Perioperative care of transgender and gender-diverse patients: a biopsychosocial approach
- Discuss how to create a welcoming environment for all patients
- Review perioperative gender-affirming hormonal therapies and their impact on perioperative care
- Identify unique considerations for transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive patients.
Dr. Dan Ellis is an anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine (DACCPM) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Medical Director for the Enhance Recovery After Surgery Program at MGH, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Dan’s academic scholarship is dedicated to improving efficient delivery of healthcare. As the medical director Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), a multidisciplinary program that encompasses 13 lines of service and guides care for several thousand patients per year, Dan and his team have created more than twenty two bed-years (over 8,000 bed-days) of hospital capacity. In doing so, ERAS has allowed approximately 1,000 additional patients to receive surgical care at MGH.
Dan also helped build the Surgical Home Hospital (SHH) at MGH that allowed surgical patients to recover from their operations in non-hospital locations. The SHH has expanded hospital capacity while fundamentally shifting the way patients and proceduralists approached operations.
Dan is a native Texan who studied Business Administration at The University of Texas at Austin before attending medical school and completing his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
This webinar is the seventh of a 12-part series that will allow you to claim up to 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. This webinar will offer 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™