Alex Macario MD
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesia
- Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
- Member, Bio-X
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Department of Anesthesia 300 Pasteur Dr H3580 MC 5640 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 723-6411 Fax (650) 725-8544
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Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Anesthesia
Administrative Appointments
- Vice-Chairman for Education, Department of Anesthesia (2006 - present)
- Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency (2006 - present)
- Program Director, Management of Perioperative Services Fellowship (1996 - present)
- Editor, Anesthesiology News (1999 - present)
- Editor, Stanford Anesthesia News (Alumni Publication) (2001 - 2006)
Honors and Awards
- 1st place, Literature Prize, American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting (2004)
Professional Education
| Board Certification: | Anesthesia, American Board of Anesthesiology (1995) |
| Fellowship: | Stanford University Medical Center, CA (1995) |
| Residency: | SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1994) |
| Internship: | Graduate Hospital, PA (1991) |
| Medical Education: | University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (1990) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
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| Consulting: | AcelRx , Covidien |
Scientific Focus
Research Interests
Dr. Macario is interested in the economics of health care, in particular the tradeoffs between costs and outcomes for patients having surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Macario has completed internationally recognized studies on the management of the operating room suite, as well as pioneering work on the cost-effectiveness of drugs and devices. He is Founder and Director of a Postgraduate Fellowship for physicians interested in applying quantitative tools to solve health services research questions.
Dr. Macario's research team's current projects include:
1. Economics of radio-frequency tagged surgical sponges.
2. IV PCA vs. IM analgesia: why do some hospitals not offer IV PCA
3. Factors influencing physicians when deciding to prescribe a new drug to a patient.
4. Economics of acute pain management of surgical patients including the use of peripheral nerve blocks.
5. Waste in the operating room: can we do better?
6. Does having an induction room reduce costs overall in the OR suite?
7. Anesthesia resident education: Web 2.0
8. Anesthesia Information Management Systems
9. Translating what is known to work in medicine to actual care being delivered to patients: what are the barriers?
Clinical Trials
Publications
- Improving safety in the operating room: a systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009; (2): 207-14
- Truth in scheduling: is it possible to accurately predict how long a surgical case will last? Anesth Analg. 2009; (3): 681-5
- In reply. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2009; (1): 89-90
- Prevalence of anaesthesia information management systems in university-affiliated hospitals in Europe. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2009
- Can anesthesia information management systems improve quality in the surgical suite? Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009; (2): 215-22
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