Mark Norris, MD

Mark C. Norris, MD is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center and assumed the role of Residency Program Director in June 2020. Under his leadership, our residency has become recognized as one of the premier clinical anesthesia training programs in New England.
Dr. Norris began practicing at Boston Medical Center in 2013 where he has held multiple leadership roles. He was the Site Director of the Moakley Outpatient Operating Suite from 2015-2017. He served as Director of Obstetric Anesthesia from 2014 to 2021, during which he helped oversee the planning and inauguration of a modern labor and delivery suite that cares for almost 3,000 pregnant persons each year. In collaboration with the Departments of Family Medicine, Nursing, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, he helped develop and implement clinical pathways and care bundles to address Urgent and Emergent cesarean deliveries, thromboembolic disease, obstetric hemorrhage, and sepsis. These protocols both improved safety and decreased disparities in the delivery of obstetric care. In 2018 Dr. Norris was instrumental in introducing anesthesiologist-provided care in our Gynecology Procedure Unit, which offers a comprehensive array of gynecologic and reproductive health services in a remarkably unbiased and supportive clinical environment. Dr. Norris also served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs from 2019 to 2022. In that role, he laid the foundation for our current robust didactic program, which has led to steady improvements in the performance of our residents on their in-training and certification examinations.
Dr. Norris obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Jefferson Medical College. After finishing anesthesiology residency training at Emory University, he completed an obstetric anesthesia fellowship at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Since then, he has held faculty positions at Emory University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Washington University in St. Louis. During that time, he edited the well-regarded textbook “Obstetric Anesthesia” and the “Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia”. The latter has been translated into both Spanish and Vietnamese. Dr. Norris also served as an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology for 26 years.

Click here to return to the Residency Program page.