Residents’ Research Essay Contest Award Recipients Honored

ames C. Eisenach, M.D., Chair of the Committee on Research, has announced that the committee will award prizes for the following three entries in the 2007 ASA Residents’ Research Essay Award contest.

First Prize
Susanne Herroeder, M.D., University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany for “Systemic Lidocaine Shortens Length of Hospital Stay After Colorectal Surgery.”

Second Prize
Minjae Kim, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York for “Isoflurane Protects Against Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Via Sphingosine Kinase.”

Third Prize
Sadeq A. Quraishi, M.D., Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania for “5 HT3 Antagonists and Cardiac Repolarization Time in Patients Genetically Prone to QTc Prolongation.”

Winners receive a plaque and cash award to acknowledge their achievement.

The awards will be presented during the Celebration of Research at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, October 15, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

2007 Transesophageal Echocardiography and Vascular Access Workshop

he ASA Transesophageal Echocardiography and Vascular Access Workshop is intended as an introductory course on intraoperative echocardiography. The program will be held November 10-11, 2007, at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.

This workshop will introduce a number of topics that will provide basics on the physics of ultrasound, the use of knobs on the echocardiography machine, the components of a complete transesophageal examination along with the corresponding anatomical views, and the pathophysiology of valvular heart disease and its intraoperative assessment.

If you would like further information on this workshop or to download a registration form, please visit the ASA Web site at www.ASAhq.org/ASA
07%20TEEWorkshopBrochure.pdf or call the ASA Executive Office at (847) 825-5586.

Announcing the APSF/ASA Endowed Research Award

he Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) is pleased to announce the APSF/ASA Endowed Research Award in full support ($150,000) of a grant to be awarded in October 2007 for initiation in January 2008.

The funds for this named grant will be provided from the APSF Endowment Fund, which was made possible by the generous contributions of ASA to APSF over the last several years.