Richard D. Urman, M.D., M.B.A., C.P.E. is Chief of Anesthesia Services and Medical Director of Sedation for Interventional Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Care Center in Boston and Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as the Director (Anesthesia) of the interdepartmental Center for Perioperative Research at BWH and directs the newly established Perioperative Medicine Fellowship. He has an adjunct faculty appointment as Professor (Research) at Louisiana State University, New Orleans and is the Co-Founder of the Institute for Safety in Office-Based Surgery.