Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS

Alexander Langerman, MD, SM, FACS is a head and neck surgeon and researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He has spent his career studying the operating room and the surgical profession, through the lenses of ethics and innovation. Most of his training was at the University of Chicago, where he later served as faculty in both Otolaryngology and Ethics and earned a masters degree in clinical and administrative data science. During his time as faculty, he also co-founded Explorer Surgical, a software-as-a-service company that provides team coordination and remote collaboration capabilities for the operating room. Now at Vanderbilt since 2015, Dr. Langerman directs the surgical analytics lab, where he focuses on real time surgical data acquisition and analysis, and directs the program on surgical ethics, where he focuses on surgeon-patient communication and the ethical implications of operating room recording. More about his work can be found at alexanderlangerman.com.