The annual ASA ADVANCE meeting, previously the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Practice Management Meeting, is considered the ultimate business event for physician anesthesiologists and practice administrators and among ASA-sponsored events, is second in attendance only to the ASA Annual Meeting. The conference focuses on strategies for anesthesiology practices to ensure financial and business success and features topics such as quality, technology, wellness, human resources, and economics.
ASA ADVANCE 2023: The Anesthesiology Business Event took place January 27-29 in Orlando, FL. Per tradition, our Practice Management Research Team, a group of residents, faculty, and CRNAs investigating healthcare business and management, had a strong presence at the meeting. The team presented five posters, one of which won an award, as well as presented lectures and participated in meeting sessions (listed below, presenter names bolded):
Mark E. Hudson, MD, MBA
- Moderator: Basics of Operating Room Management
- Lecture: Burning Platform: Meeting Surgical Services Demand in a Constrained Resource Environment
- Roundtable Discussion: Creating a Patient Safety Culture
Poster Presentations:
- Harold Burke, MD: Evaluating Provider Team Efficiency with Varying Utilization of Surgical Block Time (authors: Burke H, Cantees KK, Tarnasky AM, Lebovitz EE, Beaman ST, Hudson ME)
- Kimberly Cantees, MD, MBA: Provider Team Efficiency: Defining a Key Performance Indicator (authors: Burke H, Cantees KK, Wang S, Lebovitz EE, Beaman ST, Hudson ME)
- Evan Lebovitz, MD, MBA: Financial Impact of Residents on Provider Expense in a Large Academic Anesthesiology Department (authors: Nahouraii L, Lebovitz EE, Brea Parrilla F, Cantees KK, Metro DG, Adams P, Hudson ME)
- Evan Lebovitz, MD, MBA: Scheduling Experience with Traveling Staff in the Operating Room at a Large Academic Institution (authors: Lebovitz EE, Cantees KK, Yin W, J. Kim J, Beaman ST, Hudson ME)
- Samuel Kosinski, MD: A Multi-Provider Approach to Improving Anesthetizing Location Capacity in a Large Multihospital Health Care System (authors: Lebovitz EE, Nanez M, Kosinski SA, T. Orsino T, Artman J, Hudson ME)
FAER ASA ADVANCE 2023 Poster Awards
- Second Place Award: Lauren Nahouraii, MD - Financial Impact of Residents on Provider Expense in a Large Academic Anesthesiology Department (authors: Nahouraii L, Lebovitz EE, Brea Parrilla F, Cantees KK, Metro DG, Adams P, Hudson ME)
CRNA Authorship:
- Toni Orsino, MBA, CRNA - A Multi-Provider Approach to Improving Anesthetizing Location Capacity in a Large Multihospital Health Care System (authors: Lebovitz EE, Nanez M, Kosinski SA, T. Orsino T, Artman J, Hudson ME)
- Jamie Artman, MBA, MSN, CRNA - A Multi-Provider Approach to Improving Anesthetizing Location Capacity in a Large Multihospital Health Care System (authors: Lebovitz EE, Nanez M, Kosinski SA, T. Orsino T, Artman J, Hudson ME)
Special thanks to our faculty mentors for our Practice Management Research Team, led by Mark E. Hudson, MD, MBA, FASA:
- Phillip Adams, DO, FASA
- Shawn Beaman, MD, FASA
- Kimberly Cantees, MD, MBA
- Evan Lebovitz, MD, MBA
- Dave G. Metro, MD, FASA
Dr. Mark Hudson also serves as a member of the ASA Committee on Practice Management, which is responsible for the planning of ASA ADVANCE.
In addition, our residents Sheri Wang, MD (PGY-3), and Harold Burke, MD (PGY-4), were two of only 12 residents nationally chosen to receive Emerging Leaderships Scholarships to attend ASA ADVANCE 2023. The scholarship recognizes outstanding anesthesiology residents who demonstrate aptitude and portray interest in leadership and practice management. Drs. Burke and Wang participated in several roundtable discussions during the conference focusing on future obstacles within the changing landscapes of anesthesia practice management.