January 4, 2008

Wiener-Kronish appointed chief of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD, (left) has been selected as the new chief of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Currently a professor of Anesthesia and Medicine and the vice chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), she is succeeding Warren M. Zapol, MD, who has led the department for 14 years. She will begin serving in her new role in April.

Wiener-Kronish obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1971 and her medical degree from UCSF in 1976. She then completed her residency in internal medicine in 1979 and a pulmonary clinical and research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF in 1984, followed by a residency in anesthesia at UCSF in 1986.

Wiener-Kronish is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, anesthesia and critical care medicine and also is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Wiener-Kronish has devoted much of her academic career to investigating the mechanism of acute lung injury produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a gram-negative bacterium that can infect patients in the intensive care unit. She is a senior editor for the journal Anesthesiology and an associate editor of Pulmonary Perspectives. The editor of two books, she has authored numerous
book chapters and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

In addition to her responsibilities at the MGH, Wiener-Kronish will assume an appointment at Harvard Medical School as the Henry Isaiah Dorr Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia.