The Association of University Anesthesiologists represents academic anesthesiology and Rick’s election is a well-deserved honor. He joins several other departmental faculty who are members of the AUA, including Dr. Peter Rock, Dr. Andrew Malinow, Dr. Gary Fiskum, Dr. Colin Mackenzie and Dr. Timothy Gilbert

Dr. Dutton is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as Director of Trauma Anesthesiology and Director of Clinical Operations at the University’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

Dr. Dutton is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the American Trauma Society, the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the International Anesthesia Research Society, and the International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society. He is also a member of the Transfusion Medicine Committee of the ASA and Editor-in-Chief of the ASA’s Self-Education and Evaluation Program.

A three-time recipient of the Shock Trauma Center’s Hero Award, Dr. Dutton also received the Navy Achievement Medal for his efforts to improve the function and efficiency of perioperative services during his tenure in the Department of Anesthesiology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as Attending Anesthesiologist and Clinical Coordinator of the Main Operating Room.

Dr. Dutton has published numerous journal articles, abstracts, manuals, textbooks, and textbook chapters on blood-substitute research, thoracic and vascular anesthesia, and trauma anesthesia. He is also Associate Editor of the journal Trauma Care and a manuscript reviewer for the journals Anesthesiology, Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis, and the Journal of Trauma.

Dr. Dutton's SOM Faculty Profile