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Dr. Senthil Sadhasivam to Present at AACD Perioperative Leadership Summit
Senthil Sadhasivam, MD, MPH, MBA, FASA, will present the lecture “Pharmacogenomics of Opioids” at the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors Perioperative Leadership Summit on March 24 – 26, 2023 in Orlando, FL.
Our Participation at AAPM 2023
Our faculty and trainees will present the following work at the upcoming 2023 American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting to be held March 23-26 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
CRNAs Participate in ALICE Active Shooter Response Training at WISER
Nearly 50 of our CRNAs participated in the ALICE training. ALICE is a training acronym and response protocol for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate.
2023-2024 Residency Match
We matched 23 top students (18 categorical, three advanced, one Panther Research Scholar, and one combined anesthesiology/pediatrics resident) from the 2,084 candidates who applied to our program.
2023-2024 Chief Residents
Congratulations to our new chief residents Monique Cheng, MD; Maria Nanez, MD; and Joe Williams, MD.
Dr. Jenny Biaesch Wins 2023 PSA Best Abstract Presentation Award
Congratulations to our PGY-2 resident Jingyuan (Jenny) Biaesch, DO, who won the Best Abstract Presentation Award at the Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists (PSA) annual meeting held at Union League Liberty Hill on March 3-5, 2023. She won the award for her poster “Intraoperative…
Dr. Tram Duran Wins 2023 UPSOM Clerkship Preceptor of the Year Award
Tram Duran, MD, received the award for her for outstanding achievements in educating future physicians.
Please Vote for our UPMC Residency Program on Doximity
Attention, all alumni and current department faculty, residents, and fellows! We need your help to tell future trainees about the excellence of our top-tier residency program and continue to attract and recruit the best residents.
Dr. Theresa Gelzinis to Serve as KoreAnesthesia 2023 Distinguished International Speaker
The event will be held as a full in-person meeting from November 9 -11, 2023 in Seoul, Korea.
UPMC Pain Management and Perioperative Care Tele-Town Halls Educate Patients and Promote Awareness
Each event attracted over 1,700 attendees and was very well received.
Dr. Ajay Wasan Wins AAPM Founders Award
The Founders Award is given for outstanding contributions for the basic or clinical science of pain medicine or for demonstration of clinical excellence or innovation in the practice of pain medicine.
Dr. Ajay Wasan Ranks Among Top 10 NIH-Funded Anesthesiology Investigators in 2022
Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc, ranked in the top 10, per the recently released NIH funding rankings from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Department Rises in Ranking to Top Five NIH-Funded Anesthesiology Department in the Nation
Our department was ranked #5 in fiscal year 2022.
Tang Team Work Showing that SARS-CoV-2 Significantly Suppresses Functional Expression of the Human α7nAChR Published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience
The research team of Pei Tang, PhD, identified a helical motif in the SARS-CoV-2 spike neck that is responsible for α7nAChR downregulation.