Dr. Patrick Kochanek is Cleveland Clinic's Choice for 2008 Bakken Award and Lecture

Dr. Earl Bakken was the developer of the first wearable cardiac pacemaker and founder of Medtronic., Inc. On June 4, 2008, at the third Heart-Brain Summit of the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Patrick Kochanek was invited to give the annual Bakken Lecture and received the 2008 Bakken Heart-Brain Pioneer Award for his innovative research in the field of heart-brain medicine. The title of his presentation was "The Brain, the Heart, and Therapeutic Hypothermia." This is a most prestigeous award and we congratulate Dr. Kochanek for this honor. READ MORE

Professor Elie Azoulay of Paris - Invited Speaker

Elie Azoulay, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris, France, is the Director of the MICU at Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital in Paris. He is a member of the Ethics Section of ESICM and on the Editorial Board of both "Reanimation" and "Intensive Care Medicine." He is also Director of the French "FAMIREA" study group aimed at improving effectiveness of communication  with family members of ICU patients. Professor Azoulay is a prolific writer with over 100 published scientific papers on mostly ethical problems in CCM. READ MORE

6th Annual Safar Symposium Outstanding Success

The 6th Annual Safar Symposium was held on May 15, 2008 in the Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. 

The morning session focused on "Neurocritical Careand Neuroanesthesia for Infants and Children."  Dr. Vinay Nadkarni, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, gave an excellent view on the future of resuscitation of children in a talk titled "Pediatric Resuscitation in the 21st Century."  Following him was Dr. Clifton Callaway of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. READ MORE