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Drs. Diana Mosquera and Neeju Ravikant discuss Alternative Payment Models (APMs) with Dr. Brooke Trainer. Learn how APMs intersect with broader operational and financial goals, how they impact patients and physicians, and what implementation looks like in practice. Recorded February 2025.
Diana C. Mosquera, MD, MBA, FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology, an associate medical director of value-based care, and an assistant dean of healthcare strategy at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. Dr. Mosquera is passionate about improving healthcare outcomes by aligning population health goals, clinical workflows, and economic incentives.
Dr. Mosquera received her undergraduate degree at Stony Brook University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She received her medical degree from Cornell Medicine and completed an anesthesiology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, Dr. Mosquera joined the faculty of Penn Medicine and completed a full-time master’s in business administration at The Wharton School. Dr. Mosquera is a member of the ASA Committee on Economics and chairs their Alternative Payment Model workgroup. Dr. Mosquera is also a co-chair of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists’ Economic Affairs Committee.
Neeju Ravikant, MS, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and department director of presurgical optimization and preanesthesia testing at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan. At her state anesthesiology society, she served as president, president elect and secretary treasurer. She is currently immediate past president, board member and chair of the Communications Committee and editor of the Ventilator publication. At the American Society of Anesthesiologists, she serves on the Board of Directors and is chair of the Executive Committee on Independently Managed Practices. She also serves on the new ASA Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPMed) where she is chair of the Corporate Strategy Workgroup and chair of the Corporate Advisory Council. Dr Ravikant is passionate about the critical interplay of improving patient outcomes, clinical operations, fiscal health, and innovative opportunities to deliver these well.
Dr. Ravikant received her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her Masters of Science at the University of Chicago, and her medical degree from Wayne State University. She did a categorical surgical internship and 2 years of categorical surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania and completed an anesthesiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University. Following residency, Dr. Ravikant joined a busy New Jersey private practice that included high risk OB, pediatrics, trauma and complex neurointerventional/awake craniotomies. She enjoyed doing her own cases as well as medical direction. When she moved back to Michigan, Dr Ravikant joined a large private practice in the Ann Arbor area which allowed her to do both. She also became a board runner, senior managing partner, and a department chairman. Dr Ravikant was passionate about practicing in hospitals, ambulatory centers and office-based anesthesia across 4 counties. After her practice sold to a national company, she joined Henry Ford Health in 2020 combining the best of private practice in an academic setting.
Brooke E. Trainer, MD, FASA, remains devoted to her fellow Veterans and maintains her full-time status as an anesthesiologist, acute pain physician, and critical care medicine Intensivist at the Central Virginia VA Health Care System in Richmond VA. She is also an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she works as a critical care intensivist in the liver transplant and surgical trauma burn ICU. Most recently, Dr. Trainer was recognized for her contributions and interest in simulation education and was granted a national faculty position with the VHA Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) Division.
Dr. Trainer received her doctor of medicine from the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, completed her anesthesia residency at Yale New Haven Medical Center in Connecticut, and fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a US Air Force veteran, having served as an anesthesiologist at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and director for the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT). She deployed in 2012, '13, and '14 to Afghanistan from Germany, flying wounded soldiers safely out of Afghanistan back to Germany, then home to the US. In 2012, she was recognized as the top-level physician of the European Medical Command and was awarded the US Air Force European Clinical Excellence Award. Dr. Trainer also holds several leadership positions in organized medicine, including her current role as the president for the Association of VA Anesthesiologists, and has published numerous book chapters in internationally recognized Anesthesia Textbooks.
Date of last update: March 4, 2025
