Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship

The Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship is a one year ABA accredited rotation at Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Women & Children’s Hospital is a tertiary care pediatric facility which is a Level I Intensive Care Nursery and which provides anesthesiology services for the pediatric surgical subspecialties. Approximately 12,000 cases are performed per year under general anesthesia. The pediatric anesthesiology fellows spend a total of twelve months attached to the Department of Anesthesiology. The program is divided into two parts:

(1) the core didactic
(2) clinical caseload

The pediatric anesthesiology didactic program consists of daily thirty minute conferences which are presented by designated attending pediatric anesthesiologists on topics from the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship curriculum. These lectures are in addition to the University Department of Anesthesiology lecture program consisting of weekly two hour seminars, bi-weekly Department Chair Rounds, and a monthly visiting professor series.

The clinical caseload involves exposure to a wide variety of cases. The fellows will be competent in management of all routine pediatric cases and during the year will provide anesthesia for approximately fifty neonates. They will also become competent in the insertion and interpretation of invasive monitoring for all ages of children from neonates to young adults. These skills will be taught under direct supervision of the attending anesthesiologist. The fellow will also provide anesthesia for approximately seventy open- heart cases ranging from neonates to adults. At the end of the clinical year, they will be competent in all areas of pediatric anesthesia.

Interested applicants may forward their resume and a universal application to:

Jerrold Lerman, M.D.
Program Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program
Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo
219 Bryant St .
Buffalo , NY 14222
cbova@kaleidahealth.org