Jack Moyers, MD, establishes the Intensive Care Unit at Iowa.

John Severinghaus, MD, a resident under Stuart Cullen, MD, completes and publishes development of the PCO2 Electrode.

William Hamilton, MD, is appointed Division Chair.

First Midwest Anesthesia Residents Meeting, organized by William Hamilton, MD, and Jack Moyers, MD, is held in Iowa City.

Anesthesia breaks from Department of Surgery to become an independent Department.

Midwest Anesthesia Residents Meeting becomes Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference (MARC), now the largest gathering of anesthesia residents in the world; Department becomes nationally known for research on muscle relaxant BW33A (atracurium).

Department hires its first sub-specialty anesthesiologist, Roland Kennedy, MD (obstetric anesthesia).

John Tinker, MD, is appointed Department Chair; recruits David Chestnut, MD, (Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia) and Michael Todd, MD, to bolster the Department's research activities; establishes collaboration between Department and College of Nursing to create Anesthesia Nursing Program.

Pain Management program begins as a Department consultation service.

Samir Gergis, MD, and Marty Sokoll, MD, publish their work on the priming principle, the idea that a small initial dose of anesthetic should be followed by a much larger dose to hasten the onset of neuromuscular block.