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Dr. Keya Locke discusses advocacy with Dr. Sam Page, guest editor of October’s ASA Monitor. Learn about the issues ASA is fighting for, what’s at stake, how to get involved, and more.
Sam Page, MD, FASA, is an adjunct clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Page also serves as chair of the ASA Committee on Governmental Affairs and the alternate director to the ASA Board of Directors from Missouri. Since 2019, Dr. Page has served as St. Lous County Executive, the popularly elected head of government of the state’s largest county. As an advocate for patients and physicians his entire career, Dr. Page has used his administration to combat disparate health outcomes due to race and poverty, and to meet the challenge of living in one of the states that has most restricted physicians’ ability to ensure sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Page completed his medical training at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, his anesthesiology residency at Northwestern University, and a fellowship in pain medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Page is married to a physician and has three sons.
Keya Locke, MD, MBA, serves as the medical director of perioperative services at UF-North in Jacksonville Florida. Dr. Locke has been an assistant professor at UF Jacksonville since 2017. She completed medical school at UF Gainesville, residency at UF Jacksonville, and graduated from UF Warrington School of Business with an MBA in 2020. Her current interests include practice management and organizational behavior. She hopes to bring a better understanding of how organizations “breathe” and begin to apply strategies of successful organizations to medical ones. Dr. Locke is a member of the ASA practice management and women in anesthesia committees.
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Date of last update: September 30, 2024
