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Name:

Michael F. OÕConnor, M.D.

 

 

Department of Primary Appointment:

Department  of Anesthesia and Critical Care

 

Secondary

appointments:

Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department  of Medicine

 

Present rank:

Associate Professor

 

Present track:

Clinician Educator

 

Proposed rank:

PROFESSOR

 

Proposed track:

CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR

DEPARTMENT: What is the candidate's field or specialization within medicine?

Clinical anesthesiology with fellowship training and certification in critical care medicine

LAY SUMMARY:

Clinically, Dr. OÕConnor is a physician with specialty training in anesthesiology and subspecialty training and certification in critical care medicine.  He provides clinical anesthesia care for surgical patients in the operating rooms including preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative follow up with special interest and expertise in anesthesia for patients undergoing liver transplantation.  He divides his clinical time between the operating rooms and attending in several ICUs. 

 

Educationally, Dr. OÕConnor is heavily involved in clinical and didactic teaching of fellows, residents and medical students in the perioperative setting and in the ICUs.  For the past 3 years, he has served as Course Director for Vignettes in Physiology, a hugely popular senior selective course.  On the national level, Dr. OÕConnor is extensively involved in running the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists annual meetings and in the critical care track of the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. 

 

From an administrative perspective, he serves as section chief for the section of Critical Care within our department and as the fellowship director for our ACGME accredited critical care fellowship.  His section currently includes 6 other board certified intensivists.

 

Dr. OÕConnorÕs scholarly activities are considerable for someone in the CE track.  They include participation in several industry as well as non-industry sponsored clinical investigations.  He has authored several book chapters in the area of critical care medicine and lectures widely outside on our institution on related clinical topics.

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

National Committees:

       American Society of Anesthesiologists

                              Committee on Critical Care                                                               1994-5

                                                                                                                                                      2003-06

Committee on National Meeting – ICU track                                           2003-

Committee on Professional Education Oversight                    2005

 

               Society for Critical Care Medicine

                              Performance Improvement Module                                               2006-

 

               American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists

                              Co-chair, refresher course on critical care                                  1997, 2002

                              Chair, refresher course on critical care                                         1999, 2001

                              Chair, committee on review course                                               2002

                              Chair, subcommittee on breakfast panel                                     2002, 2003

                              Committee on Education                                                                    2002-

                              Co-chair ASCCA Annual Meeting                                                 2003-07

                              Board of Directors                                                                               2004-06

                              Conflict of Interest Task Force                                                         2004-05

                              Chair,  Membership                                                                               2004-7

Committee on Pay for Performance – ASCCA/CCM            2005-

Secretary                                                                                                     2006-08

 

 

       Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists

                              Midwest Anesthesia Conference                                                     2001-02

                              Alternate delegate,                                                                                 2000, 2001

 

       American Board of Anesthesiologists

                      Critical care question writer                                                               2001-

                      Question editor (critical care)                                                                          2005

 

       National Patient Safety Foundation at the AMA

                              Technical advisor                                                                                   1997- 2000

 

               Association of University Anesthesiologists

                              Elected member                                                                                      2003-

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

               Awards and Honors:

                              Sigma Xi                                                                                                     1987

                              Alpha Omega Alpha                                                                             1990

                              Foundation for Anesthesia and Education fellowship          1991

                                             Research Fellow          

                              Year in Review, American Thoracic Society                                           1996, 2000

                              Senior Class Picture                                                                               2006

 

               Professional Societies:

                              American Society of Anesthesiologists                                        1988-

                              American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists                           1994-

                              Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists                                              1988-

                              International Anesthesia Research Society                                 1993-

                              Society of Critical Care Medicine                                                   2003-

                              Association of University Anesthesiologists                                            2003-

 

               Editorial Responsibilities:

               Reviewer

               American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine              1995-00

               Anesthesia and Analgesia                                                                  1999-

               Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica                                          1996-97

               Critical Care Medicine                                                                         2004-

                              Anesthesiology                                                                                        2005-

 

I have served on a variety of advisory panels for pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Company                                               Panel________________________________

Astra Zeneca                                        Propofol for sedation in critically ill patients    1989-95

Abbott Pharmaceuticals                  Sevoflurane                                                                      1995

Burroughs-Welcome                        Cis-atracurium in the ICU                                          1995

Abbott Pharmaceuticals                  BIS monitoring advisory Board                              1996

Abbott Pharmaceuticals                  New Anesthetic Agents Task Force                      1994-6

Aspect Medical Systems                 BIS Monitoring in the ICU                                        1999

Abbott Pharmaceuticals                  Neuromuscular blocker advisory panel              1999

American Red Cross                         Albumin Advisory Panel                                           2000

American Red Cross                         SD-Plasma Advisory Panel                                       2002

Physiometrix Inc                                Brain Function Monitoring in the OR & ICU   2001-3

Abbott Pharmaceuticals                  Brain Function Monitoring Advisory Panel      2003

Glaxo Smith Kline                             Anticoagulation Advisory Panel                             2006

PRESENTATIONS

A.    Presentations & Invited Lectures:

Local:

These are my presentations at my departmentÕs annual CME conference, which has grown to be one of the largest and best CME conferences in our specialty.   In 2001, I started listing these as Regional talks, as our draw had increased.

 

1.           TEG for Burns and Liver Transplantation.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1991

 

2.           What can the Anesthesiologist do to help manage sedation and paralysis in the ICU?  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1993

 

3.           New Blood Substitutes.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1993

 

4.           DNR in the Operating Rooms: Issues and Controversies.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1994

 

5.           Sedation vs. General Anesthesia in the ICU: Costs, Monitoring, Pitfalls. WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1995

 

6.           Is there a blood substitute in my future?  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 1998

 

7.           Update on ICU Sedation.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 2000

 

Regional:

 

1.           Swan-Ganz vs TEE: Pros, Cons, and Pitfalls.  Clinical Applications of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, November 1993

 

2.           Management of Sedation in Critically Ill Patients.  Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Methodist Hospital, Southlake Hospital, Gary Indiana, July 1994

 

3.           Sedation in the ICU. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Borgess Medical Center, 1994

 

4.           Management of Sedation and Paralysis in the ICU: Issues for 1994. Symposium on Critical Care Medicine, Methodist Hospital, Southlake Hospital, Gary Indiana, September 1994

 

5.           Sedation in the ICU.  Critical Care Grand Rounds. University of Nebraska, Omaha Nebraska, September 1994

 

6.           Complications of TEE.  Clinical Applications of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, November 1994

 

7.           Sedation and Paralysis in the ICU.  Surgical Grand Rounds.  University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, August 1995

 

8.           Sedation in the ICU.  Surgical and Medical Critical Care Grand Rounds, University of Minnesota, October 1995

 

9.           Conscious Sedation. Hospital Grand Rounds, West Suburban Hospital, February 1996

 

10.        Sedation in the ICU. Trauma Grand Rounds, St Louis University, July 1996

 

11.        Sedation in the ICU.  Critical Care Grand Rounds, St JohnÕs Memorial Hospital, St JohnÕs, Missouri, July 1996

 

12.        Sedation in the ICU.  Surgical Grand Rounds, Methodist Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa, December 1996

 

13.        Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Update 1997.  Anesthesia Grand Rounds, Lutheran General Hospital, April 1997

 

14.        Swan vs Echo: Which is Better?? An Update.  Clinical Applications of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography,  Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, November 1997

 

15.        Understanding Medical Accidents: Complex Systems Failures.  Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, February 1999

 

16.        Sedation and Paralysis in the ICU.  Critical Care Grand Rounds, Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL, August 1999

 

17.        Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Ventilator Management.  Anesthesia Grand Rounds, Rush Medical Center, October, 1999

 

18.        Understanding Medical Accidents: Complex Systems failures. American College of Physicians, Annual Meeting, Springfield, Illinois, October, 2000

 

19.        Understanding Medical Accidents: Complex Systems failures.  Mercy Hospital, Chicago, IL, February 2001

 

20.        Update on Transfusion Therapy.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 2001

 

21.        Complex Systems Failures & Medical Accidents St Anthony Medical center Lang day conference, May 2002

 

22.        Complex Systems Failures: Understanding Medical Accidents.  Anesthesia Grand Rounds, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, August 2002

 

23.        Update on ICU: Vasopressin and recombinant Protein C.  WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 2002

 

24.        Update on Critical Care Medicine. Midwest Anesthesia Conference (MAC) Chicago, May 2003

 

25.        Update on Transfusion, Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists, Fall Meeting, November 2004

 

26.        Safety in the OR, Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists, Fall Meeting, November 2004

 

27.        Airway Management outside the OR: What airway? When? How?   Presented at: WhatÕs New? New Drugs, Techniques, and Technologies in Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Medical Education, December 2004

 

28.        Understanding Clinical Hemodynamics,  Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists, March 2006

 

National and International:

 

1.           Pharmacologic Influences on Gut Function, Symposium on gut function in critical illness, American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, May 1997

 

2.           Update on Cardiovascular Drugs.  American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists refresher course, Chicago, August 1997

 

3.           Chest radiology in the ICU.  American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists refresher course, Chicago, August 1997

 

4.           Invited Discussant, Workshop on Assembling the Scientific Basis for Progress in Patient Safety.  National Patient Safety Foundation at the AMA, Chicago, December 1997

 

5.           Sedation in the ICU.  Anesthesiology Grand Rounds, Loma Linda University, California, January 1998

 

6.           Facilitator,  Scientific Poster Session on Mechanical Ventilation, American Thoracic Society, Chicago, April 1998

 

7.           Complex Systems Failures: What medicine can learn from understanding accidents in other domains.  MMI Corporation, Atlanta, May 1998

 

8.           Potassium Administration and Drug safety.  Human Factors Society, Chicago, October 1998 (Invited on the basis of my interactions at 6 above)

 

9.           Complex Systems Failures - Understanding Medical Accidents.  Critical Care Plenary Lecture, Critical Care Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 1999

 

10.        Optimizing Mechanical Ventilation - Considerations for tailoring modes and settings to patients. Critical Care Grand Rounds, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 1999

 

11.        Pharmacotherapy of Shock.  ASCCA Critical Care Refresher Course, Chicago, IL September 1999

 

12.        North Arctic Air Crash Simulation, University of Cincinnati/Veterans Administration Hospital, September 13-14, 1999

 

13.        North American Air Crash Simulation, Columbus Veterans Administration Hospital, January 2000

 

14.        North American Air Crash Simulation, Cleveland VA Hospital, April 2000

 

15.        Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit.  Society for Airway Management, Quebec, June 2000 (When SAM needed someone to talk about this, they invited the author of the chapters in 2 of the major  texts)

 

16.        Complex Systems Failures:  Understanding Medical Accidents.  Health Association of New York State, Albany, New York, June 2000