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Drs. Sheila Barnett and Victor Davila from ASA’s Committee on Performance and Outcomes Measurement talk to Dr. Adam Striker about new measures, including the new Intraoperative Hypotension Measure. Learn about the committee’s work, how measures are selected, why they’re important, and what’s so groundbreaking about the new IOH measurement. Recorded March 2021.
Dr. Davila is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Ohio State University Medical School and a staff anesthesiologist at the Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, OH. An active member of the ASA, he serves as a member of the Committee on Performance Measures and Outcomes and the Committee on Communications. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) and is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists. He is a frequent lecturer at national meetings, including the ASA Annual Meeting and the SAMBA Annual Meeting.
Dr. Sheila Ryan Barnett is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Medical Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Milton Hospital. She is a geriatric anesthesiologist, board certified in anesthesiology, internal medicine, and geriatric medicine, and is one of the original cofounders of the Society for Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia. Dr. Barnett is a member and former Chair of the ASA Geriatric Committee, and Chair of the ASA Committee on Performance and Measures.
During her career Dr. Barnett has published numerous articles on preoperative assessment, frailty, and geriatric anesthesia, in addition to several textbooks. She has also served as the director of graduate medical education at BIDMC and received several grants from the American Geriatric Society for Anesthesiologists. She has firsthand experience of the challenges anesthesiologists and surgeons face every day taking care of geriatric patients, and is focused on implementing changes to improve the quality of their care.
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.
