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a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries
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a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License[1]
Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology[1]
I am an aerobatic pilot[1]
my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine[1]
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.[1]
Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician[1]
U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer[1]
a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries[1]
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Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Education record: I was a resident myself
since I was a resident myself
Education record: since I was a resident myself
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Identity: Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O.
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: as an anesthesiologist
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: I am an aerobatic pilot
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Professional role: U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer
Perry Bechtle, Jr., D.O. Neurocritical CareAnesthesiology What is your commitment to trainees? I have worked in a variety of clinical roles in a number of different departments over my 27-year career at Mayo Clinic including the Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as the Division Chair for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology for two decades, The Department of Neurosurgery as a clinical educator and research collaborator supporting their residency requirements in perioperative medicine, the Department of Executive Medicine as an Aviation Medical Examiner and my current role in the Division of Neuro-Critical Care Medicine. My commitment to trainees is to ensure that every single day they experience the real magic of the Mayo Clinic Model of Care: playing a critical role on a truly multidisciplinary team that works seamlessly across numerous departments horizontally, and across technical and clinical roles vertically on behalf of our patients. This approach is much talked about but rarely experienced in a smooth-running, fast-paced, real-time, data-driven clinical service. As well, as an anesthesiologist, I’m committed to ensuring every trainee is genuinely comfortable, confident, and skilled in complex airway management techniques and equipment, sequence and use of anesthetic induction agents and hemodynamic stabilization, spinal and neuraxial procedures, invasive lines of all sorts, physiologic monitoring, etc. What do I like about teaching trainees at Mayo Clinic? The environment for advanced learning at Mayo Clinic is truly amazing and is at the forefront of medical education worldwide in both scale and technology. Teaching trainees daily on rounds, teaching technical and non-technical skills as well as mentoring trainees over time have been an inseparable part of my life since I was a resident myself. Mayo Clinic sets us both up for success with the proper staffing and time to teach well, in addition to the equipment, facilities, software, and administration required to have a well-organized and highly effective training program. Share something unique about yourself. My wife and I are lifelong offshore sailors with a love for coastal cruising and the more remote areas of the Bahamas. I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries. This stems from my prior work at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center as a Space Shuttle Launch and Recovery physician, my aviation experience as a former U.S. Navy Blue Angels Officer, and my work as the ‘Air Boss’ for the 2013 America’s Cup with Team Oracle. I am an aerobatic pilot and a U.S. Merchant Mariner holding a Coast Guard 100-ton Master Captain License.
Research interests: a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries
I also have a deep interest in industrial safety, teamwork skills, and habitual excellence in high-consequence industries