Department Announcements
April 20, 2009
Bravo to all of the residents and fellows who presented at the MARC on April 18. Out of 38 presentations, NU won 9 awards, the most of any program. Click here to see all of the abstracts presented.
April 20, 2009
Honorio Benzon, MD, and Robert McCarthy, PharmD, were appointed to the Associate Editorial Board of Analgesia & Anesthesia and Michael Avram, PhD was appointed to the Editorial Board of Anesthesiology.
March 19, 2009
The Match was a huge success! Northwestern matched top-notch applicants from across the country, including four AOA students. Click here for the full list.
March 12, 2009
Paloma Toledo, MD, receives $59,000 Evergreen Grant from Northwestern Memorial Foundation.
March 1, 2009
Welcome new faculty member Obianjua Okocha, MD, who trained at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
December 1, 2008
Welcome new Associate Professor Ljuba Stojiljkovic, MD, who was the Residency Program Director at Cook County Hospital.
November 21, 2008
Dr. Jim Eckenhoff, son of first Department Chair, James E. Eckenhoff, creates $3000 annual research award for residents and fellows.
November 20, 2008
Congratulations to Laura Hemmer, MD, recipient of the 2008 Goldberg Family Charitable Trust Travel Award in the amount of $1000.
November 17, 2008
The Foundation for Anesthesia Education Research (FAER) awarded Santhanam Suresh, MD, a $100,000 grant to support a project entitled "Regional Anesthesia Education in Infants: A Novel Computer-based Visual Learning Techniques to Improve Confidence and Performance in Anesthesia Residents"
October 10, 2008
The CA-3 resident class' average score on the ABA/ASA In-Training Examination was in the 75th Percentile.
September 24, 2008
Click here to view NU Faculty's contribution to the 2008 ASA Meeting
September 10, 2008
Ten new faculty have joined the Department since July. Welcome Drs. Henri Acosta, who trained at U. of Colorado, Luke Theilken at Mass Gen and U. of Chicago, Rena Beckerly and Daniel Fagin at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Kenyon Duncan at SUNY Downstate- Brooklyn, and Rohit Rahangdale at George Washington U. along with Drs. Anjali Panjwani, John Bebawy, Christian Altman, and Kinjal Patel who all trained at Northwestern U.
August 5, 2008
Antoun Koht, MD, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of American Neurophysiological Monitoring for a four-year term.
July 15, 2008
Drs. Avram and Gupta have published an article titled "Anesthesia: A Discipline that Incorporates Clinical Pharmacology across the DDRU Continuum" in the July issue of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Click here to read the article.
March 21, 2008
The Match was a huge success! Northwestern matched top-notch applicants from across the country. Click here for the full list.
February 15, 2008
27 residents, nearly half of the resident body and 3 fellows will present an abstract at the 2008 Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC).
January 2, 2008
Welcome new faculty member Mark Burno, MD, who joins us from John Hopkins University, where he did his residency training.
November 8, 2007
Several CA-3 residents will continue their training at Northwestern/McGaw as fellows in July 2008, including Christopher Cambic, MD (OB), Laura Hemmer, MD (Neuro), Doug Taylor, MD and Amish Patel, MD (Pain), Alan Bielsky, MD, Robbin Hsiung, MD, Rachel Spitznagel, MD, and Anna Isyanov, MD (Peds), Andrew Baudo, MD (CT), and Lauren Rochlen, MD (CCM).
October 6, 2007
Congratulations to fellows Paloma Toledo, MD, and John Bebawy, MD, for winning a Goldberg Travel Award.
June 28, 2007
Congratulations to Julia Sapozhnik, MD, the newly-elected President for the Resident Section of the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA).
March 18, 2007
Northwestern University continues to match excellent medical students from across the country. Click here for Match List.
November 6, 2006
Through the State of Illinois' Excellence in Academic Medicine Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital awarded $214,000 to Dr. Christine Park and $150,000 to Dr. Robert Gould for their simulation training projects.
October 12, 2006
The Department is pleased to announce the creation of two new fellowships: Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, which will be directed by Saadia Sherwani, MD, and Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, which will be directed by Antoun Koht, MD. Information about these fellowships will soon be posted to the website.
September 25, 2006
The recent graduating class' average score on the ASA In-Training Exam was in the top quartile nationally!
August 3, 2006
A BIG welcome to the five new anesthesiologists who recently joined the Department: James Boone, MD, R. Michael Boyer, MD, Edward Fohrman, MD, Dhanesh Gupta, MD, and Wayne Soong, MD.
July 3, 2006
Congratulations to the recent resident and fellow graduates. Click hereto see their post-graduate careers.
May 22, 2006
The Resident Jeopardy Team of Drs. Tamim Wafa, Naveen Nathan, and Andrew Baudo at the Midwest Anesthesia Conference impressively advanced through all three rounds of the four-hour tournament to finish third place overall. They finished ahead of Illinois Masonic, University of Chicago, Rush, University of Michigan, UIC, Ohio State, Metro Health Medical Center, Wayne State, and Thomas Jefferson University. The only teams to finish ahead of them were Loyola and Baylor. All three members should be congratulated for representing Northwestern so well.
May 16, 2006
Congratulations to Alan Bielsky, MD, CA-1 resident, who has been appointed Chairman Elect to the Resident Section of SAMBA. Dr. Bielsky's responsibilities include promoting the society to residents and arranging events for SAMBA meetings.
April 10, 2006
Due to the RRC's highly favorable review of the residency program, ACGME has approved an increase in resident complement. The department will, in turn, be able to provide more residents with an excellent educational experience in the growing Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
April 5, 2006
Congratulations to CA-2 resident, Amit Darnule, MD, who will participate in Operation Walk with Ling Qun Hu, MD. Drs. Darnule and Hu will provide much-needed hip and knee replacements to impoverished citizens of ChengDu, China this fall.
March 27, 2006
The outcome of the Match was a great success! The Residency Program matched 18 excellent medical students. Click here for the complete list.
March 20, 2006
Congratulations to CA-2 resident Dr. Trevor Gibb for winning 1st Place in the Monitoring category at the 2006 Midwestern Anesthesiology Residents Conference. Also, researcher Dr. Mark Kendall won 1st Place in the Regional category.
February 14, 2006
W. Chris Croley, MD, and Viva Siddall, MS, received award for "Advanced Clinical Care Pedagogics Facilitating Teaching with Simulation Learning" at the American College of Chest Physicians CHEST 2005 meeting in Montreal, Canada.
February 1, 2006
Raymond Glassenberg, MD, awarded Best Poster for his "Virtual Epidural" poster presentation at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference (MMVR14) in Long Beach, CA.
November 6, 2005
Honorio T. Benzon, MD, named one of five "Chicago's Top Doctors" for Pain Medicine in the January 2006 edition of Chicago Magazine
November 1, 2005
Dr. Honorio Benzon has been elected President of the American Association of Pain Directors (AAPD) for the period of 2005-2007. The AAPD is comprised of the Directors of all Pain Medicine fellowship programs in the country.
October 28, 2005
The Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education awarded the Department of Anesthesiology's Residency Program and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at Northwestern University its five-year accreditation, the best accreditation a program can receive.
October 26, 2005
Congratulations to Paloma Toledo, MD, who was selected as President-Elect for the ASA Resident Section.The current president and the president-elect reside over the governing council of the resident component. They are the liason between the ASA and the resident component and thus attend the ASA board of directors meetings. Paloma's duties will also include encouraging resident participation in the ASA; developing experience among young physician leaders; and improving resident awareness of the ASA's role in the evolution of the specialty of anesthesiology.
October 5, 2005
The Department welcomed three new faculty members in September:
Sherif Afifi, MD, FCCP, FCCM
Christine Park, MD
Khalid Malik, MD
October 03, 2005
At the American Medical Association meeting in June, Dr. Kataria, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, received the AMA Foundation’s Leadership Award, which provides special training to recipients to develop skills as future leaders in organized medicine. In addition, she was elected alternate delegate to the governing council of the AMA Young Physicians Section.
September 2, 2005
The Department welcomed one new faculty member in August: Dina Kogan, MD
August 26, 2005
Founders’ Day Features M. Christine Stock, MD, FCCP, FCCM. The Feinberg School of Medicine celebrated the official opening of its academic year with the Founders’ Day Convocation. The ceremony began with Dr. Stock’s presentation on “Whatsoever Things are True.”
August 2, 2005
The Department welcomed one new faculty member in July: Pratibha Rastogi, MD
June 28, 2005
The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) awarded Naveen Nathan, MD, with a $1000 FAER/Abbott Laboratories Resident Scholarship to attend the 2005 American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2005
The Feinberg School of Medicine honored Theodore Eisenman for 25 years of service during a reception at the Wyndham Chicago Hotel.
May 15, 2005
Congratulations to Drs. Nicole Higgins, Tamim Wafa, and Benjamin Newell for receiving three out of the five available SAMBA Travel Awards to attend the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia annual meeting. Each award is worth $1000. In addition, all three residents received a SAMBA White Mountain Institute Award ranging from $200-500.
February 17, 2005
Contrary to previous research, spinal-epidural analgesia given early in labor (cervical dilation of less than four centimeters) does not increase rates of Cesarean section, according to Cynthia A. Wong, MD, and her colleagues. This landmark study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.
MSNBC Article - .pdf
NEJM Article - .pdf
NYT Article - .pdf
November 23, 2004
According to a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, lead investigator A. Vania Apkarian, PhDand his Feinberg School of Medicine colleagues report that chronic back pain shrinks the brain by up to 11 percent- equivalent to the amount of gray matter lost in 10-20 years of aging.