Advanced Clinical Experience

SUPRA is proud to offer an advanced clinical experience in pediatric regional anesthesia

• This is a 50% Clinical Instructor position as an attending pediatric anesthesiologist and 50% Clinical Scholar position for the advance clinical experience.
• Regional attending-led block placement and follow-up with active fellow participation in block placement and follow-up

Benefits:

• NO required call commitment for general OR or Regional team (may take call if desired)
• Regularly scheduled non-clinical days to pursue academic interests
• Minimal overlap with pediatric anesthesia fellows on regional service
• Improved marketability after clinical experience

Overall Goals of Clinical Experience

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of pediatric anatomy relevant to regional anesthesia.
• Become technically proficient in the performance of regional techniques in children.
• Become knowledgeable about pediatric regional anesthesia literature.
• Stretch goal: complete a regional anesthesia academic project
• Present an abstract at a national meeting

Please submit your application with the following documents preferably electronically or by mail to the Program Administrator:

Clinical Scholar in Pediatric Regional Anesthesia Selection Committee
c/o Kathryn Pereda
katpereda@stanford.edu
Center for Academic Medicine (CAM)
Pediatric Anesthesia + Mail Code: 5663
Stanford University School of Medicine
453 Quarry Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Tel: 650-725-8102

Application Requirements

• Application Form: download pdf here
• Curriculum Vitae
• Personal Statement
• 3 letters of recommendation including one from your residency program director. At least one of the remaining letters should be written by a pediatric anesthesia faculty or staff member
• Copy of medical school diploma
• If residency has been completed, please submit your residency completion certificate and your competency-based summative evaluation written by your program director
• Must be American Board of Anesthesiology certified or eligible to practice pediatric anesthesiology in the United States

Application Timeline for Academic Year 2024-2025

• Applications Accepted
  • Applications are accepted through December 15th, 2023
• Interviews
  • January 2nd till February 15th
• Candidate selection date
  • TBD

Our prior ACE graduates:

2017-2018 – Carole Lin

2018-2019 – Curtis Darling

2019-2020 – Mo Esfahanian

2020-2021 – Lauren Smith

2021-2022 – Steven Abboud

2022-2023 – Veronica Zoghbi

2023-2024 – Lilinete Polsunas (current ACE Clinical Scholar)