December 20, 2007

In General

A scientific and educational exhibit led by Julian M. Goldman, MD, of MGH Anesthesia, was awarded first place during the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in October. The exhibit, "Improving the Safety of PCA Opioid Infusions by Integrating Patient Monitors and Infusion Pumps," explored ways medical device interoperability standards and technology can be used to integrate monitors and patient-controlled analgesia pumps to reduce the
risks of respiratory complications from postoperative opioids. The MGH exhibit authors are Goldman; Susan Whitehead of CIMIT; and Shankar Krishnan, PhD, of Biomedical Engineering. Additional authors are Michael Jopling, MD; Frank Overdyk, MD; Sandy Weininger, PhD; David Arney; Insup Lee, PhD; Tracy Rausch; and Philippe-Antoine Cortes, ME.

Jason Wasfy, MD, MPhil, a resident in the MGH Department of Medicine, recently was honored by the Oxford University Society for his work as a recipient of Harvard School of Public Health's Presidential Scholarship in Public Service and as a founder of Americans for Informed Democracy, a foreign policy research and advocacy group. Wasfy is a former Marshall Scholar at New College, Oxford University.

Shriners Hospitals for Children—Boston has been named a recipient of the 2007 Press Ganey Summit Award, which recognizes top performing facilities that sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction for three or more consecutive years. This is the second consecutive year the hospital has received the award for Outpatient Services. Attending physicians at Shriners Hospitals for Children—Boston also hold appointments at the MGH and Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD, chief of the MGH Burn Service, serves as the hospital's chief of staff.