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Dr. Kofi Vandyck, member of the ACE editorial board, joins Dr. Brooke Trainer for a practical look at three topics featured in ACE 23B: managing automated insulin delivery systems, recognizing hemodynamic patterns of shock, and understanding leadless pacemakers. Recorded September 2026.
Kofi Vandyck, MD, FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center/University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and completed a cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences Center/Medical College of Virginia.
He serves as section chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia at OU Health. Dr. Vandyck is active in national and international professional societies and serves as an editor for the American Society of Anesthesiologists Anesthesia Continuing Education (ACE) Program. He is a co-founder of Mission for Motion and participates in global cardiothoracic surgical outreach initiatives in Africa and the Americas with Cardiostart International and Heart to Heart Missions.
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: October 5, 2026
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