The Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture is sponsored annually by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) and honors the lecture’s namesake, who was a pioneer in American anesthesiology. This year’s distinguished presenter is Kathryn E. McGoldrick, M.D., Professor and Chairman Emerita, Department of Anesthesiology, New York Medical College, and current member of the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER), Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Dr. McGoldrick received a B.M.S. degree from Dartmouth College and her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital – now the Brigham and Women’s Hospital – and then undertook subspecialty training in pediatric anesthesia at The Children’s Hospital, Boston. Dr. McGoldrick completed the Yale Management Program for Physicians at the Yale University School of Medicine. She has held hospital appointments at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston; Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she...