University of Arizona College of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology papers

At the UA College of Medicine Anesthesiology was initially a section in the Department of Surgery. Although Dr. Burnell R. Brown, Jr. accepted the position the UA’s first Chief of the Section of Anesthesiology in August, 1970, his arrival was delayed until December, 1971. Dr. Frederick Taylor who came to the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital in January, 1971 was the first anesthesiologist associated with the College of Medicine. With the opening of University Hospital in September, 1971, Dr. Thomas A. Webster was appointed Chief of Clinical Anesthesiology pro tem until Brown arrived. The student elective in anesthesiology was begun in January, 1972. Postgraduate training began in August, 1972 with three residents; pharmacology teaching by anesthesiology faculty was instituted in 1972. In September 1974 the Arizona Board of Regents declared the Section of Anesthesiology to be a separate department in the College of Medicine and Dr. Brown was appointed first head of the Department of Anesthesiology.

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University of Arizona. College of Medicine. History of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, 1962-1979. Tucson, Ariz. : College of Medicine, University of Arizona, [1980?].

Note created by Dave Piper, 2018.