PCRC Moderator Committee

The PCRC Moderator Committee is a panel of clinical content and methods experts, serving to enhance the MPOG PCRC research review process via invited critiques of PCRC research proposals.  Moderator schedule available on our website

Alexander Abess, MD

Dartmouth

Dr. Abess’s clinical expertise includes: Perioperative Medicine, Quality & Safety, and Operations & Management. His methods expertise includes: Device & Process Innovation, and Outcomes Research.

Benjamin Andrew, MD, MHS

Duke University

Dr. Andrew’s clinical content expertise includes: pediatric anesthesia and perioperative medicine. His methods expertise includes: statistical methods for causal inference and outcomes research, applied Bayesian modeling, and risk prediction modeling.

Michael Avidan, MBBCh, FCASA

Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Avidan’s clinical content expertise include: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction, patient safety and cardiothoracic anesthesia. His methods expertise include: Clinical trial design, translational research and patient reported outcomes.

Michael Aziz, MD

Oregon Health Science University

Dr. Aziz’s clinical content expertise include: Head & neck anesthesia and regional anesthesia. His methods expertise include: Outcomes research and clinical trial design.

Amit Bardia, MBBS

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Bardia’s clinical expertise includes Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Critical Care. His methods expertise includes Outcomes research and Clinical trial design.

Brian Bateman, MD, MSc

Stanford Medicine

Dr. Bateman’s clinical content expertise include: Obstetric anesthesia, patient safety and pharmacoepidemiology. His methods expertise include: Outcomes research, health services research and clinical trial design.

Morgan Brown, MD

Boston Children's

Dr. Brown’s clinical content expertise is in congenital cardiac anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology, as well as patient safety. Her methods expertise is in outcomes research and predictive modeling

David Clark, MD, PhD

Stanford Medicine

Dr. Clark’s clinical content expertise include: Acute and chronic pain, analgesic therapies. His methods expertise include: basic science, translational research, and clinical trial design.

Dr. Colquhoun’s clinical content expertise includes: Critical care, anesthesia quality and electronic health records. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and predictive modelling.

Karen Domino, MD

University of Washington

Dr. Domino’s clinical content expertise include: Neuroanesthesia and patient safety. Her methods expertise include: Outcomes research and predictive modelling.

Dr. Fisher’s clinical content expertise includes adult cardiothoracic anesthesia and intraoperative opioid use. His methods expertise includes basic and translational neuroscience techniques, multilevel modeling and causal inference methods.

Dr. Freundlich’s clinical content expertise includes: Critical care and electronic health records. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and predictive modelling.

Bradley Fritz, MD, MSCI

Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Fritz’s clinical content expertise includes critical care and patient safety. His methods expertise includes outcomes research, trial design, and data science methods.

Adit Ginde, MD

University of Colorado

Dr. Ginde’s clinical content expertise include: critical care and emergency medicine. His methods expertise include: clinical trial design and outcomes research.

Ashish K Khanna, MD.,FCCP.,FCCM.,FASA

Wake Forest

Dr. Khanna’s clinical content expertise includes critical care and patient safety. His methods expertise includes outcomes research, vasopressors, predictive modelling, wearable sensors, and physiologic waveforms.

Sunny Lou, MD

Washington University, St. Louis

Dr. Lou’s clinical content expertise is in cardiothoracic anesthesia and perioperative blood management. Her methods expertise is in data science and outcomes research.

Emily Mackay, DO, MSHP

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. MacKay’s clinical content expertise: Cardiothoracic anesthesia and critical care. Her methods expertise include comparative effectiveness and outcomes research.

Jill Mhyre, MD

University of Arkansas

Dr. Mhyre’s clinical content expertise includes: Obstetric anesthesia and patient safety. Her methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and health services research.

Danny Muehlschlegel, MD, MMSc

Brigham and Women's Hospital​

Dr. Muehlschlegel’s clinical content expertise includes: Cardiothoracic anesthesia, genomics and perioperative medicine. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research, translational research and health services research

Bhiken Naik, MBBCh, MSCR

University of Virginia

Dr. Naik’s clinical content expertise includes: Neuroanesthesia and critical care. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and predictive modelling.

Mark Neuman, MD, MSc

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Neuman’s clinical content expertise includes: Adult anesthesia and perioperative medicine. His methods expertise includes: Health services research and predictive modelling.

Vikas O'Reilly-Shah, MD

University of Washington

Dr. O’Reilly-Shah’s clinical content expertise include: pediatric anesthesia (transplant) and clinical informatics/electronic health records. His methods expertise include: data science methods and outcomes research.

Jamie R. Privratsky, MD, PhD

Duke University

Dr. Privratsky’s clinical content expertise include: acute kidney injury and critical care medicine. His methods expertise include: basic science, translational research. 

Sharon Reale, MD

Brigham and Women's Hospital​​

Dr. Reale’s clinical content expertise includes obstetric anesthesia, maternal morbidity and mortality, and epidemiology. Her methods expertise includes outcomes research and health services research. 

Dr. Schonberger’s clinical content expertise includes: Cardiothoracic anesthesia, cardiovascular risk factors and perioperative medicine. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and prospective trial design.

Anshuman Sharma, MD, MBA

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Sharma’s clinical content expertise includes: Pediatric anesthesia and anesthesia quality. His methods expertise includes: Health services research and patient reported outcomes.

Dr. Schroeder’s clinical content expertise includes: Cardiothoracic anesthesia, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, patient safety and anesthesia quality. Her methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and data science methods.

Douglas Shook, MD, FASE

Brigham and Women's Hospital​​​

Dr. Shook’s clinical content expertise is cardiothoracic anesthesia. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and early phase clinical trials.

Eric Sun, MD, PhD

Stanford Medicine

Dr. Sun’s clinical content expertise includes: Patient safety, precision health and operations analysis. His methods expertise includes: Health services research and predictive modelling.

Dr. Wanderer’s clinical content expertise includes: Perioperative medicine and electronic health records. His methods expertise includes: Outcomes research and predictive modelling.

Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS

University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Whitlock’s clinical content expertise includes: geriatric syndromes (frailty, delirium) and patient-centered cognitive and functional outcomes of perioperative care for older adults. Her methods expertise includes: health services research, epidemiologic methods for causal inference.

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