Central Line episode 101: The Anesthesia Quality and Patient Safety Meeting

Marc E. Koch, MD, MBA, FASA

Marc E. Koch, MD, MBA, FASA, has served as CEO for Somnia, an anesthesia practice management company, for 25 years. In his role he helps promote high quality, safe and value-driven anesthesia services provided to patients by nearly 1,000 affiliated clinicians. Most recently, his interests have focused on education, population health and perioperative outcomes. He is an advocate for perioperative medicine’s evidence-based precepts and the way they can be marshalled to improve both short term and longitudinal outcomes through their application in care delivery models such as PSH.

Patricia Fogarty Mack, MD, FASA

Patricia Fogarty Mack, MD, FASA, is professor of clinical anesthesiology and the vice chair for patient safety and quality improvement in the department of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In the past she has served as director of neuroanesthesiology and director of non-operating room anesthesiology. She has developed a didactic and experiential quality improvement educational program for trainees. Currently she is chair of the NYSSA committee on patient safety and quality improvement and is a member of the APSF patient safety priority advisory group for NORA. She has served on both ASA’s committee for patient safety education and quality management and departmental administration. She is honored to continue her service to QMDA as vice chair and on the faculty of the 2023 AQPSM.

Brooke E. Trainer, MD, FASA

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.