Surgery Guide

Winston won the $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, earning $230,365. He has also cashed twice at the 2008 Aussie Millions Poker Championship finishing in fourth place in the A$2,000 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha/Omaha Hi-Lo mixed event for A$22,800 ($20,042 USD) and finishing in the semi-finals at the A$5,000 Australian Heads-Up Championship for A$40,000 ($35,161).[1]

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000.[4]

Winston has three cashes to date at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) most notably finishing in 26th place out of a field of 6358 entries at the 2007 WSOP Main Event earning him $333,490.[1]

Winston has six cashes in the World Poker Tour (WPT) most notably his victory at the WPT Borgata Poker Open, earning him $1,575,280 and the WPT title in a final table that included professional poker players Mike Matusow (6th), Gene Todd (5th), Mark Weitzman (4th), Haralabos Voulgaris (3rd) and amateur player Heung Yoon who finished runner-up. Other cashes at the WPT include the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic finishing in 23rd for $39,859, at the Festa Al Lago V in 46th for $16,700, the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, in 44th for $38,545, the 2008 Borgata Winter Open in 39th for $17,213 and the Bellagio Cup IV in 2008 for $32,320.[1]

Winston who was raised and attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City went on to receive a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and then his Doctor of Medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine his residency was at the University of Florida College of Medicine and went on to specialise in Anesthesiology. Dr. Winston was a Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory University and The University of California and was appointed to the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners by Governor Zell Miller. Later Dr. Winston when on to found his company LaserAway LLC in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the removal of tattoos, sun damage and unwanted hair. He began playing tournament poker in 2006 and now plays full-time professionally and host high stakes games at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California he also writes a pro blog for Cardplayer online and is a Full Tilt Pro on Full Tilt Poker.[2][3]

Roy S. Winston, M.D (born March 5) is an American professional poker player, CEO & Founder LaserAway LLC and Physician from Rancho Mirage, California who won the World Poker Tour season 6, Borgata Main Event Championship in 2007 for over $1.5 million.[1][2]

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White graduated from an honors program in Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley with Distinction in 1970. He subsequently earned his PhD (Pharmacology) and MD degrees from the University of California, San Francisco. White obtained postgraduate training in both Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology at UC San Francisco, and has board certification in both medical specialties. In 1980, he joined the faculty at Stanford University and became a tenured Associate Professor and Chief of the Outpatient Anesthesiology Service at the University Hospital. In 1988, he accepted the position of Professor and Vice-Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis. He also served as the Medical Director of the Barnes Hospital Day Surgery Center. In 1992, he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He currently holds the Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair of Anesthesiology at UT Southwestern. He serves as a representative from the Department on the advisory board of the institution’s new Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery. White has also served as a non-paid Consultant to the Departments of Anesthesia at both Ohio State University (for ambulatory surgery) and Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (for clinical research and continuing education programs). He currently has an appointment as a Visiting Scientist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

White has edited 9 books, including major textbooks on the subspecialties of ambulatory anesthesia and intravenous anesthesia. White has also contributed 64 chapters to textbooks edited by colleagues from around the world. In addition to publishing over 350 peer-reviewed articles, White has written 14 editorials and published over 500 scientific abstracts. Two of White’s peer-reviewed publications were listed among the “Top 10″ most cited articles in Anesthesiology (and he has the second most citations by any individual author in the specialty). White studies have appeared in USA Today [1], Washington Post[2], Wall Street Journal,[3], and other media outlets. White has trained more than 65 postgraduate clinical research fellows during his academic career. He has given over 450 domestic and 250 international lectures. In addition, White has performed over 100 Visiting Professorships in the United States and abroad. White is acknowledged by his colleagues as an international leader in the fields of ambulatory anesthesia and pain management, and has been recognized in the “Best Doctors in America” and “Who’s Who in North America.” He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, and the Dannemiller Memorial Foundation’s award for “Educational Excellence in Anesthesiology.”

White has served on the Board of Directors of three major anesthesia organizations (namely, the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia [SAMBA], the Society for Intravenous Anesthesia [SIVA], and the International Society for Anaesthetic Pharmacology [ISAP]). White served as the President of the SAMBA organization from 1994-95 and as President of SIVA/ISAP from 1999-2000. In addition, White has served as Chairman of the Anesthesiology Panel (1985-2000) and was a member of the Executive Committee of the United States Pharmacopoeia (1995-2000). White has been appointed to five (5) international editorial boards and currently serves as the Section Editor for Ambulatory Anesthesia for Anesthesia & Analgesia[4] and the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia [5] . Finally, White has established a nonprofit foundation (the White Mountain Institute[6] ) to advance education in the creative arts and medicine throughout the world.

White’s brother, Ed White (football), is a former UC Berkeley hall of fame and NFL all pro offensive lineman who played for the San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings.

Paul Frederick White, FANZCA is a researcher in anesthesiology, Professor and the Holder of the Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair of Anesthesiology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and the author and editor of several journals and textbooks on the subject. With over 400 peer-reviewed publications and authorship in 9 anesthesiology textbooks, White has helped shape and revolutionize the field of ambulatory anesthesia and intravenous anesthesia.

The American Dental Association honored Wells, posthumously in 1864, as the discoverer of modern anesthesia, and the American Medical Association recognized his achievement in 1870.[3]

Born in Vermont, Wells was educated in Walpole, New Hampshire before studying dentistry in Boston. After obtaining a degree, Wells set up a practice in Hartford, Connecticut, with an associate named William T. G. Morton, who would become famous for his use of ether as an anesthesia on October 18, 1846.

Wells first bore witness to the effects of laughing gas in 1844 when he volunteered to have it demonstrated on him by Gardner Quincy Colton, a member of a travelling circus. Wells felt nothing, and was the first patient to be operated on under anesthesia, having his tooth extacted later that year by his associate, John Riggs.[1] He then began utilising it on his own patients. He did not attempt to patent the discovery because he stated that pain relief should be ‘as free as the air’.

He gave a demonstration to medical students at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1845. However, the gas was improperly administered and the patient cried out in pain. The audience of students jeered at Wells and left the theatre chanting “Humbug! Humbug!” Because of this embarrassment, Wells was discredited in the medical community. Later, however, Wells successfully had one of his own teeth removed while using inhalant anesthesia, proving its uses.[2]

After this disgrace, Wells gave up dentistry and became a travelling salesman for the next two years, wandering Connecticut and selling canaries, shower baths and other household items. In 1847, he left for Paris after being given a demonstration on anesthesia by his prosperous former partner William Morton.

While in Europe, selling anesthesia for Morton and acting as a European expert on the subject, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In January 1848, Wells self-experimented with chloroform for a week. He became increasingly deranged. One day, delirious, Wells rushed out into the street and threw sulfuric acid over the clothing of two prostitutes. He was committed to New York’s infamous Tombs Prison. As the influence of the drug waned, Wells’ mind started to clear. In despair, he realised the horror of what he had done. Wells then committed suicide, slitting an artery in his leg with a razor after inhaling an analgesic dose of chloroform to blot out the pain.

Wells is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.