Centennial Gala Blowing into Windy City

he Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) and the other ASA foundations are pleased to join ASA for the Society’s 2006 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The following list covers the FAER-planned events at the ASA Annual Meeting on October 14-18. Please visit the FAER booth in the ASA Resources Center and check our Web site at <www.faer.org> for more information and itineraries. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

Friday, October 13
FAER/Abbott Laboratories-Volwiler and Tabern Resident Scholar Program
The Resident Scholar Program provides anesthesiology residents with the opportunity to attend a national scientific meeting with access to multiple scientific and educational sessions. An informal welcome reception will be held this year to allow the residents more opportunity to meet each other prior to the ASA meeting sessions. It will be held from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Comiskey Room, Concourse Level West Tower.

Saturday, October 14
Resident Scholars Orientation Program
Robert A. Caplan, M.D., from Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, will be the guest speaker. This lecture will explore: 1) The emerging expectation of defect-free health care; 2) Production theories and techniques that enable the delivery of defect-free products and services; and 3) FAER’s role as a leader and innovator in defect-free anesthesia. The orientation will be held from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Columbus Ballroom EF, Ballroom Level East.

FAER Luncheon
The FAER Luncheon will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in Columbus Ballroom EF of the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The luncheon is held to express FAER’s appreciation to individual and corporate sponsors for their support and to strengthen industry relations with FAER, ASA and subspecialty leadership and recent grant recipients. ASA President-Elect Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Roswell Park/University at Buffalo, SUNY, will lead the discussion. Speakers are Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director, Division of Clinical and Translational Research, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, who will speak on “Omes and Omics: Potential Impact on Anesthesiology Practice” and Mark A. Warner, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, who will talk about “Minimally or Noninvasive Procedures in the Near Future: How They May Impact Anesthesiology Practices.”

Sunday, October 15
On Sunday, the FAER booth opens in the ASA Resource Center. The FAER booth will feature information on National Institutes of Health Research Training Grants in Anesthesiology and current information about FAER grant recipients, and foundation information will be displayed. As in the past, the booth will be staffed by FAER award recipients, board members and staff to answer your questions.

Monday, October 16
ASA Centennial Gala
The 2006 ASA Centennial Gala Benefit will be held in Chicago on Monday, October 16, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., in the Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Chicago. The benefit dinner will be held in behalf of the four ASA foundations: FAER, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) and the Anesthesia Foundation (AF). Attendees at the black-tie-optional event will enjoy an evening with friends and colleagues as they remember the last, and welcome the next, 100 years of ASA. The Centennial Gala will be the culmination of a prolonged collaborative effort by FAER and the ASA Committee on ASA’s 100th Anniversary. The Master of Ceremonies will be Peter L. McDermott, M.D., Ph.D., and entertainment will be provided by The Second City. If you wish to be placed on the Centennial Gala wait list, please go to the FAER Web site at <faer.org> and submit a Centennial Gala wait list form to the FAER office. On behalf of ASA, AF, APSF and WLM, we at FAER thank you for your participation and hope to see you in Chicago!

Celebration of Research
The 2006 session will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in McCormick Place Room E450 A-B. This year the event will recognize the Award for Excellence in Research and Residents’ Research Essay Award recipients who will present overviews of their work.

Sixth FAER Honorary Research Lecture
The 2006 FAER Honorary Research Lecture will be presented by Paul D. Allen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Director of Renal Transplant and Vascular Access Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His presentation “Calcium: This Is Everything” will be presented from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. in McCormick Place Room E450 A-B.

FAER Panel
Ronald G. Pearl, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Anesthesia, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, will moderate the 2006 FAER Panel “Translating Future Paradigms to Reality: Anesthesia Research and Education in the Next Decade” from 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Room E450 A-B, McCormick Place. Topics and panelists are:

• “The Use of Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering,” Charles A. Vacanti, M.D., Vandam/Covino Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;

• “The Future of Immersive and Simulation-Based Learning,” David M. Gaba, M.D., Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-Based Learning and Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine and  Director, Patient Simulation Center of Innovation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California;

• “New Approaches to Drug Development,” Kazimierz Babinski, Vice-President, Drug Development, PainCeptor Pharma Corporation, St-Laurent, Québec, Canada; and

• “Computational Genomics: Toward Understanding Our Drugs and Our Diseases,” Gary Peltz, M.D., Ph.D., Head, Department of Genetics and Genomics Roche Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California.

Tuesday, October 17
Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship Symposium
As part of the FAER Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship, FAER offers students the opportunity to make a research presentation during the ASA Annual Meeting at the FAER Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship Symposium. The 2006 symposium will be moderated by Donn M. Dennis, M.D., FAHA, FAER Director, the Joachim S. Gravenstein, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Nanomedicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, and Vice-President of Pharmacology at ARYx Therapeutics, Inc., Fremont, California. The symposium will be held on October 17 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

FAER/Abbott Laboratories-Volwiler and Tabern Resident Scholar Program Reception
FAER/Abbott-Volwiler and Tabern Resident Scholar Program Reception attendees include the 2006 Resident Scholars, ASA officers, FAER Board members and staff. The reception will be held on Tuesday, October 17, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Plaza Ball Room, Main Entrance Level East Tower.