This past January, anesthesiology resident Dr. Neal Al-Attar boarded a plane to the Philippines to participate in a global health mission. Over three days, he and his fellow volunteers performed nearly 30 cases. In this Member Spotlight, Dr. Al-Attar tells us what he learned from the...
Dr. Allison Fernandez isn't afraid to ask the hard questions. For the past two years, she's directed that inquisitive nature toward women in the field of anesthesiology, asking them about their lives and careers in often very personal terms. Her video series Women of Impact in ...
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When Dr. Emily Hagn received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, she was so excited that she asked to keep the vial. At the time, she had no idea that her spur-of-the-moment decision would grow into a multimedia art installation featuring thousands of vials and other...
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This September we go "back to school" for an interview with Dr. Michaela Farber, whose career in academia is off to a mighty impressive start. In this Member Spotlight, she shares her hopes for the next generation of anesthesiologists, how things are changing in learning and education (or not),...
August is often referred to as the "dog days of summer," a time when many of us feel a little sluggish and – hey, we'll say it – maybe just a tiny bit lazy. This month we bring you the story of Dr. Zohra Salahuddin, who is anything but. Speaker of many languages, mother of three kids, one-time...
Happy Independence Day! This month we catch up with Dr. Gary Lawson-Boucher, anesthesiologist and veteran of the U.S. Navy. In this ASA Member Spotlight, he shares how serving in the military helped shape him as a physician and a person. You served for ten years as an anesthesiologist in...
June is Pride month, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity and freedom of expression. For this Member Spotlight we reached out to Dr. Travis Reece-Nguyen, a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at both Stanford Medical School and the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, to find out...
When she isn’t researching new, non-opioid treatments for pain, Denise Lester, MD, is raising awareness and prevention of opioid use among hundreds of at-risk teens. In this ASA Member Spotlight, she shares how she got involved on both sides of this important issue and the impact she’s having in...
Researchers seeking to quantify the impact of physician burnout have their work cut out for them. In this ASA Member Spotlight, Anoushka Afonso, MD, FASA, shares how she and her colleagues went about conducting the first large-scale study of physician burnout among anesthesiologists – and helps...
“Peer support” is one of those phrases we think we understand until we encounter it in a very specific context. In this ASA Member Spotlight, Julie Crichton, MD, outlines the key principles of Peer Support as it relates to the practice of medicine and shares what physicians can do to help...