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3DiTeams Teamwork and Communication/Handovers Project Funded

Dr. Jeff Taekman was awarded unrestricted medical education grants totaling $750,000 from Pfizer and Abbott to support a project focused on improving clinical handovers. A broad range of departmental, institutional, and extramural collaborators will work together to improve healthcare professional competence and performance. The simulation-based initiative features a multi-modal educational strategy (including the use of virtual environments as well as in-situ observation / coaching). Key

collaborators include Ryan Fink, Noa Segall, Jonathan Mark, and David Turner (Pediatric Critical Care).

New Departmental Research PublicationRoberson RS, Bennett-Guerrero E. Impact of red blood cell transfusion on global and regional measures of oxygenation. Mt Sinai J Med. 2012 Jan;79(1):66-74.

Duke Delirium Research Group MeetingMonday, January 23, 2012Room 6686 HAFS Building at 5pm

Topics of discussion include: • Beginning of a prospective study to establish an association between

pre-existing sleep apnea and postoperative delirium (Madan Kwatra and Andrew Krystal)

• Anticholinergic activity of propofol (Kristine Brown)• Delirium in SICU (Jacob Nadler)

All are invited to attend. For more information, contact Madan Kwatra, [email protected].

SAVE THE DATE: Quarterly Triangle TEE ConferenceYou are cordially invited to the next Quarterly Triangle TEE Conference. The lectures will be given by UNC Anesthesiology Fellows, Dr. Emily Graham and Dr. Harrison Kibe on the topic of “Atrial Myxomas”. The dinner conference will be held from 6:30 – 9:00 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at Bocci’s Italian Trattoria. Space is limited, so please register at your earliest convenience. The cost of the dinner for faculty is $30/person; fellows are residents may attend free of charge.

Contact Jaime Cooke at 681-6532 for more information an to register.

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Dream Campaign Fiscal Year 2012 GoalThe DREAM Innovation Grant (DIG) supports innova-tive high-risk, and potentially high-reward investiga-tions to accelerate anesthesia and pain management research. Our goal is to raise $90,000, which will allow us to fund three $30K DIG recipients in 2013. The win-ners of this grant will be announced in October 2012. Total raised to date: $44,016.00.

To make a gift, please visit: http://blueprint.duhs.duke.edu/

2012 State of the School AddressSave the date for Tuesday, February 14, from 4:30-5:30 p.m., for the 2012 State of the School talk. The talk will take place at the Searle Center and, as was the case last year, a simple reception will follow. Please join Nancy Andrews, MD as she shares her thoughts and perspectives on how the School’s successes are preparing us for the challenges forecast ahead, and the evolving state of academic medicine.

2012 IQ Meeting: Call for Abstracts2012 Integrating Quality Meeting: Collaborating for CareA professional development conference for clinical leaders, faculty, train-ees and students advancing quality and patient safety efforts in care de-livery and health professions education. June 7-8, 2012Intercontinental Chicago O’Hare HotelRosemont, IL The fourth annual AAMC Integrating Quality Meeting has been planned in partnership with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the Ameri-can Dental Education Association (ADEA), the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), and the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA). This unique program will focus on strategies for implementing interprofessional and integrative approaches to quality improvement and patient safety across the continuum of health professions education and clinical care in academic health centers. Abstracts for poster presentations, interactive workshops, and a small number of panel presentations are sought in the following areas: • Integrating the Academic and Clinical Quality Missions• Team-Based Interprofessional Approaches to Quality Improvement• Student and Trainee Initiatives in Quality Improvement and Patient

Safety

NewsTuesday, January 17, 2012 • Volume 14, Issue 3

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January 2012MoNDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY16 17 18 19 20

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 5-6 p.m., 5685-HAFSCT Conference: “Obstructive Sleep Apnea” - Dr. Richard Moon

5-6 p.m., 2001DNCA-1 Resident Lectures: “In-tracranial Pressure & Cerebral Protection” - Jeremy Dority, MD

5-6 p.m., 6686-HAFSGVTCCM ConferenceCANCELLED

IRB Deadline

7:00 a.m., 2001DNGrand Rounds: “An Epic Cross-road: Will the Commercial EHR Enhance or Reduce the Value of Health Care Delivery in the United States? - Thomas Hopkins, MD

4:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSAdvanced Resident Lecture: “Anesthesia for Carotid Surgery” - Catherine Kuhn, MD

7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-PainClinicMRC Pain Journal Club

12-1 p.m., 2003DNCritical Care Grand Rounds: “TBA” - Dr. Brian Ginsberg

4-5 p.m., 5680A-HAFSPediatric Conference: “Normal Perinatal Cardiac Physiology” - Dr. Brian Barrett

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7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-Pain ClinicMRC Pain Conference

2:30-3:30 p.m., VAMCVA EchocardiographyConference

5-6:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSExecutive Team Meeting

5-6 p.m., 5685-HAFSCT Conference

5-6 p.m., 2001DNCA-1 Resident Lectures: “Prin-ciples of Neuromonitoring” - Luke James, MD

5-6 p.m., 6686-HAFSGVTCCM Conference: “OSA (Ob-structive Sleep Apnea), Diagno-sis, Pathophysiology, Periopera-tive Considerations” - Jeff McKenzie, MD

IRB Deadline

22nd Annual Merel H. Harmel lecture7:00 a.m., 2002DNGrand Rounds: “On Being a Scientist for 60 Years” - Oliver Smithies, DPhil

4:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSAdvanced Resident Lecture: “Brain Monitoring with BIS During Cardiac Surgery” - Miklos Kertai, MD

7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-PainClinicMRC Pain Journal Club

12-1 p.m., 2003DNCritical Care Grand Rounds

4-5 p.m., 5680A-HAFSPediatric Conference

5-6 p.m., 7683-HAFSResident Education Session: M&M: “Medication Error” - Dr. Ashraf Habib

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7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-Pain ClinicMRC Pain Conference

2:30-3:30 p.m., VAMCVA EchocardiographyConference

5-6 p.m., 5685-HAFSCT Conference

5-6 p.m., 2001DNCA-1 Resident Lectures: “Physiol-ogy of Pain” - Brian Ginsberg, MB

5-6 p.m., 6686-HAFSGVTCCM Conference: ““ECHO” - Alina Nicoara, MD

IRB Deadline

7:00 a.m., 2001DNGrand Rounds

4:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSAdvanced Resident Lecture

7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-PainClinicMRC Pain Journal Club

12-1 p.m., 2003DNCritical Care Grand Rounds

4-5 p.m., 5680A-HAFSPediatric Conference

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7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-Pain ClinicMRC Pain Conference

2:30-3:30 p.m., VAMCVA EchocardiographyConference

5-6 p.m., 5685-HAFSFaculty Meeting

6-7:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSExecutive Team Meeting

5-6 p.m., 5685-HAFSCT Conference

5-6 p.m., 2001DNCA-1 Resident Lectures

5-6 p.m., 6686-HAFSGVTCCM Conference

IRB Deadline

7:00 a.m., 2001DNGrand Rounds

4:30 p.m., 5685-HAFSAdvanced Resident Lecture

7:15-8:00 a.m., RM203-PainClinicMRC Pain Journal Club

12-1 p.m., 2003DNCritical Care Grand Rounds

4-5 p.m., 5680A-HAFSPediatric Conference

5-6 p.m., 7683-HAFSResident Education Session: “Journal Club” - Dr. Andrew Peery

Upcoming:2012 Office Professional Day: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | 11:30am - 1pm | 5685-HAFSDuke Anesthesiology 40th Anniversary Gala: June 1-3, 2012 | Washington Duke Inn, Durham, NC2012 Academic Evening: Friday, June 1, 2012 | Washington Duke Inn, Durham, NC2012 Duke Anesthesiology Alumni Reception: Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Washington, DC2012 ASA: October 13-17, 2012 | Washington, DC

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Anesthesia Benefit for

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Please join us Saturday January 28, 2012 at 7:00 pm for an evening of

delicious food, specialty drinks and wonderful items for auction (both live and

silent) to benefit Duke CRNAs Global Health Mission.

$40.00 per person

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Upcoming CME Activities

6th Annual Winter Anesthesia and Critical Care ReviewMarch 4-9, 2012 | Canyons Resort | Park City, UTFor more information, email Katherine Siler: [email protected].

5th Annual Emerging Technologies in the oR and Great Fluid DebateJune 11-15, 2012 | Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa lake Buena Vista, FlFor more information, email Katherine Siler: [email protected].

15th Annual Cardiothoracic Update and TEE Board ReviewJuly 5-8, 2012 | The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort and Spa Hilton Head Island, SCFor more information, contact Jaime C. Cooke: [email protected].

Preceptorships

Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia Preceptorship Course2011 Dates Available | Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NCFor more information, email Katherine Siler: [email protected] in the Duke Preceptorship will spend three days in the regional block area, operating rooms and on the floor with post surgery patients observing ultra-sound guided single shot nerve blocks and catheter techniques in a wide variety of clinical scenarios.

Visiting Preceptorship in Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography2011-2012 Dates Available | Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NCFor more information, email Jaime C. Cooke: [email protected] in the Duke Intraoperative TEE Preceptorship spend one three-day session in the cardiac operating suites, observing techniques of intraoperative TEE and interpretation of images.

For more information and to register, visit http://anesthesiology.duke.edu

Anesthesiology on Facebook and TwitterDo you have exciting news or information pertinent to the academic community that you want to share through the department’s social media sites? The department has facebook and twitter accounts for Duke

Anesthesiology, Duke Anesthesiology Alumni, and the DREAM Campaign. Send your announcements to Lauren Marcilliat ([email protected]) to be posed on the department’s social media sites. Remember to keep announcements to 140 characters in length so that they are twitter compatible (about the size of this sentence). Including a link to another online source for more information is highly recommended.

Stork Deliveries!Congratulations to Brian & Danielle Ohlen-dorf, proud parents of a beautiful a baby boy born on December 13th! Mason Patrick Ohlendorf, 8 lbs 9 oz, 21 inches long.

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Controls on Steering Wheel, Automatic Headlights, Driver and Passenger Airbag, Trip/Mileage Computer, Keyless Entry. The seller will not provide financing. Asking $16,500. For more information please contact Lauren Marcilliat at 919-450-8743.

• Faculty Development and Scholarly Careers in Quality and Perfor-mance Improvement

The deadline for submitting an abstract is Wednesday, February 1.For additional information and to submit a proposal, visit http://www.aamc.org/meetings.

Comings and GoingsPlease welcome Dr. Richard Daniel Runkle III to the department. Dr. Runkle is a new Assistant Professor working with the Regional Anesthesia, PLLC group. He started on January 2, 2012.

We welcome Amanda Cline to the department. Amanda is a new Anesthesia Technician who started with us on January 3, 2012.

Please welcome Ijeoma Anen, Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care to the department. Ijeoma started on January 16, 2012.

Leaving the department soon? Let’s keep in touch! Please contact Lauren Marcilliat at [email protected] with your new mailing and email address prior to your departure so that we can add you to our database!

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