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2008 recipient: Lisa Marie Campanella, M.D. ’00
For serving as a role model in the pursuit of knowledge and experience,
while demonstrating loyalty to the profession, compassionate manner
dedicated spirit, and an inquiring mind.
Lisa Marie Campanella received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Duke University and her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine in 2000. During medical school, Lisa served in the Migrant Health Clinics Program in Puerto Rico, providing health care to the needy. She completed her Emergency Medicine training at NYU Medical Center, becoming administrative chief resident, and earning excellence awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians
Lisa is the first author of a number of peer-reviewed articles and a web-based tutorial adapting clinical anatomy to the bedside of emergency department patients. This work was inspired by her selection as a tutor of anatomy while still a medical student, and developed with maturation of her ideas during residency and as a practicing emergency room physician.
Lisa’s demonstrations of anatomic landmarks have helped innumerable emergency medicine physicians to more safely perform invasive procedures. For example, her laboratory stations are useful not only in showing innervation and function of muscle groups, but in teaching about cutdown procedures and safe anesthetic injections; and her neck prosections demonstrate proper central line placement, intubation and cricothyroidotomy technique. Her anatomical/clinical correlates also help teach residents bedside ultrasonography.
In 2004 she took her skills and talents internationally, serving as a visiting clinical anatomy instructor at the medical school in Bologna, Italy. Incidentally, Lisa is fluent in Italian and a connoisseur of art history; a true Renaissance woman. While in Bologna, Lisa also gave numerous lectures on management on various medical emergencies, thereby sharing her expertise in both anatomy and emergency medicine with her Italian colleagues.
Lisa subsequently brought her academic and clinical excellence to a community setting in the Emergency Department of St. Joseph’s-Wayne Hospital in New Jersey, while remaining active in academia through both teaching and research. She has continued her commitment to NYU School of Medicine as a clinical anatomy instructor, and as an instructor in neck anatomy and procedures for our Emergency Medicine residency training program.
Lisa has represents the interests of patients and physicians on regional and national legislative and regulatory committees, and serves as an expert advisor and guest lecturer at other institutions in New York and New Jersey, including as adjunct professor in Seton Hall University’s graduate medical education department. She does all this as a vocation, reflecting the natural wellspring of her intellectual energy, love of teaching, and passion for excellence in medicine. An outstanding physician and teacher, a credit to her graduating class and her profession, it is with great pleasure that we present Lisa Marie Campanella with the Julia Zelmanovich Young Alumni Award.
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