ASA Monitor Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Steven Shafer, MD, FASA
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Medicine
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Editors
U.S. Anesthesia Partners
Palm Coast, FL
Program Director for the Neuroanesthesia Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic Multispecialty Anesthesia
Cleveland, Ohio
Board of Directors, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC)
Chair, International Council for Perioperative Neuroscience Training (ICPNT)
Department of Anesthesiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Pediatric and Cardiac Anesthesiology
Children’s Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
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Amr Abouleish, MD, MBA, FASA
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas
Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Dr. Abouleish’s professional interests include economics of anesthesia care, productivity measurements, and professional development.
Conflicts of interest: none
Kumar G. Belani, MBBS, MS
Pediatric Anesthesiologist-In-Chief, University of Minnesota
Health Fairview, Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis,
MN
Dr. Belani’s professional interests include pediatric and ambulatory anesthesiology, global collaborations in healthcare, perioperative medicine and patient safety, and metabolic and rare diseases in children.
Languages: English, Hindi, Sindhi, Kannada
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Belani serves on the MHAUS Hotline and is a grant recipient of the NIH DOD, Pfizer, Acacia, and Augustine Biomedical Design.
Daniel Cole, MD, FASA
President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, UCLA, David Geffen
School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Cole’s professional interests include perioperative medicine, brain health, geriatric medicine, and neuroanesthesia.
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Cole is the current president of the APSF and the Executive Director for Professional Affairs for the ABA.
Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
Medicine; Director of Global Engagement Strategy, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
Dr. Crawford’s professional interests include global health, medical education, and critical care medicine.
Conflicts of interest: none
Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA
Attending Anesthesiologist, U.S. Anesthesia Partners,
Palm Coast, FL
Dr. Deutch’s professional interests include practice management, perioperative operations, medical economics, regional anesthesia, and ambulatory anesthesia.
Conflicts of interest: none
Elizabeth T. Drum, MD, FAAP, FCPP, FASA
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical
Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania; Associate Chief for Clinical Operations,
General Anesthesia Division, The Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Drum’s professional interests include pediatric anesthesiology and global health.
Conflicts of interest: none
Pamela Flood, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dr. Flood’s professional interests include the treatment of chronic pelvic pain and multiple aspects of women’s health, including the prevention of chronic pain after childbirth, and the role of multimodal treatment in chronic pain conditions and prevention of persistent opioid use.
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Flood is a consultant and shareholder of Concentric Analgesics and shareholder of Resq Pharma.
Barbara G. Jericho, MD, FASA
Founding Medical Director, Anesthesia Preoperative
Evaluation Clinic, Chicago, IL
Dr. Jericho’s professional interests include a strong interest in education (received multiple teaching awards), ethics particularly end-of-life issues and perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders, patient safety, and risk management.
Conflicts of interest: none
Keya A. Locke, MD, MBA
Medical Director of Perioperative Services, Assistant
Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Florida
Jacksonville-North, Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Locke’s professional interests include practice management and specifically organizational behavior.
Conflicts of interest: none
M. James Lozada, DO
Obstetric Anesthesiologist, Our Lady of Lourdes Women &
Children’s Hospital, Lafayette, LA
Dr. Lozada’s professional interests include healthcare media production and dissemination, patient safety, and maternal health.
Conflicts of interest: none
Elizabeth B. Malinzak, MD, FASA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Associate
Dean for Student Affairs, Duke University School of
Medicine, Durham, NC
Dr. Malinzak’s professional interests include social media, medical education and simulation, gender equity in anesthesiology, leadership development, work-life conflict, and advocacy for young physicians.
Conflicts of interest: none
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH
APSF Liaison, Vice Chair of Quality and Safety, Associate
Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and
Perioperative Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Methangkool’s professional interests include patient safety, quality improvement, cardiac anesthesia, gender equity in medicine, and leadership.
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Methangkool receives honoraria from Edwards LifeSciences and author royalties from UpToDate, Inc.
Thomas R. Miller, PhD, MBA
Director of Analytics and Research Services, and Director,
Center for Anesthesia Workforce Studies, American Society of
Anesthesiologists
Dr. Miller’s professional interests include health economics, anesthesia workforce trends, health services research, systematic reviews and clinical practice guideline development, strategic planning, and financial modeling.
Conflicts of interest: none
Muhammad Rafique, MBBS, FASA
Professor of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical
Center, Maywood, IL
Dr. Rafique’s professional interests include pediatric anesthesia, pediatric airway management, pediatric cardiac anesthesia, and quality improvement.
Languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi
Conflicts of interest: none
Shobana Rajan, MD, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Texas
McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center, Houston,
TX
Dr. Rajan’s professional interests include neuroscience in anesthesiology, education in anesthesiology, and monitoring in anesthesia.
Languages: English, Tamil
Conflicts of interest: none
Barbara M. Rogers, MD, MBOE, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State
University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Dr. Rogers’ professional interests include preoperative evaluation, neuroanesthesia, diabetes, geriatrics, and lean methodologies.
Conflicts of interest: none
Steven Shafer, MD, FASA
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dr. Shafer’s professional interests are data modeling, the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs, and publication policy and ethics. Since March he has been modeling the Covid-19 pandemic. The R code is freely available at github.com/StevenLShafer/COVID19. Daily updates are distributed by email. Those interested in receiving the updates are welcome to contact steven.shafer@stanford.edu.
His work in pharmacology includes studies of many of the intravenous opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. His focus has been mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These range from conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), models of drug interaction, and models of receptor function that help elucidate mechanisms of drug action. His most recent work has explored whether neural networks offer any benefits over the standard engineering models used in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Dr. Shafer has worked to bring these models to clinicians, investigators, and trainees. Thirty years ago he placed the program Stanpump (“Stanford infusion pump”) in the public domain. Stanpump was an open source software platform for Target Controlled Infusions of anesthetic drugs, as well as the pharmacokinetic engine for most, and perhaps all, commercialized TCI systems worldwide. More recently he developed stanpumpR, an R implementation of pharmacokinetic algorithms for many of the common perioperative drugs. stanpumpR can be accessed at stanpumpR.io. The source code for stanpumpR is available at github.com/stevenlshafer/stanpumpr.
His work in publication policy and ethics follows his 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia. From 2006-2016 two of the most prolific serial academic fraudsters in history were uncovered: Joachim Boldt and Yoshitaka Fujii. He finished his term as EIC with the unenviable record of retracting more papers for research fraud than any previous editor of any journal, ever. This led to a lasting interest in publication policy and ethics. In collaboration with others he continues to develop statistical models to detect fraud, and serve on multiple editorial boards to offer guidance on publication policy and ethics.
He developed an interest in the role of clinical pharmacology to criminal law following his testimony on behalf of the State of California in the trial of Conrad Murray for the death of Michael Jackson. He continues to provide pro bono testimony in criminal cases involving anesthetic drugs.
Conflicts of interest: Dr. Shafer is a consultant and shareholder of Concentric Analgesics and consultant and shareholder of Resq Pharma.
Jodi Sherman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology in
Environmental Health Sciences, Director, Program in
Healthcare Environmental Sustainability, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
Conflicts of interest: none
Adam Striker, MD, FASA
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Pediatric and Cardiac Anesthesiology, Children’s Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Dr. Striker’s professional interests include pediatric anesthesiology and communications.
Conflicts of interest: none
Lalitha Sundararaman, MD
Harvard Medical School and Founder Member, Prana Institute
of Holistic Medicine, Boston, MA
Dr. Sundararaman’s professional interests include ambulatory, out-of-OR anesthesia, and pain medicine.
Conflicts of interest: none
George Tewfik, MD, MBA, FASA, CPE, MSBA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Director
of Quality Assurance/Improvement, Director Anesthesia
Simulation Program, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School,
Newark, NJ
Dr. Tewfik’s professional interests include health care economics, patient safety, perioperative efficiency, clinical education, and professional development.
Languages: English, Arabic (Egyptian dialect), basic Spanish
Conflicts of interest: none
Zhaosheng (Jims) Jin, MD
Research Chief Resident and Academic Mentorship Program
Director, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY
Dr. Jin's professional interests include regional anesthesia, perioperative outcomes, scientific writing, and academic engagement.
Language: English, Chinese
Conflicts of interest: none
Vincent H. Bargnes III, MD
CA-1 Resident, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Dept.
of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook, NY
Conflicts of interest: none
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