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Dr. George Tewfik, guest editor of the March ASA Monitor, and Dr. Emily Methangkool, contributor, discuss ambulatory anesthesia with Dr. Zach Deutch. Learn how ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are transforming care, how practicing in an ASC differs from the inpatient setting, what is on the horizon, and more. Recorded January 2026.
George Tewfik, MD, MBA, FASA, is an associate professor in anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School where he serves as the director of quality assurance and clinical informatics for the department of anesthesiology. He serves on the ASA committees for patient safety and education and quality management and departmental administration. His research areas of interest include perioperative efficiency, patient safety, medical education, and medical economics, amongst numerous other topics. He is also a member of the ASA Monitor editorial board. He has lectured at the ASA, at the NJ state society of anesthesia and numerous other institutions regarding such topics as improving the preoperative evaluation and processes for adverse event analysis.
After completing his residency, he spent the first five years of his clinical career in private practice, during which time he got his MBA from Rutgers Business School. He returned to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School seven years ago and became involved in quality, patient safety and residency education. He often shares his expertise regarding employment contracts and advice regarding job searches with his residents, given his experience with a variety of hospitals and practice types. For this reason, amongst many others, he is particularly intrigued by the topic of the ASA Monitor’s September issue regarding the ever-changing employer-employee relationship in anesthesiology.
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH serves as the chair of the Olive View-UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and is an associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Methangkool is a graduate of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and completed her residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at UCLA. Since 2013, she has been a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and has served in many roles, most recently as the vice chair of quality and patient safety.
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 has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and the British Journal of Anaesthesia. She is the current vice chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists committee on patient safety and education, chair-elect of the women in cardiothoracic anesthesia special interest group of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and a member of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation board of directors.
Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending physician with US Anesthesia Partners-Florida and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.
Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Date of last update: February 16, 2026
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