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• Dr. Girish Joshi: How will anesthesiology practice be impacted by the coming health care revolution?
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Dr. Suzanne Dellaria was awarded the 2009 Anesthesiology Faculty of the Year award. Dr. Dellaria received a B.S. from Penn State University where she also completed her medical school training. She then went on to complete an anesthesiology residency and cardiothoracic fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently an Associate Professor and a member of the Cardiothoracic Division of the Department of Anesthesiology. Congratulations Dr. Dellaria on this well deserved award.

This award is presented annually at the CA-3 graduation ceremony to one junior faculty member who has proven themselves to be an excellent clinical and didactic teacher. This year the UT Southwestern Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management residents selected Dr. Irina Gasanova, M.D., PhD. Dr. Gasanova joined the faculty in 2007 and works with residents in the Parkland L&D Department as well as the General operating room. She also serves as the Director of Day Surgery and the PACU, and has been a tremendous addition to the University and the Anesthesia residency program. Congratulations Dr. Gasanova. 

Dr. Whitten is pleased to announce that effective April 6, 2009, Dr. Martin “Marty” Giesecke joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  Dr. Giesecke will function as Vice Chairman of the Department and clinically work primarily at the University Hospitals.  Dr. Giesecke has had a distinguished career and we are honored to have been able to recruit him to the Department.  He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and pursued his medical school and residency training at UTMB in Galveston.  Following a short stent as a solo private practitioner in Victoria, Texas, he accepted a position, with the encouragement of his mentor, Dr. Stephen Slogoff, at the Texas Heart Institute.  Dr. Giesecke has had a distinguished administrative and academic career, most recently serving as Chief of Baylor College of Medicine’s Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas.  He remains active in organized medicine, holding the position of Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists and Delegate to the House of Delegates of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.  Dr. Giesecke will assist in oversight of Departmental administrative responsibilities and in the growth of our educational and research programs.  In addition, he will provide guidance as we phase into utilizing intraoperative TEE capabilities outside of the cardiac operating room.  In his spare time, Dr. Giesecke is an avid scuba diver.  And he and his wife, Susan, enjoy vacations that allow day hikes in the wilderness.

Please take some time to get to know Dr. Giesecke, as we look forward to having him as a part of our Departmental family.

Congratulations to the 2009 UTSW Anesthesiology and Pain Management Match.  It was a great success and ended with 15 new outstanding residents added to our family.  Thanks to all involved in this years recruitment season.

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More Than One Kind of Match

The matching program uses a computer algorithm to match, as closely as possible, the choices entered by both applicants and the directors of teaching hospitals’ training programs.

For one medical-school senior, Match Day was especially memorable. Julie Contes, a senior at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, stepped forward when her name was called and opened her envelope as her parents and friends looked on. Instead of her placement, it contained a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Johnny Gibbs, a medical resident in Fort Worth who had traveled to the ceremony to surprise her.

“I was crying and shaking, and I dropped the paper,” Ms. Contes said. Then, when he emerged from the crowd and got down on his knees, she said yes.

A few minutes later, she was handed another envelope, which informed her that she had been placed in a residency program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. “It was the only anesthesiology position that would allow me to be near him, and it was my top choice," she said. "What an unbelievable day.”

Reference: http://chronicle.com/daily/2009/03/14170n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en