News and Highlights

Dr. Franklin Chiao Helps Expand Use of Innovative Pediatric Anesthesia Technique at Weill Cornell

Franklin Chiao, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, is one of the leaders in adapting recent innovations in adult regional anesthesia for use in pediatric cases. In a recent article for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) newsletter, Dr. Chiao outlined the fundamentals for caudal ultrasound – the use of ultrasound to support the administration of a caudal nerve block, a common pediatric procedure.   

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Public Outreach is an Important Part of National Pain Awareness Month for Weill Cornell Pain Medicine Physicians

September is National Pain Awareness Month. Begun in 2001 by the American Chronic Pain Association, the movement to raise awareness about pain and the variety of current treatments available has been embraced by dozens of organizations and thousands of practitioners nationwide. At Weill Cornell Pain Medicine, we are noting Pain Awareness Month and continuing our ongoing...

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Dr. Skubas Earns Appointment from the American Society of Echocardiography

The Department of Anesthesiology is pleased to note that Nikolaos Skubas, MD, FACC, FASE, DSc, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, and Professor of Anesthesiology in Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery, was appointed Chair of the Fellowship of the American Society of Echocardiography Advisory Committee earlier this summer.

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