John F. Butterworth MD

Dr. John Butterworth is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine in Richmond. He formerly served as the R.K. Stoelting Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

He graduated from the VCU School of Medicine and completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He completed a research fellowship in neurotrauma in the Division of Neurosurgery at VCU School of Medicine and another in local anesthetic pharmacology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research and publications are mostly in areas related to cardiac and regional anesthesia. He is one of three authors of Morgan and Mikhail’s Clinical Anesthesiology (5th edition). He has authored, coauthored, edited, and contributed to a number of textbooks.

He has served on the associate editorial board of Anesthesiology and on the editorial boards of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and Anesthesia and Analgesia. He serves on the Boards of Directors of ASRA and the Medical Society of Virginia, and on the Boards of Trustees of the Richmond (Virginia) Academy of Medicine and the International Anesthesia Research Society.