Brian J. Thomas, J.D. is a member of the APSF Editorial Board and Corporate Advisory Council. He is also the Vice President of Risk Management for Preferred Physicians Medical, the nation’s only anesthesia-specific professional liability insurance company. With over twenty-nine years of insurance industry experience, he has focused the past twenty-three years exclusively on providing patient safety and risk management services to anesthesia professionals and defending high severity medical negligence litigation. He has authored or co-authored in several prominent publications, such as the APSF Newsletter, ASA Monitor, Anesthesia & Analgesia, and Faust’s Anesthesiology Review, 6th Ed. Connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjthomas1/.