Randy Robbins, MD

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It's an honor to be here.

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Like I said, my name is Randy Robbins.

I'm a board-certified anesthesiologist in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

I'm the founder and president of Valiant Anesthesia Associates.

I founded this practice back in April of 2013 here in Dallas, one of the most competitive markets in the country for anesthesia with two of us.

And we're currently about 40 providers and do probably roughly...

15,000 cases a year or so now.

I'm also the CEO of Vertex Medical Solutions and online scheduling and software, scheduling software and charge capture management system that we've got.

Then I'm the medical director at Baylor Surgeon Care Centennial.

I'm the chief of staff at Methodist Southlake Hospital.

And I'm also on city council in Southlake.

So that's what I do in my spare time.

So I think number one, you know, the elephant in the room for ASCs, especially right now, is anesthesia.

It's crazy to have been a part of anesthesia for the last, I finished my residency in 03 and came straight into practice.

And then having gone through, worked for a couple of different groups and now having started my own practice, I think we've seen such a massive transition in anesthesia over

especially since COVID.

I think our specialty was hit especially hard with COVID, and I think we lost more providers, not necessarily from a mortality standpoint, but I just think from a

physicians choosing to exit the specialty standpoint than a lot of other specialties did.