P. Allan Klock Jr., MD

2016 Senior Faculty Scholars

P. Allan Klock Jr., MD is an anesthesiologist and professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care. He earned his MD from the University of Connecticut and he completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He later completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Klock has been section chief for urologic anesthesia and medical director of the post-anesthesia care unit and currently serves as Medical Director of his department’s ambulatory clinics. Dr. Klock serves on his department’s quality assurance, education, resident recruitment and executive committees. Dr. Klock’s academic and clinical interests include airway management and he is past president of the Society for Airway Management and is co-director of the Airway Study and Training Center at UofC. Dr. Klock is also interested in educating non-anesthesiologist health professionals about making sedation more effective and safer. Dr. Klock has developed a curriculum entitled, “Safer Sedation and Analgesia” that has been delivered to over 600 medical professionals.