Anesthesiology Patient Care
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Advancing Our Field

We strive to advance the field of anesthesia through research and education, all in order to fulfill our mission of providing personalized care of the highest quality to every patient.

The Department of Anesthesiology performs nearly 100,000 procedures a year in locations across Michigan Medicine. Throughout our work, we focus our efforts on meeting the unique needs of every patient and their family.

The main office of the Department of Anesthesiology is located on the first floor of the University Hospital. For our other locations, please click on the links below. Our main office address is:

Department of Anesthesiology
1H247 UH, SPC 5048
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5048

empty iMRI operating room in green light Locations List
  • Preoperative Clinic at Domino's Farms
  • East Ann Arbor Ambulatory Surgery and Medical Procedures Center
  • Back & Pain Centers
  • Brighton Center for Specialty Care
  • Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology - Women's Birthing Center
  • Kellogg Eye Center
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    The brain in balance
    In a recent study, using network neuroscience, investigators found a way to objectively determine the balance of integration and segregation in fMRI-measured brain signals during wakefulness as well as during sleep and anesthesia.
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    Annual Anesthesiology Research Retreat highlights impact of work across the department
    The UMMS Department of Anesthesiology annual Research Retreat highlights work taking place across the department.
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    The “chemical nudges” approach to chronic pain
    In this episode, you will get to hear Dr. Boehnke, in his own words, talk about his experiences, and the “chemical nudges” approach to chronic pain; reframing the role of medications in chronic pain management, and why solely relying on pain relievers “disempowers patients, clinicians and the drugs themselves.”
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    Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, named ASRA Pain Medicine Presidential Scholar
    The award is given biannually to recognize outstanding scientific and sustained contributions to regional anesthesia, acute, or chronic pain medicine over the preceding 10 years.
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    U-M awarded $3.6M to study post-surgery pain management for individuals with opioid use disorder
    The University of Michigan will use a new $3.6 million federal grant to study how pain and opioids after surgery impact people with opioid use disorder, how guidelines might be adjusted to address post-surgical pain and how to prevent opioid-related harms.
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    New insights on persistent opioid use after surgery and genetic associations to opioid use disorder
    In a recent edition of Genetic Epidemiology, Aubrey C. Annis and mentors Gonçalo R. Abecasis and Chad Brummett have new insights to share on these genetic associations in their publication, “Genetic Associations of Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Point to OPRM1 but Not Other Opioid-Related Loci as the Main Driver of Opioid Use Disorder”.