Vanderbilt Anesthesiololgy

The Department of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University was one of the first independent anesthesia departments in the United States and has a long tradition of innovation.  This creative impulse has kept the Vanderbilt Anesthesiology Department in the vanguard of clinical discovery, basic science research, and translational application of new knowledge throughout perioperative medicine.
 
Anesthesiology is a dynamic and rapidly evolving medical specialty. Although the operating room anesthetic of today would be familiar to anesthesiologist from 20 or 40 years ago, our technology has improved, our scope of practice has expanded dramatically to incorporate the full arc of perioperative management, and, most importantly, the economic and regulatory landscape within which we care for our patients has been fundamentally changing beneath our feet for a generation.

Vanderbilt Anesthesiology has the intellectual agility to maintain equilibrium and thrive in this unstable environment. We get the right people onto the team, create the right systems of practice to provide optimum patient care, and develop innovative technology to improve the capabilities of our clinicians.  We train the leaders in our specialty in research, clinical innovation and patient care, and we put those skills into practice every day.

The rate of change in anesthesiology is accelerating. Care at the bedside is increasingly scrutinized for effectiveness and value, and proof of best practice and outcome is expected.  Meanwhile, patient acuity and comorbidity are constantly increasing, while the requirement for considerate stewardship of precious healthcare resources is increasingly urgent.  We are ready to meet these challenges. We have the information technology and the scientific capability to actively develop hypotheses about how to improve patient care, to test those hypotheses and to disseminate the results so others, and most importantly, patients, can benefit from these successes. We will extend the Vanderbilt Anesthesiology tradition of innovation and discovery from bench to bedside across the entire continuum of our specialty.

Our department is characterized by optimism, excitement, talent, and a commitment to work together to improve our knowledge and the care we provide to our patients.  We welcome individuals at all levels who share this commitment and our passion for creating the best perioperative science and medicine. 

I look forward to meeting with you and working together to discover the opportunities and exciting challenges in the Department of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt.

Best Regards,

Warren S. Sandberg, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology