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Ramanjot Kang, MD

    We were prevented from having our usual in-person Graduation Celebration this year, but the CA-3 residents all graduated! As is often this case these days, Zoom gave us a chance to celebrate virtually together! It was, by far, the largest Zoom gathering I'd been a part of. You could even hear the roar of the crowd when each graduate was introduced! If you missed the event, you can view the on YouTube, thanks to Matthew Wang. And the traditional is also available for your viewing pleasure.

    Here are the graduates and the next career steps they are taking.

• Ehab Al Bizri - Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship, Yale University
• William Leif Ericksen - Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship, NYU
• Manuel Lee - Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship, Johns Hopkins
• Melia McManus - Pain Management Fellowship, University of Toledo
• Charles Mouch - Pain Medicine Fellowship, Weill Cornell
• Carlos Sanchez - Private Practice, Mid-Atlantic Anesthesia Associates (Camden, NJ)
• Richard Tenure - Critical Care Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania; Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Ramak (Vicky) Vojdani - Private Practice
• Adam Watcher - Private Practice, Long Island Anesthesia Physicians (Long Island, NY)
• Grace Yau - Private Practice (Queens, NY)
• Chamamdeep Brar - Private Practice office-based general anesthesia, Texas
• Bryce Farr - Private Practice office-based general anesthesia, Tennessee
• Jae Grymes - Private Practice office-based general anesthesia, Delaware
• Julie Mercado - Private Practice office-based general anesthesia, Texas

  Dr. Josiah Miles will do a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center

  Dr. Adam Taft will do a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesiology at Maine Medical Center

  Dr. Richard Tenure will do a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital

  Dr. Usama Siddique will do a fellowship in Regional Anesthesia at Mt Sinai West

        

James P. Dilger, PhD

    Welcome to Robert Paul Moore, MD our new Division Chief for Pediatric Anesthesiology. Dr. Moore received his MD from Washington University, St Louis and also did an internship in Internal Medicine there. He then moved to Columbia University where he did his Anesthesiology Residency training and a Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology. In 2009, he returned to Wash U for 1 year as an Instructor, 8 years as Assistant Professor and, in 2019, Associate Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology. In 2015, Dr. Moore was appointed Anesthesiologist-in-Chief for the Shriners Hospital for Children in Saint Louis where he supervised the practice that performed 1200 anesthetics annually.

    Dr. Moore was a member of the Pediatric Difficult Airway Team and the Fetal Anesthesia Group in St. Louis. He has written case reports on the use of continuous erector spinae plane blockade for analgesia during surgery in neonates and other pediatric patients. His article "Peri-operative pain management in children with cerebral palsy: comparative efficacy of epidural vs systemic analgesia protocols" published in Pediatric Anesthesia in 2013, has been cited over 20 times. His textbook chapters include "The Neonatal Brain and Opioids".

    At Wash U, Dr. Moore was recognized for his teaching expertise. In 2018, he was the first unanimously elected winner of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Faculty of the Year teaching award. He was the co-director of the simulation based physiology electives for first year medical students, an instructor in the third year medical student airway management course, and a MOCA instructor.

   We are delighted to have Dr. Moore join our faculty at Stony Brook! Welcome!

James P. Dilger, PhD

   Dr. Michelino Puopolo has been promoted to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology with Tenure, effective April 1, 2020. Michelino received his PhD in Neurophysiology from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He came to the US to do a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard University, working with Dr. Bruce Bean on local anesthetic block of TRPV1 channels. He joined Stony Brook Anesthesiology in 2011 to pursue his research interests in dopamine signaling, spinal cord physiology and nociception.

   Dr. Puopolo's current research concerns spinal cord injury. He has a $500k grant from the Department of Defense entitled "SCI-Induced Hyperexcitability of Nociceptors and Development of Chronic Neuropathic Pain" and a $360k grant from New York State for his proposal "Targeting CaV3.2 calcium channel to treat chronic neuropathic pain following Spinal Cord Injury". In addition, he contributes as a co-PI on several of Dr. Martin Kaczocha’s grants. Michelino publishes in top tier journals such as the Journal of Neuroscience, the Journal of Physiology, Molecular Pain and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

   Michelino is an excellent teacher. His research presentations are always clear and well- constructed. He participates in the Graduate Programs of Neuroscience and Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology. He teaches medical students and dental students in addition to graduate and undergraduate students. His Grand Rounds presentation in August 2019 to our department was well received. He has taken on numerous mentoring roles while at Stony Brook and has supervised three PhD students.

   On a personal note, I have had the pleasure of working with Michelino since his arrival at Stony Brook. Because of our shared interests, so we often consult about specific methods to use for experiments and about conceptual aspects of research. For several years, he has been my co-conspirator on the CSI-Stony Brook program we present at the SARAS program. Also, Michelino is the only person I know who has a publication with "zeptomole" in the title! Yes, I had to look it up to be sure, but zepto is the prefix for 10^‑21, so a zeptomole corresponds to 602 molecules of a substance (dopamine, in his case)!

   Congratulations, my friend, on your well-deserved promotion!

Tong J (TJ) Gan, MD, MBA, MHS, FRCA

   It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Dr. Ana Costa as the Assistant Residency Program Director for Resident Education in the Department of Anesthesiology.

   Since joining our department in 2013, Dr. Costa has been actively involved in resident education. She teaches many of our resident academic sessions throughout the year and serves as the resident education leader for the Urology and Gynecology Anesthesiology Division. In this leadership role, Dr. Costa has done a fantastic job creating and implementing the resident curriculum for the Urology and Gynecology Anesthesiology resident rotation. Dr. Costa also serves as the Director of the Anesthesiology Grand Rounds Advisory Council. She guides residents through the process of creating and delivering a grand rounds presentation and personally oversees the creation of each grand rounds presentation from start to finish. Dr. Costa has also contributed to anesthesia education on a national level via Anesthesia Toolbox, a peer-reviewed, web-based educational resource for anesthesiology residents.

   In 2017, Dr. Costa was accepted to be a member of the Academy of Clinical and Educational Scholars (ACES) Program at Stony Brook University Medical Center. The mission of the ACES Program is to develop and promote expertise in medical teaching, educational scholarship and leadership among teaching faculty. Membership in the ACES Program signifies outstanding contributions to the educational mission of our medical community. Members are selected through a competitive application process​ based on their accomplishments in medical education. ACES members are viewed by faculty and students as local leaders in medical education. Those accepted into the ACES program receive one-on-one mentorship from a senior ACES member to carry out a medical education scholarly project. Dr. Costa’s ACES project involved using data analytics to provide residents feedback on their practice habits. This project has created the groundwork for further research on the impact of using data analytics to provide feedback and help improve clinical practice outcomes of our residents’ patients.

   In her new role as Assistant Residency Program Director for Resident Education, Dr. Costa will be overseeing the residents’ educational experiences and working with Dr. Schabel to implement the 5-Year Strategic Plan for Education.

    Erica Lin, daughter of Dr. Jun Lin, has decided on Vanderbilt University. She will major in Biomedical Engineering and will be on Premed track. She is a Distinguished Honor Graduate of Ward Melville High School.

    Katherine Wang, daughter of Drs. Joy Schabel and Edward Wang, graduated Harvard University in May 2020.

    Matthew Wang, son of Drs. Joy Schabel and Edward Wang, graduated from Ward Melville High School and has been recruited to play Division 1 lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania. Matthew was also selected to compete in the U19 and Men’s World Lacrosse Championships.

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James P. Dilger, PhD