Episode 171: Inside the Monitor - Reducing 30-Day Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality

Vilma Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA

Vilma Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA, is a professor of anesthesiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She completed her medical training, anesthesiology residency, and masters of public health at Johns Hopkins. Her area of interests include patient safety, medical liability, health equity and political advocacy where she has worked at the national and state level on these issues.

Dr. Joseph is chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Performance and Outcomes Measurement. In addition, Dr. Joseph chairs the ASA Educational Track Subcommittee on Professional Issues. Her work on the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity includes being the Director of the ASA Mentoring Grant Program. She is the past president of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists as well as the Bronx County Medical Society. Dr. Joseph also serves as the vice-president of the Westchester Bronx Society of Black Physicians. At the Medical Society of New York, she is the co-chair of the Health Equity Committee and is the secretary of the Women’s Section. She represents MSSNY as the New York State delegate for the American Medical Association House of Delegates.

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.