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Expert is the chair at the largest anesthesia training program in the world. His dept has a direct 50MM budget, performs 80,000 anesthetics annually (most high risk), covers 10 facilities, > 100 anesthetizing sites daily, and has500 personnel in the department. Between being vice chair at Duke for 7 years and then Chair for 8 years at Miami, he has operationally overseen QA for well over 1 MILLION anesthetics. He still routinely performs anesthesia for abdominal aortic aneurysms (for which he is the national expert) and other large complex procedures such as liver resections and esophagogastrectomies. He is also considered a national expert in use of EHR's (anesthesia information management systems).
In his other major administrative role as Senior Associate Dean, he is in charge of safety, quality, risk management, medicolegal management and a 40MM budget for the Employer Health System.
His research into lethal injection led to the recent national debate on its application and he was quoted by the Supreme Court. His major research thrusts in the past centered around pharmacoeconomics and OR management. He has been a professor of management at both Duke and Miami's schools of business and continues to teach on incentive systems, negotiations, and internet business models in medicine. He was a Fuqua Scholar (valedictorian) of Duke's Executive MBA class of 1999. While at Duke, he was noted for his contributions to management science of OR throughput and efficiency, optimization of staffing models, and team formation.