From: Wiley W. “Chip” Souba, MD, ScD
Subject: Harter Named Chair of Anesthesiology
Date: June 22, 2009
TO: OSU Medical Center Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Wiley W. “Chip” Souba, MD, ScD
Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean, OSU College of Medicine
Steven G. Gabbe, MD
Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
CEO, OSU Medical Center
We are very pleased to announce that our recommendation of Ronald Harter, MD, for chair of The Ohio State University Department of Anesthesiology was approved by the University’s Board of Trustees on June 5 and effective immediately. Dr. Harter was at the same time named to the Jay J. Jacoby, MD, PhD Chair in Anesthesiology. He had been serving as interim chair of the department since November 2008.
Dr. Harter received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1989 where he was president of the senior class. He served his transitional internship year at Mt Carmel Medical Center in Columbus, and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as chief resident. Dr. Harter taught cardiothoracic anesthesia at Georgetown for a year before joining Ohio State’s Department of Anesthesiology faculty in 1994. He served five years in the Department of Anesthesiology at Mt. Carmel Medical Center (2002-2007) before returning to Ohio State as director of the anesthesiology residency training program and vice chair of education and professional development in the Department of Anesthesiology.
He currently serves as the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates and is an alternate director for the ASA Board of Directors. Dr. Harter serves on four ASA committees and chairs its Committee on Medical Students and Residents. He was vice president of the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists 2000-2001 and president 2002-2003.
Dr. Harter has published and presented widely on topics in anesthesiology and medical education and has won teaching awards from the Department of Anesthesiology and the College of Medicine’s Problem-Based Learning pathway.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ron Harter on his appointment as chair of Ohio State’s Department of Anesthesiology.