Anesthesia

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has released its draft National Pain Strategy for public comment.

North American Partners in Anesthesia announced a partnership with Virginia Eye Institute in Richmond.

New in 2015 was the requirement to report at least one cross cutting (CC) measure if a provider sees one patient in a face-to-face encounter during the reporting period.

Odessa, Texas-based Ector County Hospital District board of directors has approved a service line management anesthesia agreement with Alpharetta, Ga.-based Premier Anesthesia, according to an OA Online report.

The North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists named Tim Gundlach, MD, president-elect.

Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, an anesthesiologist, has been appointed to the team that will lay the groundwork for President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.

SPR Therapeutics received a $1.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a fully-implantable peripheral nerve stimulation system.

New legislation is being considered in California that would allow anesthesiologist assistants to work in the state, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.

Marc Allan Feldman, MD, an anesthesiologist at Cleveland Clinic, has filed a petition to run for President of the United States with the Federal Elections Commission, according to a Cleveland Jewish News report.

Otonomy named Dean Hakanson, MD, CMO.