During calendar year 2005, there were 27 foreign visitors to our CCM Department from 15 different countries. These visitors varied from senior medical students to full professors. They represented various primary specialties such as internal medicine, anesthesiology, general practice, surgery, pulmonary medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology. All visitors had a primary interest in critical care. Their visits varied in duration from one week to several months. In addition to participating in the daily CCM educational program that consists of but is not limited to lectures, workshops, journal club sessions, grand rounds and simulation training at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER), they observed rounds in various ICUs of their choice. These visitors have expressed their admiration for our well-organized educational program and state-of-the-art patient care in the ICUs as well as outstanding clinical and laboratory research activities.
November 2005
 Dr.
Guillermo Arias is a 1995 graduate of the University in Cartagen,
Colombia. He has worked as a general practitioner in his country
until now. Currently, he is visiting in the US to apply for an
internal medicine residency. He has taken and passed USMLEs steps
1 and 2 with scores in the 80s. While studying for step 3, he wants
to be an observer in CCM but his visa (B1) is limiting his visit
to three weeks. He is interested in rotations in the VASICU and
MICU.
November 2005
 Dr Rafael Moraes is a 30 y.o graduate of the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
He has completed Internal Medicine residency and is about to finish
his Intensive Care Medicine residency in Dec. 2005. Having permission
from his program to spend a month abroad, he has chosen our CCM
Department in Pittsburgh for the month of November. In January,
2006, he starts as an intensivist at Santa Casa Hospital in Porte
Alegre. He is married to a dentist. They have no children but she
is staying in Brazil. Dr Moraes will stay at a friend's house here
in Oakland. He is a surgeon visiting UPMC. As Santa Casa Hospital
is doing transplantations, mainly kidneys and livers but also lungs,
Dr Moraes is interested in observing first in our liver ICU and
then also in MICU as an internist.
October 17 - December 15, 2005
 Dr
Nataraj Swetha graduated in February, 2005, from Kilpauk Medical
College in Chennai, Southern India. She holds a green card and
is applying for internal medicine residency in this country to
start in 2006. Her interviews will start in mid December. With
a particular interest in CCM, she wishes to be an observer at UPMC,
beginning October 17th. She is also interested in research and
might wish to join one of our groups in the afternoon, rounding
in selected ICUs in the morning and attending our 12 N lectures
first. Dr Swetha would wish to start in the VA SICU, followed by
MICU and finally the Liver TX ICU. With three weeks in each of
the first two choices, the remainder would be in the Liver ICU,
e.g. VASICU Oct. 17 - Nov. 5, MICU Nov. 7 - 26 and Liver ICU Nov.
28 - Dec. 15. Dr Ramesh Venkataraman is a friend of hers from medical
school and will help her in the selection of suitable research
involvement.
October
- November, 2005
 Dr Fabio Andres Varon V is a graduate in 1995
of the Colombia National University in Bogota. After completing
training in both internal medicine and pulmonology, he became Director
of the ICU at the "Fundacion Neumologica Colombiana" in
Bogota. Anticipating liver transplantation to start at his hospital,
he has contacted Dr Peter Linden as the UPMC Director of Liver
Transplantation Intensive Care, requesting a month of visiting
observership in the Liver TX ICU. He will begin this period on
Oct. 24 and stay until Nov. 19, 2005.
October 19
- 22, 2005
 Professor Youzhong An is a 1984 graduate of the Beijing Medical
College in China, who after surgical residency at Peking University
People's Hospital and additional educational experiences in Germany
and the US currently serves as Professor of Surgery and Director
of the SICU at his hoapital. He is the general secretary of the
Chinese SCCM. While attending major international meetings in Canada
and the US, he will visit our Department of CCM. With a special
interest in sepsis, coagulopathy and clinical nutrition, Prof.
An is editor or editrial board member of several international
or Chinese medical journals.
October
- November, 2005
 Dr Burgio of Palermo, Italy, revisiting
UPMC Presbyterian.
Gaetano Burgio, MD, is an assistant professor
at UPMC, Palermo, and the Director of the ICU at ISMeTT. He spent a
couple of months visiting our Liver Transplant program, observing both
in the OR and the ICU two years ago. ISMeTT is now starting a lung
transplant program, already doing heart transplants. Dr Burgio will
follow our cases in the CTICU with Dr Boujoukos his host but he should
also see lung tx cases in the OR. At present his ICU has 9 beds
but this will increase to 14 at the end of this calendar year.
Dr Burgio will remain here during October and November, staying
at Shadyside Inn. He has a UPMC license and can participate in
patient care during his visit.
October
1 - November 15, 2005
 Dr Nooshin Bagheri is a 1997 graduate
from medical school in Iran. She and her husband are both US citizens.
She has passed USMLE steps 1 and 2 with # 3 to be taken later. She
has practiced family medicine in California recently, but wishes
to move to PA and is applying for FP residencies throughout this state.
She has a close friend in Dr Mehrnaz Hadian, our senior CCM fellow,
who is taking care of her in Pittsburgh and has recommended Dr Bagheri
to be an observer in our program for the next several weeks, starting
with a rotation through our VA SICU.
September 2005 - September 2006
 Faruk Atilla, MD, Turkish anesthesiologist visiting
our CCM Department for a full year. Dr Atilla graduated from Gulhane
Military Medical Academy and Medical School in Ankara, Turkey,
in 1989. After practicing general medicine for a few years, he
took an anesthesiology residency at his alma mater, 1996 - 2000,
and now serves as chief of the anesthesiology section at the Turkish
Air Force Hospital in Izmir. This hospital has 4 ORs and a PACU
but no ICU. They only perform relatively minor general surgical
procedures, no trauma, no open hearts and no transplants. Nonetheless
they plan on introducing an ICU and Dr Atilla has been given a
full year's leave of absence to follow our activities in CCM. In
addition to observing in our different ICUs and attending CCM lectures,
Dr Atilla will take a course in conversational English at Pitt.
Currently he is staying with a friend but will look for a house
to rent as well as a car. He is married and has two sons of 12
and 1-1/2 years. He will bring his family here asap. Given his
limited experience in CCM, Dr Atilla will start his observership
at VA SICU on September 12, 2005.
September - October 2005
 Dr Carlos Alfredo Mares is a 1997 graduate of the National University,
School of Medicine in Lima, Peru. He completed surgical residency
at Hospital Central de la Polica Nacional del Peru in 2001 and
currently is an attending surgeon at the Padre Luis Tezza Clinic
and also serves as Chief of the EMS in Lima. Having obtained a
green card he is spending part of his time as a visiting fellow
at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr Mares is another
surgeon who has met with Dr Puyana during surgical meetings in
Peru and was encouraged to visit the UPMC CCM Department, which
will occur during the two months of September and October, 2005.
Colombian Trauma
Surgeon Visiting for 2 Months
 Dr Jorge Castro is a graduate in 1995 of the University of Cartagena
in Colombia. After training and certification in General Surgery,
he currently is an attending surgeon at Garagoa Hospital, affiliated
with Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Having met with Dr Juan
Puyana at various trauma meetings in Colombia, Dr Puyana has recommended
him to visit our CCM Department. Dr Puyana will serve as his host
and mentor during Dr Castro's visit to UPMC.
September -
January, 2005
 Young-Joo Lee,
MD, PhD, Prefessor of Anesthesiology at Ajou University , School
of Medicine in Suwon, South Korea, is known to many of us from
a previous visit to our CCM Program 10 years ago. She now comes
for a prolonged visit of 6 months on sabbatical leave from her
position in South Korea. The Ajou University Hospital has approx.
1000 beds with about 100 in different ICUs, such as SICU, MICU,
NICU, CVICU and Neonatal ICU. Dr Lee is a proliphic writer with
some 50 scientific publications in the past ten years. She has
also published 6 books on CCM topics. While Dr Lee will wish to
be a visiting observer in many of our ICUs, she will start this
month in the VA SICU.
August 2005
 Melike Sytbeyaz is in her last year of medical school at the Baskent
University in Ankara. She intends to train in traumatology and
emergency medicine in the US. Graduating in June 2006, she must
first serve for two years in Turkey during which time she will
take the USMLEs before applying for training in this country. During
the month of August this year, under the guidance of Dr Juan Ochoa,
she is observing trauma surgery in the OR for 2 weeks and will
then rotate through different ICUs, beginning with the Trauma ICU.
May 23 2005
 German Torres is a 1999 graduate of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. After initial service in Colombia, he came to Pittsburgh in 2001 on a student visa (F1) and enrolled at the Kaplan Institute, learning English quite well and preparing for the USMLEs. He has taken and passed steps 1 and 2 so far and applied for step 3. He has ECFMG certification and wants to obtain medical training in the US. He knows he has to convert to a J 1 visa for that purpose. While he is most interested in a surgical residency, he knows it is difficult for a foreigner to obtain a position as a SR. Therefore he indicates that FP would be an option. He has an apartment in Bloomfield and wants to be an observer in CCM during the summer, starting immediately. In September, he must be in an approved academic program to keep his F 1 visa valid.
May 16 - June 30, 2005
 Mario Ponce is starting his senior year in medical school this year and will graduate in 2006 from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He is planning on surgical training after that and this spring has a 6 week leave to visit our CCM Dep as an observer. He will start in the Trauma ICU during which time he wants to visit the ED as well. This will be followed by 2 weeks in the VA SICU with the final ICU rotation to be determined later. His visiting period is from May 16 through June 30.
May - October, 2005
 Dr
Muslum Cicek is an assistant professor of anesthesiology/reanimation
at Inonu University in Turkey. He will be an observer in our CCM
Department for 5 months. Arriving in Pittsburgh at the end of April,
he spent the first few days looking for an apartment for himself
, his MD wife and their 3 yo daughter. His interest is in various
ICUs but primarily Traumatology and nutrition of the critically
ill patients. Accordingly, he has started with a rotation in the
Trauma ICU. He also wants to visit WISER.
March
- May, 2005
 Xose Perez,
MD, is a 1998 graduate of the University of Santiago de Compostela
in Spain. He has had some previous international experience in
Norway and Germany. Currently a medical resident in the Intensive
Care Department of Belvitge Hospital in Barcelona, since 2000,
he will graduate from that program this year. As a senior resident
he is permitted a visit abroad and has chosen to be an observer
in our CCM Dep. He started on March 10 with a rotation through
the pediatric ICU at CHP and will continue with our trauma ICU
in April and Neurovascular ICU in May. He is returning to Spain
on June 1. He speaks very good English and is a pleasant colleague
who should be a pleasure to have on ICU rounds.
February -
April, 2005
 Argentinian
internist visiting CCM as observer.
Dr Laura Burelli-Martinez graduated
1999 from medical school in Buenos Aires. She became certified in
internal medicine last May and is in Pittsburgh because her PhD husband
is in Dr Angus' research group. During the Fall of 2004 she studied
English at Pitt's Language Institute and actually speaks our language
very well. She is bright and pleasant. The ICU rotations chosen are
VASICU, MICU and T/NSICU, in that order,during the months of February
through April.
January - February, 2005
 Brazilian CCM/ID physician visiting for a month.
Dr Thiago
Coelho is a 1997 graduate of Universidade Federal da Paraiba in Brazil.
This included a year of rotating internship following which he received
training in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and CCM over a
total of five years. He has now served on the faculty at the University
of Sao Paulo. Dr Coelho has taken and passed USMLE steps 1 and 2
heading for step 3 this year to include the clinical skills exam.
He is interested in applying for IM residency in the US and later
also CCM fellowship. His wife is a lawyer and she will attend law
school in the US in the meantime. During Dr Coelho's visit to UPMC
this month, he wishes to have weeklong rotations through the MICU,
the ID Division, the Neurovascular ICU and the transplant ICU.
September - October,
2004
 Peruvian trauma surgeon visiting CCM.
Patricio Polanco, MD, is a magna cum laude graduate in 2000
of Universidad Particular San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. After
completing residency in general surgery, including trauma,
he now holds a position at San Pablo Private General Hospital in
Lima. He is particularly interested in observing trauma cases and
will start his visit to UPMC with a rotation in the Trauma ICU.
September 1 - 8, 2004
 Anesthesiologist/Intensivist from Bogota, Colombia.
Dr Efrain Riveros is visiting our CCM Department. He is a 1994 graduate of Universio Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. After anesthesiology residency, he also completed traiing in CCM, which included some time in Haifa, Israel. He is a certified anesthesiologist in Colombia after taking the written exam 12/03 and the oral 6/04 and is now director of an 8 bed GICU in a community hospital in the outskirts of Bogota but interested in obtaining an anesthesiology residency in the US to be followed by CCM fellowship. He has taken and passed USMLE steps 1 and 2 and took the CSA exam in Chicago 1 week ago. At UPMC, he has observed cardiac research with Dr Pinsky and visited our T/NSICU
September - November, 2004
 Trauma surgeon from Colombia.
Dr Jaime Pineda is a 1993 graduate
of Universidad Libre de Colombia in Cali, Colombia. After training
in general and emergency surgery, including trauma, which he completed
in 2000, he is holding a combined position as an emergency surgeon
and intensivist at Fundacion Valle del Lili in Cali. Currently, Dr
Pineda holds a 3 month stipend to visit a trauma and CCM center abroad
and has chosen to spend this time at UPMC. Dr Juan Carlos Puyana is
serving as Dr Pineda's sponsor. Dr Pineda is starting in our Trauma
ICU and will also be observing suitable cases in the ED and OR. At
the end of his stay in the US, Dr Pineda will attend The PanAmerican
Trauma Congress in Miami, beginning November 17.
August 16 - September 30, 2004
 Physician visiting from Peru.
Dr Jair Munoz graduated in 2001
as # 2 in his class at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos School
of Medicine in Lima, Peru. His main interest is in CCM but after 1
1/2 years as a resident in this South American primary specialty, he
decided to seek training in the US. He has passed USMLE step 1 and
also recently taken step 2. He will sit for the CSA in California in
the Fall and in the meantime will serve as a visiting observing physician
in our department, scheduled for rotations thorough the VA SICU and
the MICU. He will seek an internal medicine residency, hopefully starting
July 1, 2005, to be followed by CCM training.
August - October, 2004
 Neurosurgical resident visiting from Colombia, SA.
Dr Andres Rubiano is a fifth year neurosurgical resident at University El Bosque in Bogota, Colombia. After graduation in Jan. 2005, he will assume the position as chief of the ED at a major trauma hospital in southern Colombia. Senior residency in Colombia requires experiences abroad and Dr Rubiano has chosen to spend August through October in our Department of CCM. Assigned as a visitng observing surgeon in the T/NS ICU he will have opportunities to follow the trauma team in both the ED and OR. He will also visit WISER to observe suitable simulation sessions.
 August 2 - December 31, 2004
Senior medical student from Colombia.
Maria Carolina
Ruiz is graduating from medical school at the University of Antioquia
in Medellin, Colombia, in December, 2004. Her last assignment is
a mandatory experience abroad and she has chosen our Department
of CCM at Pitt for this. She has been an international exchange
student during two occassions at McGill University in Montreal
and speaks excellent English. In Pittsburgh she will share her
experinces as an observer in our ICUs in am and research work together
with Dr Juan Ochoa in his laboratory in pm. It is her intention
to apply for surgical training after graduation.
May - August, 2004
 Anesthesiologist/Intensivist visiting from Turkey.
Dr Zekeriyya Alanoglu is an anesthesiology and intensive care specialist at the University of Ankara Hospital, who is spending four months at UPMC as a visiting observing physician. He has been in the OR observing transplantation anesthesia and surgery during May and June, followed by the month of July in our Liver Transplantation ICUs and will be in the CTICU during the month of August. Dr Alanoglu is another representative of the close collaboration between Ankara and Pittsburgh.
July 1 - 7, 2004
Japanese Visitors to CCM.
Four Junior medical students from the Hokkaido University School of Medicine in Sapporo, Japan, visited the Pitt
Departments of CCM and Surgery as well as the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) July 1 - 7, 2004,
to compare US organ donation proinciples with those in Japan. Although Japan legalized brain death in 1997 for
certification of death, public opinion still necessitates cardiac death before organs can be removed for transplantation
purposes. As a consequence, organ transplantation remains relatively rare in Japan. The group of students will also
visit Harvard University in Boston before returning home to report on their observations in this country. The four students were:
Mitsuhiro Kita, Motokazu Uchigashima, Genta Ishikawa and Kenta Takahashi.
June 2004
 Dr Vikas K. Dosi is a 1992 graduate of the University of Vadodara
in Western India. His wife is an associate professor of Medicine
at that university and Dr Dosi is directing the Medical ICU at
a small university affiliated hospital in Vadodara, which only
has 140 beds but a 10 bed MICU, 8 bed SICU and 15 bed CCU/CTICU.
In other words, they perform open heart surgery, receive trauma
patients and are planning on starting transplants in the near future.
As a visiting observing physician Dr Dosi will spend time on rounds
in our NeuroICU, MICU, Trauma ICU, Liver TXICU and CTICU. He will
round up his experiences in the US with participation in a mechanical
ventilation meeting in NYC June 25 - 27 before returning to India.
June 2004
 Dr Branko Milicevic is the current
ICU team member of Dr Sava Nenic's group in Serbia/Montenegro visiting
our CCM Department during the month of June, 2004. He is a graduate
of the University of Novi Sad School of Medicine and is trained
and certified in Clinical Physiology and Pulmonology, a staff member
of the MICU at the Institute for Pulmonary Diseases, Sremska Kamenica
in Serbia. He will rotate as a visiting observing physaician through
most of our ICUs as well as the MICU.
May 2004
 Our alumnus, Dr Sava Nenic, is sending another
of his ICU trainees from Serbia for experiences in Pittsburgh.
Dr Uros Batranovic, MD is a fourth year medical resident on ICU
rotation during his senior year. He will spend approximately one
week each in the Trauma, Cardiothoracic, Medical and finally the
General Surgical ICU at VAMC as an observing physician and participate
in all our educational activities as well.
May 3 - August 28, 2004
 Guiseppe Chiaramonte, MD, started his University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) assignment on May 3rd and will
remain here until August 28th. Traditionally, this begins with
OR experiences and will be followed by rotations in the Liver TX
ICU plus a few days in the CT ICU toward the end. Dr Chiaramonte
is also likely to attend a couple of pediatric liver transplants
and spend a few days in the ICU at Children's Hospital.
May 3 - June 25, 2004
 Dr Falguni Parikh graduated from the Bombay University in 1989. She is certified in Internal Medicine and currently holds a position as Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine / CCM in Nair Charitable Hospital, a 1500 bed university hospital affiliated with Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), India. Dr Parikh is a life time member of the Indian SCCM. She has several publications, scientific papers, reviews and book chapters, all related to CCM. Besides CCM at large, she has a special interest in tropical medicine and infectious diseases. Dr Parikh has been awarded a medical fellowhip for her travels to the US and has chosen to spend her entire time in our department.
May 3 - June 25, 2004
 Dr Yasser Etman obtained his MB BCh degree at the Suez Canal University in Egypt, 2000. He has held various positions in Egypt and is currently in general practice in Cairo. He has a strong interest in CCM but there is no training in this field in his country. As he desires to have CCM training in the US, he has taken USMLE steps 1 and 2 with the clinical skills exam scheduled for September this year and USMLE step 3 in January, 2005. He will then apply for medical residency followed by CCM training. In the meantime, he wishes to see how CCM is practiced in this country.
April 26-30, 2004
 Dr Katarina Holzer is a Privat Dozent in General Surgery at the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She has
an impressive scientific background and is interested in septic
problems in surgical patients, liver malignancies and research.
Presently touring prominent centers in the US, she has included
the University of Pittsburgh in her study tour.
April 19,
2004 (Successful alumnus)
 Dr Jacques Romand served as an Anesthesiology CCM Fellow in our
program during academic year 1990/1991, combining his clinical
year with substantial research with Dr Pinsky as his mentor.
Upon completion of this fellowship, Dr Romand returned to his
native Switzerland. Since then he has worked on Dr Peter Suter's
renowned intensive care service as Director of the SICU at the
Canton University Hospital in Geneva, mostly responsible also
for the entire service as Dr Suter during this time has served
as Dean of the Medical School and more recently Vice Rector (Provost)
for the University of Geneva. After leaving Pittsburgh, Dr Romand
returned here repeatedly to finalize his research with Dr Pinsky,
which resulted in several publications. Dr Romand is a frequent
contributor to the medical scientific literature and is also
very active in the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
(ESICM). As the current ESICM Secretary, he will be nominated
for the position as President Elect next year.
April 2004
 Asia Mohsin, MD visiting as an observer from Pakistan.
Dr Asia Mohisn is a Pakistani physician who graduated in 2000 from Rawalpindi Medical College in Pakistan. Her husband is a psychiatrist at Cigna in Pittsburgh. Dr Mohsin came to Pittsburgh in January this year. So far, she has taken USMLE steps 1 and 2 with the scores 90 and 82. She intends to take the CSA in September and USMLE step 3 in November this year. In the meantime she wants to be an observer in our ICUs. She will apply for medical residency and then CCM. Preferably, she would like to rotatate through MICU, CCU, OB/GYN ICU, VA SICU and T/NS ICU, starting in MICU on April 5.
April 2004
 Jovan Matijasevic, MD from Serbia/Montenegro
Our CCM Fellowship alumnus, Dr Sava Nenic, of Serbia/Montenegro is sending his associates and ICU trainees for one month each as observers in our CCM Department. The first one is Dr Jovan Matijasevic, a fourth year medical resident, who during the month of April will rotate through T/NS ICU, CTICU, VA SICU and MICU.
March 8 - 12, 2004
Intensivist from Sweden visiting
CCM/SCRR/WISER.
 Hans Friberg, MD PhD, Docent and Associate Director
of the General ICU at the University Hospital of Lund, Sweden, included
our CCM Department in his tour of several critical care centers in
the US. Performing research himself on the use of hypothermia in Lund,
he followed a couple of suspended animation experiments on dogs
at SCRR. He joined our CCM attendings on rounds in the Trauma ICU,
CT ICU and VA SICU. A visit to WISER was also included in his brief
but well utilized visit.
February 2004
Romanian Internist/US
Immigrant
 Dr Cristian Badau graduated in 1994 from medical
school in his native Romania. Later, he emigrated to the US and
obtained internal medicine training in a New York Medical College
affiliated program. He was certified by ABIM in 2000 and then functioned
as an internist in an underserved area to obtain a green card.
While waiting for this and his work permit, he is a visiting observing
physician in our CCM Department. He first spent a month in the
MICU and is currently in the SICU at VAMC.
February - June, 2004
Virna Medina, MD from Cali, Colombia 
Dr Virna Medina graduated in 1996 from Universidad del Valle in Cali,
Colombia. She is currently a fourth year OB/GYN resident at that
university. This seniority permits her to spend half a year as a
visitor to a medical center abroad. Being interested in the critically
ill patients, she has chosen to visit our Department of CCM, Feb.
- June, 2004. She is starting her ICU experiences with a rotation
in the ICU at MWH. She will also be the guest of the Pitt Department
of OB/GYN.
February 26 - March 2, 2004
Sava Nenic, MD from Serbia and Montenegro
As an internist, Dr Sava Nenic was a CCM Fellow 1998 - 2000. Upon return to his native country, he has designed and opened a 5 bed modern and very well equipped MICU at the Institute for Pulmonary Diseases Sremska Kamenica in Serbia and Montenegro as his country is now called. Refreshing his experiences in our program, Dr Nenic rounded in several of the UPMC ICUs with our CCM attendings. He has five associates in his CCM group and will send all of them for successive monthlong visits to our department, beginning asap.
February 3 - March 30, 2004
Elena Jimeno, MD from Spain
 Elena Jimeno, MD, holds the primary specialty of CCM in Spain. She serves as an intensivist in the General ICU of the University Hospital San Cecilio in Granada. This is an 800 bed facility with an 18 bed GICU, including 6 beds of CCU. The hospital performs major vascular surgery but is not a trauma center and does not perform open heart surgery or transplantations. Nonetheless, Dr Jimeno would appreciate experiences in the related ICUs a t UPMC.
January 26-30, 2004
Hans Pargger,MD Intensivist from Switzerland
Dr Hans Pargger is Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medicine and Director of the Surgical ICU at the University Hospital
of Basel, Switzerland. He will concentrate his short visit to our
CTICU, joining Dr Boujoukos this week. His particular interest is
with Heart and Lung Transplant patients, ECMO, LVAD and other cardiothoracic
problems in intensive care. However, he also had an opportunity to
visit WISER, as they have a small simulator program in Basel as well.
January 8 - February 20, 2004
 Cecilia Luengo, MD from Chile
Dr Luengo is a 1998 graduate of Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, where she also obtained her training in internal medicine. She is certified in this specialty in Chile. Currently, Dr Luengo is in her senior year of CCM training at the University Hospital in Santiago. This permits a 2 yr rotation abroad and Dr Luengo chose to join our Department of CCM for the first two months of this year as a visiting observing physician. She will rotate through the Trauma, Cardiothoracic, Liver TX ICUs and the SICU at VA.
September 2003 - January 2004
 Turkan Togal, MD, visiting anesthesiologist from Turkey.
Dr Togal is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Inonu University
Hospital, an 1800 bed facility with some 120 ICU beds
in Inonu,
Turkey. She graduated in 1989 and finished her anesthesia residnecy
in 1995. She has special experience and interest in neuroanesthesia
and trauma intensive care.
August 2003 - January 2004
 Maria Escobar,MD, is visiting UPMC as an observing obstetrics/gynaecology
resident on an elective rotation from her alma mater, the University
of Valle in Cali, Colombia, SA. Dr Escobar graduated from this university
medical school in 1998
and will finalize her training in June of
2004. She has been scientifically active and already has 20 publications
on obstetric and fetal problems. Her main interests are with critical
care in obstetrics and trauma during pregnancy. She is starting
her experiences at UPMC with a rotation through the MWH ICU to be
followed by observation in the obstetric labor suite and the Neonatal
ICU.
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