The Perioperative Health Council
A discipline is defined by the people who practice it.
PERIOME convenes the Perioperative Health Council, a cross-disciplinary founding group working to help define Perioperative Health while the field is still taking shape. The surgical journey spans many disciplines, and the Council brings them together to define it.
Every discipline has had to argue for its own existence.
Anesthesiology, critical care, palliative medicine and emergency medicine each began as work that fell between existing specialties. Each became a field when a body of practitioners defined its standards, its evidence and its scope. Perioperative Health is at that stage now.
Why this company, and why nowWho is in the room
The window touches every discipline. So does the Council.
The surgical journey spans every discipline, which is why no single specialty can define it alone. The Council is built to reflect everyone who carries a patient through it and everyone accountable for what happens after, from the head of the bed to the executive suite.
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Anesthesiology
The clinicians at the head of the bed, who see readiness and its absence most directly.
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Surgery
The teams accountable for the operation and for what recovery asks of the patient afterward.
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Nursing and perioperative teams
Pre-admission, PACU and floor nursing, where preparation either holds or does not.
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Physiologic and pharmacologic science
Nutrition science, pharmacy and pharmacogenomics: what the body draws on under surgical stress, and how a patient metabolizes what they are given.
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Health system leadership
Chief executives, service line and quality leaders, and the people accountable for the episode, the throughput and the outcome.
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Operators who have built at scale
Leaders from industry and health technology who have taken clinical infrastructure from an idea to something a system actually runs on.
Members are invited for the perspective they bring and the work they are willing to do. The Council does not endorse products, and appointment is not a testimonial. Founding members are named as relationships are confirmed.
How it works
Built to contribute, not to endorse.
The Perioperative Health Council is not an endorsement board. Members are invited because they bring a perspective the discipline needs, clinical, scientific, operational or institutional, and because they are willing to engage with the questions required to build it well.
The goal is not consensus for its own sake. The goal is a stronger field.
The remit
What the Council is here to define.
Six questions the field has to answer before Perioperative Health can be practiced consistently anywhere. None of them belong to one specialty, and none of them are settled.
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Language and scope
What belongs inside Perioperative Health, and where the discipline begins and ends.
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Measurement
What a clinician should measure to judge readiness, resilience and recovery across the window.
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Evidence
The standard of proof the field should demand before a metric or an intervention becomes routine practice.
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Research
Which questions matter next, and which are important enough to pursue collaboratively.
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Implementation
How evidence-supported practice actually becomes operational inside ASCs, hospitals and health systems.
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Interdisciplinary practice
How anesthesiology, surgery, nursing, nutrition, rehabilitation, health systems and technology work across one continuum.
These are the questions the Council convenes around. Nothing here has been settled, and no guideline or standard has been published.
Openness and independence
Advancing the field openly.
Where the Council develops frameworks, consensus work, measurement recommendations or research priorities intended to advance Perioperative Health as a discipline, that work is meant to be shared with the field.
The Council's work is independent of PERIOME's products. It does not endorse them, and appointment is not a testimonial.
Council inquiries
Membership is by invitation.
The Council hears from clinicians, researchers, health system leaders and operators whose work touches a meaningful part of the perioperative journey. Writing to us is not an application. You will receive an honest answer either way, including no.
- Handled under our privacy policy. Please do not include patient information.
Message received.
Our team reviews every request personally and follows up to schedule a time to talk.
The standard
Fields are not declared. They are defined.
Perioperative Health becomes a discipline when the people who practice it agree on what it measures and what it owes a patient.
Contact the CouncilA new standard for the oldest promise in medicine: that the patient comes first.