Central Line episode 131: Inside the Monitor: New Frontiers in Patient Safety

Monica W. Harbell, MD, FASA

Monica W. Harbell, MD, FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Harbell graduated from New York University School of Medicine and completed anesthesiology residency and regional anesthesia fellowship at University of California, San Francisco. Since 2017, she has been faculty at the Mayo Clinic Arizona department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, where she serves as the associate chair of education, anesthesiology residency program director, and vice chair of the Mayo Clinic Arizona patient safety subcommittee. Dr. Harbell is the Chair of the ASA committee on patient safety and education and is a Member of the ASA committee on practice parameters. She is passionate about patient safety, medical education, regional anesthesia, gender equity in medicine and has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications on these topics.

Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH

Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH serves as the chair of the Olive View-UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and is an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Methangkool is a graduate of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and completed her residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at UCLA. Since 2013, she has been a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and has served in many roles, most recently as the vice chair of quality and patient safety.

Dr. Methangkool is passionate about patient safety, quality improvement, cardiac anesthesia, and gender equity in medicine, and has written about and spoken on these topics at the national level. She has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and the British Journal of Anaesthesia. She is the current vice chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists committee on patient safety and education, chair-elect of the women in cardiothoracic anesthesia special interest group of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and a member of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation board of directors.

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.