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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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Stuart Hameroff, MD

Stuart Hameroff,

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anesthesiology

Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology

Director, Center for Consciousness Studies

(520) 626-7999
hameroff@email.arizona.edu

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Dr. Stuart Hameroff was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked at Republic Steel and Cleveland Stadium. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, and received his MD at Hahnemann in Philadelphia in 1973. He then moved to Tucson, where in 1975 he became the sixth resident in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona. Joining the faculty in 1977, Dr. Hameroff has stayed ever since. Dr. Hameroff's research for 35 years has involved consciousness (how the pinkish gray meat between our ears produces the richness of experiential awareness). Studying anesthetic gas mechanisms, he focused on how quantum effects control protein conformational dynamics. Following an interest which began in medical school in the computational capacity of microtubules inside neurons, Dr. Hameroff teamed up with the eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose in the early 90's to develop a highly controversial theory of consciousness called ‘orchestrated objective reduction’ (Orch OR). Dr. Hameroff began the international, interdisciplinary biennial conferences on consciousness (Toward a Science of Consciousness) in 1994, becoming Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published five books and well over 100 research articles, and appeared in the film ‘What the Bleep do We Know?’ and numerous TV documentaries on the problem of consciousness.

Research Interests:

Consciousness studies, quantum mechanical/general relativity approaches to consciousness, protein conformational dynamics, molecular mechanisms of anesthetic gas molecules, information processing in cytoskeletal microtubules, quantum information science, essential features of living systems, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, philosophical pan-protopsychism, coherence and decoherence.

Representative Publications:

Hameroff SR (2007) The brain is both neurocomputer and quantum computer Cognitive Science (in press)

Hameroff SR. The Entwined Mysteries of Anesthesia and Consciousness, Anesthesiology, V 105, No 2, Aug 2006.

Hameroff SR. A new theory of the origin of cancer: quantum coherent entanglement, centrioles, mitosis, and differentiation. BioSystems, 2004 77:119-136.

Hagan S, Hameroff S, Tuszynski. Quantum Computation in Brain Microtubules? Decoherence and Biological Feasibility, Physical Reviews E, 2002 65:061901.

Hameroff S, Nip A, Porter M, Tuszynski J. Conduction pathways in microtubules, biological quantum computation, and consciousness. BioSystems, 2002; 64: 149-168.