Episode 185: Inside the Monitor: Global Engagement, Local Excellence

Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA

Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA, is associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Stanford University. She founded her department’s division of global health equity and serves as its director of global engagement strategy. Dr. Crawford has a passion for global engagement as a way to facilitate reciprocal professional development, diverse community, and equitable healthcare access. For over a decade she has worked through academic partnerships, primarily in underserved and variably-resourced areas, to promote medical education, systems change and quality improvement. She holds an honorary appointment at the University of Rwanda, chairs the California Society of Anesthesiologists - global health (CSA-GH) committee and serves on the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists education committee. She has served as a consultant to several non-profit organizations, the WHO, and the Lancet Commission for Global Health.

Dr. Crawford is the creator and editor-in-chief of the Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center ("the LRC"), an online education platform offering free and open access resources for healthcare providers. Dr. Crawford believes global includes local, also working in her local community to address social barriers to health. As the proud recipient of the 2021 Kevin Malott Humanitarian Service Award, Dr. Crawford worked with the Pine Ridge Native American community in South Dakota assisting local teams preparing to care for critically-ill patients with COVID-19.

Elizabeth Drum, MD, FAAP, FCPP, FASA

Elizabeth Drum, MD, FAAP, FCPP, FASA, is professor of clinical anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as the associate division chief for clinical operations in the general anesthesia division, the department’s medical director of global health initiatives, and the medical director of radiology anesthesia sedation services at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn and CHOP, she was a professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine where she still holds an adjunct clinical appointment.

Dr. Drum holds subspecialty certification in pediatric anesthesiology and served as a Major in the US Army Medical Corp. She has extensive experience in improving the safety and capacity of anesthesia care around the world and in building educational systems and collaborating with local providers to create infrastructure that supports educational initiatives. She is chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Global Health, a member of the Council of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, a member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Committee on Global Health, chair-elect of the American Academy of Pediatricians Section on Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and secretary of the Board of Directors of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons.

Keya Locke, MD, MBA

Keya Locke, MD, MBA, serves as the medical director of perioperative services at UF-North in Jacksonville Florida. Dr. Locke has been an assistant professor at UF Jacksonville since 2017. She completed medical school at UF Gainesville, residency at UF Jacksonville, and graduated from UF Warrington School of Business with an MBA in 2020. Her current interests include practice management and organizational behavior. She hopes to bring a better understanding of how organizations “breathe” and begin to apply strategies of successful organizations to medical ones. Dr. Locke is a member of the ASA practice management and women in anesthesia committees.