‘Ask the Experts’: How One Startup Is Transforming Non-OR Anesthesia
Episode description
In this episode of “Ask the Experts,” we talk with Navin Goyal, MD, a co-founder of OFFOR Health, and Saket Agrawal, the CEO of OFFOR Health, about their company’s success in building a mobile anesthesia service aimed at providing office-based anesthesia for dental procedures.
Goyal is an anesthesiologist from Columbus, Ohio. He started OFFOR Health to address the problems with patient access to anesthesia care in his community. Agrawal, who is also a Columbus native, spent 10 years working in Silicon Valley gaining experience in building startup-style companies. Goyal and Agrawal now run OFFOR Health and SmileMD, which provide office-based anesthesia care in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.
“Ask the Experts” is a conversation podcast series from the “Anesthesiology News Presents” channel. It features up close and personal Q&A interviews with leading experts in the field of anesthesiology on topics such as difficult airways and women in medicine.
Links Mentioned:- Link to OFFOR Health
- Link to Interview with Peggy Seidman, MD, a SmileMD anesthesiologist
- Link to the ASA’s Difficult Airway Guidelines