Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist with more than 16 years of experience in academic medicine, leadership, education, research, quality, and technology development, working collaboratively within and among various countries, departments, academic institutions, and industry. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at UCLA. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles and three textbooks.

After practicing cardiac anesthesia and critical care for a decade, he refocused his clinical and administrative roles on the multispecialty practice of anesthesiology where he sees the majority of the challenges facing our profession. Today, the overarching goal of his academic pursuit in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine is to leverage health-informatics, artificial intelligence, and telemedicine to improve patient outcome and experience, and lead the way in digital health, data sciences, and computational medicine while reducing waste, fostering fiscal discipline, and rechanneling physician focus away from computers toward a more humanistic and inclusive medicine. Because these approaches are likely to disrupt the current practice of anesthesiologists, his goal is to expand the scope of anesthesiology to the perioperative setting through new multidisciplinary and collaborative care delivery models.