From the Chair:

Thank you for your interest in our department and for giving us the opportunity to tell you a few things about it. I feel that the process that we are initiating - your exploring the opportunities for a postgraduate education in anesthesiology, and our exploring the candidates for our next class of residents - is very important for both of us. Indeed, we feel that the residency program is the defining aspect of our department and the recruitment and selection of each class are among the most important aspects of what we do each year. Although a number of residency programs in anesthesiology offer an excellent education, they nonetheless differ in various ways. Your career will be influenced for the rest of your life by the unique features of the program you now choose.

The department is gauged by its residents, who are on the front line of patient care. Their caliber and accomplishments define us throughout the hospitals. You will be first our students, then our colleagues, and eventually our successors and you will, in turn, leave your imprint on us as well. Furthermore, as most of our residents leave the department, their performance and accomplishments continue to reflect on us within the broader arena of anesthesia practice throughout the country. We are educating the future of anesthesiology and we wish to put it in the very best of hands.

- Gerard Manecke, M.D., Interim Chairman