Robert D. Sanders, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.C.A., Recipient of the 2020 James E. Cottrell, M.D., Presidential Scholar Award.
Robert D. Sanders, B.Sc., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.C.A., Recipient of the 2020 James E. Cottrell, M.D., Presidential Scholar Award.
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Robert D. Sanders,理学学士、M.B.B.S.、博士、F.R.C.A.,2020 年 James E. Cottrell 医学博士、总统学者奖获得者。
DOI:
10.1097/aln.0000000000003512
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发表时间:
2020
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8.8
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Maze,Mervyn
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作者:
Pearce,RobertA;Maze,Mervyn
Scholar Award is Robert D. Sanders, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCA. We served as his department chairs and mentors during his clinical and research training at Imperial College London (MM) and when he was assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (RAP). We had the good fortune of watching, from front-row seats, a meteoric progression from his medical school in London to his recent appointment as Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetics at the University of Sydney, Australia. What follows are personal reflections of time spent observing and collaborating with a rising star in our discipline. Rob was drawn to the field of anesthesia research in 2001, when he was in the latter half of his 6-year training to become a doctor at Imperial College London. Although well into his clerkships, Rob had not yet found a clinical calling, but he had the bold idea of wanting to understand consciousness by exploiting the unconsciousness produced by anesthesia. In a trait that has become a hallmark of his career, Rob crafted a program of studies that had no precedent by convincing the chair of neurosciences, with whom he would do his coursework, and myself (MM, as the chair of anaesthetics), with whom he would perform his practical studies, that this could be a route to an intercalated bachelor of science in neuroscience, which he later obtained with first-class honors. While Rob did not solve the consciousness conundrum as an undergraduate, he was well and truly launched on a career in anesthesiology and the neurosciences, and in the ensuing decade he completed his undergraduate medical degree (again with distinction), his registrar (“residency”) training in anesthesiology, and then a PhD, all while publishing more than 40 articles.During his time in London, and remotely thereafter, Rob led multiple projects involving anesthetics as diverse as xenon and dexmedetomidine, using them as probes to address mechanistic questions of neuroprotection and neurotoxicity. It is noteworthy that at a time when the unitary theory of anesthetic action held sway, Rob was able to show that this could not obtain, because the various behavioral