Fellowship Spotlight: Cardiothoracic and Critical Care Anesthesia

Shobana Rajan, MD, FASA

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, UT Health

W. Andrew Kofke, MD, MBA

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Co-Director of Neurocritical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Neuroanesthesiology is an exciting and popular career option. Fellowship specialty training in neuroanesthesiology goes a long way in enhancing the clinical and research profile of practitioners.

The Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC) is an international scientific society with a history of membership and leadership from several non-U.S.-based countries that have robust neuroanesthesiology services and training programs. Hence, SNACC launched the International Council for Perioperative Neuroscience Training (ICPNT) in early 2019 – a huge leap into the future for neuroanesthesia fellowships. The ICPNT, as the name suggests, has a global purview of fellowship training, and will also possibly encompass related disciplines such as neuromonitoring and neurocritical care in the future. The aim is to create a network of fellowships producing leaders in the realm of perioperative neuroscience.

Ask the Expert on the SNACC website is where you can find what leaders in neurosciences from all over the world have to say about specialty neuroanesthesiology fellowship training.

ASA Monitor article August 2021: Neuroanesthesia Fellowships on the Futuristic Path to a Novel International Accreditation Process: International Council for Perioperative Neuroscience Training (ICPNT) – an emerging dimension of SNACC

Date of Publication: Summer 2021