Central Line episode 98: Non-Operating Room Anesthesia

Basem Abdelmalak, MD

Dr. Basem Abdelmalak is a professor of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic. He leads NORA services for bronchoscopy and is the quality improvement officer and director of the anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation. He also performs the therapeutic whole lung lavage procedure. His clinical interests include anesthesia for ENT and difficult airway management. He recently served as a member of the ASA task force on the 2022 ASA practice guidelines for the management of the difficult airway. His research interest is focused on perioperative diabetes and hyperglycemia management.

Dr. Abdelmalak served as the past president of the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA), the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) and the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists and currently a member of the ASA board of directors. He has received numerous awards, including safety champion by the Cleveland Clinic Quality Institute and co-edited two textbooks titled Anesthesia for Otolaryngologic Surgery and Clinical Airway Management.

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.