Clinical Focus

  • Anesthesia

Academic Appointments

Professional Education

  • Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia (2018)
  • Internship: Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Internal Medicine Residency (2014) CA
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital Surgery Residency (2017) MA
  • Medical Education: Harvard Medical School (2013) MA

Contact

  • Academic
    Department: Anesthesia - MSD Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Clinical (Primary)  Anesthesia Department 300 Pasteur Dr Rm H3580 MC 5640 Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 725-8544 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

All Publications

  • Tips for Success: Developing a Video-based Multidisciplinary Review Rounds of Critical Events in the Operating Room. Journal of patient safety Forrester, J. D., Gostic, W. J., Peterson, A., Gomez, B., Watt, D., Singer, S., Wald, S. H., Bateman, B. T., Hawn, M. T. 2026

    View details for DOI 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001466

    View details for PubMedID 41562394

  • Artificial Intelligence in Perioperative Care: Opportunities and Challenges. Anesthesiology Han, L., Char, D. S., Aghaeepour, N. 2024; 141 (2): 379-387

    View details for DOI 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005013

    View details for PubMedID 38980160

  • Mixed methods evaluation of a specialty-specific system to promote physician engagement in safety and quality reporting in a large academic health system. BMJ open quality Lessios, A. S., Vilendrer, S., Peterson, A., Brown-Johnson, C., Kling, S. M., Veruttipong, D., Arteaga, M., Gessner, D., Gostic, W. J. 2024; 13 (3)

    Abstract

    Incident reporting systems (IRS) can improve care quality and patient safety, yet their impact is limited by clinician engagement. Our objective was to assess barriers to reporting in a hospital-wide IRS and use data to inform ongoing improvement of a specialty-specific IRS embedded in the electronic health record targeting anaesthesiologists.This quality improvement (QI) evaluation used mixed methods, including qualitative interviews, faculty surveys and user data from the specialty-specific IRS. We conducted 24 semi-structured interviews from January to May 2023 in a large academic health system in Northern California. Participants included adult and paediatric anaesthesiologists, operating room nurses, surgeons and QI operators, recruited through convenience and snowball sampling. We identified key themes and factors influencing engagement, which were classified using the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety framework. We surveyed hospital anaesthesiologists in January and May 2023, and characterised the quantity and type of reports submitted to the new system.Participants shared organisation and technology-related barriers to engagement in traditional system-wide IRSs, many of which the specialty-specific IRS addressed-specifically those related to technological access to the system. Barriers related to building psychological safety for those who report remain. Survey results showed that most barriers to reporting improved following the specialty-specific IRS launch, but limited time remained an ongoing barrier (25 respondents out of 44, 56.8%). A total of 964 reports with quality/safety concerns were submitted over the first 8 months of implementation; 47-76 unique anaesthesiologists engaged per month. The top safety quality categories of concern were equipment and technology (25.9%), clinical complications (25.3%) and communication and scheduling (19.9%).These findings suggest that a specialty-specific IRS can facilitate increased physician engagement in quality and safety reporting and complement existing system-wide IRSs.

    View details for DOI 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-002806

    View details for PubMedID 39089742