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Research Team Takes Awards AGAIN at the Annual ASA Practice Management Meeting

"The research team posing for a photo"
Photo (L to R): Drs. Trent Emerick, Andrius Giedraitis, Mark Hudson, Mitch Tsai (University of Vermont), Dave Nelson, and Hayden Hundley

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Practice Management meeting is considered the premier business event for physician anesthesiologists and practice administrators and among ASA-sponsored events is second only in attendance to the ASA’s Annual Meeting. This year’s ASA Practice Management meeting was held January 27-29, 2017 in Grapevine, TX.

Our department was well represented in the event’s poster and poster presentation sessions, representing seven of the 24 posters accepted to the program and three of the six posters selected for presentation. Once again, the UPMC team was successful in the award portion of the program, receiving the FIRST place award in the poster session for “Benchmarking Clinical Productivity for Non-Operating Room Anesthesia Cases” and the SECOND place award for “Creating a System-wide Room Running Cap in a Large Multi-Hospital System,” with David Nelson receiving recognition for Best Poster by a Resident or Fellow.

Posters selected for the program included:

  • Giedraitis A, Fleming T, Hudson M, Nelson D, Emerick T, “Reconsultation of Chronic Pain Patients at a Large, University-based Hospital” (poster)
  • Hundley H, Hudson M, Emerick T, “Outpatient Chronic Pain Clinic Scheduling Efficiency Analysis” (poster)
  • Hundley H, Hudson M, Emerick T, “Development of a Personalized Smart Schedule in an Outpatient Chronic Pain Clinic Through Use of a Gantt Diagram” (poster)
  • Muller IR, Stelzer SR, Adams DC, Hudson ME, Tsai MH, “A Potential Association Between Burnout Rates and Operating Margins for Anesthesiologists” (poster)
  • Nelson D, Boretsky R, Emerick T, Giedraitis A, Hudson M, “ Creating a System-wide Room Running Cap in a Large Multi-Hospital System” (poster presentation & second place FAER Award and first place Resident/Fellow Award winner)
  • Giedraitis A, Emerick T, Nelson D, Hudson M, “Anesthesia Labor Costs at Different Hospitals within a Large Multi-Hospital Health System (poster presentation)
  • Tsai MH, Breidenstein MW, Marnanides AP, Hudson ME, Maktabi MA, “Benchmarking Clinical Productivity for Non-Operating Room Anesthesia Cases” – Poster Presentation” (first place FAER Award, collaboration with the University of Vermont)

This marks the sixth consecutive year that presenters from our department have won awards at this conference. Congratulations to all!