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R. Zavaleta, M.D., former Chief Resident in Anesthesiology
and Pain Management at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, is the 2007 winner of the
C. Ronald Stephen Resident Essay Contest of the
Anesthesia History Association. His paper and presentation
were titled “Halothane Hepatitis Solved, A
Scientific Odyssey of Burnell R. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.,
F.F.A.R.C.S.” Janey P. McGee, M.D., of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, took second place with her essay “Neonatal
Pain: To Treat or Not to Treat?” Aimee Kakascik,
D.O., of the University of Mississippi, Jackson,
Mississippi, took third place with her essay “Opioids:
From the Assyrian Poppy Art to Modern Opiophobia
— A Social History.” William D. Hammonds,
M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical
College of Georgia, presented the awards at the
Association’s Annual Meeting in Nashville,
Tennessee, on May 4, 2007. The judges were Henry
Barrie Fairley, M.B., of Palo Alto, California;
David J.Wilkinson, M.B., B.S., of St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital, London, England; Sandra L. Kopp, M.D.,
of Rochester, Minnesota; and Theodore C. Smith,
M.D., Chicago, Illinois.
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| C. Ronald Steven Resident
Essay Contest winners, left to right, Janey
P. McGee, M.D. (second place), Jeff R. Zavaleta,
M.D. (first place) and Aimee Kakascik, D.O.
(third place). |
Dr. Zavaleta was born in Irving, Texas, and educated
at the University of Texas Southwestern, where he
completed his anesthesiology training. He is presently
a fellow in pediatric anesthesiology at the University
of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He
is married and has one son. His mentor in this project
was Adolph H. Giesecke, M.D., Emeritus Professor.
The subject of Dr. Zavaleta’s research, Dr.
Burnell R. Brown, was born in Dallas in 1933. He
received his M.D. from Tulane University in New
Orleans and completed training in anesthesiology
under M.T. “Pepper” Jenkins, M.D., the
founding chair of the department. Dr. Brown completed
a Ph.D. in clinical pharmacology under Richard Crout,
M.D., and Ron Estabrook, M.D. He was chair of anesthesiology
at the University of Arizona School of Medicine
in Tucson from 1971 until 1994. He died in August
1995. He considered the discovery of the pathophysiologic
mechanism of halothane hepatitis to be his most
important scientific contribution.
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