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Dr. Daniel Cole, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at UCLA and past president of the ASA, joins Dr. Adam Striker to share his plans for ongoing contributions to the Monitor on the topic of brain health. Tune in as they discuss COVID’s effect on the brain, the human and financial costs of postoperative cognitive disfunction, the effects of anesthesia on dementia, and more proposed Monitor topics. Recorded November 2020.
Dr. Cole serves as the Vice Chair for Professional and Business Development for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the Executive Director for Professional Affairs for the American Board of Anesthesiology, Vice President of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Previously, Dr. Cole was Chair at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Vice Dean for Continuous Professional Development at the Mayo Clinic, and a past President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
A neuroanesthesiologist by training, Dr. Cole has published extensively, with more than 350 original manuscripts, chapters, abstracts, and editorials to his credit. Over the course of his career, he has served as a reviewer for more than 25 medical journals. Dr. Cole is also a distinguished lecturer with over 300 invited presentations on a broad range of topics. After earning his Doctor of Medicine degree from Loma Linda University and finishing his residency in anesthesiology there, Dr. Cole completed a neuroanesthesia research fellowship at the University of California at San Diego.
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.
