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Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Director of Critical Care Services, Burn Unit
Quality Chief, Anesthesia & Critical Care
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Dr. Avery Tung is a specialist in anesthesia and intensive care medicine. Currently, he is the director of critical care services for the University of Chicago Burn and Complex Wound Center--a multidisciplinary program dedicated to treating patients with severe burns.
Dr. Tung's research interests include factors affecting physician decision-making, clinical topics in critical care medicine, and effects of sedatives and anesthesia on the regulation of naturally occurring sleep.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Anesthesia
- Burn Care
- Cardiac Anesthesia
Medical Education
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Internship
- University of California, San Francisco
Residency
- University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship
- Stanford Hospital
Memberships & Medical Societies
- International Anesthesia Research Society
- Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists
- American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- American Burn Association
- Sleep Research Society
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Aetna POS
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO
- BCBS HMO (HMOI)
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare
- Coventry Health Plan PPO
- Great West PPO
- Illinicare*
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice / Choice Plus
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
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