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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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Craig M. Palmer, MD

Craig M. Palmer,

Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology

Director, Department of Anesthesiology, University Physicians Hospital at Kino

(520) 626-6295
cpalmer@email.arizona.edu

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Dr. Palmer was born in Wilmington, Delaware. After graduating from the University of Delaware in Newark, DE., he attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College and completed a residency in anesthesiology (1987) and fellowship in obstetric anesthesia(1988). Dr. Palmer's career began at the University of Arizona where he is currently a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, University Physicians Healthcare Hospital.

Research Interests:

Obstetric anesthesia, labor analgesia, neuraxial opioid analgesia

Representative Publications:

Palmer CM, D’Angelo R, Paech MJ. Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia. Oxford, U.K., Bios Scientific Publishers Limited, 2002. ISBN 1 85996 232 7.

Carvalho B, Riley E, Cohen SE, Gambling D, Palmer C, Huffnagle J, Polley L, Muir H, Segal S, Lihou C, Manvelian G, DepoDur Study Group. Single-dose, sustained release epidural morphine in the management of postoperative pain after elective cesarean section: Results of a multicenter randomized controlled study. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2005;100:1150-58.

Palmer CM, Emerson S, Voulgaropoulos D, Alves D. Dose-response relationship of intrathecal morphine for post-cesarean analgesia. Anesthesiology 90:437-444, 1999.

Palmer CM, Maciulla JE, Cork RC, Nogami WM, Gossler K, Alves D. The incidence of fetal heart rate changes following intrathecal fentanyl labor analgesia. Anesthesia and Analgesia 88:577-581, 1999.

Palmer CM, Cork RC, Hays R, Van Maren G, Alves D. The dose-response relation of intrathecal fentanyl for labor analgesia. Anesthesiology 88:355-361, 1998.