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Director and Board Descriptions
The AQI is a separately incorporated organization, with its own Board of Directors, chaired by
Jeffrey Plagenhoef, M.D. Other members of the Board are:
- Donald E. Arnold, M.D.
- Thomas B. Bralliar, M.D.
- Douglas G. Merrill, M.D.
- Keith J. Ruskin, M.D.
Each of these ASA members joins the AQI Board of Directors with strong experience in anesthesia leadership and with notable backgrounds in leading successful projects.
The Executive Director of the AQI is Richard P. Dutton, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Dutton is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. For the past 15 years, Dr. Dutton has worked as a staff anesthesiologist at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, the nation’s first and largest dedicated trauma hospital. At the Trauma Center, Dr. Dutton was instrumental in creating a hospital-wide quality management program centered around the Trauma Registry, and in ‘mining’ the data captured for numerous business, quality, and research improvement projects. Dr. Dutton will maintain his Faculty appointment at Maryland, his (scaled down) research interests, and occasional clinical practice while serving as Executive Director.
Dr. Dutton previously served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Department of Anesthesiology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Tufts University School of Medicine. He also has an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.
A longstanding member of the ASA, Dr. Dutton has been the editor of the ASA Self –Education and Evaluation Program (SEE) since 2005 and serves on the Committee for Trauma and Emergency Preparedness. Dr. Dutton also served on the Committee for Transfusion Medicine from 1999-2003. |
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