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Drs. Monica Harbell and Emily Methangkool with Dr. Adam Striker about advancing patient safety in 2024 and beyond. From why anesthesiologists are so well suited to driving patient safety efforts, to the challenges facing the specialty, to how to think about “zero patient harm” and the differences between “patient safety” and “quality improvement,” this episode dives deep into this most essential topic. Recorded May 2024.
Monica W. Harbell, MD, FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Harbell graduated from New York University School of Medicine and completed anesthesiology residency and regional anesthesia fellowship at University of California, San Francisco. Since 2017, she has been faculty at the Mayo Clinic Arizona department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, where she serves as the associate chair of education, anesthesiology residency program director, and vice chair of the Mayo Clinic Arizona patient safety subcommittee. Dr. Harbell is the Chair of the ASA committee on patient safety and education and is a Member of the ASA committee on practice parameters. She is passionate about patient safety, medical education, regional anesthesia, gender equity in medicine and has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications on these topics.
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH serves as the chair of the Olive View-UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and is an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Methangkool is a graduate of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and completed her residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at UCLA. Since 2013, she has been a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and has served in many roles, most recently as the vice chair of quality and patient safety.
Dr. Methangkool is passionate about patient safety, quality improvement, cardiac anesthesia, and gender equity in medicine, and has written about and spoken on these topics at the national level. She has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and the British Journal of Anaesthesia. She is the current vice chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists committee on patient safety and education, chair-elect of the women in cardiothoracic anesthesia special interest group of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and a member of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation board of directors.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin. 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.
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Date of last update: June 3, 2024
