Mike Higgins, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chair of Anesthesiology, has been installed as president-elect of the 710-member Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists.
His one-year term as president starts in February 2009.
The society works to promote patient safety and standards of anesthesiology care, as well as providing general advocacy for anesthesiologists and their patients.
They're on the Web at www.tnsoa.org.