Alex Macario MD

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)
• Editorial Board, Anesthesiology Research and Practice (2007 - present)
• Editorial Board, Anesthesiology News (1999 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Ellis N. Cohen Achievement Award (Dept. of Anesthesia’s highest honor), Stanford University (2009)
• Keynote speaker, American Association of Clinical Directors Annual Meeting (2007)
• 1st place, Literature Prize, American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting (2004)
• Annual Resident Research Prize, 3rd Place, American Society of Anesthesiologists (1995)
• Valdes - Dapena Research Prize, The Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania (1991)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Jennifer Dubrawski

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Anesthesia
• Health Research and Policy

Internet Links

• Personal Web site

Current 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 has several ongoing projects including:
1. Economics of Fiberscope Use for Tracheal Intubation
2. Waste in the operating room: can we do better?
3. Anesthesia resident education: Web 2.0
4. Anesthesia Information Management Systems
5. Translating what is known to work in medicine to actual care being delivered to patients: what are the barriers?
6. Complex Event Processing (CEP) for the detection of Sepsis
7. Anesthesia Complications Incidence Report from 500,000 Anesthetics
8. Mobile Applications for Health Care
9. Data analytics in health care and surgery and anesthesia
10. Analysis of Online Physician-Review Sites

Clinical Trials

• A Randomized Controlled Study of Rolapitant for the Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting Following Surgery Completed

Publications

• Anesthesia information management systems: past, present, and future of anesthesia records. Kadry B, Feaster WW, Macario A, Ehrenfeld JM. Mt Sinai J Med. 2012; 79 (1): 154-65
• Use of Tablet (iPad(®)) as a Tool for Teaching Anesthesiology in an Orthopedic Rotation. Tanaka PP, Hawrylyshyn KA, Macario A. Rev Bras Anestesiol. 2012; 62 (2): 214-222
• A literature review of randomized clinical trials of intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) for acute postoperative pain. Macario A, Royal MA. Pain Pract. 2011 May-Jun; 11 (3): 290-6
• Analysis of 4999 online physician ratings indicates that most patients give physicians a favorable rating. Kadry B, Chu LF, Kadry B, Gammas D, Macario A. J Med Internet Res. 2011; 13 (4): e95
• Self-reported information needs of anesthesia residency applicants and analysis of applicant-related web sites resources at 131 United States training programs. Chu LF, Young CA, Zamora AK, Lowe D, Hoang DB, Pearl RG, Macario A. Anesth Analg. 2011; 112 (2): 430-9