Heather Lander, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and the Associate Director of Academic Practice at the Center for Perioperative Medicine. She is a board-certified Anesthesiologist and has certification in advanced perioperative echocardiography (Advanced PTEeXAM) through the National Board of Echocardiography. 

She is a member of the URMC medical school, residency, and fellowship selection committees, the Age Friendly Health System Work Group, and was the recipient of a competitive geriatric education grant from the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program.  She was also selected as a WEL scholar (Wellness through Equity and Leadership) with the support of the American Medical Women’s Association as an 18-month intensive scholar with fifty fellow women physicians across the country.  Most recently she was awarded a 2-year Health Innovations Grant from the University of Rochester Medicine Quality Institute for her project, “The PROMIS of an Equitable, Innovative, Geriatric Perioperative Surgical Home.”  She is committed to providing equitable perioperative, age-friendly healthcare for all aging surgery patients.

Dr. Lander was born and raised in Narrowsburg, New York and attended Villanova University with a dual major in Biology and Honors.  She then attended medical school at Stony Brook University and completed her residency in Anesthesiology and fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.