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AQI Board, Panels, and Committees
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.
Advisory Panel
The AQI Advisory Panel was created in August 2009 and consists of over 40 representatives from academia, government, industry, the ASA and private practice.
The Panel was formed to help the AQI achieve its vision of becoming the primary source of information for quality improvement in the clinical practice of anesthesiology.
The Panel communicates through a Web portal and via email in an ongoing discussion of AQI efforts and directions. The Panel also plans a face-to-face meeting during the ASA's Annual Meeting for those members already in attendance.
Current Advisory Panel Members
Chip Amoe, J.D., M.P.A., American Society of Anesthesiologists
Sean Berenholtz, M.D., Johns Hopkins
Karin Bierstein, M.D., J.D.
Michael J. Bishop, M.D., VA Medical Center
Jason Byrd, J.D., American Society of Anesthesiologists
Robert A. Caplan, M.D.
Jerry Cohen, M.D., University of Florida
John Cooper, M.D., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Craig Curry, M.D., Spectrum Medical Group
Christine Doyle, M.D., O'Connor Hospital
Peter Dunbar, M.D., University of Washington
Fred H. Edwards, M.D., University of Florida
Lucinda Everett, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Jane C.K. Fitch, M.D., Oklahoma Allergy Clinic
Lee A. Fleisher, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
Simon Gelman, M.D., Brigham & Women's Hospital
Laurent G. Glance, M.D., University of Rochester Medical Center
Alexander A. Hannenberg, M.D., Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Thomas G. Johans, M.D., Western Anesthesiology Associates
Robert E. Johnstone, M.D., West Virginia University Hospital
Murray A. Kalish, M.D., Johns Hopkins
Sachin Kheterpal, M.D., University of Michigan
David C. Mackey, M.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center
Walter G. Maurer, M.D.
Terri G. Monk, M.D., Duke University Health System
Mark D. Neuman, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
Frank G. Opelka, M.D., Louisiana State University
Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Johns Hopkins
James Rathmell, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard Rosenquist, M.D., University of Iowa
Frank A. Rosinia, M.D., Tulane
Warren S. Sandberg, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Armin Schubert, M.D., Ochsner Health Clinic
David I. Scott, M.D., Princeton
Daniel I. Sessler, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Michael P. Smith, M.D., Professional Anesthesia Services
Wolf Stapelfeldt, M.D.
Richard Teplick, M.D., University of South Alabama
Kevin K. Tremper, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan Hospital
Rebecca Twersky, M.D., M.P.H., SUNY Downstate Medical Center
David Vener, M.D., Texas Children's Hospital
Mark A. Warner, M.D., Mayo Clinic
Matthew Weinger, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center
AQI Staff Liaison: Jill Mlodoch (j.mlodoch@asahq.org)
AQI Committees
The AQI has formed several committees to address a variety of issues. Each Committee consists of one member from the AQI Board to serve as a two-way communications link with AQI governance and strategy. Each Committee will also have a designated support person from the AQI staff.
Data Use Committee
The goals for the Data Use Committee are the following:
1) Provide advice on the data of most use on the national level. What do our leaders need to hear? What data is no one else reporting? This advice will help guide our future collection and analysis.
2) Prove advice on the best presentation of the data we have now. What should we talk about? What should we bury? What can we trust?
3) Provide advice on external requests for our data. I am optimistically hoping that we will soon be sitting on a very large data mine. Who do we let look at it? Under what circumstances? It would be good to have our own rules and principles worked out before the requests start happening.
4) (Later) Provide advice on pricing and priority for external requests.
Current Data Use Committee Members
Laurent G. Glance, M.D, University of Rochester Medical Center
Douglas G. Merrill, M.D., M.B.A, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, BOD AQI
Mark D. Neuman, M.D, University of Pennsylvania
Sachin Kheterpal, M.D., University of Michigan
Richard Teplick, M.D., University of South Alabama
AQI Staff Liaison: Richard Dutton (r.dutton@asahq.org)
Participants Committee
The goals for the Participants committee are the following:
1) Provide advice on the best way to get practices to participate in AQI. More practices = more data = more potential value to everyone.
2) Provide advice on how to move contributing practices to "denser" reporting of data, especially in the area of patient outcomes. How much can we reasonably push for? What tools should we offer? What advice do groups need?
3) Provide feedback and a first screening of practice-specific reporting from NACOR. What information and format will be most useful to participants? How should we weight administrative data vs. outcomes? What reporting cohorts make the most sense?
Current Participants Committee Members
Alexander T. Abess, M.D., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Richard Gilbert, M.D., Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants
Michael Hicks, M.D., Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants
Jeffrey S. Plagenhoef, M.D., Chair, BOD AQI
Frank Rosinia, M.D., Tulane
AQI Staff Liaison: Lance Mueller (l.mueller@asahq.org)
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