Rachel C. Wolfe, Pharm.D., M.H.A., BCCCP, Initiative Chair
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Perioperative and Surgical Critical Care
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri

Rachel C. Wolfe, Pharm.D., M.H.A., BCCCP, is Clinical Pharmacy Specialist of Perioperative and Surgical Critical Care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She is also Adjunct Clinical Instructor for the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Goldfarb School of Nursing and St. Louis College of Pharmacy. , Dr. Wolfe is responsible for the provision of clinical pharmacy services in the perioperative and periprocedural environment and for the coordination of clinical services provided by four operating room pharmacy satellites. She also serves as a preceptor for Doctor of Pharmacy students and pharmacy residents and is co-chair of the Enhanced Surgical Recovery Pharmacy & Documentation committee and the Analgesia subcommittee of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee.

Dr. Wolfe earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Master of Health Administration degree from Webster University, also in St. Louis. She completed her residency training at University of Kentucky HealthCare, and she is board certified in critical care.

Dr. Wolfe is a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society of Enhanced Recovery, and Society of Critical Care Medicine. In 2011 she received Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s David A. Gee Meritorious Service Award and Team Award for Quality Improvement for Anesthesia Medication Management.

Bernadette Henrichs, PhD, CRNA, CCRN, CHSE, FAANA
Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program
Goldfarb School of Nursing-Barnes Jewish College
Director, CRNA Education and Research
Washington University Department of Anesthesiology
St. Louis, Missouri

Bernadette Henrichs, PhD, CRNA, CCRN, CHSE, FAANA, is Professor and Director of the Nurse Anesthesia and PhD in Nursing Programs at Goldfarb School of Nursing-Barnes-Jewish College. She is Director of CRNA Education and Research in the Anesthesiology Department at Washington University, St. Louis. She received her anesthesia training in 1994 from Washington University and her MSN in 1993 and her PhD in 1999 from St. Louis University. She received the AANA Program Director of the Year in 2017 and was inducted as a Fellow of the AANA in August. She serves on the Drug Diversity Committee for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and is passionate about preventing drug diversion in the hospital.

S. Krishna Ramachandran , M.D.
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, and Innovation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

S. Krishna Ramachandran, M.D., is Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, and Innovation in the Department of Anesthesiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dr. Ramachandran is a nationally recognized leader in patient safety and perioperative quality. In his current role as the Vice-Chair of Anesthesiology, he has developed several programs, including a unique quality tool that connects clinician medication management behaviors with patient and efficiency outcomes. He also led anesthesia clinical change management and surveillance of safety in response to the shortage of intravenous opioids. Through this work, his group has developed very detailed measures of clinical behaviors and outcomes.

Dr. Ramachandran began his career in anesthesia in Pondicherry, India, and developed it further as a specialist registrar in the Oxford Deanery in England. After a successful decade leading quality and safety initiatives at the University of Michigan, he moved to Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2016. He is Program Director for the International Postgraduate Anesthesia Fellowship in Perioperative Quality and Safety and a faculty member on the Master of HealthCare Quality and Safety program at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a busy clinician, educator, and researcher. 

Dr. Ramachandran serves on the editorial board of prestigious journals and has published over 60 peer-reviewed studies in top anesthesiology journals, primarily around perioperative cardiorespiratory outcomes. Most recently he co-authored a study looking at the relationship between reducing neostigmine syringe size to 3 mL from the standard 5-mL vial and perioperative respiratory failure rates.