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| Alumni Affairs 2002 Recipient - James E. Cottrell, MD (Class of 1968)  James E. Cottrell was born and raised in West Virginia. He graduated from WVU School of Medicine in 1968 and began a career in scientific and academic medicine that has been truly formidable. He is a physician who has made scientific contributions with real clinical impact, including his seminal papers on the deleterious effects of succinylcholine and nitrous oxide in neurosurgical patients which have caused neuro-anesthesiologists around the world to use both drugs with caution, if at all. Today it would be difficult to find a colleague specializing in anesthesia for neurosurgical procedures who does not find the use of both drugs to be at least controversial, if not contraindicated. Dr. Cottrell deserves a substantial amount of the credit for this significant change in clinical practice. He founded the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology in 1989 and remains editor-in-chief. This Journal is now the top-ranked subspecialty journal in anesthesiology, and it is among the top ranked journals in anesthesiology overall. Dr. Cottrell's professional affiliations are numerous including president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, president of the Society of Academic Anesthesia Chairmen, and alternate director of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Cottrell is professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center - Brooklyn, and senior associate dean for clinical practice. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals, co-authored 21 book chapters, edited seven major textbooks, served as a visiting professor at more than 100 prestigious medical institutions, and has been guest lecturer in countries on every continent except Antarctica. His friend and colleague, Joseph P. Giffin, professor and executive vice chair for clinical affairs at SUNY-Brooklyn, said, "Whether anesthetizing patients, investigating anesthetic techniques in a research laboratory, or cooking and packing meals at God's Love We Deliver (a New York Charity), Jim Cottrell has dedicated his life to relieving pain." |
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