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  For one week in October, the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt welcomed this year’s Global Pediatric Anesthesia Scholar. This academic exchange has been very successful, with this being the fourth year of its existence.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center launched a new computer system called eStar on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. This launch was called EpicLeap, and VUMC, including the Department of Anesthesiology, worked for over a year to ensure the transition would be as seamless as possible. 

Antonio Hernandez, MD, MSCI, FCCM, co-authored an article* titled “National Certification in Critical Care Echocardiography: Its Time Has Come.” It is featured on the front cover of the November issue of Critical Care Medicine.  Along with being senior author of the article, he serves on the National Board of Echocardiography, where they are developing the formal examination, standardization and certification process for focused echocardiography.