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Emil Annabi, MD, has joined the Department as the Director of Chronic Pain Management. He is currently seeing patients at the Pain Clinic at the UPH Hospital at Kino at 2800 E. Ajo Way. Please call 874-4768 for appointments.
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Please join Dr. Craig Palmer on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 6:30 am for a lecture on OB Emergencies and Anesthetic Management.

Please join Dr. Keith Candiotti, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Miami, on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, at 7:30 am, for a lecture on Sedation in the OR, Procedural Room, and Surgical ICU Setting.

Please join Dr. Peter Ott, Director, Electrophysiology Lab and Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:30 am, for a lecture on Pacemakers.

The following residents will be attending Simulator Sessions on Wednesday, November 25, 2009: Drs. Holt, Amos, Boeve, and Butler.

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Steven J. Barker, MD, PhD

Steven J. Barker, MD, PhD
Department Head

The Department of Anesthesiology provides the full spectrum of clinical anesthesiology services as the Arizona Health Sciences Center. These include both major and minor operating room anesthesia, consultation services in airway management and vascular access, preoperative patient assessment and optimization, emergency resuscitation, and critical care medicine. In addition, the department operates a comprehensive acute and chronic pain service including an outpatient pain clinical service and consultation service for other departments. The department provides expertise in all subspecialties of anesthesiology, including cardiovascular, obstetric, neurosurgical, pediatric, transplantation, trauma, intensive care, and pain management. Major areas of research include inhalation anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, central mechanisms of anesthesia, resuscitation, cardiopulmonary monitoring, and pain management.

For further information:

Department of Anesthesiology
Arizona Health Sciences Center
1501 N. Campbell Ave., Room 5301
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Tel: (520) 626-7221