Division of Clinical and Translational Research

DoCTR News:

Newsletters:
Spring 2006     PDF
Summer 2006  PDF
Winter 2006    PDF
Spring 2007     PDF
Summer 2007  PDF
Fall 2007             PDF
Spring 2008     PDF 


Ongoing Studies:
Kharasch:
Opioids in Cancer Pain & Drug Abuse: Optimizing Therapy
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Kharasch: Novel noninvasive assessment of cytochrome P450 activity
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Kharasch: Methadone and HIV drug interactions
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Murray: Acute Care Management Skills: An Assessment Program for Graduate Physicians
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Murray:  A Web-Based Training Program for Ultrasound-Guided Central Line Insertion  PDF
Hill and Murray: Teamwork in Obstetrics: A Simulation-Based Pilot Curriculum for Team Training  PDF
Avidan: The Use of Desirudin for Thrombosis Prophylaxis in Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients PDF
Avidan: Barnes-Jewish Sleep Apnea Prevalence in Every Admission Study (APNEAPDF
Avidan: BAG-RECALL: BIS or Anesthesia Gas to Reduce Explicit Recall   PDF
Toma:  
Tissue Penetration of Antibiotics in Obesity: Implications for Risk of Postoperative Wound Infection PDF
Meissner: The Role of P-Glycoprotein in Cerebral Morphine Disposition   PDF
Meissner: Optimizing PCA Opioid Safety: Variability In Morphine vs Hydromorphone Clinical And Side Effects  PDF
Meissner Visualizing Cerebral Opioid Transport and P-glycoprotien Function  PDF
Nagele: Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Outcomes After Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia  PDF

Recently Funded DoCTR Grants:

Nagele: Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Outcomes after Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia  PDF
Kangrga:
Comparing Different Methods for Measurement of Cardiac Output during Orthotopic Liver Transplantation PDF
Wildes:  Assessment of changes in diastolic dysfunction in the perioperative period of surgical myocardial revascularization with cardiopulmonary bypass using new echocardiographic measures based upon a parameterized model of left ventricular filling
  PDF

NEWS:

May 2008
Dr. Konrad Meissner
has been awarded the Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG) by the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) for his project titled "Visualizing Cerebral Opioid Transport and P-glycoprotien Function". PDF

January 2008
Dr. Laureen Hill and Dr. David Murray
have been awarded a grant by the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for their project titled "Teamwork in Obstetrics: A Simulation-Based Pilot Curriculum for Team Training" PDF

Dr. Konrad Meissner has been awarded a grant by the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for his project titled "Optimizing PCA Opioid Safety: Variability In Morphine vs. Hydromorphone Clinical and Side Effects" PDF

December 2007
Dr. Michael Avidan and the BAG-RECALL investigators
have been awarded a grant by Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) and The American Society of Anesthesiologists for his project entitled "BAG-RECALL: BIS or Anesthesia Gas to Reduce Explicit Recall" . PDF


November 2007
Dr. Peter Nagele
has been awarded the Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG) by the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) for his project titled "Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Outcomes After Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia".
PDF

October 2007
Dr. Konrad Meissner
has been awarded the 2008 Clinical Research Scholars Award by the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) for his project titled "The Role of P-glycoprotein in Cerebral Morphine Disposition". PDF

Dr. Dave Murray has been awarded the Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., MD Research Award by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) for his project titled "A Web-Based Training Program for Ultrasound-Guided Central Line Insertion ". PDF

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Nagele who received the the Elmer-Zsigmond Award from the International Society for Anesthetic Pharmacology for his abstract "Influence of Mutations in the MTHFR Gene on Homocysteine Levels after Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia" presented at the ISAP 27 th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. PDF

Patty Suntrup, RT, BA, CCRP successfully passed the Clinical Research Professional Certification Examination given by the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA).


July 2007:
Drs. Michael Avidan and Octavian Toma have received funding from Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation on their projects:  "Barnes-Jewish Sleep Apnea Prevalence in Every Admission Study" (Avidan) and "Tissue Penetration of Antibiotics in Obesity: Implications for Risk of Postoperative Wound Infection" (Toma).


March 2007

Congratulations to David J. Murray, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of the Clinical Simulation Center and Associate Director of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology who has been named to the Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professorship in the School of Medicine .


November 2006
Congratulations to Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D.
, Professor of Anesthesiology and Chief of the Division of Clinical and Translational Research who has been named the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology.