The Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship at the University of Washington is a one-year program for trainees who have completed a three-year anesthesia residency training in an accredited program in the U.S. or an equivalent program. This clinical fellowship is based at Harborview Medical Center.
The goal of Neuroanesthesiology fellowship at University of Washington is to provide advanced clinical training in Neuroanesthesiology including monitoring techniques and to provide research and educational experience to develop leading academic Neuroanesthesiologists for the future. At the end of this program, the graduating fellows will become skilled in performing preoperative assessment of patients with neurological and neurosurgical diseases, developing and executing appropriate anesthetic plan including monitoring techniques and provide perioperative management for these patients. The fellows will gain the cognitive and psychomotor skills required for rationale selection and skillful utilization of various monitors and procedures including jugular bulb catheters, fiberoptic intubations, intraoperative evoked potentials monitoring (somatosensory, motor, visual and brainstem evoked potentials), and transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography. They will also learn basic interpretation of neuroradiological imaging including CT scans, MRIs and cerebral angiographies, intracranial pressure monitoring, regional cerebral oxygenation monitoring and TCD ultrasonography. They will be able to participate actively in the perioperative care of neurosurgical as well as critical neurological patients and will be able to function as part of a multidisciplinary neurocritical care team.
The Neuroanesthesiology Fellows will acquire necessary research skills to be able to plan and conduct clinical / basic sciences research in ethical and systematic manner and to write a manuscript suitable for publication in a reputed scientific journal. They will develop analytical behavior and will be able to review and critique published scientific literature and practice evidence based medicine and to participate in development of clinical guidelines and protocols. The Fellows will also enhance their teaching skills and will be actively involved in resident education in and out of the operative room environment.
The Neuroanesthesiology training program primarily includes:
Faculty fellows responsibilities will involve a 40 /60 division of time between clinical service work (40%) and fellowship activities.
All four teaching hospitals of the UW Medicine (UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, VA Puget Sound HCS, and Children's Hospital) have neurosurgical procedures although the majority of them are conducted in the first two hospitals. The fellowship activities are primarily based at HMC, which is renowned for complex cerebrovascular surgery and is also a leading level-1 adult and pediatric trauma center. Open as well as minimally invasive surgery as well as endovascular treatment is offered for variety of complex neurosurgical diseases. HMC is also a Comprehensive Stroke Center. The UWMC is primarily involved with epilepsy and tumor surgery, skull base surgery and carotid endarterectomy.
Alan Artru, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Chief, Clinical Anesthesiology Services
Associate Medical Director for Perioperative Services
Primary Location: UW Medical Center
Clinical Interests: Cerebral blood flow and metabolism, cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, CNS pharmacokinetics, aqueous humor dynamics.
Personal Interests: Church, basketball, politics, hiking.
C. Michael Crowder, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Allan J. Treuer Endowed Professor of Anesthesiology
Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences
Primary Location: UW Medical Center
Karen B. Domino, MD, MPH
Professor &
Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Neurological Surgery
Primary Location: UW Medical Center
Clinical Interests: Pulmonary physiology, quality assurance, neuroanesthesia, trauma anesthesia.
Personal Interests: Parenting, hiking, camping, cooking, gardening.
James G. Hecker, MD, PhD
Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Abhijit, Lele, MD
Associate Professor & Director, Neurocritical Care Service
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Kevin Luk, MD
Acting Assistant Professor,
Combined CCM/Anesthesiology Program,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Iulia I. Metzner, MD
Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: UW Medical Center
Clinical Interests: Thoracic anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, research in thermoregulation.
Personal Interests: Tourism, music (jazz, classical, opera), swimming, spending time with my 3 daughters.
Pratik Patel, MD
Acting Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Irene Rozet, MD
Associate Professor , Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Primary Location: VA Puget Sound HCS
Clinical Interests: Vascular and cardiac anesthesia; laboratory research in endothelial function area.
Deepak Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM
Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor & Division Chief
Neuroanesthesiology & Perioperative Neurosciences
Program Director Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA.
Professor of Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
Seattle, WA.
Associate Faculty
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Professional Interests: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Ultrasonography, Cerebrovascular physiology, Traumatic Brain Injury, Education in Anesthesiology.
Karen J. Souter, MB BS, FRCA
Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Residency Program Director
Primary Location: UW Medical Center
Teaching Interests: Resident education, educational outcomes, teaching and evaluation of residents' skills in the disclosure of adverse outcomes.
Personal Interests: Opera, flying (PPL), scuba diving.
Michael J. Souter, MB ChB, FRCA
Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Chief, HMC Anesthesiology Clinical Services;
Adjunct Professor, Neurosurgery;
Attending Physician, NeuroCritical Care Service,
Harborview Medical Center
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Research Interests: Neuroanesthesia with neurophysiology and monitoring, critical care of subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury, information technology in anesthesia & medicine, monitoring technology in anesthesia & critical care medicine.
Personal Interests: Scuba diving (divemaster, mixed gases, closed circuit rebreathers), aviation (Private Pilots License).
Monica S. Vavilala, MD
Professor & Vice Chair, Strategic Affairs
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Professor, Pediatrics;
Adjunct Professor, Neurological Surgery;
Director, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC)
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Professional Interests: Interested in epidemiology, pathophysiology and outcomes after traumatic brain injury.
David R. Wright, BM, FRCA
Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center
Faculty fellows responsibilities will involve a 40 /60* division of time between clinical service work (40%) and fellowship activities (such as working with their faculty supervisors and mentors, teaching and research) (60%). * In certain cases this time may be flexible or negotiable depending on the educational needs and research interests of the individual fellow, and particularly if the fellow wishes to undertake a 2 year commitment.
NOTE: Actual experience and knowledge acquired during the fellowship is variable, and is dependent on the fellow's own learning objectives, area of interest, level of motivation, enthusiasm and efforts put into it.
The application process for all the faculty fellowships requires that interested applicants send the following information:
Program Operations Specialist, Neuroanesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington
Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Avenue, Box #359724
Seattle, WA 98104
E-mail: boggia@uw.edu
Fax: 206-744-8090
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Deepak Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM The Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor Program Director, Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine University of Washington Seattle, WA.
Professor of Neurological Surgery University of Washington Seattle, WA.
Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave, Box #359724 Seattle, WA. 98104
Phone: 206-744-4371
Professional Interests: Traumatic brain injury, Stroke, Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography, Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Education in Anesthesiology. |
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