Johnstone for Vice President of Professional Affairs,

American Society of Anesthesiologists

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Author or co-author of more than 140 papers, articles, and book chapters

  • Author of more than 900 department newsletters 

  • Presented more than 150 national lectures

  • Attended more than 300 national meetings

  • Administered anesthesia in med offices, hospitals with fewer than 100 and more than 400 beds, and university centers.

  • Worked in private and academic depts, in anesthesiologist group, and with CRNAs and AAs

  • Worked in 7 Army Hospitals

  • First Prize, ASA Resident Research Essay, “Combination of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol with oxymorphone or pentobarbital: Effects on ventilatory control and cardiovascular dynamics”,Anesthesiology 42:674-84, 1975

  • First Prize, ASA Art Exhibit (Lit) in 2006 with, “Last words”, and 2008 with, "Majic Taxi"

  • Published studies on anesthesia costs (Anesth Analg 76:840-8, 1993) and revenues (Anesthesiology 93:852-7, 2000)

  • Has pictures of foot and father published in Anesthesiology (39:654-5, 1973 and 104:1103-4, 2006, respectively)

  • Sen Jay Rockefeller wrote editorial about him in anesthesia journal (Anesth Analg 76: 689, 1993)

  • Perfect scores on the Army Physical Fitness Test, 1997-03

  • Served as anesthesiologist on last voyage of the SS Hope (Good Ship Hope), to Maceio, Brazil.

  • Worked in Haiti and Jamaica

  • Published Doctors Day editorials for the past 7 years

  • Lectured at 16 annual educational meetings of WV State Society of Anesthesiologists

  • Business experience: Anesthesia billing. Hospital management. Commercial real estate. Importer European cars.

  • Medical director of school of respiratory therapy

  • Introduced electronic anesthesia record into department 13 years ago

  • Organized the ASA Practice Management Conference the past 5 years - doubling its attendance and changing it from losing money to very profitable

Highslide JS Winning first prize for literature at the 2008 ASA Art Exhibit
Winning first prize for literature at the 2008 ASA Art Exhibit