2022 Summer Department Updates

Dr. Sara Guzman-Reyes was awarded the Excellence in Anesthesia Award from the Department of General Surgery’s Chief Resident Class of 2021-2022.

Congratulations to Drs. Evan Pivalizza, Srikanth Sridhar and the Department of Anesthesiology for its recently cited articles and research.

“Service Requirements of Liver Transplant Anesthesia Teams: Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia Recommendations”

“A comparison of pediatric liver transplant anesthesia practices with new organ procurement and transplant network pediatric policy requirements: A report from the society for the advancement of transplant anesthesia and the society for pediatric anesthesia”

“A Tapered Cuff Tracheal Tube Decreases the Need for Cuff Pressure Adjustment After Surgical Retraction During Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: A Randomized Controlled, Double-Blind Trial”

Congratulations to our faculty below who received the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for 2021-2022.

Daniel An, D.O.

Stephanie Bradley, M.D.

Lauren Broiller, M.D.

Staci Cameron, M.D.

Johanna de Haan, M.D.

Kristin Falce, M.D.

Christopher Fung, M.D.

Evelyn Griffin, M.D.

Saba Javed, M.D.

Srikar Jonna, M.D.

Rishi Kumar, M.D.

Thanh-Thuy Le, M.D., Ph.D.

Travis Markham, M.D.

Medea Mshvildadze, M.D.

Stacy Norrell, M.D.

Paul Potnuru, M.D.

Rachel Rhem, M.D.

Ryan Rihani, M.D.

Colleen Rodriguez, M.D.

Vishwas Seshachellam, D.O.

Christopher Stephens, M.D.

Dr. Barbara Orlando, along with Maitreyi Narayan, a 4th year medical student, had a poster submission accepted for the Anesthesia Quality and Patient Safety Meeting 2022 Resident ePoster Program titled: Core Metric Discrepancies Between High and Low Socioeconomic Status (SES) – Maternal Drop in Hemoglobin After Vaginal Delivery: A Single Site Analysis. 

On Friday June 3, the department hosted the 2022 Residency Banquet.  Congratulations to the award recipients!

Andrew Allison, MD – best board runner

D’Andrea Ceasar, MD – outstanding intern

Michelle Ge, MD – best attending in acute pain medicine

Niklas Glenesk, MD – outstanding CA-2

Nadia Hernandez, MD – best attending in regional anesthesia

Paden Karnes, MD – outstanding graduating senior

Rishi Kumar, MD – outstanding clinical instructor and best attending in cardiovascular anesthesia

Barbara Orlando, MD, PhD – best attending in obstetric anesthesia

Evan Pivalizza, MD – best attending in transplant anesthesia

Paul Potnuru, MD – outstanding clinical instructor, outstanding didactic instructor, best attending in neuroanesthesia, and best attending in pre-anesthesia clinic

Christina Rolandelli, MD – outstanding CA-1

Vishwas Seshachellam, DO – best attending in pediatric anesthesia

George Williams, MD – best attending in critical care medicine

Dr. Onyi Onuoha wrote 7 FAQs for the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia Perinatology (SOAP) clinical practice website.

Dr. Barbara Orlando was recently published in Anesthesiology Clinics for her article title: “Well-Being in Anesthesiology Graduate Medical Education: Reconciling the Ideal with Reality.”  She also recently became a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA).

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Shoham for being one of the 2022 Texas Medical Association (TMA) Leadership Graduates.  More information can be found here.

 

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