The Department of Anesthesiology was recognized by the American Society of Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (ASRA) for contributions to its 45th annual spring meeting. The meeting, originally scheduled April 23-25 in San Francisco, was cancelled due to COVID-19 but organizers announced award winners at a virtual event on April 24.
Resident/Fellow of the Year Award: Dr. Priyanka Ghosh
Dr. Priyanka Ghosh, a Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine fellow, was named 2020 Resident/Fellow of the Year. The award is given annually to a resident or fellow member of ASRA who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to regional anesthesia or pain medicine; has contributed to the advancement of the profession, welfare of residents, or quality of residency education; serves as a role model and mentor to his or her peers; and embodies the values of ASRA.
Dr. Ghosh is involved in research in the areas of practice administration education in interventional pain medicine fellowships; osteoid osteoma diagnoses; dorsal root ganglion stimulations and dorsal column spinal cord stimulation in CRPS; and spinal cord stimulation studies.
She will accept the award at ASRA’s 19th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting, planned for November 2020 in Las Vegas.
Best of Meeting Award: Dr. Hannah Lin
An abstract by Dr. Hannah Lin, a regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine fellow, received a Best of Meeting Award. Titled “Dose-Response Relationship of Local Anesthetic Volume and Diaphragmatic Paresis Following Ultrasound-Guided Supraclavicular Block,” the co-authors are Dr. Kane Pryor, Virginia Tangel, Dr. Daniel Pak, Hannah Oden-Brunson, Jenna Yousif, Kaitlyn Sbrollini and Dr. Tiffany Tedore.
View the abstract and watch a video by Dr. Lin.
Dr. Tedore, co-director of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine and program director for the fellowship, presented the abstract during ASRA’s virtual event. The team will also present live at ASRA’s 46th annual meeting in Disney World, scheduled May 13-15, 2021.
"This research is significant because although it was known that supraclavicular block had a variable incidence of phrenic nerve paresis that was less than that caused by an interscalene block, the actual probability at various dosing levels was unknown," commented Dr. Tedore. "This study defined a dose response curve for diaphragmatic paresis and local anesthetic volume. It had been previously assumed that at very low doses diaphragmatic paresis could be avoided with the supraclavicular block. This study proves this assumption untrue. Although well-tolerated in healthy patients, diaphragmatic paresis after peripheral nerve block can cause complications in patients with respiratory disease."
Additional presentations
Other department members who shared presentations and findings include Drs. Abdullah Rasheed, Vanessa Ng, Benjamin Chu, Ryan Norman, and John Rubin.
View the accepted e-posters and abstracts.
ASRA is one of the largest subspecialty medical societies in anesthesiology. Its mission is to advance the science and practice of regional anesthesia and pain medicine to improve patient outcomes through research, education and advocacy.