Vanderbilt Anesthesiololgy

Our Mission

To advance the specialty of anesthesiology through excellence in patient care, education, research, and service.

Educational Excellence

To achieve excellence in the education of residents, fellows, nurses, medical students, paraprofessionals, and faculty in the theory and practice of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a U.S. News “honor roll” healthcare institution on the beautiful Vanderbilt campus. The School of Medicine offers Masters in Clinical Investigation and Masters in Public Health programs that provide developmental experiences extending from the basic sciences to healthcare services research. Educational opportunities are also available through the highly ranked Vanderbilt School of Law and Owen School of Management. 

Our extensive training programs ensure that residents and fellows gain extensive familiarity with the most difficult management challenges, making them highly sought-after by the nation’s leading academic and private medical centers. The Vanderbilt surgical programs are comprehensive and include innovative procedures such as in utero fetal surgery, robotic surgery, and multi-organ transplantation. Our residency training program includes unique experiences in regional anesthesia, acute pain management, critical care, and difficult airway management, as well as, comprehensive experiences in  all anesthesiology subspecialties. Similarly, Vanderbilt Anesthesiology offers advanced fellowship training in cardiac, vascular/thoracic, critical care, pediatric, pain management, ambulatory, and obstetric anesthesiology

Scholarly Excellence Mission

To achieve excellence in the discovery and application of knowledge to perioperative patient care and education.

Vanderbilt Anesthesiology research programs range from the basic science underlying common perioperative complications to innovations in perioperative safety and management. Programs of special emphasis include:

**Section on Health Services Research & Training

**Basic Molecular Research

**Healthcare Services and Education Research

**Perioperative Clinical & Human Genomics Research

Clinical Excellence Mission

To deliver safe and efficient patient care of the highest quality in the surgical, critical care and pain management settings.

The Department of Anesthesiology provides clinical services at three hospitals located on the same campus: Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and the Nashville Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. These institutions provide an extensive variety of patient and surgical procedures that form a strong foundation for lifelong practitioner education, training and translational, genomics and health services research.

Vanderbilt University Hospital consists of six intensive care units, labor and delivery suites, and 60 anesthetizing locations in six procedural suites including the VUH Main Operating Suite, The Vanderbilt Clinic Operating Suite, The Vanderbilt Orthopedic Surgicenter, The Women’s Center Operating Suite, The Medical Center East Operating Suite and the Cosmetic Surgicenter. These locations offer a wealth of experience completing approximately 40,000 procedures annually including cardiac surgery, transplantation, robotic surgery, outpatient surgery, trauma and burn management, orthopedic and general surgery.

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt consists of pediatric and neonatalintensive care units and a total of 16 operating rooms and procedure allocations completing over 8,000 cases annually over the complete spectrum of pediatric surgical care.

The Veteran’s Administration Hospital consists of a surgical intensive care unit and 10 operating rooms in which are completed surgical procedures including cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery.