Episode 169: AI from A to Z (Part Two)

Joseph “Chris” Goldstein, MD, FAACD

Joseph “Chris” Goldstein, MD, FAACD, is a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist practicing at NF/SG VHS in Gainesville, Florida. He serves as affiliated teaching faculty of the University of Florida, where he completed his training, and is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Goldstein began tinkering with computers and modems as a child, later working on IT projects in college, and has been involved with artificial intelligence since 2017. Passionate about teaching and AI, he co-developed and co-led a first-of-its kind AI fundamentals course for anesthesiology residents in 2020 and co-founded Anesthesiology.AI, an educational platform in development. Dr. Goldstein co-leads an Artificial Intelligence and Medical Device (AIMD) research workgroup and has (co-) authored publications on AI and cybersecurity. He serves on the ASA CIIT committee, VA VISN8 AI committee, VA AI ethics committee and when time allows, he organizes or participates in hackathons under the handle “Ether3ldr.”

Matthew Wecksell, MD

Matthew Wecksell, MD, is the clinical director and chief of general of anesthesiology at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. He is also an associate professor of anesthesiology and neurosurgery at New York Medical College. A veteran member of the ASA Committee on Informatics and Information technology, he has had a lifelong interest in Information Technology with a focus on its social and security related implications.

Dr. Wecksell is a former board member of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. He received his undergraduate degree in nutrition at Cornell University and his medical degree from New York Medical College. He completed his anesthesiology residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University Medical Center.

Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA

Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA, is a pediatric anesthesiologist, clinical informaticist, and public health leader. He has served as vice chair of analytics and clinical effectiveness in the department of anesthesiology critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and as associate professor of clinical anesthesiology and spatial sciences at the Keck School of Medicine and the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Tan will soon begin his new role as division chief of general anesthesiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tan leads a multidisciplinary spatial data science team pioneering work in the human exposome to examine how environmental exposures affect child health outcomes. His team’s work modeling pediatric vulnerabilities has been recognized by the World Bank, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, and AccuWeather. Dr. Tan also serves on the board of directors of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and co-chairs the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation’s advisory group on clinical deterioration. He also advises medical technology leaders on pediatric monitoring, device innovation and the further of pediatric anesthesiology.

Hannah Lonsdale, MD

Dr. Hannah Lonsdale is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) medical school in 2006, then trained and worked as an anesthesiologist in the UK for over 10 years before relocating to the US in 2019. She spent four years at Johns Hopkins before transitioning to her current role as an attending in the division of pediatric anesthesiology at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Lonsdale is supported by a US NIH T-32 grant to explore AI applications in perioperative medicine and is a member of the Anesthesia Research Council workgroup on “strengthening discovery and application of artificial intelligence in anesthesiology.” She is also a member of the society for pediatric anesthesia bioinformatics group, serves on the American Society for Anesthesiology committee for informatics and information technology and has published multiple papers on artificial intelligence in high-impact anesthesiology journals.

Adam Striker, MD, FASA

Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin.  He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.