Be the Solution: How Anesthesiologists Can Address Health Equity and Show Leadership to the C-Suite

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Article| June 2023 Be the Solution: How Anesthesiologists Can Address Health Equity and Show Leadership to the C-Suite Sunil Eappen, MD, MBA Sunil Eappen, MD, MBA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor June 2023, Vol. 87, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938776.16244.db Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Sunil Eappen; Be the Solution: How Anesthesiologists Can Address Health Equity and Show Leadership to the C-Suite. ASA Monitor 2023; 87:1–8 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938776.16244.db Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: health equity, leadership Addressing health equity is a top priority for many, if not all, health care systems. Anesthesiologists can have a powerful leadership role in addressing this complex issue. ASA's Be the Solution: Sell Your C-Suite on the Value and Leadership of Anesthesiologists program features guidance and resources on this critical issue that you can share with your health care executives (asamonitor.pub/3ybWw4A). This involves detailing your leadership throughout the perioperative process, including managing surgical patients with high comorbidities and developing pathways that improve care for all patients. But have you considered the broader role you can have in the equity equation? Anesthesiologists can be instrumental by ensuring and valuing a diverse workforce, using interpreter services appropriately, tackling the inequitable provision of epidurals and pain medication, and addressing the much higher maternal mortality among Black women, for example. To resolve these issues and overcome these hurdles, anesthesiologists – and all health... You do not currently have access to this content.