The Stanford Anesthesia Fiftieth Year Campaign
Fifty Years of Leadership:
John Bunker 1961-72, Phil Larson 1972-82, Barrie Fairley 1985-92, Don Stanski 92-97.
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The Department of Anesthesia at Stanford has been an extremely important force in all our professional lives, for it was during our formative years in the department that we acquired the knowledge, skill and experience that has enabled us to go out into the world and define, for ourselves, the careers of which we are all so justifiably proud. Although Stanford demanded much from us during our period of residency, those demands were always at least in part for our own educational benefit.
Now, as past and current Presidents of the Department’s Alumni Association, we ask you to do something that will be purely for the department’s benefit. The Stanford University Department of Anesthesia is commencing a fund raising campaign with the intent of providing the resources to insure the future of our clinical, educational and research activities that identify Stanford as one of the leading academic anesthesia programs in the world. As individuals who have received much from the department, we need to consider our obligation to return the favor, so to speak, by contributing to this campaign. We believe this is the right thing to do.
Many, if not most, of us already contribute charitable donations to a variety of educational institutions. Including the Stanford Department of Anesthesia, where we all learned our profession, in that list seems a gracious way of expressing our gratitude to those who helped make possible our rewarding careers.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Michael Champeau, MD
Aubrey Maze, MD
William New, MD
John Ahlering, MD
Kent Garman, MD
Ron Pearl, MD, PhD, Chairman 1999-Present (Photo: Michael Chen, MD)
STANFORD INNOVATIONS IN ANESTHESIA
2000’s
Functional MRI Imaging of Pain
1990’s
The Modern Preoperative Clinic
1980’s
Continuous Cardiac Output
Pulse Oximetry
Pharmacokinetics
The Modern Anesthesia Patient Simulator
1970’s
Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
The Multidisciplinary ICU
1960’s
Anesthetic Toxicity
Other Notable Achievements
15 Major Textbooks by Faculty Members
500 Resident and Fellow Alumni
Presidents of Anesthesia Subspecialty
Societies and AUA
Three Former Directors of the ABA
Former Editor of Anesthesiology
Current Editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia
The past half century has been one of tremendous success for our department. However, in these rapidly changing times, we will not maintain our role as a leader if we do not continue to advance our clinical, educational, and research missions. We are entering challenging times for healthcare, for academic medical centers, and for the specialty of anesthesiology.
As Chairman, I want to see our department develop new techniques to provide anesthesia and to manage complex patients, provide the best education in the country for residents and fellows, and recruit and develop faculty who advance our understanding of the science which underlies anesthesia and its specialties. We will not succeed in these goals if we rely primarily on profit from
clinical revenue.
I am therefore appealing to our alumni to contribute as part of this campaign to celebrate the 2010 semicentennial of Stanford Anesthesia. By contributing, you can make a difference to the department which helped develop your own anesthesia career. I look forward to celebrating the success of this campaign with you in 2010.
Sincerely,
Ron Pearl, MD, PhD, Chairman
