ARC Year I Work Group
> Charles Emala MD, MS (Chair)
Columbia University School of Medicine
cwe5@columbia.edu
ARC Work Group One Paper is published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Read the news release here: Anesthesiology Researcher Pipeline Lags Behind Other Specialties.
Now Available – Central Line podcast episode “The Anesthesia Physician-Scientists Pipeline”
Drs. Charles Emala and Vivianne Tawfik discuss the physician-scientists pipeline and steps the specialty can take to support physician-scientists today and in the future.
Study Charge:
To support the continued commitment of our specialty to discovery and clinical science, which is threatened by the decline in the physician scientist workforce, by addressing each of the following:
- Evaluate anesthesiology’s research pipeline at present and in the past to define the scope of physician scientist shortage. Benchmark Anesthesiology against comparable medical specialties to better define relative scope of problem.
- Identify factors associated with successful physician scientist launch in an effort to recommend broader adoption of putative important factors/traits. Identify the factors associated with physician scientist failure to facilitate early intervention.
- Drill down to further address diversity in the pipeline, identifying factors that may differentially affect underrepresented groups.
- Create a series of strategic recommendations for all anesthesiology residents as well as clinical anesthesia fellows to strengthen their training in research and scientific methodology. Moreover, to foster the scientific development for those wishing to incorporate research into their clinical careers, additional recommendations should specifically target individual physicians, scientific mentors, departmental chairs, and medical school deans to facilitate the growth of this vital workforce. Finally, explicitly highlight the potential risks for patients, departments, medical centers, and the broader research community of failing to support physician scientist maturation.
> Cynthia Wong MD
The University of Iowa
cynthia-wong@uiowa.edu
> Margaret Wood MD
Columbia University
mw218@cumc.columbia.edu
> Lee Fleisher MD
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
lee.fleisher@cms.hhs.gov
> Vivianne Tawfik MD
Stanford University
vivianne@stanford.edu
> Paloma Toledo MD, MPH
Northwestern University
p-toledo@northwestern.edu
> Monica S. Vavilala MD
University of Washington
vavilala@uw.edu
> Meghan Lane-Fall MD, MSHP
University of Pennsylvania
Meghan.LaneFall@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
2021ARC Summit
The ARC 2021 Summit was held virtually on 9/25
ARC Working Group I Summer Summit Objectives
- The working group invited content experts to offer their views on the approach, progress and alternative considerations to addressing the study charges of the status and future of the anesthesiology physician scientist pipeline.
- The working group presented progress on their four study charges in a discussion format that welcomed critique and review from the assembled content experts and stakeholders.
- The working group integrated new concepts, approaches and data gathering methodologies into their process to improve their efforts to address the status and future of the anesthesiology physician scientist pipeline.
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. ET
Session I: Strategies to Increase Awareness of the Contributions that Anesthesiology Physician Scientists Make to the Health of the US to stakeholders
Moderators: Margaret Wood, Lee Fleisher
Panelists: Jeff Balser, Janis Orlowski, Keith (Tony) Jones, Mark Newman
10-15 minutes: General introduction to the Summit (Charles Emala)
75-80 minutes: Introduction of Panelists & Moderated discussion led by Margaret Wood, Lee Fleisher
15 min Break: 11:30 – 11:45 a.m. ET
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. ET
Session II: Strategies to Increase the number of Anesthesiology Physician Scientists
Moderators: Charles Emala, Vivianne Tawfik, Cynthia Wong
Panelists: Laurence (Skip) Brass, Deborah Culley, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, Peggy C. Nopoulos, Catherine Blish
10-15 minutes: Update presentation from Working Group members
75-80 minutes: Introduction of Panelists & Moderated discussion led by Charles Emala, Vivianne Tawfik, Cynthia Wong
30 min Break: 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. ET
1:45 – 3:15 p.m. ET
Session III: Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Anesthesiology Physician Scientist
Pipeline
Moderators: Paloma Toledo, Meghan Lane-Fall, Monica Vavilala
Panelists: Catherine D. DeAngelis, Dolores Njoku, Michael Gropper, Michael Avidan
10-15 minutes: Update presentation from Working Group members
75-80 minutes: Introduction of Panelists & Moderated discussion led by Paloma Toledo, Meghan Lane-Fall, Monica Vavilala