Non-Operating Room Anaesthesia – Creating a safe environment

Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH serves as the Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and is an Associate Professor in cardiothoracic anesthesiology. Dr. Methangkool is passionate about patient safety, quality improvement, cardiac anesthesia, and gender equity in medicine, and has written about and spoken on these topics at the national level. She is the current Vice Chair of the ASA Committee on Patient Safety and Education, former Vice Chair of the Women in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Special Interest Group of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and on the communications team of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.

Dr Martin Minich is a consultant anaesthetist working at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, which is a large tertiary referral centre and major trauma centre in the West Midlands. His specialty interests include regional anaesthesia, medical education and he has a specific interest in non-operating room anaesthesia. Dr Minich is the lead anaesthetist for interventional and diagnostic radiology within the trust and has set up a service to provide anaesthetic support within the expanding radiology department over the past few years.    

Anesthesiologist, Medical Retrieval Specialist

• Airway Management Academy, Amsterdam, NL
• Mobile Intensive Care Unit Nederland, Rotterdam, NL
• GlobalMed Air Medical Services, NL
• Tyrol Air Ambulance, Innsbruck, AT
• Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Groningen, NL

Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH serves as the Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and is an Associate Professor in cardiothoracic anesthesiology. Dr. Methangkool is passionate about patient safety, quality improvement, cardiac anesthesia, and gender equity in medicine, and has written about and spoken on these topics at the national level. She is the current Vice Chair of the ASA Committee on Patient Safety and Education, former Vice Chair of the Women in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Special Interest Group of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and on the communications team of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.

Dr Martin Minich is a consultant anaesthetist working at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, which is a large tertiary referral centre and major trauma centre in the West Midlands. His specialty interests include regional anaesthesia, medical education and he has a specific interest in non-operating room anaesthesia. Dr Minich is the lead anaesthetist for interventional and diagnostic radiology within the trust and has set up a service to provide anaesthetic support within the expanding radiology department over the past few years.