Beverly philip

Beverly Khnie Philip, MD, is Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard University and Founding Director of the Day Surgery Unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. 

She received her undergraduate degree from Queens College City University of New York, New York, her MD degree from Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, and completed the anaesthesia residency and research fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Dr. Philip’s subspecialty focus is ambulatory anaesthesia. Dr. Philip has published numerous research papers, review articles and book chapters on various aspects of ambulatory anaesthesia science and practice and she has spoken widely, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Philip was the 2021 President of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA), the professional society of over 54.000 US and international anaesthesiologists. She recently served as ASA’s Vice-President for Scientific Affairs and Chair of the ASA Annual Meeting in 2009. Dr. Philip also has a strong interest and ongoing contribution to national anaesthesiology policy, particularly related to quality and regulatory issues. Dr. Philip is a founding member and Past-President of the Society for Ambulatory Anaesthesia (SAMBA). She has served as the Chair of the Joint Commission’s Ambulatory Health Care Professional and Technical Advisory Committee and on the Board of Directors and Standards Committee of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Dr. Philip was a founding participant of the CMS Advisory Panel on Ambulatory Payment Classification Groups. Dr. Philip is the immediate Past-President of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS), and is the past Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Ambulatory Surgery”. She presented the Nicoll Lecture to the IAAS and the Frontiers Lecture to SAMBA. Dr. Philip has received the SAMBA Distinguished Service Award and her medical school’s 2018 Distinguished Alumna Award.