Drs. Diana Mosquera and Patricia Fogarty Mack join Dr. Brooke Trainer to discuss Medicare’s new alternative payment model, Transforming Episode of Care Model (TEAM). Learn what’s driving the change, who will be impacted, how anesthesiologists can participate, and more. Recorded November 2025.
Diana C. Mosquera, MD, MBA, FASA, is a practicing anesthesiologist and executive vice chair of the department of anesthesiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY. Dr. Mosquera has significant experience in managing inpatient and ambulatory programs that link insurance payments to performance on quality measures. Dr. Mosquera is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Economics in which she chairs the Alternative Payment Model subgroup. Dr. Mosquera received her undergraduate degree at Stony Brook University where she studied economics. She completed her Medical Education at Weill Cornell Medicine and anesthesiology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Following her medical training, Dr. Mosquera received a master’s degree in business administration with concentration in Health Care Management from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.
Patricia Fogarty Mack, MD, FASA, is professor of clinical anesthesiology and the vice chair for patient safety and quality improvement in the department of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In the past she has served as director of neuroanesthesiology and director of non-operating room anesthesiology. She has developed a didactic and experiential quality improvement educational program for trainees. Currently she is chair of the NYSSA committee on patient safety and quality improvement and is a member of the APSF patient safety priority advisory group for NORA. She has served on both ASA’s committee for patient safety education and quality management and departmental administration. She is honored to continue her service to QMDA as vice chair and on the faculty of the 2023 AQPSM.
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: December 1, 2025