Department of Anesthesiology Archives
VUMC Department of Anesthesiology impacts the 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting
Nov. 14, 2023—Members of Vanderbilt's Department of Anesthesiology impacted the sights and sounds of the latest advances in anesthesiology during the recent 2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting in San Fransisco.
Multidisciplinary care crucial in guiding Vanderbilt employee’s bile duct cancer journey
Oct. 10, 2023—Blane Hollingsworth became the first patient at Vanderbilt to undergo a liver transplant under the protocol for cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer.
Four named Master Innovators at Vanderbilt
Sep. 15, 2023—Richard Caprioli, C. David Weaver, Susan Eagle, and Franz Baudenbacher as Master Innovators at Vanderbilt.
Predicting postop opioid use
Aug. 24, 2023—VUMC study finds that preoperative patient characteristics can predict daily opioid use at six months after surgery, suggesting opportunities for development of electronic risk-stratification algorithms.
Grant aids drug discovery for autism, schizophrenia
Aug. 17, 2023—Federal grant to help Vanderbilt researchers will pave the way for potential treatments for schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder
Ed Sherwood to receive 2023 FAER Mentoring Excellence in Research Award
Aug. 9, 2023—Vanderbilt's Ed Sherwood, MD, PhD, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Foundation of Anesthesiology Mentoring Excellence in Research Award.
Osterman, Wanderer named associate chief medical information officers
Aug. 3, 2023—Travis Osterman, DO, MS, and Jonathan Wanderer, MD, MPhil, have been named associate chief medical information officers in HealthIT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Academy for Excellence in Education elects 13 new members
Jul. 17, 2023—Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Academy for Excellence in Education has elected 13 new members for 2023.
Thomas Long named executive vice chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt
Jul. 5, 2023—Following a national search, Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology has named Thomas Long, MD, to the role of executive vice chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Team refines protocol for emergency surgical event
Jun. 15, 2023—A multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt recently collaborated on a live simulation to develop a new protocol for a rare but high-stakes cardiothoracic event — when a team has to perform a re-sternotomy at a patient’s bedside as a life-saving measure.
Four named to academic health leadership program
Jun. 1, 2023—Four Vanderbilt faculty members have been selected to participate in the highly competitive Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program.
Treating kidney injury before it happens
May. 23, 2023—Pretreatment of an animal model with a novel compound called PHAD reduced kidney injury, suggesting it may be a good candidate for preventing kidney injury in surgical patients.
