Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School and Director of Procedural Sedation Management and Education at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has special interest in patient safety related to office-based anesthesia practice, operating room efficiency, novel anesthetic agents, and patient education. He also currently serves as officer of the Institute for Safety in Office-Based Surgery. Wendy L. Gross, MD, MHCM practices cardiac anesthesiology at Brigham and Woman's Hospital. She is Medical Director of Periprocedural Services for the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and is Director of Non-OR Cardiac Anesthesia. Her current interests include the medical and financial implications of the ongoing migration of surgery from the OR to interventional suites, applications of Transesophageal Echocardiography to percutaneous cardiology procedures and cost accounting for modeling of integrated services. Beverly K. Philip, MD is the Founding Director of the Day Surgery Unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard University. Her areas of interest are the pharmacology of inhaled and intravenous agents, and the specialized administrative approaches to ambulatory surgery, including patient-focused, cost-effective care and facilitated 'fast-track' recovery. Dr. Philip is a founding member and past President of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, past Chair of the Ambulatory Surgical Care Committee of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and an Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Ambulatory Surgery."