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2012 California Anesthesia Medical Student Symposium
"Discovering Anesthesia Subspecialties"
Saturday, September 22, 2012
This was an exciting opportunity for medical students to experience the interdisciplinary nature of the field of anesthesiology with a variety of lectures and hands-on workshops by prominent California anesthesiologists, and the opportunity to network with California residency programs. The symposium was a great success with 77 participating medical students, representing 26 medical schools in 15 states.
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UCI Approved as a MOCA Simulation Site
Under the leadership of the our department, the UCI Medical Education Simulation Center was approved as a MOCA Simulation Site for board certified Anesthesiologists seeking to maintain their certification. The center was endorsed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Simulation Education Network (SEN) as meeting the standards to provide high-quality simulation for the PART IV of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) MOCA® (Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesia). We are the 2nd center in Southern California out of 5 other centers to be given this prestigious status. The center is the first of all the University of California centers to receive CME approval for this activity as well. The simulation course is an immersive session that the ABA recognizes to provide practice performance and improvement for MOCA. The first course date will be announced soon.
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H.O.P.E Initiative Brings Changes to Perioperative Environment
H.O.P.E., Healing Optimization in the Perioperative Environment, is launched! Multidisciplinary in nature, our anesthesiologists are working with nursing, other medical specialties, facilities, psychology and hospital administration, to make our patients’ surgical experience less traumatic and lead to better healing. H.O.P.E. is anticipated to increase a patient's overall satisfaction, and improve perioperative staff satisfaction.
Department News
Annual list of OC’s most impressive young entrepreneurs, executives and professionals. Shah’s extensive training to become the only specialist in Southern California with her unique credential to treat chronic pain in children began at New York’s Cornell University...
Maxime Cannesson, MD and Shermeen Vakharia, MD received fellowships from the University of California’s Center for Health Quality and Innovation to support projects designed to improve the quality and value of care delivered by UC Health...
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD has been appointed as the new Section Editor for Technology, Computing, and Monitoring for the Journal Anesthesia & Analgesia. In this role, Dr. Cannesson will be responsible for all manuscripts related to Technology, Computing...
A daily dose of exercise is good for both mind and body, but how much is enough? To find out, researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) examined more than 50 adults between the ages 50 to 85, half of whom had memory deficits and...
The VBP Program, as required by the Affordable Care Act, is the beginning of an historic change in how Medicare pays health care providers and facilities. For the first time, hospitals across the country will be paid for...
The Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research from ACS provides support for mentored research to junior faculty in order to develop into independent investigators in cancer control and prevention...
On September 29th, the department hosted this conference that was held at the main campus of UC Irvine. The conference opened with UCI...
John Michels has been recruited as a Fellow in Pain Medicine, in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, for the 2013-2014 academic year...
Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care’s Fellowship Training Program in Pain Medicine received a 4-year accreditation from the ACGME, exceeding the national average. This is a remarkable achievement for a program that was...
We are delighted with appointment of Dr. Danielle Perret from the Departement of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care as the new Assistant Dean for Resident Affairs....
The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care recently received notification that two of our Faculty have received FAER grants! FAER- Foundation of Anesthesia, Education and Research is...
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