Welcome back to our mini-interview series with 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care Faculty. This week we have Dr. Peter Marhofer,  Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna.

 

Peter Marhofer, MD is one of 38 esteemed faculty joining us at the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care in Newport Beach, CA, on January 18-20, 2019.

OVBC 2019 Talk #1: Anaesthesia for Shoulder Surgery: Awake or Sleeping?

OVBC 2019 Talk #2: Interscalene Brachial Plexus Blockade: Why, When, How

View Full Schedule Here: OVBC 2019

 

American College of Perioperative Medicine (ACPM):  Can you share your best advice for motivating your teams?

Marhofer: Never demand more from your team than you are willing to do.

 

ACPM: Describe your biggest failure. What did you learn from it?

Marhofer: We can learn only from failures. Therefore, every big or small failure should be considered as a chance. There is no progress without failures.

 

ACPM: In the past 12 months, how have you adapted to new patient experience expectations in the age of consumerism?

Marhofer: I strictly believe that medicine is not only service. Continuous clinical science and translational medicine enables the best therapies for our patients. Open communication with patients (and parents from children undergoing surgery) is an important part that they feel safe and well treated, but medical decisions have to be done by medical doctors.

 

About Peter Marhofer, MD: Dr. Marhofer is a Professor and Director of Paediatric Anaesthesia at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. A world expert in the regional space and orthopedic space, his research interests includes regional anaesthesia, ultrasound and local anesthetics. He serves as an editorial member of the British Journal of Anaesthesia and reviewer of several international reputed journals.

 

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