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At the end of this activity, learners will be able to: 

• Recognize opportunities and steps to identify patient safety dangers and address risks. 
• Describe mechanisms to better use or track performance measures to improve their quality of care. 
• Identify tactics to effectively collaborate with their perioperative team to optimize patient safety and outcomes, thus improving the value of care delivered. 
• Use quality data to demonstrate value, assess health equity, leverage justification for payment, and/or subsidy for your anesthesia practice. 
• Identify aspects of a culture of safety and keys to physician wellness.

Physician anesthesiologists

John Alm, DO, MHA
Sheila Barnett, MD
Karolina Brook, MD
Michael W. Champeau, MD, FASA
Daniel J. Cole, MD
Holly Ende, MD
Patricia Fogarty Mack, MD
E.B. Fouts-Palmer, MD
Madina R. Gerasimov, MD, MS
Laura S. González, MD
Patrick Guffey, MD, MHA
Monica W. Harbell, MD, FASA
Lara India, MD
Vivian Ip, MBChB, MRCP, FRCA
Vilma Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA
Lillian S. Kao, MD, MS, FACS
Deirdre C. Kelleher, MD
Gwynne Kirchen, MD 
Marc E. Koch MD, MBA, FASA
Kathryn Lauer, MD
Grace Lim, MD, MS
Amy Lu, MD
Grant Lynde, MD, MBA
Daniel McIsaac, MD
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH, APSF
Diana C. Mosquera, MD, MBA
Deirdre Mylod, PhD
Teodora O. Nicolescu, M.D., MBA-HCM, FASA
Neeju Ravikant, MD, MS
Elizabeth Rebello, MD, FASA, CPPS, CMQ
Christopher Steel, MD
Gary Stier, MD, MBA, FACP 
George Tewfik, MD, MBA, FASA
Ella Watson-Stryker, MIA

The American Society of Anesthesiologists remains strongly committed to providing the best available evidence-based clinical information to participants of this educational activity and requires an open disclosure of any potential conflict of interest identified by our faculty members. It is not the intent of the American Society of Anesthesiologists to eliminate all situations of potential conflict of interest, but rather to enable those who are working with the American Society of Anesthesiologists to recognize situations that may be subject to question by others. All disclosed conflicts of interest are reviewed by the educational activity course director/chair to ensure that such situations are properly evaluated and, if necessary, resolved. The American Society of Anesthesiologists educational standards pertaining to conflict of interest are intended to maintain the professional autonomy of the clinical experts inherent in promoting a balanced presentation of science. Through our review process, all American Society of Anesthesiologists education activities are ensured of independent, objective, scientifically balanced presentations of information. Disclosure of any or no relationships will be made available for all educational activities.

All faculty, planners, and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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