Annual Safar Symposium

Speaker

Lecture / Program

Date

Hugo Van Aken, MD, PhD, FRCA

Update on Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia and the Stress Response – Are the Benefits Worth the Trouble and Risks?

2011

Frank Shann, MB, BS, MD

Critically Ill Children in Developing Countries.

2010

Fritz Sterz, MD

Peter Safar and Clinical Cooling

2009

John W. Olney, MD

Excitotoxic and Neurodegeneration – Casual Mechanisms and Preventive Strategies.

2008

David M. Gaba, MD

Challenges in the Use of Simulation to Achieve High Reliability Healthcare.

2007

Anthony Atala, MD

Regenerative Medicine: New Advances in Health Care for the 21st Century.

2006

James C. Grotta, MD

The Top 10 Issues in Acute Stroke Treatment.

2005

Edward Lowenstein, MD (bio)

Ethics, Physicians, and Relief of Intolerable Suffering: Lessons from the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
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2003

Lyn Yaffe, MD (bio)

Future Medicine – Biomedical Technology Systems for Victims of Combat and Terrorism.

2002

Michal Schwartz, PhD (bio)

Protective Auto-Immunity after CNS Trauma and in Chronic Neurodegenerative Disorders: Aparadigm Shift.

2001

     

Past Safar Lecturers

 

John J. Bonica, MD

1980

John W. Severinghaus, MD

1981

Nicholas M. Green, MD

1982

*Hans A. Bethe, PhD

1983

James E. Eckenhoff, MD

1984

Victor F. Weisskopf, PhD

1985

Otto K. Mayrhofer, MD

1986

Ake N. Grenvik, MD, PhD

1987

Edmond I. Eger II, MD

1988

Freeman J. Dyson

1989

John Francis Nunn, MB, ChB, PhD

1990

Thomas Fredric Hornbein, MD

1991

Yung Shieh, MD

1992

John G. Wade, MD

1993

S. William A. Gunn, MD, MS

1994

Henrik H. Bendixen, MD

1995

Marcus E. Raichle, MD

1996

Donald P. Wolf, PhD

1997

*Bernard Lown, MD

1998

Bo Siesjö, MD, PhD

1999

John B. Anderson

2000

Michal Schwartz, PhD

2001

Lyn Yaffe, MD

2002

Edward Lowenstein, MD

2003

*Nobel Prize Winner

 

Peter and Eva Safar Annual Lecture in Medical Sciences and Humanities

This lectureship honors Peter Safar, MD, and his wife Eva for their professional and personal contribution to the scientific community.

Dr. Safar’s pioneering efforts and accomplishments in emergency medicine, critical care medicine, resuscitation research, and disaster reanimatology have saved countless lives and have gained international recognition. He initiated and served as chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he has been Distinguished Professor of Resuscitation Medicine since 1979. He founded the University of Pittsburgh’s International Resuscitation Research Center and served as its director for many years. In recognition of Peter Safar’s contributions to the field of resuscitation science, his successor renamed it the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research.

This lectureship, currently hosted by Patrick Kochanek, MD, director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, John Williams, MD, chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Mitchell Fink, MD, chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, was initiated by Peter Winter, MD, chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine from 1979 to 1996.

 
 
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