Advancing Pulse Oximetry: Innovation, Performance, and Equity
Sunday, October 18 | 12-1:00 p.m. PDT
Room 3, Upper Level, West Terrace
Symposium description: Explore how perioperative conditions influence pulse oximetry performance and clinical decisions, and how technology equity, evolving standards, rigorous verification, and innovation are advancing pulse oximetry. Lunch will be served.
Panelists:
Hugh Cassiere, MD, FACP, FCCP
Northwell Health
Dr. Cassiere is a board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine, critical care medicine, and pulmonary disease, accredited by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He earned his MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, completed his residency in internal medicine at NYU Langone Hospital, Long Island, and further enhanced his expertise through a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at NYU Langone Hospital. Currently, Dr. Cassiere is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He serves as Chairperson for various committees at South Shore University Hospital, including the Quality Committee and the Hospital Morbidity & Mortality Committee. He also chairs the FDA Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, which focuses on anesthesiology and respiratory devices.
Chawla LaToya Mason, MD, FASA
University of Mississippi Health
C. LaToya Mason, MD, FASA is a Board-certified Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and one of the only obstetric anesthesiology fellowship-trained anesthesiologists practicing in the state of Mississippi. She is OB Anesthesia Division Chief and Course Director for the M4 Anesthesiology clerkship. As Mississippi’s State Representative to the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP), she serves as Anesthesiology Consultant to the Mississippi Maternal Mortality Review Committee, the MS Perinatal Quality Collaborative, and the MS Tobacco Cessation Council. Dr. Mason completed medical school and Anesthesiology residency at Tulane University. She completed an Obstetric Anesthesia fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine where she remained on faculty for a decade and attained academic rank of Associate Professor during the early stages of her career. She has earned Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA) designation, ASA's highest acknowledgment recognizing years of dedication to exceptional education and leadership. In 2016, she returned to her home state of Mississippi and joined the faculty of UMMC. Since being there, she has been a three-time recipient of UMMC's Trailblazer Teaching Award and nominee for SOAP Teacher of the Year. Dr. Mason has authored numerous abstracts, book chapters, and publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Mason is Associate Editor of Shnider and Levinson's Anesthesia for Obstetrics Textbook, 5th Edition. She has been an invited speaker and workshop instructor at numerous state and national meetings. Dr. Mason is a classically trained pianist, violinist, and recording artist. She is married and the mother of two young children. After the birth of her son, Dr. Mason sustained a major complication, peripartum cardiomyopathy. Now recovered, she has shared her story to increase awareness and improve maternal health as part of the CDC's Hear Her campaign. She has likewise partnered with industry leaders as an advocate for maternal health. In promoting this important cause, she has been featured on “Top Med Talk”, an international podcast as well as appeared in the audience of NBC’s Today Show on Rockefeller Plaza.
Ashley P. Oliver, MD, MA
UCLA Health
Ashley Oliver, MD, MA, is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor and Assistant Program Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Program in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She completed her fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at UCLA following residency and internship at the University of California, San Francisco, and holds board certifications in Anesthesiology and Adult Cardiac Anesthesiology from the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Oliver's clinical work is focused on health equity, quality and safety and education for perioperative clinicians. Her academic work centers on perioperative conflict and communication. Her goal is to improve healthcare delivery so that providers and patients can thrive in a system that values individuals, promotes teamwork, and makes hard decisions well.
Moderator:
Randy Clark, MD, FASA
Randall Clark is the Principal Investigator for the Medtronic Clinical Physiology Lab in Denver. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Colorado School of Medicine where he worked as a Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Clark's Aerospace Engineering Sciences undergraduate degree is from CU Boulder. Dr. Clark is a Past President of the 60,000 member American Society of Anesthesiologists and is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Quality Institute, where he oversees AQI's new NACOR 2.0 initiative. He lives in Denver with his wife, Dr. Joy Hawkins.
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