David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, is the Emanuel M. Papper Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is also a Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Miami School of Business, where he teaches negotiations and incentive plans. Dr. Lubarsky has authored several books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is known for his contributions to the fields of healthcare economics, informatics, and operating room management, and has won several awards and international renown for his research in these areas. He has had an active pharmaco-economics and medical applications consulting practice, serving Abbott, Arkive, Aspect, Baxter, Docusys, Drager, Glaxo Smith Kline, Hewlett-Packard, Infusion Dynamics, Organon, Merck, MGI, Novartis, Pfizer, Picis, Roche and Somatogen among others. Dr. Lubarsky served as tenured Professor and Vice Chair of Anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center, where he lead the division of general, vascular, and transplant anesthesia and critical care medicine before his departure at the end of 2001. While at Duke he worked closely with the office of technology transfer, and was active in developing business strategy of the Duke Healthcare system, and the physician group's new business development. He taught several full term courses at Fuqua and held an adjunct appointment at Duke's Fuqua School of Business following his MBA from 2000 to 2002. Dr. Lubarsky earned his MD at Washington University, St. Louis, in the highly regarded Scholars Program in Medicine. He completed his residency, and his fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia and Clinical Research, in the Department of Anesthesiology at New York University Medical Center. He received his M.B.A. in 1999 from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and was honored as a Fuqua Scholar. |