We are pleased to welcome our newest executive board members Drs. Meghan Lane-Fall, G. Burkhard Mackensen, and Warren Sandberg to their three-year term. The Executive Board is comprised of department chairs of active contributing MPOG sites and are elected by a vote of the MPOG department chairs. They provide guidance to MPOG in areas of strategic and operational importance.

Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM

Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM is the EM Papper Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She is an anesthesiologist, intensive care physician, and implementation scientist.

A dedicated mentor with more than 90 lifetime mentees from undergraduate students to faculty, Dr. Lane-Fall also is on the Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. Prior to her appointment at Columbia, Dr. Lane-Fall served as the Executive Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center, the David E. Longnecker

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and faculty lead for Accelerate Health Equity, an equity-focused coalition of all the major health systems in metro Philadelphia.

G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE, FSCAI

Dr. G. Burkhard Mackensen is the Allan J. Treuer Endowed Professor of Anesthesiology and Chair of the large University of Washington (UW) Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine in Seattle, WA. He also is the Director of Interventional Echocardiography at the UW Medicine Heart Institute. At UW Medicine, he serves on the UW Physicians Executive Committee, the UW Heart Institute Governance Council, and the Medical Executive Committee. 

Dr. Mackensen is a practicing cardiothoracic anesthesiologist, and a key member of the UW structural heart valve team. As an internationally recognized expert in perioperative and interventional echocardiography, Dr. Mackensen is intimately involved in multidisciplinary efforts that aim to advance minimally invasive transcatheter cardiovascular care. He has given numerous national and international lectures on cerebral outcomes after cardiac surgery, the role of 2D and 3D TEE in interventional/structural heart disease and surgical decision making and has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the author of more than 20 book chapters.

As a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), Dr. Mackensen actively involved with the American Society of Echocardiography and also represents the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) at the echocardiography board of the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) and as part of that board created the opportunity for perioperative echocardiography services to be accredited by the IAC.

Warren Sandberg, MD, PhD

Warren Sandberg is chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Biomedical Informatics.  He also serves as Chief of Staff for Perioperative and Critical Care Services for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. ​

​Dr. Sandberg received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology and his M.D. from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He served his internship at the University of Chicago Hospitals and was a resident/fellow in the Department of Anesthesia/ Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Sandberg joined the Harvard University Anesthesiology faculty in 1998.  Dr. Sandberg joined Vanderbilt in 2010 to lead the Department of Anesthesiology and added Chief of Staff responsibilities in 2018.​

​At Vanderbilt, Dr. Sandberg divides his time between clinical practice, research and administration. He has clinical and research interests in the development and use of clinical informatics in anesthesiology, and Vanderbilt is a recognized national leader in informatics, quality and health outcomes research. Dr. Sandberg’s specific research interests include factors affecting physician-patient communication, patient care technology, perioperative systems design and OR workflow management. In his role as Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, his goal is to leverage forward thinking technologists and the already-present capabilities of the institution to develop world class anesthesia informatics and real time decision support research programs, and to apply these to precision perioperative medicine.  These interests naturally flow into his work as Chief of Staff, with a broadened horizon to include the entire acute care hospital.​

They will be joining our existing elected Executive Board members: Drs. Brian Bateman, Joseph Cravero, Cynthia Lien, Jill Mhyre, J. Danny Muehlschlegel, and Ted (Tetsuro) Sakai (see the Executive Board page for a full list of members).

We thank our outgoing board members: Drs. Dan Berkowitz and Hugh Hemmings. We are grateful for their time, support, and guidance to MPOG over the last three years.