Presented September 4th, 2024 at the APSF Stoelting Conference 2024 on “Transforming Anesthetic Care: A Deep Dive into Medication Errors and Opioid Safety”
PRESENTATION MATERIALS
Clinician Burnout, Medication Errors, and the ASA Survey – [PDF]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Amy Vinson, MD
Pediatrician and Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Amy Vinson is a Pediatrician and Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She attended college and medical school in Georgia before coming to New England where she completed a residency in pediatrics at Brown, an anesthesiology residency at BIDMC and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has a long-standing interest in well-being, burnout, peer support, and substance use disorder in anesthesiologists and has lectured widely on these subjects. She currently serves as the Chair of the ASA’s Committee on Physician Well-being, is the ASA representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience and is the Chief Wellness Officer for own department. Her research on Burnout in Anesthesiologists has twice been published in the journal Anesthesiology and she has numerous other publications and research manuscripts on subjects related to overall physician well-being. She is a self-described “well-being pragmatist” focusing on systemic and organizational factors impacting well-being and burnout. On her off time, she enjoys time with family, fitness, playing music and home improvement.
