Mission

"Healing, Teaching, Caring, Discovering and Leading"

The goals of our department are:

• Educate students, residents, SRNAs, and fellows while simultaneously delivering state-of-the-art anesthesia services in perioperative care, pain management, and critical care;
• Be recognized for its contributions to the specialty of anesthesiology through education, research, and scholarly activities;
• Contribute to the success of the Medical School and Medical System.

Vision

To be one of the country's top 10 academic anesthesiology programs.

Values

To accomplish our mission and achieve our vision, we need to focus on eight pillars of our specialty:  

• Excellence
• Leadership
• Diversity
• Social and Public Health Responsibility
• Collaboration and Communication 
• Respect, Ethical Behavior and Professionalism
• Fiscal Responsibility and Accountability 
• Social Justice