Anesthesiology Committees & Professional Organizations

Service is a requirement on the Annual Faculty Evaluation and Promotion and Tenure. Below are committees which members can serve. Discuss reasonable commitments with your mentor.

Foundation Committees 

Foundation Board of Directors - oversees Foundation function.  Works with the Chair to set financial and clinical policies.  Responsible for the overall financial success of the Foundation.

• Talal Khan, MD -- Interim President
  Associate Professor and Chair
• Deanna Fox, MD -- Secretary
  Associate Professor
• Gregory Unruh, MD -- Treasurer
  Associate Professor
  Director, Residency Education

Quality Improvement --monitors quality improvement reports, develops areas to evaluate, recommends changes and identifies areas of concern.

• Deanna Fox, MD
  Associate Professor
• Jay Nachtigal, MD
  Assistant Professor

Departmental Committees

Executive Committee

• Talal Khan, MD -- Chair
  Associate Professor and Chair
• Christopher Beck, MD
  Assistant Professor
• Deanna Fox, MD
  Associate Professor
• Kirk Benson, MD
  Professor
• Martin DeRuyter, MD
  Professor
• Melissa Rockford, MD
  Assistant Professor
• Stephen D. Tarver, MD
  Associate Professor
• Gregory Unruh, MD
  Associate Professor
• Administrator

Education Committee

Faculty Development & Mentoring Committee Members

• Kirk Benson, MD -- Committee Chair
  Professor of Anesthesiology
  President, UKP
• Gregory K. Unruh, MD
  Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
  Director, Residency Education
• Ron Torline, MD, FAAP
  Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
  Director, Pediatric Anesthesia
• Venesa Ingold, MD
  Assistant Professor
• Sheila Bailey
  Administrative Assistant to the Chair

Grievance Committee

Practice Operations

• Melissa Rockford, MD  ext. 8-3382, pager 5930

Promotion & Tenure
See SOM Policy Statement about Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committees.

• Anthony L. Kovac, MD -- Committee Chair, Professor of Anesthesiology
• Kirk Benson, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Faculty Development & Mentoring Committee Chair, President, UKP

Research - coordinates research effort, projects level of funding to Chair, oversees research.

• Anthony L. Kovac, MD  ext. 8-3383, pager 5120

Committees on the KUMC Campus
(SOM, Governance, Hospital, UKP, Research, Compliance)

Local & National Anesthesiology Professional OrganizationsOrganizations (Discuss with your Mentor)

Student and Campus Organizations (full list)