Anesthesia Associates of Rochester P.C.

Anesthesia Associates of Rochester, PC, is a physician group composed of thirty five specialty trained anesthesiologists. We currently provide all anesthesia care services for Rochester General Hospital, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital and Clifton Springs Hospital. Our mission is to seek to provide high quality, compassionate and cost-effective anesthesia care to patients in the Greater Rochester area.

As perioperative physician specialists, we care for patients having all types of surgical procedures. Our care begins with the preoperative assessment, where your anesthesiologist carefully reviews your medical history, your physical exam and then, in consultation with you and your surgeon, prescribes your anesthetic care. In the operating room, your anesthesiologist provides the expertise needed to care for your physiologic needs, no matter what type of anesthesia is chosen. In the postanesthesia care unit (recovery room), and postoperatively, your anesthesiologist will continue your care, treating your physical needs and caring for any degree of postoperative pain.

Our state-of-the-art practice includes a variety of anesthesia techniques, including:

• General Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia, including spinal/epidural blocks and nerve blocks to anesthetize the arm or the leg
• General Anesthesia combined with Regional Anesthesia
• Monitored Anesthesia Care, which includes various sedation techniques in combination with local anesthetics
• Various techniques to intensively monitor the cardiovascular system, including the placement of invasive monitors in arteries, in veins that lead to the heart, and monitors placed to image the heart
• Consultative services within the hospitals, assisting in emergency procedures and resuscitation on a 24-hour basis.

Our physicians collaborate with nurse practitioners, who perform the majority of preoperative history and physical exams at Rochester General Hospital. We are actively involved in the management of the preoperative admissions areas, the operating rooms and the Post Anesthesia Care Units.

Your anesthesiologist is your Perioperative Physician. S/He will care for you in a holistic, humane fashion and will tailor your anesthesia care to your individual clinical needs and desires.

Anesthesia Departments:
General Information (585) 922-4159

Jeffrey Wasserman, M.D., President of Anesthesia Associates of Rochester, P.C.

Sally J. Siegl, M.B.A., M.S.H.A., Practice Administrator

Dominick Cortese, M.D., Chief of Anesthesia at Rochester General Hospital

Alan Lanni, M.D., Chief of Anesthesia at Newark Wayne Hospital

Robert Young, M.D., Chief of Anesthesia at Clifton Springs Hospital

Robert F. Cafarell, M.D., Coordinator, Cardiac Anesthesia Team

Gilbert P. Proper, M.D., Director, Pain and Symptom Management Center

Georgianne Zigarowicz, M.D., DOSA Coordinator

Frank Catanzaro, M.D., ASC Coordinator