- Perioperative care for ~120,000 procedural cases
- Partnership in patient care with all WUSM clinical departments
- Perioperative care across 5 BJC hospitals for 66% of BJC procedural patients
- Peripartum care across 3 BJC hospitals for 66% of BJC parturients
- ICU and telemedicine ICU care across the BJC hospitals
- Extensive pain management across 4 BJC hospitals
- Preoperative assessment and optimization of 55,000 patients across 3 BJC hospitals
- Innovative perioperative telemedicine and machine learning decision support
- Partner with BJH providing dental care to adults with disabilities (read news)
- Department member appointed as co-director of Christian Hospital ICU (read news)
- Ranked #2 in the country for NIH funding among anesthesiology departments (read news)
- Departmental science spans translational continuum
- $12 million grant for department-led Integrated Research Center for Human Pain Tissues (INTERCEPT) Pain Center (read news)
- 105 current research projects, including 49 R grants, 6 U grants, and 8 K grants within the department
- 13 new departmental career training grants
- Emphasis on developing transdisciplinary and research centers
- Robust research collaborations across WU & WUSM
- Launched the $30 million multicenter THRIVE trial comparing TIVA and volatile anesthesia (read news)
- Seminal scientific publications
- Nature: making fentanyl safer and less addictive (read news)
- Nature Communications: lipid regulation of ion channels (read news)
- Nature Chemical Biology: mechanisms of action of lofentanil (read news)
- Science: neural pathway for pleasant touch identified (read news)
- Cell Reports: activated neural pathway identified when animals see others scratching (read news)
Education Accomplishments
- Top 10 anesthesiology residency (read news)
- 12 super-specialty fellowships
- SRNA and APP advanced nursing training programs
- Robust participation in medical student education
- Leadership in simulation at WUSM (read news)
- Launched a supplemental curriculum for our residents in diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Inaugural Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG) training fellow
- Three department members selected as members to the Academy of Educators at WUSM (read news)
- Internationally renowned neuroscientist recruited to direct Center for Clinical Pharmacology (read news)
- Anesthesiology faculty member began tenure as President Elect of the Association of University Anesthesiologists
- Faculty member elected to serve on Faculty Practice Plan’s Board of Directors (read news)
- Faculty member elected to serve on NIH Board of Scientific Councilors
- Faculty member began tenure as Chair Elect of the Board of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER)
- Leadership in perioperative safety and leadership in procedural safety and in ERAS, at BJH
- Anesthesiology faculty member elected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (read news)
- Anesthesiology faculty member elected as a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- One faculty elected as an Active Member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists; two faculty elected as Associate Members
- 21 faculty members promoted in 2022
- Three departmental members elected to AOA Honors Society (read news)
- Two department members awarded distinguished honors from the Dean’s Office (read news)
- Departmental member received the Helen Lamb Outstanding Educator Award from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (read news)
- Departmental member delivers prestigious annual FAER Helrich lecture
- Department recognized by the Office of Sustainability with bronze award for reducing environmental footprint (read news)
- Departmental leader appointed as Chair of WUSM’s Senior Leadership Committee on DEI
