November 3, 2016 – Des Moines, IA – In an organizational election held in conjunction with the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Annual Meeting in Chicago on October 22, 2016, Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists’ member Joseph F. Cassady, Jr., M.D., became the first Iowan elected to the office of Chairman of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Midwest Caucus. Dr. Cassady succeeds Donald E. Arnold, M.D., of St. Louis, MO. Dr. Cassady, a resident of West Des Moines, is also a two-term member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Board of Directors. The 52,000 members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists are organized into five regional caucuses that facilitate member development and provide a political infrastructure for vetting of organizational policies and objectives. The Midwest Caucus is comprised of more than 10,000 member anesthesiologists from thirteen heartland states.
About the Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists
The Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA) is a statewide, non-profit association representing physician anesthesiologists and is a component society of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). The ISA represents nearly 400 physician anesthesiologists and works to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology. Similar to the ASA, the ISA is committed to ensuring physician anesthesiologists evaluate and supervise the medical care of patients before, during and after surgery to provide the highest quality and safest care every patient deserves. To learn more about the role physician anesthesiologists play in ensuring patient safety, visit asahq.org/WhenSecondsCount.
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