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
Criminalization of Medical Errors and the APSF Response – [PDF]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Steve Greenberg, MD, FCCP, FCCM
Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care
University of Chicago
Steven Greenberg has been practicing Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Endeavor Health in Evanston, Illinois, since 2006. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and continued his medical training at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the field of Anesthesiology. There, he served as Chief Resident of Anesthesiology and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter for clinical excellence. After his residency, Dr. Greenberg completed his training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, as a critical care fellow. He currently serves as Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine since 2018. In addition, Dr. Greenberg has been appointed to be the Jeffery S. Vender Endowed Anesthesiology Chair of Research and Education, where he has focused his efforts on reshaping the Anesthesiology Research Program at Endeavor and is enhancing perioperative safety research. He also was the longest serving ICU Medical Director of Evanston Hospital for the last decade and a half. Dr. Greenberg created and developed the Endeavor Health Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program and served as ECMO Medical Director for 6 years. The ECMO program outcomes are well above the national and international averages.
Dr. Greenberg has given over 100 lectures nationally and internationally, served on 4 editorial boards for anesthesia and medical journals and published several articles and has contributed to a variety of book chapters in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine texts. He has served on a variety of notable national committees including the Program Committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the Adult Concepts of Critical Care Committee for the SCCM (served as chair of the Adult Concepts course in 2014-2015), the Critical Care Steering Committee for the American College of Chest Physicians and was a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Critical Care Medicine. He was the Co-Chair of the 2019 SCCM Annual Congress in San Diego, CA. With his interest in safety, he has also served on both the editorial and executive boards of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and was appointed by the President to the position of Editor-in-Chief for the APSF Newsletter in 2017. This publication is distributed to 700,000 out of the 850,000 anesthesia professionals worldwide and it remains the most widely read safety publication globally. In addition, he was appointed to Associate Editor, Patient Safety Section, of Anesthesia & Analgesia. In 2020, he was elected by the APSF Board of Directors to be the Secretary of the organization (one of four officer positions) due to his work in extending patient safety education to 234 countries worldwide. In 2023, he continued his focus on spreading anesthesia patient safety education worldwide as he helped to create and co-chair the first ever Anesthesia Patient Safety Symposium (APSS), a Malaysian Virtual Safety Conference that was attended by over 1000 participants from 48 different countries. In 2024, Dr. Greenberg created and co-chaired the first ever International Conference on Anesthesia Patient Safety (ICAPS) held in Tokyo, Japan, and in collaboration with the ASA, JSA, and JFA. In 2024, he was elected as Vice President of the APSF. With his focus on safety, he has provided lectures for multiple national and international organizations on handoff communication, goal directed therapy, neuromuscular blockade, perioperative safety priorities, clinical deterioration, and developing practical point of care protocols for massive transfusion/hemorrhage.
