My professional career has been focused on building and implementing innovative healthcare information technology to help improve workflow for clinicians and outcomes for patients. Over the last 20 years, my experience has spanned medical informatics, quality improvement, organizational management and clinical care.

Prior to a clinical anesthesiology career, I had leadership roles in the development and implementation of a leading commercially available inpatient electronic health record (EHR) – General Electric Centricity®. I have a unique background EHR implementation, healthcare focused software development and perioperative quality improvement. As an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, I have published articles and book chapters regarding perioperative informatics. I have been combining my clinical and informatics experience to address the challenges of developing site and provider level feedback for quality improvement using electronic health record and registry data.

Since 2016, I have served as Program Director for the Anesthesiology Performance Improvement and Reporting Exchange, a quality improvement collaborative of 26 hospitals that leads efforts to improve anesthesia care in the state of Michigan. I am also the Quality Improvement Director of the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG). We have successfully extracted data from more than 9 million patients and multiple EHRs across dozens of hospitals across the country into a common database structure and lexicon for outcomes research and quality improvement. I lead efforts aimed at leveraging EHR data housed in MPOG to drive quality improvement across 50 participating hospitals. This has included building over 30 quality measures across several anesthesia domains of care.