The objective of the Anesthesia Training Program in Biomedical Science is to train leaders in academic anesthesia. To accomplish this goal additional training beyond an MD or PhD is required. This training program provides the essential guidance, training, and mentoring critical to increase the success of these trainees in launching their careers in academic anesthesia research. Trainees must learn to pose important and well thought out questions, to think critically, and to use cutting edge interdisciplinary tool to answer these questions. Success also requires the development of skills in presentation of results in oral and written format, in preparation of competitive grant proposals, and in the abiliy to engage in collaboration when this will more effectively advance the research. The training program starts by recruiting the most talented trainees from MD/PhD, MD and PhD applicants interested in pursuing a career in anesthesia research and academic anesthesia. Trainees then have a primary research mentor and a secondary mentor to closely monitor their progress. Close interaction with accomplished faculty is essential to master these skills, and this is the core of the training program, which is then supplemented by didactic material, and in the case of clinical research may be supplemented by a master's degree in epidemiology or health science research. Administratively the program consists of a director, steering committee, and a group of 18 highly skilled and successful training faculty from the anesthesia department and 8 other departments within the medical school. There are already established interactions among many of the faculty members. The mission of the program is teaching trainees new technologies and approaches to anesthesia research. The faculty is divided into three overarching areas: 1) Omics: a systems approach to disease, 2) lnflammation, Signaling, and Tissue Injury, and 3) Mechanisms of Anesthesia and Addiction. Some faculty participates in more than one area. We request four slots per year with each trainee supported for two years.

Public Health Relevance

Anesthesiologists take care of patients in many settings, including the operating room, the intensive care unit, the pain clinic and the preoperative clinic. In all of these settings they have the opportunity to improve patient care and improve patient outcome. To continue to lead the way in improving outcomes in the perioperative period requires highly trained and skilled practitioners dedicated to research in anesthesia. Training programs are essential to produce these future leaders of our field.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)
Project #
2T32GM089626-06
Application #
8793667
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZGM1)
Program Officer
Cole, Alison E
Project Start
2010-07-01
Project End
2020-06-30
Budget Start
2015-07-01
Budget End
2016-06-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Stanford University
Department
Anesthesiology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
009214214
City
Stanford
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94304
Eagleman, Sarah L; Vaughn, Don A; Drover, David R et al. (2018) Do Complexity Measures of Frontal EEG Distinguish Loss of Consciousness in Geriatric Patients Under Anesthesia? Front Neurosci 12:645
Komatsu, R; Carvalho, B; Flood, P (2018) Prediction of outliers in pain, analgesia requirement, and recovery of function after childbirth: a prospective observational cohort study. Br J Anaesth 121:417-426
Saiki, Julie P; Cao, Hongbin; Van Wassenhove, Lauren D et al. (2018) Aldehyde dehydrogenase 3A1 activation prevents radiation-induced xerostomia by protecting salivary stem cells from toxic aldehydes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:6279-6284
Komatsu, Ryu; Carvalho, Brendan; Flood, Pamela D (2017) Recovery after Nulliparous Birth: A Detailed Analysis of Pain Analgesia and Recovery of Function. Anesthesiology 127:684-694
Corder, Gregory; Tawfik, Vivianne L; Wang, Dong et al. (2017) Loss of ? opioid receptor signaling in nociceptors, but not microglia, abrogates morphine tolerance without disrupting analgesia. Nat Med 23:164-173
Jarrahi, Behnaz; Martucci, Katherine T; Nilakantan, Aneesha S et al. (2017) Investigating the BOLD spectral power of the intrinsic connectivity networks in fibromyalgia patients: A resting-state fMRI study. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2017:497-500
Van Wassenhove, Lauren D; Mochly-Rosen, Daria; Weinberg, Kenneth I (2016) Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 in aplastic anemia, Fanconi anemia and hematopoietic stem cells. Mol Genet Metab 119:28-36
McAllister, Stacy L; Giourgas, Barbra K; Faircloth, Elizabeth K et al. (2016) Prostaglandin levels, vaginal innervation, and cyst innervation as peripheral contributors to endometriosis-associated vaginal hyperalgesia in rodents. Mol Cell Endocrinol 437:120-129
Stary, Creed M; Hogan, Michael C (2016) Cytosolic calcium transients are a determinant of contraction-induced HSP72 transcription in single skeletal muscle fibers. J Appl Physiol (1985) 120:1260-6
Lu, Yao; Piplani, Honit; McAllister, Stacy L et al. (2016) Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 Activation within the Cardiac Myocyte Limits Ischemia-reperfusion Injury in Rodents. Anesthesiology 125:1171-1180

Showing the most recent 10 out of 36 publications