Alexander Hannenberg

Dr. Hannenberg was the 2010 president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and recently served as its Chief Quality Officer.   He is senior research scientist at Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women’s Hospital where he works on surgical safety programs including checklists for critical event management and a simulation-based, low resource teamwork training project.  He has served as chair of the national Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety.   In 2016, he was chosen by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation to deliver the annual Ellison C. Pierce Jr. Patient Safety Lecture.

In 2011, he joined with an international group of surgeons and anesthesiologists to create the Lifebox foundation, a charity focused on improving outcomes of surgery and anesthesia globally: “Saving Lives Through Safer Surgery.”  He remains a trustee and is vice-chair of the foundation.

He is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
He has been recognized for his work with ASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award and was elected to Honorary Membership in the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.