TY - JOUR
T1 - Outstanding contribution to pediatric anesthesiology
T2 - An interview with Dr. Robert H. Friesen
AU - Twite, Mark D.
AU - Ing, Richard J.
AU - Nichols, Christopher S.
AU - Yaster, Myron
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No discussion of Rob Friesen’s career would be complete without discussing his family. Throughout his distinguished career, Rob has been supported by his wonderful wife, Connie, and their four children, Laura, Betsy, Katie, and Rick (Figure 3). Their youngest child, Dr. Richard M. Friesen, is now finishing his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the Children’s Hospital Colorado. It is rare in any hospital for a father and son team to be working in the cardiac catheterization laboratory together, with one at the ‘head’ end providing anesthesia and the other at the ‘business’ end performing the cardiac catheterization. When they are not at work, the physician Friesens can often be found skiing or enjoying fly fishing together. Rob Frie-sen has achieved much in his career and with his family. Three generations of Friesens have pursued the life of a physician, a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and a cardiologist. All of them are graduates of the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - Dr. Robert H. Friesen, (1946–) Professor of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, has played a pivotal and pioneering role in the development of pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesiology. His transformative research included the study of the hemodynamic effects of inhalational and intravenous anesthetic agents in the newborn and the effects of anesthetic agents on pulmonary vascular resistance in patients with pulmonary hypertension. As a model clinician-scientist, educator, and administrator, he changed the practice of pediatric anesthesia and shaped the careers of hundreds of physicians-in-training, imbuing them with his core values of honesty, integrity, and responsibility. Based on a series of interviews with Dr. Friesen, this article reviews a career that advanced pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesia during the formative years of the specialties.
AB - Dr. Robert H. Friesen, (1946–) Professor of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, has played a pivotal and pioneering role in the development of pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesiology. His transformative research included the study of the hemodynamic effects of inhalational and intravenous anesthetic agents in the newborn and the effects of anesthetic agents on pulmonary vascular resistance in patients with pulmonary hypertension. As a model clinician-scientist, educator, and administrator, he changed the practice of pediatric anesthesia and shaped the careers of hundreds of physicians-in-training, imbuing them with his core values of honesty, integrity, and responsibility. Based on a series of interviews with Dr. Friesen, this article reviews a career that advanced pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesia during the formative years of the specialties.
KW - Robert Friesen
KW - congenital cardiac anesthesia society
KW - congenital cardiac anesthesiology
KW - halothane
KW - pediatric anesthesiology
KW - pulmonary hypertension
KW - society for pediatric anesthesia
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U2 - 10.1111/pan.13215
DO - 10.1111/pan.13215
M3 - Article
C2 - 28872749
AN - SCOPUS:85028999636
VL - 27
SP - 991
EP - 996
JO - Paediatric Anaesthesia
JF - Paediatric Anaesthesia
SN - 1155-5645
IS - 10
ER -