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Greetings from the Department Chair, M. Christine Stock, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Welcome to the Department of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM).

Our Department offers outstanding advanced and categorical residency training programs. Our residents gain clinical experience at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the new Prentice Women's Hospital, which opened in October 20, 2007, and Children's Memorial Hospital, which although currently located 3 miles northwest of NUFSM, is being built adjacent to Prentice Women's Hospital. We look forward to the opening of the new Children's Memorial Hospital in 2012 when residents who match in our program will participate in the transition and train in the new, state-of-the-art medical facility. I encourage you to learn more about our Great Academic Medical Center by viewing a video narrated by J. Larry Jameson, MD, Phd, Vice President for Medical Affairs, on the NUFSM website... Read More



Greetings from the Residency Program Director, John Sullivan, MD, MBA

I invite you to consider a career in the challenging field of clinical anesthesiology.

Our exciting and dynamic specialty incorporates basic science knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology and clinical science knowledge of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics to care for our patients. Anesthesiologists evaluate and manage patients during the perioperative period. We render surgical and nonsurgical patients insensible to pain during procedures; monitor and restore their homeostasis; diagnose and treat pain syndromes; manage and teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation; evaluate and support respiratory function; and manage critically ill patients...Read More


Department Announcements

September 15, 2009

Welcome new faculty member Luminita Tureanu, MD, who trained at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County for residency and the University of Western Ontario for a regional and pain medicine fellowship. Dr. Tureanu joins our regional anesthesia team.

August 18, 2009

Congratulations to Cynthia Wong, MDand Amy Lee, MD, received one of eight 2010 Evergreen Invitational Women’s Health Grants for their project, “The Effect of Neuraxial Analgesia on Maternal Breastfeeding."

August 3, 2009

Welcome new faculty, Laura Hemmer, MD,   who trained at Northwestern for residency and Neurosurgical Anesthesiology fellowship, Abbas Al-Qamari, MD, who trained at Rush Medical Center for residency and Northwestern as a Critical Care Medicine fellow and Amy Lee, MD, who trained at UCLA for residency and Northwestern as an Obstetrical Anesthesiology fellow.

July 7, 2009

Welcome new faculty, Andrew Baudo, MD and Christopher Cambic, MD, who trained at Northwestern for their residency and fellowship training and Abraham Gaupp, MD, who trained at the University of Chicago for his residency and University of Michigain for a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology.

May 11, 2009

New editions of two significant anesthesia textbooks were published in April in which M. Christine Stock, MD and Cynthia Wong, MD are co-editors: Clinical Anesthesia and Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia, respectively.

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Last Updated:Sat Nov 07, 2009
Department of Anesthesiology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
251 E. Huron St, F5-704
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 312/926-8105
Fax: 312/926-9206

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