{"id":21576,"date":"2025-04-23T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/?p=21576"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:38:58","slug":"april-23rd-is-national-administrative-professionals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/april-23rd-is-national-administrative-professionals-day\/","title":{"rendered":"April 23rd is National Administrative Professionals Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Happy-Admin-Prof-Day-242x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Happy-Admin-Prof-Day-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Happy-Admin-Prof-Day-600x742.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Happy-Admin-Prof-Day.png 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every year on April 23rd, UNC Anesthesiology pauses to recognize and celebrate each administrative staff member on National Administrative Professionals Day. From coordinating schedules and managing communications to juggling countless deadline-driven tasks, UNC Anesthesiology&#8217;s administrative team often works behind-the-scenes, carrying out responsibilities that may go unseen, but are never unnoticed. Each of these professional&#8217;s hard work, attention to detail and steady support of our workplace is vital to our patient care, education and research operations. Thank you to all administrative team members at UNC Anesthesiology who help to ensure our entire department can do its best work &#8212; you hold up the house!<\/p>\n<p>UNC Anesthesiology Chair<strong> Ted Sakai, MD, PhD, MHA, FASA<\/strong>, stated: &#8220;I thank each of our administrative professionals for [his\/her] daily work to support the mission of UNC Anesthesiology and for your expertise and care in every detail. 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