David A. Lubarsky, MD, is the Chief Medical and Systems Integration Officer of the University of Miami Health System. In that operational CMO role since 2012, he has championed standardization while having provided oversight of the four hospital and practice CMO’s, Chief Medical Risk Officer, Chief Patient Safety and Quality Officer, and the Director of Patient and Visitor Services among others. Concurrently, he has served as the Emanuel M. Papper Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and as a Professor in the School of Business since 2001.
Dr. Lubarsky is one of the top 100 published practicing anesthesiologists in the U.S., a frequent speaker at national meetings, and is noted for his contributions to healthcare economics, informatics, and OR management, and the science of lethal injection for the death penalty. Several articles have been defined as “landmark” contributions. He earned his BA majoring in History (1980) and MD (1984) at Washington University in St. Louis. He completed anesthesia residency and a fellowship in Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Clinical Research at New York University Medical Center. He received his MBA (1999) from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.