Department Of Anesthesiology

The Department of Anesthesiology achieves “top ten” status; now ranked 6th in the country amongst all anesthesiology departments for NIH funding

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Brittney Williams, MD receives K08 award from National Institute of Health

Congratulations to Dr. Brittney Williams for her Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award. Her project entitled "Role of miRNA-TLR7 Signaling in Platelet Activation and Dysfunction in Sepsis" was approved for funding by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Dr. Williams stated she was very pleased with the new NIH support and that her work in the next 3-5 years will focus on delineating platelet signaling pathways involved in immune-mediated thrombotic complications in sepsis.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Dr. Kerri Lopez awarded the SHOCK Society Diversity Enhancement Award

Congratulations to Kerri Lopez, MD for being awarded the US SHOCK SOCIETY Diversity Enhancement Award for her abstract entitled "Impact of Hypobaric Exposure on Inflammation and Organ Injury in a Non-Hemorrhagic Mouse Model of Polytrauma". Dr. Lopez is a PGY-3 surgical resident and has just completed her two-year research training in the Anesthesiology Translational Research Program working on a research project funded by the US Air Force.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Dr. Brian Polster receives R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Brian M. Polster, Ph.D. Associate Professor, and co-investigators Drs. Bogdan Stoica, Rebecca Henry, James Barrett, and Marta Lipinski from the Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded a five-year, $2,891,532 R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders And Stroke (NIH/ NINDS) for “Reprogramming proinflammatory microglia by restoring mitochondrial function”.

Monday, July 06, 2020

Article in US News features Dr. Jonathan Chow

Jonathan Chow, MD, Assistant Professor was featured in U.S. News & World Report for working with robots to help keep health care workers safe while treating the sickest COVID-19 patients. The article focuses on how Dr. Chow’s and colleagues conduct rounds in the intensive care unit’s biocontainment section using robots. The two robots named “Blue Bertha” and “Red Randy” are controlled by Dr. Chow using a few keystrokes movements to help examine seriously ill COVID-19 patients. Dr. Chow states “They change the way you’re able to take care of the patient; and we don’t need to bring our team of clinicians inside an air-locked room for four hours, risking exposure to the virus. It makes me a lot more confident when I come home that I won’t bring the virus home”

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Congratulations to Rodney M. Ritzel, PhD, for being the inaugural recipient of the 2020 Michael Shipley Postdoctoral Award

Congratulations to Rodney M. Ritzel, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Alan Faden’s lab, for being the inaugural recipient of the 2020 Michael Shipley Postdoctoral Award. This award recognizes a postdoctoral fellow who has exemplified excellence in research with an exceptional record of accomplishments. Dr. Ritzel was commended for his critical thinking and passion for continued learning in neuroscience. He will be honored at the Program in Neuroscience Retreat with the presentation of an engraved award and honorarium.

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, receives R01 grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Congratulations to Junfang Wu, BM, PhD, Associate Professor, the Department of Anesthesiology and Long-Jun Wu, PhD, Professor at the Mayo Clinic, received a five-year, $2,392,596 grant (NIH R01) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “The Function and Mechanisms of Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hv1 in Spinal Cord Injury”. Click Here for more information.