SAAAPM AASPD Webinar: The Future of Anesthesiology Education: AI, Digital Knowledge Platforms, and Precision Learning

Moderator: 

• Alexander Bautista, MD, MBA, FASA 
  • Alexander Bautista, MD, MBA, FASA, is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Program Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville. He is the President of the Association of Pain Program Directors. His academic and clinical interests include pain medicine education, opioid stewardship, neuromodulation, interventional spine care, and physician-led advocacy. Dr. Bautista is actively involved in fellowship education, accreditation, curriculum development, and initiatives aimed at improving pain care and reducing opioid-related harm.
• Brian Allen, MD
  • Dr. Allen is a husband, father, educator, and anesthesiologist in Nashville, TN who teaches and works at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He received a bachelor’s degree and later his medical degree from the Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He completed Anesthesiology residency at VUMC in 2010 and a Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University in 2012.  He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2012 where he has been highly involved in education, leading the Acute Pain Service and Perioperative Medicine resident rotations and directing the Acute Pain service for several years. Since 2016, Dr. Allen has served as the program director for the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, achieving ACGME accreditation.
    Dr. Allen has pursued the use of technology platforms to amplify and crowd-source educational and administrative efforts. Nationally, he serves as a question author, editor, and committee member for the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Maintenance of Certification (MOCA) program. Since joining the AASPD within SAAAPM, he has adapted and developed a common application used by the majority of RAAPM fellowships. Separately, he administers a question-based, 90-item curriculum via the QuizTime platform to over 50 RAAPM programs.

Speakers: 

• Glenn Woodworth, MD

  • Dr. Woodworth graduated from the University of California San Diego where his educational focus was on cognitive science and user interface design.  Dr. Woodworth began his medical training in San Diego culminating in finishing his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  Following residency training he joined Anesthesia Service Medical Group in San Diego where he was in private practice for 20 years before leaving to join an academic practice. During his years in private practice, he often practiced part time while running a healthcare technology consulting practice, serving as the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of a healthcare start up, and as the Medical Director and Vice President of a billion-dollar healthcare company.

    He currently is a Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR.  Dr. Woodworth is subspecialty is regional anesthesia and his research is focused on the assessment of competency, the effectiveness of different educational methods in medical education, precision medical education, and the use of education technology.  He is a past FAER grant recipient for his work on the assessment of ultrasound interpretation skills for regional anesthesia and a FAER grant looking at the achievement of competency as determined by the milestones.  

    Dr. Woodworth is the former Executive Director and Founder of the Anesthesia Education Toolbox, a collaboratively developed peer-reviewed website for anesthesia education used by over 100 anesthesia programs.  The Toolbox learning management system facilitates resident, fellow, and post-graduate continuing education in anesthesia and was transferred to the American Society of Anesthesiologists in 2022 for management and further development.   Dr. Woodworth is a leader in competency-based medical education and has led the effort to develop and test a programmatic system of competency assessment for anesthesiology training that includes entrustable professional activities (EPAs), procedural skills assessments, and non-technical skills assessments delivered via a mobile app.   This system in now used by over 30 anesthesiology training programs. Dr. Woodworth’s most recent work has focused on the development of a precision medical mobile app to suggest personalized learning content to anesthesiology trainees based on scheduled cases, clinical data in the EHR, competency assessments submitted by faculty, and quiz question performance. Dr. Woodworth received at 2023 AMA ChangeMedEd Grant for this work.

    For his work in education, Dr. Woodworth has received the American Society of Anesthesiology Distinguished Educator Award and the SEA Duke Award for Innovation in Anesthesia Education.  In his spare time, Dr. Woodworth enjoys spending time with his family, playing tennis and golf, and cooking.

• Debnath Chatterjee, MD, FAAP, FASA
  • Dr. Debnath Chatterjee is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His areas of clinical interest are anesthesia for fetal interventions and button battery ingestions in children. He is the Director of Fetal Anesthesia at the Colorado Fetal Care Center and a founding member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Anesthesia.
    Dr. Chatterjee is the current Chair of the ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia and the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitochondrial-Associated Sensitivity to Halogenated Agents. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
    Dr. Chatterjee is passionate about medical education. He is the Editor-in-Chief of OpenAnesthesia, an online educational resource used by anesthesia trainees worldwide. He is also an education editor for the journal Pediatric Anesthesia and one of the founding editors of the SPA Question of the Week project, SPA One-Pagers, and SPA Case Guides.
• Robert Maniker, MD, MSc, FASA

  • Robert Maniker MD, Msc, FASA is Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center where he is the Director of the Acute Pain Service and Co-Director of the Margaret Wood Center for Simulation and Education. His research interests are largely in medical education in the realms of competency assessment, simulation, extended reality and artificial intelligence