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| Jerry Reves, M.D. |
The Emery
A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture
“We
Are What We Make”
Monday, October 16,
from 11:15 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. at McCormick Place,
Room E354B.
erry Reves, M.D., will present the Emery A. Rovenstine
Memorial Lecture at the ASA 2006 Annual Meeting on
Monday, October 16, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. His lecture
is “We Are What We Make” and will explore
the state of academic anesthesiology today and in
the future.
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/her duties, and the lecture is always
one of the highlights of the Annual Meeting.
Dr. Jerry Reves is a Charleston, South Carolina, native.
He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee, then returned
to Charleston to earn his medical degree from the
Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. He then
completed his anesthesiology residency at the University
of Alabama Hospital and Clinics in Birmingham. He
served in the Navy at the Bethesda Naval Hospital
in Maryland before returning to Birmingham to join
the faculty, where he became Professor of Anesthesiology
and Director of Anesthesiology Research. In 1984,
he joined Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
North Carolina, as Professor of Anesthesiology and
Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. He helped found
the Duke Heart Center and served as its first director.
Dr. Reves became chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology
in 1991; in 2001 he returned to Charleston as Dean
of the College of Medicine and Vice-President for
Medical Affairs at the Medical University of South
Carolina (MUSC). He currently holds a dual appointment
as Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
and Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Dr. Reves has been active in ASA since the beginning
of his career. He has been a member of ASA since 1970
and has served on the state component societies of
Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. He has
chaired many ASA committees, including the committees
on Clinical Circulation and Geriatric Anesthesia and
the Task Force on Graduate Medical Education, the
ASA Workforce Task Force in 1984 and most recently
the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
(FAER) Task Force on Academic Anesthesia. Dr. Reves
received a FAER grant as Chief of Anesthesia Research
at Birmingham and has mentored several others who
have received FAER funding. He has served as Editor
of Anesthesia & Analgesia and consultant
editor to Anesthesiology and many other journals.
He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific
papers, was awarded four National Institutes of Health
(NIH) grants totaling more than $6 million in funding
and is the author of 14 books and monographs.
Dr. Reves has been a president of the Southern Society
of Anesthesiologists, the Society of Cardiovascular
Anesthesiologists (SCA) and the Association of Cardiac
Anesthesiologists. He is on the Association of American
Medical Colleges Liaison Committee to the Veterans
Administration and serves on several education advisory
committees in the state of South Carolina. As a pioneer
clinical investigator who helped to launch the cardiac
anesthesiology subspecialty, Dr. Reves served as the
first elected president of SCA (1979) and was honored
this year by receiving that society’s Distinguished
Service Award.
Dr. Reves is nationally recognized for his contributions
to anesthesia clinical research. His research career
began during medical school when he worked as a research
assistant in the Department of Pharmacology under
the tutelage of Robert Walton. M.D. As the Director
of the University of Alabama’s Division of Anesthesiology
Research, Dr. Reves laid the foundation for the department’s
NIH funding, setting the course for its thriving program.
His research focused on aging and cognition after
cardiac surgery. His work has been published in more
than 200 scientific publications, and under his leadership,
the Duke Department of Anesthesiology ranked as high
as number two in NIH funding nationally. His scholarly
interests today focus on medical education, interdisciplinary
research programs and educational facilities.
Dr. Reves has been in academic medicine for more than
30 years. He is credited with creating the nation’s
most prominent cardiovascular anesthesiology fellowship
program, co-chaired the curriculum committee of the
Duke University School of Medicine and initiated a
physiology simulator in the Duke medical school curriculum.
In 2001, Dr. Reves returned “home” as
the Dean of the School of Medicine at MUSC, where
he has created a single Department of Neurosciences
from the departments of neurology, neurosurgery and
neuroscience. He has re-invigorated the Hollings Cancer
Center, the Aging Center and the Heart and Vascular
Center. He also recently brought the international
leader of simulator education, John Schaefer, M.D.,
to the MUSC Department of Anesthesiology.
Dr. and Mrs. Reves have three daughters and one granddaughter.
He is active in Charleston civic organizations and
serves on the board of the Charleston Habitat for
Humanity. For recreation he plays tennis and runs,
and he and Mrs. Reves are perfecting the art of trawler
sailing.
Despite his demands as Dean of the College of Medicine,
Dr. Reves spends time with medical students considering
anesthesiology as a career and serves as their medical
school career advisor. As a reflection of his efforts,
12 students out of 143 chose anesthesiology in the
class of 2006.
Dr. Reves has clearly endeared himself to many of
us personally, as a mentor, superb clinician and astute
researcher. He carries the mantle of our specialty
beyond the physical boundaries of departments of anesthesiology.
We can all be proud of the leadership that he has
shown in academic medicine. Please join me as Dr.
Reves delivers this coveted Rovenstine Memorial Lecture
at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
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Rebecca S. Twersky, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor
of Clinical Anesthesiology and Vice-Chair for
Research, State University of New York Downstate
Medical Center-Brooklyn, and Medical Director,
Ambulatory Surgery Unit, Long Island College
Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. |
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