Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program Director​/Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist

Department Overview

The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine is integral to the healthcare, education and research missions  provide clinical services at OHSU hospitals and collaborate with the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System (VA), Hillsboro Medical Center and Adventist Health. We specialize in providing excellent perioperative care and anesthesia services to our patients using state-of-the-art technology and pharmacologic tools with an emphasis on patient safety.

In the operating rooms our anesthesiologists work in care teams with our fellows, residents, and nurse anesthetists as well as independently. Pre- and post-operative care is under the medical supervision of our department. We play a prominent role in caring for patients in the cardiovascular, neurosciences, and virtual intensive care units. In the ICU our team includes anesthesiology intensivists, critical care fellows, physician associates/nurse practitioners, and residents.

The role of our team in the ICUs is comprehensive and critical to achieving the highest quality outcomes for our patients.

Our department is dedicated to providing the highest quality and most innovative education training in the country for residents, fellows, and medical students, with trainee opportunities at OHSU and the VA., and community hospitals. Our very active education research group focuses on lifelong learning strategies, particularly in the area of regional anesthesia. We are the proud developers of the ASA’s Anesthesia Tool Box.

We continue to innovate using tools to evaluate our learners’ progress on specific entrustable activities as well as broader readiness to be independent consultants in anesthesiology.

The Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has consistently awarded our program full accreditation. We were the first program in the U.S. to be approved by the ACGME and ABA to allow for integrated training of research and anesthesiology, and critical care medicine and anesthesiology. We were also the first program to offer advanced curriculum options for our residents, on a voluntary basis through our ExCEL program.

We offer accredited fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesiology, Adult Critical Care, Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Regional Anesthesia, and Pain Medicine, as well as a non-accredited fellowship in Neuroanesthesia. The scope of our training opportunities is extensive and includes exposure to a wide variety of patient diseases and surgical procedures as well as CPC and ICU training with dedicated time in our full-body human simulation laboratory.

We are a large department –with over 400 faculty and staff –yet we are a close community highly committed to teamwork to deliver the highest level of patient care, training and research.

The Program Director should continue in the position for a length of time adequate to maintain continuity of leadership and program stability. This position reports to the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine (APOM), collaborates with other department Vice Chairs and leaders, and has a formal dotted line reporting relationship to the Chair of APOM.

This position directly supervises the fellowship Associate/Assistant Program Director (APD).

The Program Director has the full authority and responsibility for the fellowship program and is responsible for program administration and operations, including all activities related to recruitment, selection, instruction, supervision, coaching/advising/mentoring, evaluation and advancement of fellows and the maintenance of all records related to the program. The Program Director ensures continuing accreditation of the program through application of ACGME Common and Specialty requirements.

• Ensure all sites maintain a learning environment conducive to fellow education, including adhering to principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB)
• Ensure the program’s ongoing…