Anesthetic Mechanisms

BIOGRAPHY

POSITIONS HELD:

Faculty Appointments:

1996 – 2000 Lecturer (i.e. Assistant Professor), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem

2000 – 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin

2001 – present Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin (as Visiting Associate Professor until Jan. 2003)

COMMITTEES:

Departmental:

2002 – 2006 Member, Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference

2004 – present Member, Research and Development

2006 – present Member, John-Kreul Fellowship Committee

2004 – present Director, Case Conferences



National:

2004 – present American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Subcommittee on anesthetic action

2004 – present ASA Subcommittee on experimental neuroscience


HONORS AND AWARDS:

Honors:

1979 – 1986 Recipient of the ‘Bayerische Begabtenfoerderung’ (stipend of the Bavarian State for talented students for the duration of graduate education)

1992 – 1994 Recipient of a research fellowship from the London-based “Foulkes Foundation’, supporting medical graduates involved in research

Awards:

1995, 1996 Outstanding Resident Award & Research Award of the Hebrew University’s Medical Faculty and the “Hadassah” Medical Organization

1996 First Prize at the Resident’s Research Contest of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists

2000 Outstanding Instructor Award of the Hebrew University’s Medical Faculty


SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

2006 - present Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA)
2000 – present Society for Neuroscience
1996 – present American Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present Dane County Medical Society
2000 – present Wisconsin Medical Society
2000 – present Madison Society of Anesthesiologists
2000 – present International Anesthesia Research Society,
1991 – 2000 Israel Society of Anesthesiologists
1991 – 2000 Israel Society of Neuroscience