CCM Visitors Over the Past Five Years.
During 2006, 19 physicians from 10 countries visited our Department of CCM. Data are available for the past five years. Since January 2002, we have had over 100 visiting physicians from 25 countries, representing all continents, i.e. Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, South and North America. Our visitors have shown interest in different clinical areas of CCM and, increasingly, in basic science research as well as patient care research and outcome studies. CCM's considerable use of simulation in the medical education of medical students, fellows, and other health care professionals has been drawing attention at an even greater extent to our Department.
November 28 - December 8
New England Medical Resident visiting for 10 days
 Dr. Tahere Ghaziani is an Iranian physician in her second year of medical residency at the University of Cambridge, MA. She is applying for a GI Fellowship that would follow her IM training. She has a special interest in liver transplantation and is visiting our CCM Department for that reason. Her friend, Dr. Mehrnaz Hadian, our Senior CCM Fellow, is her host during November 28 - December 8 while she participates in the activities of the Liver Transplant ICU at UPMC Montefiore.
October 15 - November 24
Chinese Surgeon/Scientist Visiting CCM
 Dr. Juanhai Ou is a 1990 graduate of Ningbo University School of Medicine in Shanghai, PRC. After three years of surgical residency at No. 1 Hospital of Ningbo University, he was an attending surgeon there for another year and then moved to the US. He took USMLE steps 1 and 2 while obtaining an MS degree at the Pitt School of Pharmacy as well as another MS degree at the Pitt School of Information Science. He has significant research experience with 17 peer review publications. He is currently interested in a US surgical residency but may have to consider another specialty such as emergency medicine. While waiting for potential acceptance into a US residency program, he wants to be an observer in some of our ICUs beginning with the Trauma ICU on Monday Oct. 15.
October 2006
Brazilian physician visiting CCM
 Dr. Ilusca Cardoso is a 2002 graduate of The Federal University of Goias in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After two years of internal medicine training she decided to switch to critical care medicine and is currently a senior resident in that specialty at Sao Paulo Fedral University. She will graduate in January 2007. As a senior resident, she has the option of obtaining a month of experienses abroad and has chosen to be an observer in our Department of CCM during the month of October. Dr. Cardoso wants to rotate through the Transplant ICU and the Cardiothoracic ICU.
September 29 - October 29, 2006
ISMETT-UPMC Palermo Clinical Instructor Visits Pitt CCM Department
 Dr. Guido Capitanio, Clinical Instructor at ISMETT - UPMC Palermo, will arrive in Pittsburgh on Friday, September 29, 2006, to observe and perform supervised clinical duties in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He will rotate through the Transplant and Cardiothoracic ICUs during October 2 – 29, 2006.
Dr. Capitano has worked as an Instructor in Anesthesiology at the Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT) since March 1, 2005. He received his Medical Degree from the University of Trieste in 1999. His training in Anesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Therapy was completed at The University of Trieste, Cattinara Hospital,Trieste, Italy. A Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory Advanced Training Fellowship was accomplished at Hospital Carlos Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Capitanio’s knowledge base is superb, and he has become an excellent teacher and educator of medical students and nurses.
September - November 2006
Spanish Intensive Care Resident Visiting Pitt CCM
 Dr. Concha Moragues is a 2000 graduate of the University of Valencia in Spain. She is currently a senior resident in ICM and will graduate in June 2007. Dr. Moragues is a visiting observer in our Department of CCM during September - November 2006. She is particularly interested in Transplantation, Trauma/Neurosurgery, Neurovascular and Cardiothoracic ICU experiences.
September 2006
Brazilian Intensive Care Resident visiting CCM Department
 Dr. Ana Nascente graduated in 2002 from the Federal University of Goias in Brazil. As a senior resident in ICM at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, she will graduate in January 2007. She is visiting our Department of CCM during the month of September 2006. Dr. Nascente is interested in experiences in our Transplant, Cardiothoracic and General ICUs.
August 15 - November 7, 2006
Indian Internist Visiting UPMC ICUs
 Dr. Viral Lathia graduated from medical school in India in 2003. He has worked in internal medicine at an Indian hospital since then but also served in the UK in respiratory medicine for 4 months. His English is excellent. He is bright and eager to obtain some insight in US CCM. He is currently applying for an IM residency in this country and expects to be called upon for interviews in November, hoping to start his residency in July 2007. His main interest is to have experiences in our medical and cardiac ICUs. He is currently staying with his brother in Bridgeville, who is a chemical engineer employed in Pittsburgh. Dr. Lathia's observership at UPMC is expected to start Aug. 15 and end Nov. 7, 2006.
June 12 - August 12, 2006
Visiting Physician from ISMETT-Palermo
 Dr. Samantha Nadalin is graduated in 2000 from the University of Trieste School of Medicine in Italy. After training and specialization in anesthesiology and intensive care at the same institution, in 2004 she moved to ISMETT-Palermo where she is a fellow and clinical instructor. Since June 12, 2006, she has been a visitor at UPMC. She has been assigned to cardiac anesthesiology through July 16 and to liver transplant anesthesia during July 17 through 28. Dr. Nadalin will spend her last two weeks (July 31 - Aug. 11) in the CTICU and will return to Italy on August 13. Her hosts in the OR are Drs. Erin Sullivan and Ray Planinsci, and then Dr. Boujoukos will be her host during her final CCM rotation. Dr. Nadalin holds hospital privileges at UPMC-Presbyterian.
August 2006
Colombian Physician to do CCM Research for a Year
 Dr. Veronica Munera is a 2001 graduate from the Institute of Health Science in Medellin, Colombia. Having worked in general practice for a year, she wants to seek an internal medicine residency in the US. She has taken and passed USMLE Steps 1 and 2 and is ECFMG certified. She will take Step 3 in August. During the current academic year she will do laboratory research on nutrition with Dr. Ochoa who will serve as her host. She also wishes to visit, as an observer, different ICUs of her choice.
July 10 - August 12, 2006
Medical Student from Turkey Visiting Pitt CCM
Onur Saydam is a medical student at the Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey and plans to graduate in 2008. He is currently using the opportunity to visit the US. Dr. Atilla Soran of Surgical Oncology at MWH has been his host since July 10. After a week at MWH, he has been recommended to observe in our Transplant ICU at MUH to be followed by a rotation in Radiology at MWH. He will return to Turkey on August 12.
July 17 - August 11, 2006
Medical Student from Turkey Visiting Pitt CCM
 Can Ozutemiz is a 2008 graduate from Hacettepe Medical School in Ankara, Turkey. In anticipation of future medical training in the US, he is visiting our CCM Department for observation during July 17 - August 11. He wants to visit two weeks each in the CTICU and Pediatric ICU. Dr. Hulya Bayir of our Pediatric CCM Division is his host.
June 2006
Brazilian Physician Visiting CCM
 Dr. Ricardo Reis Sanga graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in 1998. Upon completing his internal medicine residency, he trained in CCM and then served as CCM Chief Resident for an additional year. Since 2003, he has been attending in the MICU. His training and professional experience have been at the U of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Sanga's intention is to visit our CCM Department as an observer during June. He will start on May 31 in our Trauma ICU and after two weeks will move to the Liver TX ICU. He is considering training in the US next year in Anesthesia or Emergency Medicine followed with a CCM fellowship. Dr. Sanga is bright, goal oriented, and speaks very good English.
May - July 2006
Indian Physician Visiting CCM Department
 Dr. Anil Kakumanu is a 2003 graduate of Guntur Medical College in India. After a compulsory internship in India, he moved to Trinidad in the West Indies. Since 2004, he has served as house officer in anesthesia and intensive care at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt. Hope, Trinidad. He is preparing for a medical residency in the US and, in the meantime, wishes to visit our CCM Department during May through July 2006. He would particularly like to have rotations in the CTICU, Transplant ICU and CCU. He payed a preliminary visit to our department in December 2005 and was noted to be a bright young physician with an excellent command of the English language.
April 8 - June 10, 2006
Italian Physician from ISMETT, Palermo, Visiting the UPMC Departments of Anesthesiology and CCM
 Dr. Tiziana Carollo is a 1999 cum laude graduate of Palermo University School of Medicine in Italy. Since 2004 when she completed her residency in anesthesia and intensive care medicine at Trieste University, Italy, she holds a position as Instructor in Anesthesia and CCM at ISMETT, Palermo. She has also completed a year of research internship in the Department of ICM at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. She comes highly recommended for a 2-month visiting instructor position in our Departments of Anesthesiology and CCM during April 8 - June 10. The plan is to have her to spend 3 weeks in Cardiac Anesthesia, 1 week in Liver Anesthesia, 3 weeks in CTICU, and then 1 week in Liver ICU. Drs. Ray Planinsic, Joe Quinlan and Arthur Boujoukos have agreed to serve as supervisors during her stay at UPMC. She has been provided an institutional license that legally permits her to perform patient care activities.
April 2006
Colombian Physician Visiting CCM Department
 Dr. Hernando Gomez graduated in 2001 from the National University of Colombia in Bogota. He completed a mandatory Social Service year in research, studying myocardial oxygen consumption and then completed a year of intensive care training. Dr. Gomez still has a third year of anesthesiology residency to complete. At this time he has the option to spend a year abroad. Interested in intensive care, he has come to the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting observing physician in our Trauma/Neurosurgical ICU and may follow with two weeks in the VA SICU. Dr. Gomez also plans to visit WISER before returning home on April 29.
March 23 - April 13, 2006
Ecuadorian Medical Student Visiting CCM
 Ricardo Salmon is a third year student in his six year medical school at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in Ecuador. He is visiting his brother Adrian Salmon, MD, who is a current CCM Fellow in our program. Dr. Salmon is on his rotation in the VAMC SICU during March and April and will bring his brother Ricardo along for observation in that ICU, March 23 - April 13, until Ricardo returns to Ecuador with the current intention to do a surgical residency after completion of medical school.
March 2006
South Korean Internist Visiting UPMC CCM
 Dr. Kyoung-Hoon Rhee graduated in 2002 from the University of Cho Sun, School of Medicine in South Korea. He is currently in his fourth year of medical residency at Asan Medical Center of the University of Ulsan. This is a large hospital with some 2,300 beds where transplantations are performed of livers, kidneys and pancreata as well as hearts. Dr. Rhee has been accepted into a hepatology fellowship program, which will be followed by CCM training. His main interest is in liver transplantation problems. Dr. Rhee has visited the PM/CCM Division for three weeks and wants to spend the last week of his month long stay at UPMC observing in our abdominal transplant ICU. He would like to start in the Liver ICU on March 23 and remain an observer in that unit until he leaves on March 29.
February - April 2006
South Korean Physician Visiting CCM Department
 Dr. Sung Sik Chon is an anesthesiologist/intensivist at the National Health Insurance Corporation Ilsan Hospital in South Korea. He graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul 1994, and completed anesthesiology residency, including intensive care medicine training in 2000, all at his alma mater. Since 2000 he works in OR anesthesiology and the SICU of the 750 bed Ilsan Hospital. This is a major trauma hospital which also performs cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery but no transplants to date. Dr. Chon has been a visiting observer in the UPMC Department of Anesthesiology since August 2005. On February 1, he moves to CCM and will have rotations in the Transplant ICU, SICU and finally in the Trauma ICU for one month in each. May through August, he will visit Shadyside Hospital to observe our regional plan at UPMC and overall organization.
January 2006
Drs. Mauricio Beller Ferri and Rogerio da Hora Passos are both fellows in CCM training at the Center for Intensive Therapy at Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 Dr. Ferri has completed residency in Internal Medicine followed by CCM Fellowship which he will complete at the end of Jan. 2006. Later in the Spring this year, he will continue CCM training and research under Professor William Sibbauld in Canada. |
 Dr. Passos has completed internal medicine residency in Philadelphia. He finished his nephrology training at the University of Sao Paulo. Rogerio was a visiting observer at UCSD in the Department of Nephrology and at University of Melbourne in Australia in the Department of CCM. He will start his senior year in CCM training in Sao Paulo in Feb. 2006. |
| Drs. Ferri and Passos are interested in rotations through our Trauma ICU, CTICU and Liver Transplant ICU during their visiting observership to our CCM Department this month. They will conclude their visit with us on February 3, 2006. |
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