David Birnbach MD, MPH

David J. Birnbach MD, MPH is currently a Miller Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Center for Patient Safety. In addition, Dr. Birnbach is the Vice Provost of the University of Miami. Dr. Birnbach, who has served as a consultant to the NIH and FDA, is also a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and is the past president of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.

Dr. Birnbach is the editor of two textbooks and has published more than 250 articles, abstracts, and textbook chapters. Dr. Birnbach completed his anesthesiology residency and fellowship training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School and a Masters of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before relocating to Miami in 2002, he was a professor at Columbia University.