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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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Hugo Rocha-Mendez, MD

Hugo Rocha-Mendez,

Assistant Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology

(520) 626-7221
hrocha@email.arizona.edu

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Dr. Rocha Méndez obtained his medical degree from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in October 1995. He underwent postgraduate anesthesiology training at Hospital San José de Monterrey-ITESM. Later he did an internal medicine internship at St. Vincent's Medical Center - Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut. After that he completed an anesthesiology residency program at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago where he also did a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Rocha Méndez is board certified in Anesthesiology by Consejo Mexicano de Anestesiología and in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is licensed to practice medicine in the State of Arizona. In addition, Dr. Rocha Méndez has over four years of experience in the field of Anesthesiology. He has worked as Staff Anesthesiologist for the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System (SAVAHCS) since September 2003. At SAVAHCS, he administered anesthetic care to United States veterans undergoing various surgical procedures, and supervised and taught anesthesiology to medical students, residents, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and fellows. He has also worked in private practice delivering Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in Nuevo León, Mexico. Dr. Rocha Méndez was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and in 2006 became an Assistant Professor.

Research Interests:

  • Peruzzi, W., Rocha, H., et al. “Effects of dexmedetomidine on cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage” Poster presentation American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, annual meeting San Francisco, CA 2003
  • Rocha, H., Scavone, B. “Dysphoria after a combined spinal-epidural block for labor anesthesia” Midwest Anesthesia Resident Research Conference Meeting Milwaukee, WI 2001
  • Rangel, I., Rocha, H., et al “Hyperglycemia as a prognostic factor in acute myocardial infarction” Jornadas Médicas Hospital San José de Monterrey —ITESM Monterrey, N.L. 1993
  • Research assistant studying antibiotic prophylaxis in Cardiovascular surgery with Salwa Shenaq, M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine

Representative Publications:

Rangel, I., Rocha, H., et al “Hyperglycemia as a prognostic factor in acute myocardial infarction” Jornadas Médicas Hospital San José de Monterrey —ITESM Monterrey, N.L. 1993