Biography
Karolina Brook, MD, FASA, CPPS received her a B.A. in Chemistry summa cum laude from Princeton University and her M.D. from Harvard. She completed both her residency in Anesthesiology and her fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She works as an Anesthesiologist at Boston Medical Center, where she takes care of adult, children and obstetric patients.
She serves as Director of Quality and Safety in the Department of Anesthesiology at Boston Medical Center. In her role, she has initiated a department-wide adverse event data collection program, led and overseen a variety of quality improvement projects, and developed a quality improvement curriculum for the Anesthesiology residents. She has published papers on the topics of patient safety, safety culture and quality improvement. She serves as Vice Chair on the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee for Patient Safety and Education, where she has been involved in writing the ASA Statement on Safety Culture and the ASA Statement on Criminalization of Medical Errors.
Since 2023, she also has a hospital role as Medical Director, Quality and Safety, Hospital-Based Care. Her main focus has been on improving hospital-wide compliance with the CMS Sepsis (SEP-1) Bundle.
She is actively involved in the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists, and serves as Secretary and as Massachusetts Delegate to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Apart from her interest in quality and patient safety, she has a strong interest in resident and physician financial education and creating a resident course where she teaches residents the fundamentals of financial knowledge.