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Previous Recipients
Nominating Criteria - William Lanier, Jr., M.D., F.A.CA., 2011 Recipient
2010 Teacher of the Year Award - Hari Hara Dash, M.D.
 A highlight of the SNACC 39th Annual Meeting in San Diego was the recognition of Hari Hara Dash, M.D., for the distinguished Teacher of the year. Dr. Dash is a senior neuroanesthesiologists from India. He is the founder president of the Indian Society of Neuroanesthesiology & Critical Care (ISNACC) and a founder member of the Asian Society of Neuroanesthesiology and Critical Care (ASNACC).
Dr. Dash is a very renowned and respected teacher in the field of Neuroanesthesiology and has contributed tremendously to the growth in our specialty across Asia. He is the leading man behind the best neuroanesthesiology Department in India and is the first anesthesiologist to chair the neurosciences Center of All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences.
Dr. Dash has trained numerous anesthesiologists over the years and people trained with him are spread all over the world – some are in the US, but there are many others in UK, Australia, Canada, and other countries. A very important aspect of his teaching achievement is the fact that he has trained numerous anesthesiologists from many developing countries (including Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Kenya); these trained individuals have started Neuroanesthesia set-ups in their respective countries under his guidance. This has a tremendous impact on the growth of neuroanesthesiology across the developing world. Many of his former mentees are now doing good quality research and producing many publications. He is well known to most neuroanesthesiologists in the world and much deserving of this award.
2009 Teacher of the Year Award –Arthur M. Lam, M.D.
 A highlight of the SNACC 37th Annual Meeting in New Orleans was the recognition of Arthur M. Lam, M.D. for the Teacher of the Year Award. His achievements embody the SNACC’s mission in the areas of Research in Clinical Neurosciences and Education in Neuroanesthesia and Critical Care. In all respects Dr. Lam’s accomplishments make him a worthy recipient of this honor.
Research Activities:
Dr. Lam has an extensive record of accomplishment in clinical neuroscience research. He has pioneered the use of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography as a noninvasive tool to investigate cerebrovascular physiology in the setting of anesthesia and traumatic brain injury. More importantly, he served as a mentor for a generation of academic neuroanesthesiologists and intensivists throughout the world. Many of these individuals have assumed leadership roles in their academic departments and SNACC. His bibliography of over 200 publications and 4 textbooks is a testament of his influence on our subspecialty.
Educational Activities:
Dr. Lam has been an outstanding teacher and educator throughout his career. In the physiology laboratory as well as at the bedside, he has served as mentor for dozens of trainees in neuroanesthesia and neuroscience. He is unique in his extraordinary ability to foster critical thinking and to stimulate trainees to develop and nurture life-long curiosity in our field. His reputation and standing as an authority and educator in neuroanesthesia have been validated by more than 200 invited lectures in his fields of expertise at the regional, national and international level for professional societies, medical centers and medical schools and more than 40 invitations as a visiting professor at major institutions in this country and abroad. He is in great demand as a speaker and educator internationally. He has also chaired and directed several clinical symposia on neuroanesthesia and critical care.
SNACC Contributions:
In 1997-8, Dr. Lam served as the 24th president of the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC), the largest international society in this field and he continues to have a significant presence in our annual meetings. His major contribution to SNACC was fostering the importance of cerebrovascular physiology and advocating the use of transcranial Doppler technology in the care of the neurologically impaired patient.
Summary:
Dr. Lam’s accomplishments include internationally recognized contributions as an educator, clinician, and clinical investigator. His ability to excel simultaneously in these areas marks him as one of the giants in our field and a role model for aspiring academic neuroanesthesiologists. It is clear that he ranks at the very top of his field both nationally and internationally. Over the years, Dr. Lam has been a great source for professional advice and guidance for aspiring and veteran neuroanesthesiologists and intensivists. He is always generous with his ideas that are based on his experience and unyielding devotion to academic neuroanesthesia. Dr. Lam is without doubt a worthy recipient of a 2009 SNACC Teacher of the Year Award.
Submitted by Karen M. Domino, MD, MPH and Sulpicio G. Soriano MD
The 2008 Recipient - Dr. Eberhard Kochs
 Professor Dr. Eberhard Kochs, M.D., M.Sc., Chair of the Department of Anaesthesia, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitat in Munich, Germany received the 2008 Award for Distinguished Teacher osf the Year at the 36th Annual Meeting on Friday October 17 in Orlando, Florida. During the business luncheon meeting, a large group of Professor Kochs’ past trainees stood up and cheered when Professor Kochs received this important and prestigious honor!
The SNACC Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award is given to individuals who have shown continued excellence in neuroanesthesia education. Professor Kochs was chosen by the selection committee (Karen B. Domino, M.D., M.P.H., Deborah Rusy, M.D., and Brenda Fahy, M.D.) based upon over two decades of outstanding mentorship, curricular design, and development of educational programs in neuroanesthesia and neurological critical care. Professor Kochs has mentored over 50 trainees in neuroanesthesia and the majority of these trainees have excelled in careers in academic medicine. Two of his trainees (Christian Werner, M.D. and Kristin Englehard, M.D.) recently held leadership positions in SNACC. Professor Kochs’ ability to inspire and motivate such a large number of residents and fellows to develop and succeed in academic medicine is truly remarkable!
Professor Kochs has been instrumental in the design of medical student, resident, and fellow education at the Technische Universitat in Munich. He is responsible for curricular design in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and intensive care curriculum in the medical school. Professor Kochs has strongly promoted simulation-based education, and he was instrumental in establishing simulation-based anesthesia training for medical students and simulation-based training in CPR and crisis resource management. He was instrumental in developing a curriculum in neuromonitoring in anesthesia, which was implemented throughout Germany. This program provides theoretical and practical training in a variety of neuromonitoring techniques and results in certification.
Professor Kochs was described by his trainees as possessing superb broad clinical and research expertise, with the unique talent to impart knowledge in a “fascinating and exciting way.” He constantly contributes to education with “precise comments and scientific remarks, regardless of the topic at hand” and with a “very structured and analyzed manner with a strong theoretical background.” Professor Kochs is described as one of the “most gifted teachers in the international arena of academic medicine.”
Professor Kochs is internationally recognized for his clinical and basic research throughout anesthesiology, including depth of anesthesia monitoring, neuroprotection, postoperative cognitive deficit, mechanisms of pain, modulation of receptor function by anesthetics, and septic encephalopathy. He has produced over 245 journal articles and 55 book chapters. His research is internationally highly regarded, and he has received many awards and research grants over the decades, as well as journal editorships.
In addition to being a prolific clinician, teacher, and scientist, Professor Kochs possesses the personal attributes that are so important in medical training and development of professionalism today. These characteristics include honesty, respect, dedication, reliability, kindness, and humility.
To sum it up, Christian Werner, MD, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Anesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, in Mainz, Germany and Past President of SNACC wrote in his nomination letter: “I can truly and by all heart characterize Dr. Eberhard Kochs as my teacher. My maturation to become an academic physician was clearly related to Professor Kochs’ ability to identify potential in individuals, to motivate for research and clinical work, and to taper teaching programs according to individual skills.” Clearly, Professor Kochs’ educational efforts have resulted in a legacy of successful academicians and clinicians in neuroanesthesiology for which all of us aspire. We congratulate him on receiving the 2008 SNACC Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.
2007 - The Distriquished Teacher Award was not awarded
The 2006 Recipient - Dr. John Drummond
David SmithDistinguished Teaching Award – Dr. John Drummond
The Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC) is an organization dedicated to improving the art and science of neurosurgical anesthesia, and the care of the critically ill, neurologically impaired patient. Critical to this mission is the recruitment and training of anesthesia residents, neuroanesthesia clinical fellows and neuroanesthesia research fellows. The contribution of those individuals who serve as teachers, mentors and role models to our specialty cannot be underestimated. In recognition of these contributions, the Society presents its Distinguished Teaching Award to those who have shown continued excellence in neuroanesthesia education.
The recipient of this year’s DTA has excelled in all of the criteria that the Society uses to assess the contribution that individuals have made to Neuroanesthesia as a sub-specialty, and to Anesthesiology in general.
Scientific Contributions
After completing his anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Drummond in 1980 was the McLaughlin Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Thereafter, he obtained a Francis Parker Investigatorship also at UCSD, under the tutelege of Dr. Harvey Shapiro. Since that time, he has been the director of the Neuroanesthesia Research Laboratory at UCSD. He has been prolific and he has in excess of 130 peer reviewed scientific publications to his credit. This work has included contributions to basic neuroscience as well as clinical neuroanesthesiology.
Educational Contributions
He has authored 26 book chapters and review articles. With regard to the book chapters, these have become reference works that residents and fellows use as syllabus material. He has written numerous course syllabi for refresher course lectures and CME lectures that he has delivered across the world.
He has consistently been rated one of the very best clinical teachers at UCSD and has won the Facutly Teaching Award.
He has mentored 15 post-doctoral research (clinical and laboratory) fellows, many of whom have become successful investigators in their own right and who have served (or are serving) SNACC.
He is currently the Vice President of the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation and is in charge of the development of the courses. In this capacity, he has had the opportunity to provide continuing education to a large number of individuals in neuroanesthesia. In recognition of his efforts, he was awarded the Francis J. Dannemiller Award for Excellence in Education, 2004.
Clinical Contributions
Dr. Drummond is recognized as a clinician of the highest order. He has been named to the Best Doctors in America on several occasions, and he is one of the few who has been selected as the Best Doctors in San Diego in four consecutive years.
Administrative Service
Dr. Drummond served as the Chief of the Anesthesia Service at VA Medical Center, SD from 1991 to 1997. Thereafter, he was appointed the Chair of the Department of Anesthesia at USCD from 1997-2004.
It is clear that Dr. Drummond has had a major impact on Neuroanesthesia education in this country and in the world. He has influenced medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty. In this capacity, he has had an extensive influence on the care of the neurosurgical patient, and on the neuroanesthesia community. In recognition of this service to the field, the Board of Directors of SNACC present its Distinguished Teaching Award to Dr. John Drummond.
The 2005 Recipient - David S. Smith
 David SmithDavid S. Smith, M.D., Ph.D. received his B.A. from Oakland University (Rochester, MI); M.D., Ph.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI); his internship from the Medical College of WI Affiliated Hospitals (Milwaukee, WI); and anesthesia residency from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia PA).
Dr. Smith also furthered his study in Neuroanesthesia by attending the Brain Research Laboratory in Lund Sweden with Bo Seisjö. He has received specialty certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Smith is Director, Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania.
The awards and honors he has received include: Austin Lamont Fellow (Dept of Anesth, U of PA School of Medicine 1979 – 80), Senior Fellow, National Research Service Award (1985 – 87), Kumperman Memorial Lecture (1992 Department of Anesthesia, Temple Univ, Philadelphia PA), Brain E. Marshall Memorial Lectureship (1995 Dept of Anesthesia, Univ of Toronto, Canada), Brigadier P.N. Bhatt Memorial Oration (2003 Indian Society of Neuroanesthesia and Critical Care Meeting, Kolkata, India), Center of Surgical Excellence Performance Award (2004 HUP), Patient Safety Steering Committee Award for Excellence and Innovation in Patient Safety (2004 HUP), Penn Anesthesia Legacy Award (2005 Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, HUP), SNACC Distinguished Teaching Award (2005), Dr Sander Malathi Memorial Oration (2006 Indian Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care Annual Meeting, Mumbai, India), and Best Doctors (2001 – 2006). Society memberships include: SNACC (Sec/Treasurer 1987 – 89, Newsletter editor 1987 – 89, Vice-President 1989 – 1990, President – elect 1990 – 92, President 1991 – 92, and Past President 1992 – 93); ASA, and AUA (elected 1985). Member of the Editorial Board Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesia (1987 – 1997). Referee to many journals including Anesthesiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, Journal of Neurochemistry, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Am J Rhinology, and Head and Neck. Coauthor of 36 peer reviewed papers, and 52 editorial, reviews or chapters. Co editor (with James E Cottrell) of edition 3 (1994) and 4 (2001) of Anesthesia and Neurosurgery (Mosby, St Louis, Missouri). His clinical and academic interests include administration of anesthesia for neurosurgical patients and systems approaches to improve patient safety.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS
2004 - Audree A. Bendo, M.D.
2003 - Adrian W. Gelb, M.B.
2002 - Verna Baughman, M.B.
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