Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA, CMQ

Jonathan M. Tan, MD MPH MBI FASA CMQ is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Spatial Sciences at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), the Keck School of Medicine, and the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. Tan is the Vice Chair of Analytics and Clinical Effectiveness of the Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine at CHLA. As Vice Chair, he leads the strategic and operational activities of patient safety, quality improvement, and clinical informatics across the Divisions of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Pain Medicine, and Palliative Care. Tan is board certified in Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Clinical Informatics, and Medical Quality.

Tan has been invited to speak nationally and internationally on his work on clinical informatics, medical geography, spatial data science, and quality improvement. He serves on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Informatics and Information Technology, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Committee on Technology, the APSF Patient Safety Advisory Committee on Clinical Deterioration, and the APSF Patient Safety Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases. Tan serves on the Leadership Advisory Board of the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA), the visual abstracts editorial board of Anesthesiology, as the Chair of Communications for the Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA), and as an advisor for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) Women’s Empowerment Leadership Initiative (WELI).

Tan focuses on developing spatial data science methods to understand the impact of where a patient lives and social determinants of health risk factors on pediatric patient safety and health outcomes. He has been awarded grant funding from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), and the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center.