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Dr. Brooke Trainer interviews Mr. Robert Avin, Vice President of USI Affinity, about the ins and outs of insurance. Find out what anesthesiologists at every career stage should consider, how to know if you’re truly covered, how ASA is working to help members meet their insurance needs, and more. Recorded April 2026.
Robert Avin is a Vice President and Program Leader at USI Affinity, a national insurance broker that partners with associations to develop valuable member insurance programs. Robert and USI Affinity are passionate about educating and helping to protect the financial security of association members through a robust suite of insurance solutions. What matters the most for individuals, their families, and their professional careers, matters to USI Affinity in helping to ensure long-term financial stability.
Mr. Avin received his Bachelor of Arts in Sport Management at the University of Michigan. Mr. Avin has worked in the insurance industry for more than 15 years.
Brooke E. Trainer, MD, FASA, remains devoted to her fellow Veterans and maintains her full-time status as an anesthesiologist, acute pain physician, and critical care medicine Intensivist at the Central Virginia VA Health Care System in Richmond VA. She is also an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she works as a critical care intensivist in the liver transplant and surgical trauma burn ICU. Most recently, Dr. Trainer was recognized for her contributions and interest in simulation education and was granted a national faculty position with the VHA Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) Division.
Dr. Trainer received her doctor of medicine from the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, completed her anesthesia residency at Yale New Haven Medical Center in Connecticut, and fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a US Air Force veteran, having served as an anesthesiologist at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and director for the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT). She deployed in 2012, '13, and '14 to Afghanistan from Germany, flying wounded soldiers safely out of Afghanistan back to Germany, then home to the US. In 2012, she was recognized as the top-level physician of the European Medical Command and was awarded the US Air Force European Clinical Excellence Award. Dr. Trainer also holds several leadership positions in organized medicine, including her current role as the president for the Association of VA Anesthesiologists, and has published numerous book chapters in internationally recognized Anesthesia Textbooks.
Date of last update: May 4, 2026
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