Academic Evening Winners

  • See Wan Tham, MBBS: Judy Su PhD Endowed Presentation Award
  • Spencer Face, BS (Richebe Lab): 1st Place
  • Brian Theodore, PhD: 2nd Place
  • Doug Atkinson, MD: 3rd Place
  • Honorable Mentions: Sanjay Bhananker, MBBS; Gustavo Pena, CRNA; Blair Sutton, Research Scientist; Wil Van Cleve, MD
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Congratulations to those residents, fellows, and mentors who participated in WARC, 2012

  • Sophie Esmail
  • Li Ma
  • Timothy Miu
  • Donald Ngo
  • Eric Stoltenberg
  • Melissa Veneracion
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American Pain Society Fellowship

  • Congratulations Paul!
  • Paul Choi, CA3 resident, was awarded an American Pain Society fellowship to attend the APS conference and "Primer for residents and fellows" at the upcoming APS conference in Honolulu.
  • Paul will be joining the UW ACGME Pain fellowship program following graduation from residency.

UW Pain Doctor featured in the New York Times


Patient Care

Patient Care

Our clinical faculty provide outstanding patient-centered care at four leading academic medical centers, which includes the only Level 1 trauma center in 4 states that is the model for paramedic systems across the nation.

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Education

Education

We pride ourselves on the depth and breadth of the training we offer. When a physician completes our program, he or she is equipped to handle any clinical situation during the perioperative period.

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PEERs Program

Research

Our faculty engage in multidisciplinary research, with major emphasis in pain medicine and neuroscience, genomics and mitochondria biology, outcomes, and medical training and patient education.

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Dr. Debra Schwinn

A Message from the Chair

The Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of Washington has a long history of leadership in academic anesthesia, innovating to provide outstanding outcome driven clinical care and pain therapies, as well as excellence in critical care and other academic areas.

Currently the department provides clinical anesthesiology care at 4 main hospital sites conveniently located near…

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TEE of the Month

TEE of the Month

Dr. Donald Oxorn presents a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) each month for education.

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Academic Affairs

WELCOME NEW FACULTY

Please help us welcome the following new faculty to our department:

  • Aparna Dalal, MD, will be starting as Assistant Professor at UWMC on April 7th. Dr. Dalal recently completed a fellowship in Liver and Intestinal Tranplant Anesthesia at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.

Grand Rounds

MAY
30
The use of Wikiʼs in Anesthesia Education
GRAND ROUNDS: MAY 30
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"The use of Wikiʼs in Anesthesia Education"

Edward C. Nemergut, MD

Department of Anesthesiology,
University of Virginia School of Medicine,
Charlottesville, VA

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6:30 AM

6:30 - 7:30 am
Health Sciences D-209

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Statistics

Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors
190 Faculty
42 Fellows
78 Residents (CA1-3)
24 Interns (CBY)
54 CRNAs
1,381 Beds for all hospitals
Extramural Funding (active):
Entire Dept (including UW and Seattle Children's)
$8,844,975 total funding all extramural sources
$7,686,244 NIH funding alone
(Ranked #3 among Anesthesiology Departments)