Drs. Jared Pearson, Catherine Reid, and Luis Verduzco have been elected as Stanford Anesthesia Chief Residents for 2012-13. Congratulations!

Happy to let you know Stanford was granted an additional Peds-Anesthesia combined training spot increasing # of positions to two per year

Shout out to my good friend Vivek Kulkarni postop! Hope you get better. We miss you at work. See you in the New Year.

my daughter @Samaymay92 is the best!! Go Broncos!!

Congratulations to Christoph Egger Management Fellowship alum the new Hospital CEO at Hirslanden Beau-Site Hospital in Bern, Switzerland

Really fun Stanford Anesthesia Holiday Party last night! Nice to catch up with interns Drs. Sarah Clark, Lauren Friedman, & Rachel Wang.

John's book is published by Springer and was their best seller at ASA in Chicago last month!

Congratulations to my good friend Dr. John Brock-Utne on his new book: Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia.

Congratulations to CA1 resident Jorge Caballero: awarded the American Society of Anesthesiologists Professional Diversity Mentorship Award

Welcome to the two new Management and Leadership Fellows Drs. Jennifer Dubrawski and John Santiago!

Congratulations to our faculty Dr. Larry Chu for winning the national award IARS 2011 Teaching Recognition Award for Innovation in Education

Congratulations to CA2 Brice Gaudilliere for his grant from Stanford Society of Physician Scholars to study opiate-induced immunosuppression

Wellness retreat for new anesthesia residents was a big hit this weekend. Everyone had a nice time & learned a lot. Thank you Emily/Tara.

Neat article by Stanford Adjunct Faculty member, Dr. Mike Champeau, on Rwanda Global Health mission: members.csahq.org/blog/2011/08/0…

Sarnquist award is voted by the seniors for supporting the mission of the dept, through teamwork, cooperation, & commitment to excellence

Congratulations to Matt Jolley CA3 for receiving the Frank Sarnquist Award at Saturdays Graduation Celebration

The annual Fiberoptic & Difficult Airway Workshops will be Aug 27 (CA-1s) and August 28 (CA-2s and CA-3s) in the Li Ka Shing Sim Center.

Awesome talk by Mark Linzer this AM at Grand Rounds on MD work life balance: time pressure, work control, work pace (chaos), culture are key

Stanford Anesthesia Global Health website https://www.stanford.edu/group/globalanesthesia/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

Program requires the first (PGY-1) year to be all pediatrics, the 2nd yr all anesthesia, & each of 3 subsequent years is evenly divided