WashU Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology has a significant footprint in critical care medicine (CCM), with coverage that extends across our main academic medical campus, affiliated community ICUs, and a robust tele-ICU network serving as a safety net for regional hospitals. This allows our faculty, APPs, and fellowship trainees to provide care for all types of critical care patients in various settings.
Our primary academic home is Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH)—a quaternary referral center, Level I Trauma Center, and nationally recognized stroke center of excellence. Consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the nation and the #1 hospital in both St. Louis and Missouri, BJH is also among an elite group of hospitals that have continuously held American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition® since the program’s launch in 2003.
We serve a broad and diverse patient population, with a catchment area that includes the entire state of Missouri and parts of eight surrounding states: Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Our academic ICU coverage includes the Surgical-Burn-Trauma Intensive Care Unit (SICU), Cardiothoracic ICUs, and the Parkview Tower Surgical-Oncology Intensive Care Unit (PVT-SICU).
Our fellowship trainees also rotate in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Parkview Tower Medical-Oncology Intensive Care Unit (PVT-MICU), Coronary Care Unit (CCU),and Neurology/Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units (NeuroICU-9400 and 10400).
Across our main academic campus, we staff more than 200 critical care beds within 11 high-acuity ICUs. Our flagship unit, the SICU, comprises 36 beds allocated to an array of critically ill or injured surgical patients requiring pre-operative stabilization, post-operative intensive care after elective or emergency surgery, or critical care following complications of surgical illnesses. Patients admitted to the SICU arrive from all of the surgical subspecialties, transplant, trauma, and medicine.
Our team of intensivists brings expertise from anesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. Our educators are consistently recognized as top teaching faculty within both the department and the school of medicine. We truly offer a multidisciplinary practice and training critical care medicine opportunity.
The Critical Care Fellowship Program
The multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital is at the leading edge of the curriculum revolution in intensivist training and education. Anesthesiologists, Surgeons, and Emergency Medicine Fellows work together, while learning the art and science of being an intensivist in our ACGME accredited program. We also have close training/working relationships with our Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine and Neurology Critical Care Fellowship training programs.
We promise and deliver an exceptional experience rich in education, research, and leadership opportunities in the rapidly expanding field of critical care medicine.
Advanced Practice Providers
The WashU Medicine Advanced Practice Provider (APP) team is based within the department, specifically, the Division of Critical Care Medicine. The group is a dynamic, diverse, and highly skilled group of board-certified acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) and physician assistants (PAs), committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate, person-centered care.
Featured News
Dr. Leslie Terrell joins the Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Stephanie Link joins the Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Victoria Novoselova joins the Department of Anesthesiology
