Episode 188: Behind the Scenes with the ASA Monitor's Editor-in-Chief

Thomas Vetter, MD, MPH, MFA

Thomas Vetter, MD, MPH, MFA is a professor of surgery and perioperative care, as well as chief of anesthesia and perioperative medicine, at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. From 2016 to 2025, Dr. Vetter was the deputy editor-in-chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia. He is the current editor-in-chief of the ASA Monitor.

After graduating from Oberlin College, Dr. Vetter attended medical school at The Ohio State University. Dr. Vetter completed residency training at the University of Florida in Gainesville in pediatrics and anesthesiology, then a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Tom notes, "I majored in biology and minored in English in college. Retrospectively, if I had more courage, I would have instead majored in English and minored in mathematics (‘the language of science’). I would have spent a semester abroad in Paris and become fluent in French.”

So, in mid-career, Tom obtained a quantitative Master of Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and later in life, a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from Lindenwood University in St. Louis. He also completed the Certificate in Professional Achievement in narrative medicine at Columbia University. And Tom still aspires to become fluent in French!

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin.  He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.