Welcome!

We are a leading clinical and research Anesthesiology department offering a broad range of clinical services and research opportunities. Much of our success stems from the experience and diversity of our faculty. All of our attending physicians are board-certified in Anesthesiology and about a third are also board-certified in other specialties. These include medicine, pediatrics, critical care, and genetics. The Attending Anesthesiologists have trained and worked at many well known institutions such as Yale, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of California-San Francisco, University of Pittsburgh and the Mayo Clinic. Our staff also includes several well-recognized names in anesthesiology research.

At UIC Medical Center and the Jesse Brown VA, we have busy and productive clinical divisions in Neuroanesthesia, Cardiac Anesthesia, Pediatric Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, Obstetric Anesthesia, and Regional Anesthesia. We offer fellowships in each of these subspecialties, and were the first institution in Illinois to offer a regional anesthesia fellowship.

We take great pride in the research productivity of our residents and faculty. Our multifaceted research division has teams of basic and clinical scientists with backgrounds in medicine, pharmacology, physiology, and anatomy who published over sixty articles last year. Clinical research projects include studies of new drugs/therapies for the treatment of pain, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's Disease; EEG monitoring of the level of sedation during general anesthesia; and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors for postoperative analgesia following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Basic research studies include the mechanisms of cell damage following cerebral ischemia and possible therapies, genetic susceptibility to drugs, toxic effects of local anesthetics and a novel treatment, pathophysiology of acute lung injury and pulmonary endothelial permeability, and adrenal medullary cells and their effect on spinal cord mediated chronic pain.

We hope you'll click on the links here to see who we are, what we do, and how to apply to our residency program.

David E. Schwartz, M.D.
Professor and Interim Head