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| Mark A. Warner,
M.D. |
ark A. Warner, M.D., will present the Emery A. Rovenstine
Memorial Lecture at the ASA 2005 Annual Meeting on
Monday, October 24, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
in the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
His lecture, “Who Better Than Anesthesiologists?,”
will explore how our specialty can thrive in the future
by taking advantage of the many opportunities that
will arise in perioperative care, genetic diagnostics,
pharmacogenomic treatments, pain medicine and management
of acutely ill patients.
The Rovenstine Lecture is a longstanding high point
of the Annual Meeting and honors Dr. Rovenstine, the
distinguished past chair of the Department of Anesthesiology
at New York University Medical Center and Director
of Anesthesiology at Bellevue Hospital in New York
City. Dr. Rovenstine was a founding member and president
of the American Board of Anesthesiology, ASA president
in 1943-44 and the 1957 recipient of the ASA Distinguished
Service Award. Because of his seminal contributions
to the specialty, especially as an administrator and
educator, this prestigious lectureship was established
in his name. The ASA president chooses the lecturer
as part of his duties, and the lecture is always one
of the highlights of the Annual Meeting.
Dr. Warner is Professor and Chair of the Department
of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
This past year, he also joined his institution’s
Board of Governors, the leadership group that oversees
all of its activities. He graduated from the Medical
College of Ohio in 1979 and completed his anesthesiology
residency at Mayo in 1982. He immediately joined the
faculty there, rising through the academic ranks to
be promoted to professor in 1995 and chair in 1999.
He has been principal or co-investigator for 14 research
grants, including two from the National Institutes
of Health and three from the Anesthesia Patient Safety
Foundation (APSF). He has authored or co-authored
84 peer-reviewed articles, one book and numerous chapters.
Much of his recent research has resulted from the
massive clinical database he helped to develop as
director of the Mayo Anesthesiology Perioperative
Outcome Group.
Dr. Warner has been active in ASA since the beginning
of his career. He represented Minnesota in the House
of Delegates from 1983-03, serving as District Director
from 1998-03. He currently remains on the Board of
Directors as Chair of the Section on Education and
Research. He has held positions on 14 different ASA
committees and chaired the Section on Annual Meeting
in 2000, the Section on Clinical Care in 2001-04 and
currently the Section on Education and Research. He
has chaired three task forces that prepared practice
guidelines or advisories. He was appointed to the
American Board of Anesthesiology Board of Directors
in 1998 and has served that group as chair of its
research and critical care medicine examination committees.
He has been a member of the Residency Review Committee
for Anesthesiology since 2001 and will serve as its
chair in 2005-07. He has been on the APSF Board of
Directors since 1997 and will join the Board of Directors
of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
later this year.
Dr. Warner also has been active in the Minnesota Society
of Anesthesiologists and served as its president in
1995-96. He was a charter member of the Society for
Education in Anesthesia and served on three of its
committees. He also is a member of the Association
of University Anesthesiologists, the Academy of Anesthesiologists
and the International Anesthesia Research Society.
He is a reviewer for six different medical journals
and will be an associate editor for Anesthesiology
starting this fall.
Somehow he has found the time to be involved in many
community activities as well, including serving currently
as President of the Rochester Family Y Board of Directors
and the Rochester Airport Commission. In his “spare
time,” he has coached his four sons’ various
sports teams.
Dr. Warner is truly a role model for anesthesiologists,
not only because of his boundless energy, leadership
skills, creativity and selflessness, but even more
so because he is a “real” person, friendly
and caring. I look forward to hearing his Rovenstine
lecture.
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Susan L. Polk, M.D., is Professor of Clinical
Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
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