Scholarly Activities

We encourage students, residents and fellows to engage in academic and scholarly activities. We consider participation in scholarly activities to be an essential component of education and resident development.

Annual Conferences

Most of our residents present at at least one local or national annual conferences or meetings. Residents who participate in scientific presentations at local or national anesthesiology meetings or conferences get expenses reimbursed by the department.

Recent conferences that our residents/fellows have participated are listed below:

39th Annual Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Meeting, Orlando FL from April 22-26, 2017

Intra-aortic Fibrinous Sheath Detected by Echocardiography Associated with Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device. A Kahan MD; E Pantin, M.D; D Papp MD.

A Case of Drug-refractory Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia in Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction. B Patel, MD; B Raffel, DO; S. Tanaka; A Zarchin, M.D

An Intraoperative Management of a Patient with Beckers Cardiomyopathy. S. Tanaka, MD; A. Zarchin,MD; B Raffel, DO

Cardiac R&R: Recovery from Post-operative Biventricular Cardiogenic Shock with a BiVAD Holiday. A. Zarchin, MD; B. Patel, MD; S. Tanaka, MD; D. Papp, MD, B.Raffel, DO

Differential diagnosis, Intraoperative Anesthesia Management of a Rapidly Growing Right Atrial Mass on Echocardiography. S. Ibrar, MD; E. Pantin, MD; S. Mungekar, MD.

Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography was Superior to Two-Dimensional Techniques in Guiding Catheter-Based Aspiration Thrombectomy of Massive Pulmonary Embolism. S. Mungekar, MD; A. Chiricolo, MD.

The Effect of Neuromuscular Blockade Reversal on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation Post Cardiac Surgery. B. Patel, MD; A. Chiricolo, MD; B. Raffel, DO.

IARS / SOCCA Annual Meeting 2017, Washington, DC May 5-6, 2017

Continuous Nasal Oxygenation in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Stenosis during FOI. Christopher Isley,MD; Rong Zhao, MD; Esther Ogunyemi, MD; John Denny, MD; James Tse, MD.

Nasal Oxygenation in a Child with CHARGE Syndrome/OSA/Difficult Airway during ETI Sajjad Ibrar, MD; Usman Shah, MD; Kelvin Kwong, MD; James Tse, MD.

Near-fatal Kinking of Mammary Graft Due to Severe Emphysema Benjamin Landgraf, MD; John Denny, MD; Alexander Kahan, MD; James Tse, MD.

Continuous Nasal Oxygenation in a Patient with Williams Syndrome during GA Induction William Grubb, MD; Esther Ogunyemi, MD; Huy Nguyen, MD; James Tse, MD.

Nasal Mask Oxygenation/Sedation in a Patient with Autonomic Neuropathy in Beach Chair James Tse, MD; Mariah McGrory, MD; Dennis Warfield Jr., MD.