Alan David Kaye Editor & Author

Alan David Kaye, M.D., Ph.D., DABA, DABIPP, DABPM is the Tenured Professor, Program Director, and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He serves on a number of national committees including the FDA Advisory Board for Anesthetics and Analgesics. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Pain Physician, an elected Board of Director for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and serves on the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians. He was previously an Associate National Board Examiner in Anesthesiology. Richard D. Urman, M.D., M.B.A, CPE is Chief of Anesthesia Services and Medical Director of Sedation for Interventional Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Care Center in Boston, Massachusetts and Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as the Director (Anesthesia) of the interdepartmental Center for Perioperative Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital and directs the newly established Perioperative Medicine Fellowship. He has an adjunct faculty appointment as Research Professor at Louisiana State University and is the Co-Founder of the Institute for Safety in Office-Based Surgery.