Department of Anesthesiology
Lindsay Maess fulfilled a lifelong passion by working with monkeys, chimps and gorillas at US zoos and often returning to Africa for field research at the Pandrillus conservation organization and sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees and endangered drill monkeys in Nigeria.
Life in the jungle can pose dangers we don’t face in the Western world. When Lindsay came down with malaria, it set her on a path to severe neurological issues, pain and trauma that took so many years of her life and, if it weren’t for her team of physicians at RUSH, could have ended her dream forever.
In April of 2016, Lindsay tested positive for a parasitic infection — Plasmodium falciparum.
The day after she began her third round of medication, Lindsay developed the worst headache of her life. The next few days brought shooting pain through her whole head, fever and bleeding sores all over her face. She felt like electricity was running through her tongue, lips, face and ears.
The pain spread to her shoulders, spine and left arm. She felt dizzy and confused, like she was intoxicated.
By the time Lindsay came to RUSH in January of 2019, her life had completely changed. She could barely swallow, talk or be social anymore — much less continue her life’s work with primates.
“To get through those years before coming to RUSH, I didn’t want to live through it,” Lindsay says. “The pain and vertigo were so intense, and I thought there was no way I could keep going like this.”
At RUSH, she would finally get relief, not only from one doctor, but from a community of physicians that worked together to address all her medical concerns.
Lindsay was referred to Dr. Ryan Smith, MD, a facial plastic surgeon at RUSH who specializes in treating facial nerve disorders. Assuring he would do whatever it took to help, he worked to tailor her treatment.
Lindsay also worked with Dr. Sandeep Amin, MD, a pain management physician at RUSH and University Pain Centers (UPC), to further treat her nerve pain and migraine. “Her nervous system was in hyper-drive mode when I first saw her, accounting for her facial issues, pain, headaches and difficulty swallowing,” Dr. Amin says.
To treat these issues, he used ultrasound imaging as a guide to place several nerve blocks, injecting anesthesia into specific nerves in Lindsay’s head and neck. “It’s almost like resetting the neurologic system and bringing it into normal drive mode,” Dr. Amin says.
“Dr. Smith and Amin, what’s so special about them is that they’ll sit and listen,” Lindsay says. “They’ve been so patient and persistent with me. Dr. Smith has probably missed lunch hours just from answering my many questions and letting me express everything I wanted to say. And Dr. Amin has been relentless at peeling back and treating the layers of my pain with compassion.”
Pictured: Theodore J. Jeske, DO
Vikash J. Patel, DO Recipient of the 2022 Robert D. Dripps, MD Memorial Award
A new study shows 37% of millennials, or those ages 25 to 34 years old, do not trust their health care providers.
The high prevalence of medical misinformation available for all ages has led to a greater push to educate the public. The U.S. Surgeon General declared public health misinformation an “urgent threat to public health” in October 2021.
A recent study from Harmony Healthcare IT indicates that 69% of its millennial respondents searched online for health and medical advice instead of going to the doctor. In addition, 25% of these respondents reported they had also trusted online information to diagnose their symptoms accurately. This can come at a dangerous health risk as over 70% of people have been exposed to medical or health-related misinformation.
While information is instantaneous and accessible for those with internet access, the problem with online medical information is the rapid exchange and spread of information that may not be credible, which leads to further confusion. In addition, patients may misdiagnose their medical issue, request unnecessary tests or delay treatment.
“As a board-certified cardiac anesthesiologist, I understand that physicians have the knowledge needed to diagnose and treat medical conditions and online sources do not replace the 12-14 years of medical school and residency. But physicians can do more to address medical misinformation.”It is imperative that everyone, not just millennials, are extremely cautious of relying on unvetted online medical information. Misinformation is dangerous.
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- Luis Sanguino, MD
Dr. Shils is an expert in Neuromodulation, Microelectrode recording, and Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring techniques and applications.
“The incidence of chronic pain is significant,” said Dr. Asokumar Buvanendran the Anesthesiology Department Chair at Rush University Medical Center. “In fact, it is much more than hypertension and diabetes combined,” he added.
Rush is partnering with the National Institute of Health to identify where chronic pain originates and who is most susceptible to developing it.
They are using MRI scans of the brain to get their results.
“Traditionally, pain is reported by the patient, but we can actually see documented evidence now in the brain of the circuits that light up with chronic pain. So that’s a really exciting and new field that’s developed over the years,” said Dr. Buvanendran
Instead of prescribing opioids, doctors are now able to insert electrodes surgically into the spine to stop pain signals before they reach the brain and trigger discomfort. “So if you’re able to interrupt the signals in the process, you naturally can cut down the pain signals going to the brain, and therefore you decrease the pain perception,” said Dr. Buvanendran.
Going into surgery is nerve-racking for anyone, but it can be especially frightening for children. Rush University Children’s Hospital has a new tool that is helping Rush’s youngest patients better understand their surgery experience and take on an active role in their care — all while having fun.
Behnoosh Shayegan, MD, director of pediatric anesthesiology, first got the idea for a tool like this while completing her anesthesiology fellowship. She witnessed what a difficult and stressful time this could be for children and dreamed of creating something fun and interactive that could help ease the anxiety of patients going through the surgical process.
Dr. Shayegan teamed up with Shira Miller, MS, CCLS, manager of child life and creative arts therapies, and the two thought through every stage of a patients’ journey into surgery from the moment they walk through the doors to discharge. The treasure map has been a longtime vision of Shayegan’s.
“I wanted to create an interactive tool that puts the patients themselves in charge of their care,” Dr. Shayegan says. “When kids are involved in something that they’re usually scared of, they tend to react more positively.”
As patients make their way through the day of surgery and conquer each island on the treasure map, they get a sticker to mark the completion of another step. When the young explorers finally land at Recovery Island, aka the recovery room, they have reached the treasure and are able to collect a prize from a treasure box which includes small, age-appropriate toys.
Congratulations to Drs. Amin and Birmingham on their Promotion to Associate Professor
“I was the on-call chaplain on Thursday, 6/24/2021 evening, when Darren paged me to support the family of a patient on 10W who was being compassionately extubated. I witnessed how Darren supported the emotional needs of different members of the family while patiently answering medical questions and suggesting that they do not witness the extubation, while going out of his way to care for the family’s spiritual needs as well. I was able to feel how much care there was in the brief encounter for the grieving family’s wellbeing.
May you continue to be a source of both healing and inspiration to the entire Rush University Medical Center. You are an exemplary credit to your profession and a true Hero of the Heart.”
Congratulation to Dr. Vaskar Das on being awarded the American Society of Anesthesiologest (ASA) 2021 conference “Best of Abstracts: Basic Science” for his abstract ”Effect of Opioid and Ampa Antagonists on (2r,6r)-HNK (Hydroxynorketamine) Anti-hyperalgesic Activity” at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2021 Annual Meeting to be held in San Diego, California on Sunday, October 10th, 2021
A Holiday Thanks to the Pediatric Anesthesiology Team Congratulation to Dr. Vaskar Das on the 2020 Schweppe Foundation Grant and Armour pilot grants (Ketamine Metabolite, (2R, 6R) - Hydroxynorketamine as an Alternative Analgesic Target in Low Back Pain, Evaluation of Direct and Indirect Analgesic Efficacy in a Murine Low Back Pain Model), he was recently selected using an NIH-style peer-review panel comprised of Rush research faculty members. These grants will allow development of preliminary data to enable the investigators to be competitive for future federal or private funding. Thank you to the review panel members and congratulations to the awardees! Dr. Das is the principal investigator on this award grant in collaboration with Dr. Asokumar Buvanendran and Dr. Robert McCarthy (Department of Anesthesiology).
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Maiko Yamashita, CRNA has been selected as the winner of the Ellen Elpern Voice of the APRN award for 2020. This is the first time that a CRNA has been awarded this Rush system-wide recognition for excellence in practice, mentoring and leadership.
Congratulations Maiko on this outstanding achievement!!
For elective surgeries, hospitals are implementing new protocols to keep everyone safe.
“We do a screening out front before they come in. Check their temperatures. Check for any symptoms. We are testing all of our patients for COVID before they come in for surgery,” said Dr. Patel.
This week started with O’Connor manning a newly outfitted intensive care unit specially designed to treat COVID-19 patients. “A COVID patient who has viral pneumonia, they are a different animal completely,” says O’Connor, a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in Schaumburg. “They are more challenging to ventilate.”
Starting work in a new ICU, similar to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) used during wars with professionals spanning medical fields, resulted in O’Connor working with people for the first time. People had “some trepidation about what would happen, but we all came together. I was proud people came together very quickly as a team,” he says.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has issued statements on the complications of using one ventilator for multiple patients and converting anesthesia gas machines to ICU ventilators, and a list of resources for anesthesiologists and health care professionals.
Asokumar Buvanandran, MD, Recognized by HHS for Contributions to Acute and Chronic Pain
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), along with ASA Pain Committee Chair, Asokumar Buvanendran, M.D., were acknowledged by the Chief Medical Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for demonstrating early support of the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force and for providing input on best practice recommendations for acute and chronic pain. Congratulations to Dr. Buvanendran!
David M. Rothenberg, MD, FCCM, Receives the Distinguished Service Award for ” Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Anesthesiology in Illinois from the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists
Asokumar Buvanandran, MD, Appointed President of American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Originally founded in 1923, ASRA was reborn in 1975 and is the largest subspecialty medical society in Anesthesiology. With approximately 4,500 members, the society has rich international distribution and rising attendance at annual meetings and scientific presentations. Dr. Buvanendran’s ASRA presidency will last through April 2019 and include hosting the World Congress of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, an event not scheduled to occur in the United States for another 24 years and expected to attract more than 3,000 delegates.
North American Neuromodulation Society
January 12-15, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV
The following Rush resident presented:
Mateusz Graca, MD, Haley Wardrip, MD and Timothy Lubenow, MD: Cervical and High-Thoracic Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of the Upper Extremities
Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Meeting
November 17-19, 2022 | Orlando, FL
The following Rush resident presented:
Stephen Music, DO, Nathan Wick, DO and Tolga Suvar, MD: Cervical & High Thoracic Spinal Cord Stimulation to Treat Refractory Chronic Neck & Low Back Pain in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
American Society of Anesthesiologists
October 21-25, 2022 | New Orleans, LA
Thank you to all the Rush residents that presented:
Ali Bazzi, DO
Deepali Garg, MD
Sara Izzo, DO
Stephen Music, DO
Hosted by University of Missouri-Columbia, St. Louis University, Washington University-St. Louis, University of Iowa
Congratulations to our Anesthesiology residents who earned 8 awards!
Sara Boldt, DO and Margaret Griesemer, DO: Analgesic Effectiveness and Opioid Sparring Properties of the Erector Spinae Plane Block, Thoracic Epidural and IV Patient Controlled Analgesia Following Esophagectomy: A Retrospective Comparison *1st Place in Regional
Russell Igarashi, DO and Vaskar Das, PhD: Effect of opioid and AMPA Antagonists on (2R,6R)-HNK (Hydroxynorketamine) Anti-hyperalgesic Activity in a Murine Model of Low Back Pain *1st Place in Basic Science
Yeon Park, MD and Michael Holland, MD: The Association of Pain Catastrophizing with Labor Pain and Analgesic Use *1st Place in OB Anesthesia
Alex Sadauskas, MD and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD: Clinical characteristics and surgical factors associated with postoperative pain trajectories over the first 28 days following surgery. *3rd Place in Pain Medicine
Theodore Stewart-Hester, DO and Neal Mehta, MD: Novel approach to integrating erector spinae plane block catheters in multimodal anesthesia for scoliosis surgery *2nd Place in Regional Anesthesia
Varun Takanti, MD and Vaskar Das, PhD: Cartilage Specific Deletion of PKCδ in Osterix Increases Joint Pain in Mouse Osteoarthritis Model *3rd Place in Basic Science
Ellen Zhou, MD and Christopher O’Connor, MD: Perils of Lidocaine on Induction *3rd Place in Patient Safety
Congratulations to our Rush medical student who earned an award!
Sofia Armengol, MD and Edmund Mangahas, MD: Etomidate Infusion for the Management of Cushing’s Syndrome *1st Place in General Anesthesia
Congratulations to all our residents for their outstanding performance including:
Kimberly Allen, MD
John Baddour, DO
Arya Bekhradi, MD
Mark Blazel, DO
Bishir Clayton, MD
Shyam Desai, MD
Hemanth Garapati, MD
Mateusz Graca, MD
Daniel Hamburger, MD
Collin Hubler, MD
Theodore Jeske, DO
Andrew Keeney, DO
Jared Konner, DO
David Lee, DO
Michael McGinnis, MD
Stephen Music, DO
Ethan Parnass, MD
Jessica Richelieu, MD
Jayne Slocum, MD
Timothy Swiatkowski, MD
Aaran Varatharajan, MD
Nathan Wick, DO
Daniel Webster, MD
Yogesh Taheem, MD and Amod Sawardekar, MD: Institutional Experience with Regional Anesthesia in Pediatric Renal Transplantation with Comparison to No Regional Anesthesia: A Retrospective Review of 68 Patients
Tara Mojtahed, MD and Lisa Solomon, DO: Perioperative management of abdominal compartment syndrome
November 18-20, 2021 | San Francisco, CA
October 8-12, 2021 | San Diego, CA
Thank you to the following Rush residents that presented:
Mateusz Graca, MD
Sara Izzo, DO
Tara Mojtahed, MD
Michael Petravick, MD
Alexi Pollet, DO
Haley Wardrip, MD
Tony Zhang, MD
Midwest Anesthesia Regional Conference
April 16-18, 2021 | Virtual
Hosted by Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health
Congratulations to our Anesthesiology residents who earned 11 awards!
The following Rush residents presented:
Nkoli Akaolisa, MD and Alaeddin Tarhuni, MD: Biventricular Support in a Patient with COVID Associated Myocarditis *1st Place in Cardiovascular
Deepali Garg, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Sedation Compared to General Anesthesia During Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes in Subjects with Matched NIH Stroke Scores and Age at Presentation *3rd Place in Neuroanesthesia
Keena Kohl, MD and Vaskar Das, PhD: Effect of a-Amino-3-Hydroxy-5-Methyl-4-Isoxazolepropionic Acid Receptor (AMPA) Dependent Glutamate A1 and Glutamate A2 Activation on Hippocampal Pain Pathways Following Hind-paw Incision in Mice *1st Place in Pain Medicine
Michael McGinnis, MD and Vaskar Das, PhD: Time Course of Glial Cell Activation in a Murine Model of Osteoarthritis Pain *2nd Place in Basic Science
Yabtsega Moges, MD and Arvind Rajagopal, MD: Delirium in Elderly Patients Undergoing Outpatient Surgical Procedures: A Randomized Clinical Trial of an Avoid Delirium Protocol *1st Place Award in Ambulatory
Michael Petravick, MD and Shruti Bassi, MD: Endoscopic Resection of a Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma in a 14 Year Old Male with Multiple Bleeding Disorders and Recent SARS COV-2 *1st Place in Pediatrics
Michael Petravick, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Sudden Onset Rigidity, Apnea, Tachycardia, and Hypertension in a Patient Undergoing Awake Craniotomy for Anaplastic Astrocytoma *3rd Place in Neuroanesthesia
John Ward, MD and Vaskar Das, PhD: Effect of Opioid and AMPA Antagonists on (2R, 6R)-HNK (Hydroxynorketamine) Anti-hyperalgesic Activity *2nd Place in Pain Medicine
Nathan Wick, DO and Vaskar Das, PhD: Peripheral Adenosine Mono-phosphate Activated Kinsas Alpha as a Novel Analgesic Target for Chronic Low Back Pain *2nd Place Award in Pain Medicine
Nathan Wick, DO and Tolga Suvar, MD: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Fractured Intrathecal Catheter *3rd Place Award in Pain Medicine
Tony Zhang, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Intraoperative Bilateral Lower Extremity Paralysis During Surgical Correction of Progressive Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis *3rd Place in Neuroanesthesia
Congratulations to all our residents for their outstanding performance including:
Ali Bazzi, DO
Sara Boldt, DO
Shyam Desai, MD
Mateusz Graca, MD
Clinton Gunn, MD
Shakeem Iyamah, MD
Jared Konner, DO
Sandra Miskiewicz, DO
Norman LaCombe, MD
Tara Mojtahed, MD
Maxwell Muench, DO
Taylor Pierce, MD
Alexander Ryder, DO
Luis Sanguino, MD
Michael Sparks, MD
Timothy Swiatkowski, MD
Yogesh Taheem, MD
Haley Wardrip, MD
American Society of Anesthesiologists
October 19-23, 2019 | Orlando, Florida
Thank you to all the Rush residents that presented
The Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
51st Annual Meeting
May 1- 5, 2019 | Phoenix, Arizona
The following Rush residents presented:
John Gburek, MD and Laurie Mark, MD: Obstetrical Considerations and Management of Labor and Delivery of a G1P0 Woman with a History of Multiple Liver Transplants.
Anna Sobilo, MD and Michael Holland, MD: Cesarean Section in a Parturient with Congenital Cardiomyopathy, Complicated by Ventricular Bigeminy.
Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists 32nd Annual Meeting and Critical Care Update
May 17, 2019| Montreal, Quebec
Angella Koncarevic, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: The Role of Plasma Exchange in the Treatment of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease.
Jessica Kruse, MD and Laurie Mark, MD: A Difficult Airway in the ICU: Complicated by a Bronchoesophageal Fistula.
International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting and International Science Symposium
May 18-21, 2019 | Montreal, Quebec
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Thoracic Symposium
May 17, 2019 | Chicago, IL
Yeona Chun, MD and Arvind Rajagopal, MD: Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Staged Thoracic Outlet Decompression in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome.
Jordan Schell, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO: Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema.
Lida Shaygan, MD and Pete Pelletier, MD: Postoperative Serratus Anterior Plane Continuous Catheter as an Analgesic Rescue Technique, after a Failed Thoracic Epidural, for an Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy with Laparotomy and Right Sided Thoracotomy.
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 41st Annual Meeting
May 18-21, 2019 | Chicago, IL
Lawrence Kopsick, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO: The Anesthetic Considerations of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy Surgery in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome.
Jonathan Schirripa, MD and Brian Birmingham, MD: Transhepatic Access for Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device Complicated by Subcapsular Hematoma.
Avanthi Tudor, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, MD: Management of Ventricular Septal Defect Post Bacterial Endocarditis.
Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Meeting
April 11-13, 2019 | Las Vegas, NV
John Ha, DO, Arjun Ramesh, MD, Robert McCarthy, PhD, and Neil Mehta, MD: Factors Associated with Failed Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Nerve Block in Upper Extremity Surgery.
Inderbir Johal, MD: Total Knee Arthroplasty Solely Utilizing Peripheral Nerve Blockade and Sedation.
Alexandra Lelchuk, MD: Determination of Clinically Important Cut-off Values of Pain Catastrophizing for Predicting Increased Postoperative Pain Following Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Raj Patel, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Neuraxial Anesthesia for Below Knee Amputation in the Setting of Gangrene and Untreated 3-vessel Coronary Artery.
Arjun Ramesh, MD, Nathaniel Froikin, BS, Yabtsega Moges, MD, and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD: Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Improves Outcomes and Reduces Discharge Time in an Enhanced Recovery from Anesthesia and Surgery Protocol in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery.
Salman Sagarwala, MD and Aris Austin, MD: Erector Spinae Plane Catheter for Postoperative Analgesia in a Patient Undergoing Resection of Pancoast Tumor.
Hemanth Sirandas, MD and Neal Mehta, MD: Gastric Content Assessment Utilizing Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in a Patient with Questionable NPO Status.
Annual Midwest Anesthesia Regional Conference
April 12-14, 2019 | Detroit, MI
Hosted by Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health Systems, McLaren Greater Lansing, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University
Patrick Binetti, MD and Behnoosh Shayegan, MD: Airway Management of a Fetus with a Craniofacial Abnormality During Operation on Placental Support (OOPS) Procedure.
*2nd Place in Pediatrics
Yulong Chen, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: Dusky Blue Skin Discoloration after Isosulfan Blue Injection.
Yeona Chun, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: Perioperative Glucose Monitoring Utilizing an Implanted Monitoring System in a Pediatric Patient.
* 1st Place Award in Pediatrics
Yuriy Davydov, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO: Acute Hypotensive Transfusion Reaction.
Mardia Elfakhery, MD and Brian Birmingham, MD: Transhepatic Access for Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device Complicated by Subcapsular Hematoma.
Mukund Gande, MD and Nitesh Mody, DO: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Disseminated Histoplasmosis.
*1st Place Award in Critical Care
John Gburek, MD and Michael Holland, MD: Obstetrical Considerations and Management of Labor and Delivery of a G1P0 Woman with a History of Multiple Liver Transplants.
Salvin Jacob, MD and Jeffrey Kroin, PhD: The Ketamine Metabolite (2R, 6R)-HNK Reduces Allodynia in Neuropathic Pain Mice.
*2nd Place Winner - Association of Midwest Academic Anesthesia Chair Award for Basic Poster Presentations
Drew Jensen, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Airway Management in a Patient with Cervical Neck Trauma and Fresh Tracheostomy Requiring Lung Isolation for Right-sided VATS, Wedge Resection, and TALC Pleurodesis.
Lawrence Kopsick, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO: The Anesthetic Considerations of Video-assisted Thoracoscopy Surgery in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome.
Jessica Kruse, MD and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD: Tap Block Improves Outcomes and Reduces Discharge Time in an Enhanced Recovery from Anesthesia and Surgery Protocol in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery.
* 2nd Place in Regional
Ryan Kuta, DO and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO: Peripheral Nerve Blockade as the Primary Anesthetic for Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Norman LaCombe, MD and Jeffrey Kroin, Ph.D.: Early Treatment with Metformin Reduces Pain in a Mice Model of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).
*3rd Place Winner - Association of Midwest Academic Anesthesia Chair Award for Basic Poster Presentations
Nabila Malik, MD and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD: Factors Associated with Failed Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Nerve Block in Upper Extremity Surgery.
Shefali Mandhle, MD and Arvind Rajagopal, MD: Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Staged Thoracic Outlet Decompression in Paget-Schroetter Syndrome.
*3rd Place in Regional
Teuta Marsic, MD and Anna Dziamski, MD. Management of Intra-operative Anaphylaxis of Unknown Origin in a Female Undergoing Breast Reconstruction Surgery.
Teuta Marsic, MD and Neal Mehta, MD: Bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Continuous Catheter as analgesic Technique for Sternectomy with Chest Wall Chondrosarcoma Resection and Reconstruction.
*3rd Place in Regional
Pranusha Naidu, MD and Sandeep Amin, MD: Diagnosis of a Severed Intrathecal Pump Catheter using Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy.
Rodd Rezvani, MD and Jeffrey Kroin, PhD: Bone Biomarker Upregulation in a Tibia Fracture Model of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in Mice.
Rodd Rezvani, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: A Difficult Anatomical and Physiological Airway Outside the Operating Room.
Jordan Schell, MD and Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO. Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema.
* 3rd Place In Cardiovascular
Phillip Standen, DO and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Right-sided Paratracheal Mass: A Case of Progressive Dyspnea and Hypoxemia Refractory to Intubation.
*3rd Place in Airway
Mark Anthony Sy, MD and Arvind Rajagopal, MD: Perioperative Management of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Morgan Ulloa, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: Anesthetic Management of Pediatric Patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C for Intrathecal 2-Hydroxypropyl-β-Cyclodextrin Injection.
*1st place Honors
Morgan Ulloa, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Clinical Validation of StimpodTM Acceleromyography and Electromyography.
* 1st Place Honors
Keziah Vargas, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: Laryngospasm and Difficult Airway in a Foreign Body Aspiration Retrieval.
Zerghona Wadood, MD and Alisha Bhatia, MD: West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease.
*3rd Place in Critical Care
Jaclyn Yeung, DO and Laurie Mark, MD: A Case of Epiglottitis in an Immunocompromised Adult
*3rd Place in Airway
Rena Zheng, MD and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD: Determination of Clinically Important Cut-off Values of Pain Catastrophizing for Predicting Increased Postoperative Pain following Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Congratulations to all our residents for their outstanding performance including:
Kola Akinduro, MD
Sherry Bhowra, MD
Yulong Chen, MD
Yuriy Davydov, MD
Mardia Elfakhery, MD
John Gburek, MD
Drew Jensen, MD
Lawrence Kopsick, MD
Ryan Kuta, MD
Pranusha Naidu, MD
Rodd Rezvani, MD
Mark Sy, MD
Keziah Vargas, MD
Nabila Malik, MD
Rena Zheng, MD
Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology
March 15-17, 2019| Houston, TX
Jenny Chan, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: Skin Lesions and Airway Obstruction: Be Mindful of Mediastinal Masses.
Yeona Chun, MD and Alexander Froyshteter, MD: Perioperative glucose monitoring utilizing an implanted monitoring system in a pediatric patient.
Leili Khorassani, MD and Behnoosh Shayegan, MD: The Operation on Placental Support (OOPS) Procedure for Airway Management of a Fetus with a Craniofacial Abnormality.
Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology
December 7-11, 2018| New York, NY
Daryl Kerr, MD and Jesse H. Marymont, MD: Intraoperative Use of Impella Device for ON-PUMP Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.
Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Meeting
November 15-17, 2018| San Antonio, TX
Mitchell Bosman, MD and Sandeep Amin, MD: Use of Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation in Post- Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome after Failed Spinal Cord Stimulation.
Ryan Kuta, DO and Timothy Lubenow, MD: Neuromodulation in a Patient with Adult Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome.
Shefali Mandhle, MD and Timothy Lubenow, MD: The Use of Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation for Back Pain Secondary to Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.
Raj Patel, MD and Timothy Lubenow, MD: Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation in the Treatment of Chronic Osteoarthritis Knee Pain.
Salman Sagarwala, MD and Timothy Lubenow, MD: DRG Stimulation in a Patient with CRPS Following Back Surgery.
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
Robert J. McCarthy, PharmD
Jeffrey S. Kroin, PhD
Mario Moric, MS
Vaskar Das, PhD
10 Resident Case Reports presented by:
Jenny Chan, DO
Salman Sargawala, MD
Hemanth Sirandas, MD
Alan F. Molina, MD
Lida Shaygan, DO
Faculty Mentors:
Arvind Rajagopal, MD
Kristine Pearson-Chauhan, DO
Behnoosh Shayegan, MD
Anna Sobilo, MD
Phillip Standen, DO
Hung Tran, MD
Jaclyn Yeung, DO
Avanthi Tudor, MD
Laurie Mark, MD
Neal Mehta, MD
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
Congratulations to Vaskar Das, Ph.D. who received the top award in the Young Investigator Basic Science ( Cancer and Chronic Pain Category) for his study: Degenerative Disc Pain in Mouse Model.
Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference
Rush Surgical Society Awards
Bryce Austell, MD and Asokumar Buvanendran, MD. Drugs Prescribed at Hospital after Surgery for Pain Control
* Finalist
Resident Scores in Top 10% on ABA Basic National Exam
Congratulations to Dr. Salman Sagarwala, who scored in the top 10% on the ABA Basic National Exam. We are proud of his achievement!
Irshad Siddiqui CNIM, will give a presentation at the Illinois Society of Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists Meeting
Anna Dziamski, MD wins Katalin Selmeczi, MD & Curt J. Stokes, MD Memorial Award
Kathleen L. Than, DO wins Robert D. Dripps, MD Memorial Award