Built for surgery. Does it fit the perioperative patient?
I tell companies whether a product will hold up across the perioperative pathway, from the preoperative clinic through recovery at home, then design the study that proves it and map what it takes to get it adopted.
What I offer
Clinical fit review
A practicing anesthesiologist's read on whether your product fits how surgical care is delivered: who uses it, when, and what will stop them.
Study design and evidence
Endpoints that matter to surgeons and anesthesiologists, protocol and IRB preparation, and grant writing for investigator-initiated studies.
Clinical adoption
The perioperative management plan, the multidisciplinary workflow, and the training materials a hospital needs to start using a new technology.
Scientific and clinical advisory boards
Ongoing advisory roles for digital health, wearable, and medical device companies working in surgery and recovery.
Clinician education
Training content, case playbooks, and assessment items written to board standards for the clinicians who will use your product.
Medicolegal review
Expert review of anesthesia and perioperative cases for plaintiff and defense counsel: records, standard of care, causation, written opinions, and testimony.
Where this has been done before
Byron Fergerson, MD
I am a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego with nearly 20 years in academic anesthesia, general and cardiothoracic, and subspecialty certification in perioperative and adult echocardiography.
Alongside clinical practice I have spent the last decade on the non-clinical side: advising digital health and device companies, running investigator-initiated studies, building hospital programs, and reviewing cases as a medicolegal expert for more than 15 years.
- MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Item writer, American Board of Anesthesiology MOCA Minute
- Stanford Digital Health Product Development training
- Grant experience with AHA, NSF, and the UC Office of the President