The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Rochester employs 31 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA's) in a program with 44 full-time attending anesthesiologists, 52 residents, and 3 fellows. The University of Rochester Medical Center (Strong Memorial Hospital) has 32 operating rooms (OR's) and the newly built Sawgrass Surgical Center has 10 OR's. The Medical Center includes the only regional Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center, the largest medical, surgical, and transplant cardiovascular center in the region, a solid organ transplant center, the only Children's Hospital in the region, and the regional center for high-risk obstetrics. 

CRNA's at the University of Rochester have a unique role in the overall achievement of the Department's goals. The CRNA group has formed an Executive Committee with elected leadership, who actively participate in creating the best environment for professional advancement, learning, and addressing family/lifestyle needs of the group through interactions with their Medical Director and the Chairman.

CRNA's participate in all clinical activities of the Department, including providing anesthesia care for ENT, Plastics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Orthopedics, GI, OB/GYN, Transplant, Cardiac, Pediatric, Dental, Thoracic, Vascular, Trauma and Burns, and General Surgery Patients at Strong Memorial Hospital and at Sawgrass Surgical Center, Strong’s new state of the art surgical center.

The Department of Anesthesiology provides services for over 60,000 procedures per year and experienced substantial continuous growth in surgical volume reflecting both ambulatory and complex inpatient cases during the last five years. For this reason the Department has maintained a vigorous recruitment strategy for anesthesia providers that include CRNAs and physicians.

Current CRNA's: