Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
We train and mentor our medical students, residents, and fellows to help them achieve success in the fields of anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine.
Elevating Patient Care
The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a large and diverse academic group providing over 20,000+ annual anesthesia procedures and pain management services to adults and children. We offer two anesthesia electives for fourth-year medical students, and a complete anesthesiology residency program as well as fellowships in interventional pain medicine and cardiothoracic anesthesiology.
I am excited that there is so much passion and commitment here, and that everyone is invested in the concept of patient safety and streamlining and improving the way we practice.
Keith P. Lewis, RPh, MD
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Academic Programs
The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine offers excellent education and clinical experience for medical students, residents, and fellows interested in learning how to manage a patient through perioperative care.
Our Anesthesiology Residency Program has a long track record of high-quality didactic education with protected time each week for the residents and a successful board pass rate. We have a strong record of sub-specialty fellowship placement and successful job placement in top practices locally and around the country.
Our program offers an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited 1-year fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and an ACGME accredited 1-year fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine dedicated to advanced training in the management of acute, chronic, and oncology related painful conditions presenting in a busy metropolitan hospital.
Faculty, fellows, residents, and medical students have a great opportunity to engage in academic and scholarly activities at the medical school’s Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. We consider participation in research and scholarly activities to be an essential component of education and faculty development.
The major focus of our research laboratory is to investigate how the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and cerebral microregional oxygen balance could be altered by anesthetics in various pathological conditions.
In addition to providing anesthesia procedures and pain management services to adults and children, the department operates a comprehensive multidisciplinary pain management center, The New Jersey Pain Institute, which offers diagnosis and treatment for acute, chronic, and cancer pain problems.
