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ASA Wins Web Site Award
t was announced in April that ASA has been given the
Silver Award in the Association/Professional Society
division of the World Wide Web Health Awards. Director
of Communications Gina A. Steiner indicated that this
is a very well-regarded award among communications
professionals.
A component of the site that received special consideration
is the ASA
Centennial subsite. Originating
with the Ad Hoc Committee on ASA’s 100th Anniversary,
chaired by Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., and with guidance
from Assistant Executive Director Denise M. Jones,
the Communications Department created this subsite
with assistance from Information Services and the
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM). Special
thanks to Web Administrator Anita Abbatacola for the
overall quality of the ASA Web site, to Communications
Associate Roy Winkler as chief researcher and writer
for the Centennial site, to Publications Manager David
Love for designing the subsite and providing artwork,
and to Judith Robins, Karen Bieterman and Patrick
Sim of the WLM for helping to locate items from its
archives. In addition to the Ad Hoc Committee, thanks
go to the Web Site Editorial Board, chaired by Keith
J. Ruskin, M.D.
Only 24 organizations received a Silver or Gold award,
the highest levels, in this competition that evaluated
more than 1,000 health information Web sites. ASA
is in good company along with such prestigious organizations
as the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Baylor College
of Medicine, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
and the National Institutes of Health.
Task
Force on Obstetric Anesthesia Seeks Comments for Revising
OB Practice Guidelines
he ASA Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia invites
members and other interested individuals to comment
on its draft of the revised “Practice Guidelines
for Obstetric Anesthesia: An Updated Report.”
The draft document may be downloaded for review at
<www.ASAhq.org/clinical/obdraft.htm>.
Please note that the posted document is a draft and
so is not currently approved by ASA. The Web site
has an available e-mail address for replies and comments. |