President’s Message By Tong J (TJ) Gan, MD, MHS, FRCA, President Board of Directors I t is my great pleasure to announce the inaugural issue of the ASER Newsletter. Founded in 2014, ASER is a multi-specialty nonprofit organization with an international membership and is dedicated to the practice of enhanced recovery in the perioperative patient through education and research. We are experiencing a period of tremendous expansion and growth, as is evidenced by the great interest to implement the enhanced recovery pathway in hospitals around the country. The ASER Mission is to advance the practice of perioperative enhanced recovery and to contribute to its growth and influences, by fostering and encouraging research, education, public policies, programs and scientific progress. We have achieved much over the past 2 years, including: • Annual ASER/EBPOM Congress • ASER website • ASER manual of Enhanced Recovery for Major Abdominopelvic Surgery • Enhanced Recovery Implementation Guide • Regional Leadership forums • Perioperative Medicine as the official society journal This newsletter aims to share information, best practices, sample protocols and members’ experiences in implementing enhanced recovery pathways. It serves as a forum for communication of the many activities of the society. I would like to thank Dr. Thomas Hopkins, Lyla Hance and their committee for editing the newsletter and those who generously donated their time to contribute to this edition. We want this newsletter to be valuable for you, so please share your feedback and suggestions to help us improve. Please forward it to friends and colleagues who you think will benefit from this newsletter. n Enjoy reading. Tong J (TJ) Gan, MD, MHS, FRCA President American Society for Enhanced Recovery Professor and Chairman Department of Anesthesiology Stony Brook University tong.gan@stonybrookmedicine.edu Officers President Tong J (TJ) Gan, MD, MHS, FRCA President-Elect Julie Thacker, MD Vice-President Timothy Miller MB, ChB, FRCA Treasurer Roy Soto, MD Secretary Stefan D. Holubar MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS Directors Keith A. (Tony) Jones, MD Anthony Senagore, MD Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD Terrence Loftus, MD, MBA, FACS Andrew Shaw MB, FRCA, FFICM, FCCM Desiree Chappel, CRNA Newsletter Committee Thomas Hopkins, MD: Chair Lyla Hance, MPH: Co-Chair Jeffrey Huang, MD Uday Jain, MD, PhD Amy McCutchan, MD Asha Naik, FRCA Christina Solis, MHA Matthias Stopfkuchen-Evans, MD About ASER ASER is a nonprofit organization with an international membership, which is dedicated to thepractice of enhanced recovery in the perioperative patient through education and research. ASER’s mission is to advance the practice of perioperative enhanced recovery, to contribute to its growth and influences, by fostering and encouraging research, education, public policies, programs and scientific progress. Administrative Office American Society for Enhanced Recovery 6737 W Washington St. | Ste. 4210 Milwaukee, WI 53214 414-389-8610 | info@aserhq.org ASER ALERT • VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 • aserhq.org 3
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