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Dr. Patrick Guffey, Medical Director and Chair of the Anesthesia Quality Institute’s (AQI) Incident Reporting Committee, speaks with Dr. Adam Striker about patient safety, quality data, and the AIRS registry. Find out how AIRS started, what it aims to achieve, and how the data is used. Recorded January 2022.
Patrick Guffey MD, MHA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado and Chief Medical Information Officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Guffey serves as the medical director and committee chair of the Anesthesia Quality Institute’s (AQI) Incident Reporting Committee and a Board Member of the AQI. Dr. Guffey is passionate about the how informatics partnered with strong quality programs can improve patient outcomes. Dr. Guffey received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and his medical degree from the University of Michigan. He completed his anesthesia training at the University of California, San Francisco and fellowship at the University of Colorado. He is board certified in clinical informatics.
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.
