New York-based Weill Cornell Medical College's Klaus Kjaer-Pedersen, MD, was awarded the 2014 Physician of the Year Award from the New York-Presbyterian Hospital's department of nursing.
Dr. Kjaer-Pedersen has served as co-director of obstetric anesthesia at Weill Cornell since 2004, and he is a member of the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. He is also the program director of Weill Cornell's newly Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited fellowship in obstetric anesthesiology.
Dr. Kjaer-Pedersen completed his anesthesia residency and obstetric anesthesia fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, all located in Boston.
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