Episode 201: The Center for Anesthesia and Perioperative Economics

Gordon Morewood, MD

Gordon Morewood, MD, is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology, a fellow of the National Board of Echocardiography, and a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He currently serves as professor of clinical anesthesiology and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He is an oral board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology, a member of the Board of Directors and president-elect for the Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists, and a delegate to the American Society of Anesthesiologists House of Delegates.

Dr. Morewood is a past Chair of the Committee on Economics and Governmental Affairs for the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and is a member of the Committee on Economics for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He received his MD from the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in his native country of Canada, and his MBA from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed an anesthesiology residency at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and a fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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.