Gregory J. Mancini, MD

The University of Tennessee Medical Center is pleased to announce the Center for Perioperative Medicine as its eighth Center of Excellence. The Center for Perioperative Medicine has been established to create a safe, high-quality surgical and anesthesia experience for patients, team members and physicians as a model to be renowned and emulated across the industry.

The medical center’s newest Center of Excellence is developing a multidisciplinary approach for perioperative medicine based on clinical integration including comprehensive service lines and provider collaboration across the full continuum of patient care. It focuses primarily on the patients’ journey through the operating room—before, during and after surgery designed to hold accountability throughout the process and provide better patient outcomes.

Dr. Greg Mancini was named vice president of the Center for Perioperative Medicine and began his new role on January 1, 2022. Mancini joined the medical center in 2006 and has served as medical director of University Bariatric Center since 2007. Mancini is board certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His clinical practice focuses on minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

“The Center for Perioperative Medicine provides an organizational support mechanism for surgical services that fall outside the scope of our existing Centers of Excellence. It is unique in that it does not focus on one single disease or service line,” said Mancini. “This Center of Excellence will be a highly integrated care model that uniquely integrates team members and physicians for the benefit of our patients”.

The Center for Perioperative Medicine helps fulfill the medical center’s mission as an academic medical center to serve through healing, education and discovery by providing enhanced technology and cutting-edge procedures as well as access to research and clinical trials. As a result, the Center for Perioperative Medicine’s patients will be provided comprehensive and specialized care to meet their needs.

“The University of Tennessee Medical Center is excited to announce the Center for Perioperative Medicine. Adding our eighth Center of Excellence further establishes our commitment to advancing surgical care to the communities and patients we serve,” says David Hall, executive vice president at the medical center. “We are very fortunate to have Dr. Greg Mancini take on this leadership role. His extensive training and credentials make him highly qualified to lead the Center for Perioperative Medicine into the future.”