Andrea Kurz

Dr. Kurz attended the University of Vienna School of Medicine, and completed an anesthesia residency and fellowship at the University of Vienna. She was then a research fellow in the Outcomes Research Consortium Laboratory in San Francisco and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of California in San Francisco . Subsequently, she was Professor of Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia and General Intensive Care at the University of Vienna. Dr. Kurz was an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Washington University in St. Louis for four years where she directed the Department of Anesthesia Clinical Research Center. She subsequently chaired the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Bern for four years, a period of extraordinary research productivity for the Department. Dr. Kurz is now Vice-chair of the Department of Outcomes Research and Chair of the Department of General Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic.