Lauren Berkow, MD
Associate Professor of Neuroanesthesiology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida
Dr. Lauren Berkow is an Associate Professor of Neuroanesthesiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville Florida. She currently serves as the President-Elect of the Society for Airway Management and is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care. She sits on the American Society for Anesthesiology Equipment and Facilities Committee as well as the ASA Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, which address sustainability in Anesthesia.
David J. Birnbach, MD, MPH
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Miller Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Director, UM-JMH Center for Patient Safety
University of Miami
Senior Associate Dean for Quality, Safety and Risk
Director, UM-JMH Center for Patient Safety
Miller School of Medicine
David J. Birnbach MD, MPH is currently Miller Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is also Director of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Center for Patient Safety. In addition, Dr. Birnbach is Vice Provost of the University of Miami. Dr. Birnbach, who has served as a consultant to the NIH and FDA, is also a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and is the past president of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. Dr. Birnbach is the editor of two textbooks and has published more than 250 articles, abstracts and textbook chapters. Dr. Birnbach completed his anesthesiology residency and fellowship training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School and a Masters of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to relocating to Miami in 2002, he was a professor at Columbia University.
Adam L. Blomberg, MD
National Education Director
Regional Medical Director
Envision Physician Services
Hollywood, FL
Adam L. Blomberg, M.D. is the Chief of Anesthesiology for Memorial Healthcare System/Regional Medical Director in South Florida as well as the National Education Director for the Anesthesia Division of what was formerly Sheridan Healthcare and is now Envision Physician Services. He serves on the Anesthesia Quality Committee at Envision Physician Services as the co-chair of the Clinical Education & Best Practice Subcommittee. He has held positions at Memorial on the Physician’s Satisfaction Committee and the Multidisciplinary Peer Review Committee as well as the Co-Chair of the Surgical Services Executive Committee. Dr. Blomberg has had numerous articles published on anesthesia trends and best practices in leading industry publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, CNN Health, ASA Newsletter, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter, HealthLeaders, Managed Care Outlook, and Becker’s Hospital Review. Additionally, he has spent over 15 years as the national speaker for the “Driving Responsibly” campaign. Dr. Blomberg completed his training at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. During his final year of residency, he served as Chief Resident. He is a graduate of the University Of Miami School Of Medicine in Miami, FL.
Adam J. Broussard, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Program Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Dr Broussard is currently the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program Director and Assistant Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma University Health Science Center. He completely medical school and residency at Louisiana State University Health Science Center- New Orleans. He completed his Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. His interest include acute pain and quality improvement.
Isis Del Rio, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia
Director of Regional Anesthesia
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Dr Del Rio went to medical school at the Superior Institute of Medical Science “Carlos j. Finlay “ Camaguey , Cuba. She completed her Anesthesia Residency and Pediatric Fellowship program at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. During her residency she developed special interest for research and she completed 6 months of Research Advance Rotation. Dr Del Rio worked at the University of Maryland Medical Center from 2009 to 2012 . In 2012 she started working as a faculty member in the subdivision of Pediatric Anesthesia at the University of Miami.
Dr. Del Rio serves as a Faculty Mentor for residents and fellows. She is also the Pediatric Anesthesia representative at the Ethics Committee. Dr Del Rio areas of Interest are Pediatric Pain and Pediatric Regional. She also takes great responsibility on the Pediatric Simulation Section.
Zachary B. Deutch, MD
Assistant Professor, UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville
Medical Director of Perioperative Services, UF Health North
Coordinator, Departmental Business Development
University of Florida, College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Originally from suburban Boston, Dr. Zachary Deutch trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (residency), and the Mass. General Hospital (cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship). Prior to relocating to Florida, he worked for 10 years as a partner in a large multi-site private practice, Anaesthesia Associates of Massachusetts, and served on the Company Board of Directors from 2009-2013. Dr. Deutch moved to North Florida in July of 2013, joined the faculty at UF Health-Jacksonville, and swiftly assumed several important leadership roles at UF Health’s Main Campus. Currently his primary responsibility is coordinating perioperative services at UF Health’s North Campus. Dr. Deutch is active on several ASA committees, has been an alternate delegate to the ASA since 2014, and is a member of the FSA Communications Committee. His professional interests include practice management, perioperative efficiency and operations, regional anesthesia, and cardiac anesthesia.
Jenny Dolan MD, CBA
Chief, Division of Pediatric Anesthesia
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Department of Anesthesia
All Children’s Specialty Physicians
St. Petersburg, FL
Dr. Dolan is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital staff in 2007 and currently serves as the Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia Division.
Dr. Dolan earned her medical degree from Javeriana University School of Medicine in Bogota, Colombia. She completed her internship in general surgery and residency in anesthesiology at the University of Miami / Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Dr. Dolan then completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include post anesthesia care, neonatal abstinence syndrome, neurotoxicity and application of Public Health in the pediatric anesthesia population.
Roman Dudaryk, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Division of Trauma Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine
Director of Quality, Department of Anesthesiology
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital
Roman Dudaryk is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Quality Assurance in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Miami. He completed his residency at the University of Miami and fellowship in critical care medicine and perioperative echocardiography at Duke University. His research interests are: transfusion, coagulation, perioperative fluid management and resuscitation, development of new generation of medical alarms, quality improvement and perioperative crisis management. He has published numerous papers and presented at national and international meetings in the areas of transfusion, resuscitation, alarm fatigue and learning.
Thomas Fuhrman, MD, MMSc, FCCP
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Central Florida
Anesthesiologist, Bay Pines VAHS
Originally a Social Studies teacher, Dr. Fuhrman found his way to medicine and was able to progress through the academic ranks to Professor mainly through being at the right place at the right time. Now he is at the FSA and it is truly the right time!
Chris Giordano, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Division Chief of Liver Transplantation Director, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Clerkship
University of Florida, Gainesville
Gainesville, FL
Dr. Chris Giordano was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After graduating from Saint Thomas Aquinas H.S., he attended the University of Florida for undergraduate and University of South Florida for Medical School. He attended the University of Alabama – Birmingham for his Anesthesiology Residency, and returned to the University of Florida for a Liver Transplant fellowship where he continued on and is now Division Chief of Liver Transplant. He is very active in the medical student education as the Anesthesiology and Critical Care clerkship director and course supervisor. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf, tennis, watching sporting events, and spending time with his wife, Tracy, and children, Gigi and Dominic.
Bob Graham
Former Senator & Governor
Bob Graham Center for Public Service
Senator Bob Graham is the former two-term Governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This, combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature, represents a total of 38 years of public service. As Governor and Senator, Bob Graham was a centrist, committed to bringing his colleagues together behind programs that served the broadest public interest. He was recognized by the people of Florida when he received an 83% approval ranking as he concluded eight years as Governor. Bob Graham retired from public service in January, 2005. He has written four books; “Workdays- Finding Florida on the Job”; “Intelligence Matters,” and a novel, “Keys to the Kingdom,” both drawing on his experiences as chair of Senate Intelligence Committee; and two guides to effective citizenship, written while he was a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and published in 2010 and 2016 entitled “America the Owner’s Manual”.
Since leaving the Senate in 2005, Graham has been a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; chair of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction; a member of the Congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; and co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Graham currently co-chairs the Lumina Foundation National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education. In September of 2017 he received from the national civic learning community the National Civic Learning Award for Exceptional service. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Florida and the Harvard Law School, he established the Center for Public Service at the University of Florida to enhance civic engagement and prepare the next generation of public and civic leaders. Graham and the former Adele Khoury have been married for 58 years. They have four daughters, the oldest of which, Gwen Graham, was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2014, and 11 grandchildren.
James D. Grant, MD, MBA, FASA
President, American Society of Anesthesiologists
Chair, Anesthesiology
Beaumont Health – Royal Oak Hospital
Dr. Grant is Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak in Michigan and the 100th president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). He graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed his post graduate training at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago and is MBA at Indiana University. He is a diplomate and associate examiner of the American Board of Anesthesiology. A past president of the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) and Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA), Dr. Grant received the MSA President’s Award in 2012 and the MSMS Presidential Citation in 2014. He was twice appointed to the Michigan Board of Medicine and served as chair from 2004-2006. Dr. Grant is on the Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Foundation, Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. He also serves as the chair of the Michigan delegation to the American Medical Association.
Congressman Andy Harris, MD
US House of Representatives
Representing the 1st District of Maryland
Member, House Committee of Appropriations
Randall C. Jenkins, Esq.
President, Healthcare Education Insurance Company
Administrator Self-Insurance Programs
Randall C. Jenkins, Esq. is the President of the University of Florida Healthcare Education Insurance Company (HEIC), which administers professional and general liability programs for the academic medical centers at five universities within the Florida State University System. He serves as the Administrator of the University of Florida Self-Insurance Program, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University Self-Insurance Programs. In addition, Mr. Jenkins is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions and Adjunct Professor at the UF Levin College of Law, where he teaches courses in medical malpractice and health care law and ethics.
Steven Porter, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Steven B. Porter is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. After receiving a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he completed an internship in General Surgery and a residency in anesthesiology at Mt Sinai Medical Center in New York where he was an Eliasberg Clinical Scholar. He then went out to complete a fellowship in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Florida where he joined the faculty. More recently, he became the program director for Mayo Clinic Florida’s Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship as well as the medical director for Mayo Clinic Florida’s Quality Academy. Dr. Porter has lectured at regional, national, and international meetings. He has authored 6 book chapters and more than 20 peer-reviewed articles. He also regularly reviews articles for publication for a number of anesthesia journals.
Robert A. Ratzlaff, DO
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Robert Ratzlaff is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and his fellowship in critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Eduardo S. Rodrigues, MD
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Fl. Dr. Rodrigues holds the quality rank of Gold Quality fellow. He is the Patient Safety Officer (PSO) for the practice. Dr. Rodrigues serves in institutional and Florida Hospital Association quality committees and has research interest in quality improvement and organ transplantation.
Leopoldo Rodriguez, MD, FAAP, FASA
Medical Director and Chief of Anesthesiology, Surgery Center of Aventura
Assistant National Medical Director for Ambulatory Anesthesiology, Envision Physician Services
Secretary, Florida Society of Anesthesiologists
Aventura, FL
Leopoldo Rodriguez, MD, FAAP, FASA completed Medical School at the “Universidad Central de Venezuela” and Chief Resident at Vanderbilt University; he has lived and practiced Anesthesiology in Florida since 2000. He is the Medical Director of the Surgery Center of Aventura; he is also the Director of Quality and Performance Improvement for Ambulatory Anesthesiology for South Florida ASCs and the Assistant National Medical Director for Ambulatory Anesthesiology for Envision Physician Services. Dr. Rodriguez is the Secretary of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists; ASA Delegate; Member of the ASA Ambulatory Surgical Care Committee and Committee on Performance and Outcome Measures and Director of SAMBA. His family resides in Boca Raton FL, his wife Margarita is a Financial Advisor; he is a proud father of two sons, Alexander whom will attend the University of Florida Biomedical Engineering Program and later the School of Dentistry; Nicholas is a Sophomore at Boca Raton High School and aspires to attend Medical School.
Saurin J. Shah, MD
Assistant Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Florida COM Jacksonville
Chief, Perioperative Services
University of Florida Health Jacksonville
Dr. Shah is currently an Assistant Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida COM Jacksonville. He has served as the Chief, Perioperative Services, overseeing OR operations for the entire health system since 2014. His areas of interest are practice management, policy development and faculty development.
Alecia L. S. Stein, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Co-director Pediatric Anesthesiology Clerkship
Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Uhealth and Holtz Childrens/Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami, FL
Dr. Alecia L. S. Stein is assistant professor of clinical anesthesia in the division of Pediatric Anesthesiology and staff at Holtz Children’s of Jackson Memorial Hospital and the UHealth hospital system. She completed her medical education at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, LA and her post graduate training and fellowship at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine where she served as Chief Resident her final year of residency. She currently serves as chairperson for the Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship curriculum committee and is co-director of the Miller School of Medicine pediatric anesthesia elective. Dr. Stein serves as faculty mentor to medical students and residents and as a member of the Dean’s Faculty Council and of the Administrative Committee for the Faculty Senate. Dr. Stein is also proud to serve as a member of the Residents Committee for Florida Society of Anesthesiology. She has traveled internationally to participate in medical mission trips in developing countries, such as Haiti and Thailand. Presently, research interests include pediatric regional anesthesia, pediatric ophthalmic anesthesia, and education.
W. Sherman Turnage, MD
President, Coastal Anesthesiology Consultants, PL, A Division of Envision Physician Services
Chief, Anesthesiology, Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine, FL
Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Central Florida, College of Medicine
Dr. Turnage attended medical school at St. Louis University then completed anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Served as assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of South Florida, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at St. Louis University and staff anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic Florida prior to founding Coastal Anesthesiology Consultants in St. Augustine. Have been involved with FSA and ASA since 1991 and co-founded the poster presentation session of meeting with Dr. Fuhrman in 2007.
Albert J. Varon, MD, MHPE, FCCM
Miller Professor and Vice Chair for Education
Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Chief of Anesthesiology, Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital
Dr. Albert J. Varon is Miller Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Chief of Anesthesiology at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida. Dr. Varon is Vice Chair of the ASA Committee on Trauma and Emergency Preparedness (COTEP) and a founding member of both, the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists and the Trauma Anesthesiology Society. He is also the editor of the textbook “Essentials of Trauma Anesthesia” now on its second edition, and author of many peer-reviewed publications, editorials, and book chapters in the areas of trauma anesthesia, critical care, hemodynamic monitoring and resuscitation.
Peggy White, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Program Director of the Multidisciplinary Adult Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Dr. White joined the faculty for the Department of Anesthesiology in 2012 after completing her anesthesiology residency, Critical Care Medicine fellowship, and Neuroanesthesiology fellowship at the University of Florida. Dr. White has served as Critical Care Medicine Associate program director since 2014.