Thomas R. Vetter, MD, MPHVetter is a nationally recognized expert on perioperative medicine and value-based healthcare. While at UAB, Vetter lead the development of a pioneering Perioperative Surgical Home. Vetter is currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the preeminent journal, Anesthesia & Analgesia. He has published extensively in outcomes research and topics such as comparative effectiveness.

Elizabeth Cherot, MD, MBADr. Elizabeth Cherot is currently the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Axia Women’s Health. Dr. Cherot is an established and highly skilled physician with 20 years’ experience in obstetrics and gynecology. She is committed to improving OB/GYN care, reducing morbidity and mortality while implementing enhancing recovery models and providing an efficient business model for today’s OB/GYN practice.

Steven Schulman, MD, MHASteven Schulman is an authority and a national speaker on value based protocols including Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and the Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH). Under his leadership, his team has demonstrated the ability of these initiatives to significantly lower length of stay, readmissions, post-operative ventilation as well as blood and skilled nursing facility utilization.

Refaat Hegazi, MD, PhD, MS, MPH, MBADr. Hegazi joined Abbott Nutrition as the Global Medical Director of Adult Nutrition in February 2009. He is now the Medical Director and Director of External Scientific and Medical Engagement for Abbott Nutrition. He also co-developed the Transcultural Diabetes Nutrition Algorithm and Diabetes Total Nutrition Therapy educational programs.

Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBAKain is a thought leader in Orthopedic Value based care and an international expert on Perioperative Surgical Home and enhanced recovery. He is also a national leader in perioperative digital health. He previously served as Chair of Anesthesiology and Associate Dean of Clinical Operations Officer in UC Irvine Health.

Karl Koenig, MD, MSDr. Koenig previously led the Division of Adult Reconstruction at Dartmouth and was one of the architects of GreenCare, a sweeping quality improvement initiative to create a self-improving microsystem around total joint replacement.

Michael Scott, MD, FRCP, FRCA, FFICMDr. Scott is an international expert in Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) principles and is co-author of the ERAS Society Consensus Guidelines and is a member of the ERAS Society Executive Committee. He has published extensively on haemodynamic monitoring, fluid therapy and the stress response for surgery within an ERAS Protocol. He was a member of the WHO Education Committee and Member and author of the World Health Organisation LIFEBOX Project.

John M. Morton, MD, MPH, FASMBS, ABOMJohn Morton is the System Lead for Surgical Quality and Bariatric Services in the Yale New Haven Health System and Vice-Chair for Quality, Division Chief for Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. He previously served as Chief of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Clinic Chief for the Bariatric and Metabolic Inter-Disciplinary Clinic and Director of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Jeff Gadsden, MD, FRCPC, FANZCAGadsden is a world leader in the areas of ultrasound-guided nerve blockade, the monitoring of regional anesthesia, trauma, and education. He holds fellowships with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (anesthesia) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, widely published and a well-known speaker in these areas.

Nishant Shah, MDShah is a leading authority in the outpatient hip and joint replacement space. He is currently a partner with Midwest Anesthesia and is extensively trained in regional anesthesia. He is the founder of Subsidium Workshops where he teaches multiple hands on workshops for surgeons and anesthesiologists.

Maggie Holtz, MDDr. Holtz previously served as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory and then at Yale, she is now the Chief of Regional and Orthopedic Anesthesia at WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center. Dr. Holtz speaks across the country on opioid minimization and enhanced recovery after surgery, and also teaches at regional anesthesia workshops both nationally and internationally.

Making the case for Enhanced recovery and PSH to Anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses and C-Suite

The first step in change management is to provide a burning platform for the change. People don’t like to change and thus you need to learn how to make the case that change is a must.

Creating the right business plan and a positive ROI

When you approach administration with your plans for an ER or PSH program, the first question you will be asked is if you have a business plan and what is the ROI? This session will provide you the fundamentals to answer this question.

Staffing and resource needs and investment requirements

When you need the plan, you need to know how will your staffing look like and how much this will cost your group and the organization.

Choosing the right team and the right initial project

Choosing the right project is based on the ROI and the likelihood that your project will be successful. This session will teach you how to go through that process.

Choosing the Right Metrics and Building Dashboards

In order to evaluate your success you should agree with the administration (ahead of time) on what metrics will you work on and how will these be displayed. Come to learn how to build these dashboards.

Patient engagement in the perioperative environment:

Your project will not be successful unless you learn how to engage your patients. Come and learn the approach used by Dr. Cherot in her practice.

Enhanced Recovery for the OB Patient

Bring in all together. This is a case study to demonstrate these models on an OB patient.

Enhanced Recovery for the Cardiac Patient

Bring in all together. This is a case study to demonstrate these models on a cardiac patient.

Enhanced Recovery for the Orthopedic Patient

Bring in all together. This is a case study to demonstrate these models on an orthopedic patient.

Putting it all together and launching your Pilot

Perioperative nutrition within ERAS: evidence and guidelines

Nutrition in the perioperative setting have become a “hot topic” over the past few years. Indeed, you can’t expect the patient to recover if they don’t have the fundamental nutritional blocks.

Goal directed therapy (DGT)

This technique is paramount to your practice regardless if you choose to use an ER or PSH model. This highly interactive session will teach you the basics of GDT.

Step I: Make the Case for ER-PSH & Create the Vision

Following the conceptual framework of Kotter, step I is to build a burning platform, assemble a TEAM and build a compelling vision for the future

Step II: Feasibility Analysis and RO

The next step is to choose the “right” service to use this clinical model. This choice is being made both by surgical volume as well as profit margin and buy-in of the various stakeholders.

Step III: Case Studies

We have chosen to present to the registrants 3 examples presented by experts who implanted these models in their hospitals. Note that the experts include both anesthesiologists and surgeons.

Steps IV & V: Execution, Hard Wiring and Scaling Up

Finally, these sessions will teach you how to hardwire the new clinical model and how to move to other services.