Community Engagement:
About the Community Engagement Council
The BWH Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine’s Community Engagement Council is a group of 79 trainees, faculty, anesthesia techs, and administrative staff committed to creating and promoting a place where all our community members thrive. We are thrilled to work on projects and events that touch our department and institution, as well as our local communities.
Our Mission
To create a vibrant department where all members thrive and reach their utmost potential to benefit the community we serve.
Core Values
- Recruitment and Retention
- Internal Community Building
- External Community Building and Community Service
- Healthy Equity and Education/Research
Strategic Initiatives
- Recruit, retain, and promote residents, faculty, and staff with the richness of experience and broad-based skillsets, allowing for varied perspectives reflecting the patient communities we serve.
- Nurture an environment in which all members of our community thrive and reach their utmost potential.
- Engage in community service activities.
- Utilize innovative methodologies to describe and advance education and research in academic anesthesiology to impact the clinical training climate and equip our trainees and faculty with the tools needed to achieve health equity.
"As a non-US international medical graduate (from Colombia), I wanted to be in an inclusive program that would support my aspirations as a physician-scientist."
Andres Zorrilla-Vaca, Resident
Class of '25
