Here are five points:
1. Dr. Steffel is a fourth-year anesthesiology resident at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine.
2. She earned her medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
3. Dr. Steffel has been involved in several research projects that have led to publications.
4. In particular, the study “Retrospective comparison of ‘single’ and ‘double’ transversus abdominis plane blocks for intraoperative anesthesia in open unilateral inguinal hernia repair,” was recently published online ahead of print in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
5. Dr. Steffel will going to Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle to complete her regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine fellowship.
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