Presented September 9, 2026 at the 2026 APSF Stoelting Conference on “SOS!: Signals of Safety… Safely across the Patient’s Perioperative Journey”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Cliff Schmiesing, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine
Stanford Medicine
Cliff Schmiesing is a Clinical Professor in Stanford’s Department of Anesthesiology, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine, where he has been on the faculty since 1997. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Clinical Informatics.
Clinically, he works in the Stanford Anesthesia Preoperative Assessment Clinic and the Interventional Platform, where he has supervised residents for nearly 30 years. He co-directed the Preoperative Assessment Program from 2010 to 2025 and currently serves as Associate Division Chief of the Multispecialty Division.
He served as Medical Informatics Director for both the department and Stanford Health Care from 2008 to 2026. His scholarly work focused on the perioperative use of clinical informatics and technology and included 20 presentations on topics ranging from transfusion module implementation to AI-assisted preoperative workflows.
He has published 27 peer-reviewed articles and authored 10 book chapters, with work covering preoperative evaluation, perioperative buprenorphine management, open anesthetic records, and AI in perioperative care. He is currently co-editing the 7th Edition of the Jaffe Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures with Brenda Golianu, his third edition of the book.
