Our anesthesia care team constantly invests in creating and supporting health care leaders. Recently, Amandiy Liwo, M.D., MSPH, and Jeff Simmons, M.D., MSHQS, FASA, co-mentored John North, MS4, of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine through project collaboration with Dale Parks, Ph.D., CMQ, Joyce Crump, DNP, MSN, MBA, N.P., R.N., CMQ, and Dave Benz, B.S., utilizing data from the Anti-Delirium Perioperative Risk Optimizing and Management Planning Tool (PROMPTs) that looked at the effects of perioperative Midazolam on perioperative delirium in the elderly.

Additional collaborators included Jeff Dobyns, D.O., MSHA, MSHQS, FASA, of Southern Anesthesia Management and Mark Beasley, Ph.D., from the UAB School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics. The final abstract was presented as a poster at the annual Medical Student Research Day on September 19, 2022, and won third place in the Surgery and Anesthesiology category. Out of three that are chosen annually for oral presentations at the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPQAI), their abstract was selected to be presented orally at this year’s SPAQI conference on March 8-11, 2023, in Orlando, FL. The presentation also won 1st place for oral presentations at the award ceremony. 
SPAQI conference on March 8-11, 2023, in Orlando, FL.