From developing inhaled anesthetics to defining minimum alveolar concentration (MAC), it is hard to overstate the impact that the University of California, San Francisco Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care has had on the specialty over the past six decades.
The department is perennially in the top 10 departments in National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research, helping make UCSF the largest clinical trial entity in the U.S. The highly selective UCSF anesthesia residency program is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. by Doximity, for the fourth consecutive year, and the department repeatedly sits atop U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings.
Much of the credit for the national recognition goes to the faculty, said professor and chair Michael Gropper, MD, PhD. “We have a culture in our department at UCSF where there is a willingness among the faculty to have shared contribution of their clinical work so that research and...