Research at the harvard anesthesia departments

摘要

The HMS Department of Anesthesia officially came into existence with the unanimous approval of the faculty on October 16, 1969, the date chosen to coincide with Ether Day.1 Before this, the HMS-affiliated hospitals had established autonomous anesthesia service groups, some functioning as academic departments. In 1936, Professor Henry Knowles Beecher, M.D. (1904-1976) became the first anesthetist-in-chief at MGH (established in 1811). Subsequent chairs of the MGH department have been Professor Richard Kitz, M.D. (Chair, 1969-1994), Professor Warren Zapol, M.D. (Chair, 1994-2008), and Professor Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, M.D. (Chair, 2008 to present).