Circulation 84,122 • Volume 23, No. 4 • Winter 2008   Issue PDF

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Officers, Directors, and Committees, 2009

Executive Committee (Officers)

Robert K. Stoelting, MD
APSF President
Indianapolis, IN

Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD
APSF Executive Vice President
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

George A. Schapiro
APSF Executive Vice President
Hillsborough, CA

Nassib G. Chamoun
APSF Vice President
Aspect Medical Systems
Newton, MA

Matthew B. Weinger, MD
APSF Secretary
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Casey D. Blitt, MD
APSF Treasurer
Coronado, CA

Executive Committee (Members at Large)

Robert A. Caplan, MD
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA

David M. Gaba, MD
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

Lorri A. Lee, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Steven R. Sanford, JD
Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group
Shawnee Mission, KS

Mark A. Warner, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Executive Committee (Committee Chairs)

Sorin J. Brull, MD
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL

Robert C. Morell, MD
Niceville, FL

Michael A. Olympio
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC

Richard C. Prielipp, MD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Board of Directors

James F. Arens, MD
Bayfield, CO

Casey D. Blitt, MD

Daniel J. Brennan
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Park, IL

Sorin J. Brull, MD

Robert A. Caplan, MD

Nassib G. Chamoun

Frederick W. Cheney, Jr., MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Joan M. Christie, MD
Tampa, FL

Robert Clark
Dräger Medical, Inc.
Telford, PA

Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD

Caroline Coyle
GE Healthcare
Madison, WI

Albert L. de Richemond, MS, PE
ECRI
Plymouth Meeting, PA

Marcel E. Durieux, PhD, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Jan Ehrenwerth, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Susan R. Fossum, RN
ASPAN
Sacramento, CA

David M. Gaba, MD

David B. Goodale, PhD, DDS,
AstraZeneca
Wilmington, DE

Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA

Walter Huehn
Philips Medical Systems
Boeblingen, Germany

Lorri A. Lee, MD

Rodney C. Lester, PhD, CRNA
Houston, TX

Roger S. Mecca, MD
Covidien
Carlsbad, CA

Terri G. Monk, MD
Duke University
Durham, NC

Roger A. Moore, MD
Brown Mills, NJ

Robert C. Morell, MD

John M. O’Donnell, CRNA
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Michael A. Olympio, MD

Michael O’Reilly, MD
Masimo
Irvine, CA

Richard C. Prielipp, MD, FCCM

Steven R. Sanford, JD

George A. Schapiro

William P. Schecter, MD
American College of Surgeons
Chicago, IL

Robert K. Stoelting, MD

Sally T. Trombly, RN, JD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

Rebecca S. Twersky, MD
Lawrence, NY

Timothy W. Vanderveen, DPharm
Cardinal Health
San Diego, CA

Robert A. Virag
Trifid Medical Group, LLC
Chesterfield, MO

Mark A. Warner, MD

Matthew B. Weinger, MD

Robert Wise
Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Consultants to Executive Committee

John H. Eichhorn, MD
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Patricia A. Kapur, MD
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

APSF Committees

Newsletter Editorial Board

Robert C. Morell, MD
Editor

Lorri A. Lee, MD
Associate Editor

Addie Larimore
Editorial Assistant
Winston-Salem, NC

Sorin J. Brull, MD

Joan M. Christie, MD

Jan Ehrenwerth, MD

John H. Eichhorn, MD

Rodney C. Lester, PhD, CRNA

Steven B. Greenberg, MD
Evanston, IL

Glenn S. Murphy, MD
Chicago, IL

Karen L. Posner, PhD
Seattle, WA

Wilson Somerville, PhD
Winston-Salem, NC

Jeffery S. Vender, MD
Evanston, IL

Committee on Education and Training

Richard C. Prielipp, MD, Chair

Kenneth J. Abrams, MD
Great Neck, NY

Kevin J. Cardinal, CRNA
Minneapolis, MN

Joan M. Christie, MD

Alan M. Harvey, MD
Springfield, MA

Timothy N. Harwood, MD
Winston-Salem, NC

Jeana E. Havidich, MD
Charleston, SC

Deborah Lawson, AA
Solon, OH

Samsun (Sem) Lampotang, PhD
Gainesville, FL

Thomas J. Mancuso, MD
Atlanta, GA

Maria Margo, CRNA
University of Pennsylvania

Tricia A. Meyer, PharmD
Temple, TX

John M. O’Donnell, CRNA

Keith J. Ruskin, MD
New Haven, CT

Willliam P. Schecter, MD

N. Ty Smith, MD
San Diego, CA

Matthew B. Weinger, MD

Tetsu (Butch) Uejima, MD
Chicago, IL

Committee on Scientific Evaluation

Sorin J. Brull, MD, Chair

Karen L. Posner, PhD, Vice Chair

Peter J. Davis, MD
Pittsburgh, PA

Franklin Dexter, MD, PhD
Iowa City, IA

David B. Goodale, PhD, DDS

Jeana E. Havidich, MD
Charleston, SC

Gary R. Haynes, PhD, MD

Steve Howard, MD
Palo Alto, CA

Alfred Lupien, PhD, CRNA

Roger S. Mecca, MD
Carlsbad, CA

Christopher O’Connor, MD
Chicago, IL

David Paulus, MD
Gainesville, FL

Harish Ramakrishna, MD
Scottsdale, AZ

Ira Rampill, MD
Stony Brook, NY

Eduardo Salas, PhD
Orlando, FL

Karen J. Souter, MB, BS
Seattle, WA

Sally B. Trombly, RN, JD

Rebecca S. Twersky, MD

Robert A. Virag

Matthew B. Weinger, MD

Committee on Technology

Michael A. Olympio, MD, Chair
Winston-Salem, NC

A. William Paulson, PhD,
Vice-Chair
Savannah, GA

Patty Reilly, CRNA,
Strategic Relations Director
Covidien

James H. Philip, ME (E), MD, Media Relations Director
Boston, MA

R. Michael Boyer, DO, MS
Chicago, IL

Robert Clark
Dräger Medical

Stephen Corn, MD
Boston, MA

 

Albert L. de Richemond, MS, PE
ECRI

Gerry Feldman
Oridion Medical

Julian M. Goldman, MD
Boston, MA

John Graybeal
Hershey, PA

Tom Green
Paragon Service

David Jamison
Datascope Corporation

Roger Johnson
Milwaukee, WI

Roger S. Mecca, MD
Covidien

 

Michael O’Reilly, MD
Masimo

Kenneth C. Plitt, CRNA
Aspect Medical

James F. Szocik, MD
Ann Arbor, MI

Zoltan Takacs
Philips Medical Systems

Kevin Tissot
GE Healthcare

Corporate Advisory Council

George A. Schapiro, Chair
APSF Executive Vice President

Abbott Laboratories (Daniel Brennan)

Anesthesia Healthcare Partners (Sean Lynch)

Anesthesiologists Professional Insurance Company (Cliff Rapp)

Aspect Medical Systems (Nassib G. Chamoun)

Baxter Healthcare (Charles H. McLeskey, MD)

Becton Dickinson (Michael S. Garrison)

Cardinal Healthcare
(Timothy W. Vanderveen, PharmD)

Covidien
(Roger S. Mecca, MD)

Datascope Corporation
(Thomas W. Barford)

Dräger Medical (Robert Clark)

Eisai, Inc.(Brian Eckley)

 

EKR Therapeutics
(Kevin L. Zacharoff, MD)

Ethicon Endo-Surgery
(Mike Gustafson)

GE Healthcare (Carolyne Coyle)

Hospira (Timothy Hagerty)

LMA of North American
(Steven R. Block)

Masimo (Joe Kiana)

McKesson Provider Technologies
(Deborah Lange-Kuitse, PhD)

Medical Protective(Nancy Stahulak)

Minrad (Bill Bonds)

Oridion (Dominic Corsale)

PharMEDium (Mark Wagner)

Philips Medical Systems (Walter Huehn)

Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group
(Steven R. Sanford, JD )

ResMed (Keith Serzen)

Safer Sleep (Michael Stabile, MD)

Schering-Plough
(Shane Varughese, MD)

Smiths Medical (Andrew Rose)

Somanetics (Dominic Spadafore)

Sonosite(David Levesque)

Spacelabs (Joseph Davin)

Teleflex Medical (Peter McGregor)

The Doctors Company
(Susan K. Palmer, MD)

Abe Abramovich

Casey D. Blitt, MD

Robert K. Stoelting, MD

Data Dictionary Task Force

Terri G. Monk, MD, Chair

Clinical Advisory Group

Steven Dain, MD, FRCPC

Ronald A. Gabel, MD

Dr. Martin Hurrell

Robert S. Lagasse, MD

Dr. Anthony P. Madden

Dr. Andrew C. Norton

David L. Reich, MD

Dr. Roger Tackley

David Wax, MD

Technical Group (Corporate Participants)

Cerner

DocuSys

Dräger Medical

Eko systems

GE Healthcare

iMDsoft

Informatics

McKesson Provider Technologies

Philips Medical Systems

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