Visiting Professor Program The Visiting Professor Program invites eminent practitioners in the field of anesthesiology and critical care, and their respective subspecialties, to spend 2-3 days in the department. Visits include numerous opportunities for dialog and interaction with residents and faculty including lectures, Grand Rounds, journal club, and tours of the OR and research facilities. Raymond C. Roy, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, is “committed to the Visiting Professor Program here at Wake Forest. I learn something new from each of the visiting professors, and, I bet, they learn something new about our program here at Wake.”
Primary funding for the Visiting Professor Program is from contributions to the Annual Fund for Residency Education. Current faculty and residents as well as past faculty, residents, and fellows make contributions to the fund which supports a number of activities in addition to the Visiting Professor Program. “We all have a share in the Visiting Professor Program,” notes Roy. “The generosity of our past residents and fellows is a source of pride for me and the other faculty in the department.”
Recently the department has begun the establishment of endowed visiting professorships. The goal is to establish a total of six endowed visiting professorships. Currently the department boasts two endowed visiting professorships, one for Visiting Professorship for Obstetrical Anesthesia and Postoperative Analgesia and the recently named Raymond C. Roy Visiting Professorship for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Raymond C. Roy Visiting Professorship for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Established in 2005 with an anonymous donation of $50,000 this professorship focuses on regional anesthesia and pain management. Visiting Professors in addition to lecture, journal club, and Grand Rounds have the opportunity to spend time with faculty and residents currently involved in the clinical and research aspects of regional anesthesia and pain management. These areas include: 1. The fully-privatized Chronic Pain Clinic of Drs. Richard Rauck and James North, where our pain fellows are home-based and through which all our residents rotate. 2. The regional anesthesia area where the residents receive the bulk of their peripheral nerve block training and experience with Drs. Gerancher and Weller. 3. The Acute Pain Service with Drs. Crews, Gerancher, McCutchen, Nagle, and Weller. The NIH-funded Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain with Drs. Jim Eisenach, Doug Ririe, and Chuck Tong. |