Anesthesia

The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville named anesthesiologist Jerry Epps, MD, senior vice president and CMO.

Ladd M. Campbell, DO, and Bradley A. Stone, MD, recently earned pediatric anesthesiology certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology, according to a Citizen-Times report.

Douglas Hester, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., participated in Vanderbilt University's Lectures in the Library series, "Alternative Medicine: Poets Who Heal."

Anesthesiologist pay increased by 1 percent over the past year, according to the Medscape Anesthesiologist Compensation Report 2016.

The American Board of Anesthesiology and American Board of Emergency Medicine launched a combined training option in emergency medicine and anesthesiology for residency programs.

Sheridan, the physician services division of AmSurg, has acquired North Florida Anesthesia Consultants in Jacksonville.

Lodi, Calif.-based Morpheus Anesthesia physicians have joined CEP America, according to Central Valley Business Times.

Anesthesiologists get paid the most in healthcare organizations and single-specialty group practices, according to the Medscape Anesthesiologist Compensation Report 2016.

Anesthesiologist Ashok Kewalramani, DO, Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City (Iowa) traveled to Lima, Peru on a medical mission trip, according to a Sioux City Journal report.

American Society of Anesthesiologists has established its Ad Hoc Committee on Prescription Opioid Abuse.