Publications
Pre-operative assessment clinic: routine use or just for the challenging patient (71 KB)
Optimizing pre-op outcomes: risk assessment, patient preferences & performance measures (372 KB)Videos
What have been the two biggest drivers for change on perioperative care quality in the last two years?is outpatient surgry risk free?Related Meetings
Professor Lee Fleisher
Lee A. Fleisher, MD
Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Lee A. Fleisher, MD, is the Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011. His research focuses on perioperative cardiovascular risk assessment and reduction and measurement of quality of care and has received numerous federal, industry and foundation grants related to these subjects. He is President of the Association of University Anesthesiologists. Dr. Fleisher has published more than 225 articles, chapters, books, and abstracts. He is the Chair of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation before Non-Cardiac Surgery and a member of the Steering Committee of the Surgical Care Improvement Project of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is a member of the Consensus Standards Advisory Committee of the National Quality Forum, and Member of the Administrative Board of the Council of Academic Specialties of the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2007, he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
