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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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GLENN E. WABEL, Partner in Charge, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, Chicago Terms to expire August 31,1976 B. J. BLANDFORD, Treasurer, Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago WILLIAM F. DEBELAK, Secretary, The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago ROBERT W. SHAFFER, President, General Telephone Company of Illinois, Bloomington I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Forsyth, these appointments were approved.

ESTABLISHMENT O F A DEPARTMENT O F ANESTHESIOLOGY A N D APPOINTMENT OF HEAD. MEDICAL CENTER I

(4) The Medical Center Senate has approved a proposal from the faculty of The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine of the College of Medicine that a Department of Anesthesiology be established. Under the proposal the existing division of anesthesiology of the Department of Surgery would be established as a separate department within The Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine. The following statement recognizes those features of the practice of anesthesiology which, taken together, distinguish it from other specialty areas of medicine. Anesthesiology is currently defined as "a practice of medicine dealing with (1) the management of procedures for rendering a patient insensible to pain during surgical, obstetrical, and certain medical procedures; (2) the support of life functions under the stress of anesthetic and surgical manipulations; (3) the clinical management of the patient unconscious from whatever cause; (4) the management of problems in pain relief; (5) the management of problems in cardiac and respiratory resuscitation; (6) the application of specific methods of inhalational therapy; (7) the clinical management of various fluid, electrolyte, and metabolic disturbances."1 The definition of anesthesiology as a discrete specialty, based on particular and specialized knowledge and skills in defined medical areas, has been recognized in academic health centers nationwide. Almost all teaching hospitals have independent departments of anesthesiology, as does the University of Illinois Hospital. In addition, most major medical schools in the nation, including all others in Chicago, have recognized the independent status of anesthesiology by creating anesthesiology departments separate and distinct from departments of surgery. The proposed department will continue the programs now carried out by the division of anesthesiology. In general, it is expected that the department will contribute to the programs for undergraduate medical education, for graduate medical education (residency training), and for education in several health professions other than medicine. In addition, the department will conduct research related to anesthesiology. Resources now available to support the anesthesiology program would become the basic funding source for the department. No new State appropriated funds would be required for the current budget year (FY 1972-73). Thereafter, any new funds would be subject to request and approval as for any other department. All faculty presently associated with the division of anesthesiology and all programs and funds presently administered by the division would become part of the new department. II It is further recommended that Dr. Alon P. Winnie, presently Professor of Anesthesiology, on indefinite tenure, be appointed Professor of Anesthesiology on indefinite tenure and Head of the Department, effective upon establishment of the Department of Anesthesiology, on a twelve-month service basis without change in salary. (Dr. Winnie also now serves as Head of Anesthesiology in the University of Illinois Hospital and will continue to hold that assignment.) The Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Vice President for Academic

1 Guide for Residency Programs in Anesthesiology 1971. Prepared by the Residency Review Committee for Anesthesiology and approved by the American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc., and the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association.