Anesthesia

Liquidia Technologies, a privately held biotechnology company, named Mike Royal, MD, senior vice president, clinical development.

Most anesthesiologists spend 30 to 65 hours per week seeing patients, according to Medscape Anesthesiologist Compensation Report 2016.

North American Partners in Anesthesia entered into a new partnership with Association of Hospital Anesthesiologists, a Neenah, Wis.-based group practice.

Roy Peterson, MD, MBA, received the 2016 Terri Farmer Service Award from the Craniofacial Foundation of America, according to a report by The Chattanoogan.

A study presented at the 2015 New York State Society of Anesthesiologists PostGraduate Assembly found that exercise programs aimed at increasing exercise tolerance before a surgical procedure may decrease morbidity and mortality, as reported by Anesthesiology News.

A new postoperative pain anesthesia modality will allow Irvine, Calif.-based Hoag Orthopedic Institute to expand its outpatient total joint replacement services.

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine named Santhanam Suresh, MD, winner of its Distinguished Service Award.

The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville named anesthesiologist Jerry Epps, MD, senior vice president and CMO.

Ladd M. Campbell, DO, and Bradley A. Stone, MD, recently earned pediatric anesthesiology certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology, according to a Citizen-Times report.

Douglas Hester, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., participated in Vanderbilt University's Lectures in the Library series, "Alternative Medicine: Poets Who Heal."