The UNMC Department of Anesthesiology honored three faculty members with the Clinical Science Faculty Scholar Award on Feb. 1. The award recognizes academic contributions from early and mid-career faculty who have made academic contributions above and beyond what would be expected from an individual carrying a heavy clinical workload.
Marcellene Franzen, MD, assistant professor at the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology, was nominated for the award for her contributions to advancing care through the pediatric neurosurgical anesthesia program. Dr. Franzen also organized the point of care ultrasonography workshop and participated in various academic projects ranging from pediatric pain management to innovation in perioperative medicine.
Julia Galvez, MD, Division Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology at UNMC Department of Anesthesiology, praised Dr. Franzen for her achievements.
“Dr. Franzen is an expert clinician and a superb charge anesthesiologist,” Dr. Galvez said. “The award is very well deserved — thank you for all that you do.”
Brad Fremming, MD, serves as Clinical Director, Co-Director of Quality Assurance, and is a member of the liver transplant team. In recent years, Dr. Fremming has published two to three manuscripts annually. His academic contributions include first-authoring an innovative paper in one of the highest-impact anesthesiology journals, the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, on a real-world experience at UNMC about leveraging perioperative pandemic protocols during a cyber-attack.
Shaun Thompson, MD, serves as Program Director for the Adult Critical Care Fellowship and the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Nebraska Medicine. In the last two years, Dr. Thompson has published 13 manuscripts, including seminal contributions to the ECMO literature that were published in high-impact journals such as The Lancet.
“Their innovative and impactful work sets us apart and is at the core of what defines an academic anesthesiology department,” said Karsten Bartels, MD, Vice Chair of Research at the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology. “We could not be prouder of the achievements of Drs. Franzen, Fremming, and Thompson.”