WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Visitors from around the world will be here in April when the Anesthesia History Association (AHA), in conjunction with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, holds its 16th Annual Spring Meeting on April 8-10, 2010, at the Brookstown Inn.
The purposes of the AHA include discovering, unfolding and preserving the foundations and heritage of the specialty of anesthesiology. The AHA encourages research in anesthesia history by anesthesiologists, residents in training, medical students and other individuals and groups.
The meeting will begin on Thursday April 8 with a tour of Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. The educational sessions will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday and conclude at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Additional information regarding the 2010 AHA spring meeting is available from Robert Strickland, M.D., rastrick@wfubmc.edu, (336) 716-4498, or Sherri Stockner, sstockne@wfubmc.edu, (336) 716-2712.
About the Anesthesia History Association
The foundations of the AHA were laid in 1982 at the First International Symposium on Modern Anesthesia History, held in Rotterdam, Germany. Subsequent discussions were held at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) meeting in October, 1982. In January 1983, the AHA was officially organized, with Dr. Selma Calmes and Dr. Roderick Calverley acting as the co-founders. The inaugural meeting of the AHA was on Oct. 9, 1983, at the annual ASA meeting. The AHA has also been active in sponsoring or co-sponsoring international anesthesia history meetings, such as the Third International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia, held in Atlanta, Ga., in 1992, and the Bicentenary Meeting to Mark Davys Researches into Nitrous Oxide, held in Bristol, England, in 1999. A joint meeting of the AHA and the History of Anesthesia Society of the United Kingdom was held in Rochester, Minn., in 2006.
About Wake Forest University School of Medicine
The medical school is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, an academic health system comprised of Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Physicians and North Carolina Baptist Hospital. The School of Medicine ranks 35th in primary care and 42nd in research among the nation's 145 medical and osteopathic schools in "America's Best Graduate Schools" from U.S. News & World Report. Wake Forest's physician assistant program is ranked 23rd, and its joint program with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to train nurse anesthetists is tied for 11th place. The volume Best Doctors in America includes 170 of the Wake Forest medical school faculty, and Wake Forest Baptist is ranked 32nd in the nation by America's Top Doctors for the number of physicians in that listing. The Medical Center has been ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report since 1993.
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