Alexander S. Choi, MD, MPH, FASA, serves on the Zionsville Town Council as At-Large Representative (R) and chair of the ASA Committee on Governmental Affairs Task Force on Mentoring Physician Candidates for Public Office. He recently ran in a competitive race for Indiana state Senate.
When I was a resident, and also into the early part of my career in a private practice, I was not very involved in advocacy, nor did I have much involvement in ASA or the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA). Then two things happened – I was asked to join the Board of Directors for the ISA and I also became president of the private practice group I joined. I quickly realized the importance of advocacy to my practice from a business and patient care perspective and pivoted my efforts to become more engaged in policies that would promote the practice of anesthesiology and...