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Emil Annabi, MD, has joined the Department as the Director of Chronic Pain Management. He is currently seeing patients at the Pain Clinic at the UPH Hospital at Kino at 2800 E. Ajo Way. Please call 874-4768 for appointments.
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Please join Dr. Craig Palmer on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 6:30 am for a lecture on OB Emergencies and Anesthetic Management.

Please join Dr. Keith Candiotti, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Miami, on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at 7:30 am, for a lecture on Sedation in the OR, Procedural Room, and Surgical ICU Setting.

Please join Dr. Peter Ott, Director, Electrophysiology Lab and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:30 am, for a lecture on Pacemakers.

The following residents will be attending Simulator Sessions on Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Drs. Holt, Amos, Boeve, and Butler.

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Wayne K. Jacobsen, MD

Wayne K. Jacobsen,

Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology

Director, Residency Program

Associate Head, Education

(520) 626-6938
jacobsen@email.arizona.edu

View CV pdf

Dr. Jacobsen was born in Southern California, but grew up in Sacramento, California. After graduating from Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley, he attended medical school at Loma Linda University. He completed his residency in anesthesiology (1976) and fellowship in adult critical care (1977) there as well. Dr. Jacobsen also completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care in 1975 at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. In 1979, Dr. Jacobsen started a long, and mostly rewarding, career at Loma Linda University. He was director of the Surgical-Trauma Unit until 2002, and from 1995-2002 was Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. After resigning as Department Chair, he was Chief of Anesthesiology at the Loma Linda V.A. Hospital. In 2004, Dr. Jacobsen moved to Arizona where he is currently Associate Head for Education and Residency Director for the Department of Anesthesiology.

Representative Publications:

Cole DJ, Cross LM, Drummond JC, Patel PM, Jacobsen WK. Thiopentone and methohexital, but not pentobarbitone, reduce early focal cerebral ischemic injury in rats. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 48(8): 807-814; 2001

Mason LJ, Cojocaru TT, Jacobsen WK, Cole DJ. Effects of anesthetics on central blood flow and metabolism. Problems in Anesthesia, 12(4):450-460; 2000

Cole DJ, McKay LD, Jacobsen WK, Hoffman J, Drummond JC, Patel PM. Effect of subarachnoid administration of - diaspirin crosslinked hemoglobin on cerebral blood flow in rats. Artif Cells Blood Substit Biotechnol, 25(1-2):95-104;1997

Jacobsen WJ, Isaacs WB. Cerebral injury: Are manipulations in carbon dioxide beneficial? Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, 5(1)59-62;1993

Jacobsen WK, Cole DJ, Stewart SC, et al. The effect of the calcium entry blocker nitrendipine on renal function following renal vascular occlusion. Critical Care Medicine, 18(12):1403-1407; 1990