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Dr. Brooke Trainer talks to Drs. Somnath Bose and Talia Ben-Jacob about the role of intensivists. Listen in as they discuss the value critical care anesthesiologists bring to departments and hospitals, the role of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), the subspecialty’s future, and more. Recorded January 2024.
Somnath Bose, MD, MPH, MBBS, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing anesthesiologist and intensivist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. In addition to being passionate about training the next generation of anesthesia trainees, Dr. Bose is engaged in clinical research aimed at improving ICU care and quality of survivorship following critical illness.
Dr. Bose obtained his MBBS degree from Medical College Kolkata, India and went on to complete a residency in anesthesia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He later completed an anesthesia residency and fellowship in critical care medicine from Cleveland Clinic Foundation and obtained his MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Bose serves on the steering committee of SCCM’s Discovery Network, ASA’s committee on critical care, and SOCCA’s research and clinical practice committees.
Talia K. Ben-Jacob, MD, MSc, is the division head of critical care medicine in the department of anesthesiology at Cooper University Hospital (CUH) and associate professor of anesthesiology at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). Dr. Ben-Jacob is the chair of ASA’s committee on young physicians and serves on the ASA committee on critical care medicine, the PeRLs editorial board, and the educational track on critical care. She is the founding chair of the SCCM women in critical care knowledge and education group as well as the chair elect on the SCCM anesthesiology section steering committee. In addition to her active roles in professional organizations, Dr. Ben-Jacob is very involved in her hospital system and medical school.
Dr. Ben-Jacob received her MD from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont before completing her anesthesiology residency at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, and critical care medicine fellowship at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She returned to Cooper University Hospital after fellowship where she currently practices a mix of anesthesiology and critical care in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit. She has been awarded the Department of Anesthesiology Resident Champion Award in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Cooper University Hospital Junior Faculty of the Year Award and is a mother to three young and amazing individuals.
Brooke E. Trainer, MD, FASA, remains devoted to her fellow Veterans and maintains her full-time status as an anesthesiologist, acute pain physician, and critical care medicine Intensivist at the Central Virginia VA Health Care System in Richmond VA. She is also an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she works as a critical care intensivist in the liver transplant and surgical trauma burn ICU. Most recently, Dr. Trainer was recognized for her contributions and interest in simulation education and was granted a national faculty position with the VHA Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) Division.
Dr. Trainer received her doctor of medicine from the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, completed her anesthesia residency at Yale New Haven Medical Center in Connecticut, and fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a US Air Force veteran, having served as an anesthesiologist at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and director for the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT). She deployed in 2012, '13, and '14 to Afghanistan from Germany, flying wounded soldiers safely out of Afghanistan back to Germany, then home to the US. In 2012, she was recognized as the top-level physician of the European Medical Command and was awarded the US Air Force European Clinical Excellence Award. Dr. Trainer also holds several leadership positions in organized medicine, including her current role as the president for the Association of VA Anesthesiologists, and has published numerous book chapters in internationally recognized Anesthesia Textbooks.
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Date of last update: February 6, 2024
