The APSF Committee on Education and Training awards the Ellison C. Pierce, Jr., MD, Research Award for Best Scientific Exhibit at the 2010 ASA annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Dr. Richard Prielpp, APSF Committee on Education and Training Chair, presents the award to the team from Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine for their exhibit entitled “Using Pulse Oximetry,” which presented a video as part of the Global Pulse Oximetry Project of the World Health Organization. This high-resolution instructional DVD/CD video is a bold initial step for the WHO project with the vision that every general anesthetic world-wide will be monitored by pulse oximetry. The video enumerates steps required to respond to low SpO₂.

Pictured in photo (left to right) are APSF Education and Training Committee members, Dr. Sem Lampotang, Susan R. Fossum, RN, John O’Donnell, CRNA, Maria Magro, CRNA, and Dr. Richard Prielipp presenting the award to Dr. Raphael Ortega, Dr. Abdel Mehio, Dr. Elena Brasoveanu, Dr. Jeanette Lee, and Dr. Paul Delonnay.