News
This section includes all the current and archived newsletters, news articles, publications, featured members, new sites who join MPOG and IT upgrades.
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2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2024
Newsletters
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
January & February: Denise Schwerin, RN
News
April
Congratulations to Dr. Bhiken Naik & his team on their recent publication, Variability in Intraoperative Opioid and Nonopioid Utilization During Intracranial Surgery: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study in Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Pubmed
March
Registration is now open for the MSQC/MPOG Collaborative Meeting
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February
Check out our Winter Newsletter!
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January
We are pleased to Welcome Nebraska Medical as an active MPOG site!
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Congratulations to Dr. Sydney Brown and her team on their recent publication, Factors associated with decision to use and dosing of suggammadex in Children: A retrospective cross-sectional observational study in Anesthesiology and Analgesia
Pubmed
2023
Newsletters
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
November & December: Brad Taicher, DO, MBA
September & October: Sharon Reale, MD
July & August: Wendy Owens, MSN, RN
May & June: Clark Fisher, MD, PhD & Sunny Lou, MD, PhD
March & April: Bradford Berndt, MD
January & February: Amit Bardia, MD
News
December
Welcome Our 2024 MPOG Outcomes Research Fellows, Dr. Deiter Adelmann from the University of California San Francisco and Dr. Brian Reon from the University of Virginia
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The December 2023 QI Reporting Tool Upgrade Notes are now available
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Check out the latest updates to DataDirect!
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October
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Aziz and Team on Their Recent Publication, Perioperative Mortality of the COVID-19 Recovered Patient Compared to a Matched Control: A multicenter retrospective cohort study in Anesthesiology
Pubmed
The October 2023 QI Reporting Tool Upgrade Notes are now available
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The MPOG Upgrade Release Notes are now available
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Welcome Johns Hopkins University as a new MPOG active member site!
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Welcome Temple University as a new MPOG active member site!
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Congratulations to Dr. Wes Templeton and team on their recent publication, Hypoxemia in School Age Children Undergoing One-Lunch Ventilation: A Retrospective Cohort Study from the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG)
Pubmed
September
The QI Reporting Release Notes Are Now Available
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Check out the latest updates to DataDirect!
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Congratulations to Dr. Allison Janda and team on their paper, Does Anesthesia Quality Improvement Participation Lead to Incremental Savings in a Surgical Quality Collaborative Population? A Retrospective Study, published in Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Pubmed
August
Check out our summer newsletter!
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Announcing the Initiative for Multicenter Pragmatic Anesthesiology Clinical Trials (IMPACT), sponsored by MPOG, AUA and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan.
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July
Check out the Featured Anesthesiology Journal Podcast with Dr. Robert White on Racial Disparities in Antiemetic Administration
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ASPIRE Collaborative Meeting Post Meeting Wrap Up is Now Available
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June
Welcome to UMass Memorial Health!
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May
Registration for the ASPIRE Collaborative Meeting is Now Available
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Great Anesthesiology Journal podcast featuring Drs. Kai Kuck and Shiraz Ladha on Prolonged Opioid Use and Pain After Surgery (MPOG EOS Study
Podcast
Congratulations and Dr. Robert White and team on their recent publication, ‘Antiemetic Administration and Its Association with Race: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Pubmed
Welcome to our newly elected MPOG Executive Board members: Drs. Dan Berkowitz, Hugh Hemmings, and Peggy McNaull
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Congratulations to the MPOG Team on their article, Patient-, Clinician-, and Institution-level Variation in Inotrope Use for Cardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Observational Analysis, published in Anesthesiology
Pubmed
April
The Sustainability Toolkit is now available
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MPOG Application Suite April 2023 Upgrade
Release Notes
March
Welcome our 2023 Outcomes Research Fellows, Drs. Erica Langnas and Roberta Teixeira Tallarico from the University of California San Francisco
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February
Welcome University of Alabama Birmingham
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January
Congratulations to Dr. Kuck and team on their article, Prolonged Opioid Use and Pain Outcome And Associated Factors after Surgery Under General Anesthesia: A Prospective Cohort Association Multicenter Study, published in Anesthesiology
Pubmed
MPOG Application Suite upgrade released
Review Release Notes
Applications now being accepted for the Outcomes Research Fellowship
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NPR reports on MGH use of MPOG tools to reduce anesthesia related greenhouse gas emissions
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2022
Newsletters
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
January & February: Bishr Haydar, MD
March & April: Mary McKinney, RN
May & June: T. Wesley Templeton, MD, FASA
July & August: Jerri Heiter, RN
September & October: Lucy Everett, MD
November & December: Meredith Hall, MD
News
December
Congratulations to Dr. Privratsky and team on their publications, Postoperative acute kidney injury by age and sex: a retrospective cohort association study, in Anesthesiology
Pubmed
Congratulations Drs. Lazzareschi, Legrand, and team on their recent publication, Intraoperative use of Albumin in Major Non-Cardiac Surgery: Incidence, Variability, and Association with Outcomes, published in the Annals of Surgery
Pubmed
Congratulations Drs. McIlroy, Billings, and Team on their publication, Oxygen Administration During Surgery and Postoperative Organ Injury: A Observational Cohort Study, published in BMJ
Pubmed
November
Congratulations to Our New MPOG Associate Research Directors, Drs. Robert Schonberger and Douglas Colquhoun
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Welcome to the University of Maryland Medical Center
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Welcome the University of Texas Southwestern
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October
Welcome Boston Children’s Hospital to MPOG!
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Welcome Seattle Children’s Hospital as an Active Site!
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July
Congratulations to Drs. Mathis, Singh, and Team for their recently funded R01 Grant, Cardiac sURgery anesthesia Best practices to reduce Acute Kidney Injury (CURB-AKI)
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June
Congratulations to Dr. Douglas Colquhoun and team on their paper published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia
Pubmed
Welcome to the American University of Beirut, our newest member site!
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Welcome new Outcome Research Fellow Drs. Clark Fisher from Yale University and Sunny Lou from Washington University, St. Louis
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Congratulations to Dr. Eric Sun from Stanford and team on their paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine
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May
We are pleased to welcome our new Executive Board Members: Drs. Brian Bateman, Kelly McQueen, and Jill Mhyre.
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All MPOG active sites should have received the May upgrade, if your site did not receive the upgrade yet, contact MPOG Support.
Release Notes
April
THRIVE Seeking Enrollment Sites
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February
Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Reale and her team on publishing their paper on difficult intubation in women undergoing cesarean section under general anesthesia in Anesthesiology
Pubmed
January
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Janda and team on their publication on practice patterns regarding benzodiazepine use in cardiac surgery in the British Journal of Anaesthesia
Pubmed
MPOG is excited to announce the Inaugural Outcomes Research Fellowship
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2021
Newsletters
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
November & December: Eric Sun, MD, PhD
September & October: Jessica Wren, BSN
July & August: Jonathan Wanderer, MD, MPhil, FASA, FAMIA
May & June: Gary Loyd, MD
March & April: Vikas O’Reilly-Shah, MD, PhD
January & February: Pamela Tyler, RN, BSN
News
December
Congratulations to Dr. Templeton and team on their article on Hypoxemia in young children undergoing on-lung ventilation
Pubmed
November
Welcome to Spectrum Health
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October
All MPOG active sites should have received the October upgrade, if your site did not receive the upgrade yet, contact MPOG Support.
Release Notes
September
Welcome the University of Wisconsin
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August
Congratulations to Drs. Sachin Kheterpal (University of Michigan) and Michael Avidan (Washington University, St. Louis) on their PCORI Award!
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Congratulations to Dr. Bhiken Naik and the EOS Team on their new publication in Anesthesia and Analgesia on practice patterns and variability in intraoperative opioid utilization
Pubmed
Welcome MyMichigan Health in Midland, Michigan!
July
Welcome the University of Florida, Jacksonville!
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Welcome the University of North Carolina!
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May
Please join us in welcome our new Executive Board Members: Dr. Maxime Cannesson (UCLA), Dr. Deborah Culley (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Warren Sandberg (Vanderbilt)
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April
Welcome to Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin!
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All MPOG active sites should have received the April upgrade, if your site did not receive the upgrade yet, contact MPOG Support.
Release Notes
March
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Schonberger and team on their recent publication, Variation in Propofol Induction Administered to Surgical Patients over Age 65 in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society
Pubmed
Welcome Metro Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan!
Join us at the Raising Anesthesiology Diversity and Anti-Racism (RADAR) Virtual Launch Event on March 31, 2021
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February
Congratulations to Dr. Douglas Colquhoun and team on their paper entitled, A lower tidal volume regimen during on-lung ventilation for lung resection surgery is not associated with reduced postoperative pulmonary complications
Pubmed
January
DataDirect 2.1 Feature Updates: Filtering Data
Release Notes
2020
Newsletters
MPOG Summer 2020
MPOG Winter 2020
MSA Winter 2020
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
September & October: Amy Poindexter, BNS, RN
July & August: William Hightower, MD
May & June: Leslie Jameson, MD
Mar & April: Lee Fleisher, MD
Jan & Feb: Kathleen Collins, MS, CRNA
News
October
October MPOG Suite upgrades for active sites to start the week of October 12, 2020
September
Dr. Nathan Clendenen from the University of Colorado receives Grant for Early Medical Surgical Specialist Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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August
MPOG Data Used to Investigate Use and Outcomes of Sugammadex Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade
Pubmed
May
MPOG Statement on Health Disparities
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Dr. Julie Huffmyer from the University of Virginia receives FAER/ABA Research in Education Grant using ASPIRE data
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April
COVID-19 Updates from MPOG
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Upgrade Release Notes
Release Notes
2019
Newsletters
MSA Fall 2019
MPOG Summer 2020
MSA Spring 2019
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
November and December: Bhiken Naik, MD
September and October: John LaGorio, MD
July and August: Patrick McCormick, MD MEng
April, May and June: Rebecca Schroeder, MD
February and March: Michael Aziz, MD
News
April
Congratulations to 2019 Incoming Executive Board Members: Dr. Lee Fleisher from the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Hugh Hemmings from Weill Cornell and Dr. Joseph Mathew from Duke
March
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mathis being appointed MPOG Associate Director of Research
2018
Featured Members
MPOG Winter 2018
MSA Fall 2018
MPOG Spring 2018
Featured Members
Featured Members Page
December and January: Joshua Berris, DO
October and November: Karen Domino, MD, MPH
August and September: Robert Schonberger, MD
June and July: Kai Kuck, PhD
News
September
MPOG Suite Upgrade Overview
Release Notes
May
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mathis from Michigan Medicine on his NIH K Award
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MPOG to Support New Clinical Trials Network: Initiative for Multicenter Perioperative Clinical Trials (IMPACT)
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Congratulations to Robert White, MD, MS from Weill Cornell Medicine who received Inaugural Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Award
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Initiative for Multicenter Pragmatic Anesthesiology Clinical Trials (IMPACT) call for letters of intent
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March
University of Michigan Hack with Friends
MPOG takes second place at the University of Michigan Hacks-with-Friends IT competition.
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ASPIRE is approved for MOCA® 2.0 Part IV Credit
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Announcing PROSPER! A research study to track a patient’s journey through surgery!
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