David M. Gaba MD Secretary-Treasurer

Dr. Gaba is a Professor of Anesthesia and Associate Dean for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is interested in a wide variety of topics related to patient safety, including high-fidelity patient simulation; the effects of fatigue on clinicians' performance; measuring and intervening in the culture of safety in hospitals; and the application of organizational safety theory (including High Reliability Organization theory) in healthcare. He is responsible for the invention of the modern mannequin-based simulator and the adaptation of Crew Resource Management from aviation into healthcare. He has published over 90 scientific articles and editorials, multiple book chapters, and an influential book, Crisis Management in Anesthesiology. He has held grant funding from a variety of agencies, including APSF, the Whitaker Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson FoundatiOn, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and VA Health Services R&D.

Dr. Gaba was a founding member of the board of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is the founding and current Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed (MEDLINE-indexed) journal Simulation In Healthcare. Dr. Gaba was the Secretary of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, for 17 years and remains an at-large member of the APSF Executive Committee. He received a BS in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, an MD from Yale University, and completed a residency in anesthesiology at Stanford. He joined the faculty at Stanford immediately thereafter and has remained there ever since.

	Steve Dawson, MD Chair
	Dale Alverson, MD Director
	David M. Gaba, MD Secretary-Treasurer
	Gerald Moses, PhD Director and Industry Council Liaison