
FAER is grateful to ASA, its individual members, component
societies, subspecialty societies and corporations
for the generous contributions that allow funding
of these awards. On behalf of all recipients and programs
who have been helped by your support of FAER, thank
you for your generosity. We look forward to your continued
involvement.
[More award recipients will be featured in the next
“FAER Report.”].
Mentored Research Training
Grant ($75,000 Year 1, $100,000 Year 2, Mentor Stipend
$40,000/Year)
George R. Benzinger III, M.D., Ph.D.,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri: “Structural
Correlates Underlying Beta Subunit-Mediated Inactivation
in Large-Conductance, Calcium-Activated Potassium
Channels.”
I am studying how the binding of the bß2 subunit
confers on the channel the ability to cease conducting
ions in response to appropriate stimuli. The results
of these experiments will better explain how these
[large-conductance, calcium-activated potassium] channels
serve different functions in different types of tissue
and will provide a framework for understanding differential
regulations in other types of ion channel as well.
Chair: Alex S. Evers, M.D.; Mentor: Christopher Lingle,
Ph.D.
Lisa W. Faberowski, M.D., Duke University
Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: “The
Effect of Anesthetics on the Developing Brain: Is It
a Function of Age?”
This investigation will use neonatal rat brain slices
to address whether anesthetic-induced neuronal cell
death during brain development is related to a change
in the fetal as compared to adult subunit composition
of the Á-amino n-butyric acid (GABAA)
receptors and subsequent modulation of brain-derived
neurotrophic factor. The results of this investigation
will determine the GABAA receptor composition
that places the neonatal rat at greatest risk for anesthetic-induced
neuronal damage. Chair: Mark F. Newman,
M.D.; Mentor: David S. Warner, M.D.
Research Education Grant ($50,000
Year 1, $50,000 Year 2
Alice A. Edler, M.D., Stanford University,
Stanford, California: “The Use of Discussion Questions
to Foster Critical Thinking Skills in Human Patient
Simulator Education.”
This investigation will examine the extent to which
anesthesiology educators understand and correctly use
one well-established method for the teaching of critical
thinking skills: the discussion question. Chair:
Ronald G. Pearl, M.D., Ph.D.; Mentor: Decker F. Walker,
Ph.D.
May C.M. Pian-Smith, M.D., Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts: “Teaching
Residents to Question and Challenge: An Experiential
Approach”
This project will teach residents methods for “questioning”
that will enhance their educational experience and optimize
patient safety. Chair: Warren M. Zapol,
M.D.; Mentor: Daniel Raemer, Ph.D.
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