Residency Program
Residency Program
Residency Program LEADERS
Mark Norris, MD Residency Program Director
Christopher Conley, MD Associate Residency Program Director Director of Pediatric Anesthesia
Mark C. Norris, MD is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center and assumed the role of Residency Program Director in June 2020. Under his leadership, our residency has become recognized as one of the premier clinical anesthesia training programs in New England.
Christopher Conley, MD is a physician driven by passion and purpose who has left an enduring stamp on our collective efforts in education, physician wellness and pediatric anesthesia.
With the assistance of Associate Program Director Dr. Christopher Conley, Assistant Program Directors Drs. Jessica Kwan and Melissa Nadler, and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professional Development Dr. Wendy Bernstein, Dr. Norris has created a robust and comprehensive educational program that includes classroom didactics, simulation experience, and individual mentoring. When coupled with our unique, high acuity, diverse patient population, the Boston Medical Center Anesthesiology Residency Program prepares trainees for the full breadth of modern anesthesiology practice under the leadership of Dr. Norris. Dr. Norris began practicing at Boston Medical Center in 2013 where he has held multiple leadership roles. He was the Site Director of the Moakley Outpatient Operating Suite from 2015-2017. He served as Director of Obstetric Anesthesia from 2014 to 2021, during which he helped oversee the planning and inauguration of a modern labor and delivery suite that cares for almost 3,000 pregnant persons each year. In collaboration with the Departments of Family Medicine, Nursing, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, he helped develop and implement clinical pathways and care bundles to address Urgent and Emergent cesarean deliveries, thromboembolic disease, obstetric hemorrhage, and sepsis. These protocols both improved safety and decreased disparities in the delivery of obstetric care. In 2018 Dr. Norris was instrumental in introducing anesthesiologist-provided care in our Gynecology Procedure Unit, which offers a comprehensive array of gynecologic and reproductive health services in a remarkably unbiased and supportive clinical environment. Dr. Norris also served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs from 2019 to 2022. In that role, he laid the foundation for our current robust didactic program, which has led to steady improvements in the performance of our residents on their in-training and certification examinations. Dr. Norris obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Jefferson Medical College. After finishing anesthesiology residency training at Emory University, he completed an obstetric anesthesia fellowship at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Since then, he has held faculty positions at Emory University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Washington University in St. Louis. During that time, he edited the well-regarded textbook “Obstetric Anesthesia” and the “Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia”. The latter has been translated into both Spanish and Vietnamese. Dr. Norris also served as an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology for 26 years.
Dr. Chris Conley earned his B.A. in English from Amherst College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2002. He attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 2006. He completed his residency training in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, serving as Chief Resident from 2009-2010. Upon graduation from residency, he worked as an attending anesthesiologist at the Brigham prior to the start of his fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Conley began working at Boston Medical Center in 2011. In 2013 he was named Associate Residency Program Director, followed by a 2014 appointment as Director of Pediatric Anesthesia. Over the next ten years he helped Boston Medical Center safely double its pediatric surgery volume. During that time, he designed and implemented a telehealth-based pediatric perioperative home that triages and perioperatively optimizes all pediatric patients who receive anesthesia at Boston Medical Center, while decreasing the number of case cancellations in BMC’s most vulnerable young patients. Dr. Conley has published and spoken nationally and internationally on topics ranging from inhalational anesthetics to feedback systems, mentoring, and physician wellness. In addition to his departmental roles, Dr. Conley serves as course director for the BU Medical Campus’s Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Program, and advocates for colleagues and trainees as a peer supporter for The BCMCHS Peer Support Program, connecting persons in crisis with BMC’s mental health services. On a national level, Dr. Conley serves on the Committee on Faculty Development for the Society for Education in Anesthesia, as well as the Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council and the Well-Being Committee for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. In 2023 he was honored to be inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, where he serves on the Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia, the Committee on Physician Well-Being, and, most recently, the Committee on Professional Development. Dr. Conley’s greatest loves are his wife Anne, and his two sons, Ben and Charlie.
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