PerryStevensBechtleJr.DO

Summary

• Perry Bechtle, DO is an aerobatic pilot, community leader, surgical innovator and anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida where he has been the Division Chair of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology since 1998. He is Board Certified in both Anesthesiology and Neuro-Critical Care Medicine and has clinical appointments to 3 departments at Mayo Clinic including the Department of Neurosurgery, The Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. He serves as a Healthcare IT and neurosurgery systems innovator, patient safety and quality leader, and is a Fellow of the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy.
  Dr Bechtle has appeared in several documentaries, his keynotes and workshops connect the audience with a straight-forward and immediately actionable leadership framework that draws not only from his life in the neurosurgical operating rooms at Mayo Clinic, but also from his rich experience in other extreme-consequence industries that include being the flight surgeon for the US Navy Blue Angels, work at NASA Johnson Space Center, Safety Coordinator for the East Coast Space Shuttle alternate landing site, and Space Shuttle launch and recovery physician at Kennedy Space Center.
  In addition to consulting for numerous technology companies including Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Hero Medical and Healcerion, recent innovation work has focused on safe implementation of high technology in extreme-consequence surgery, efficient workflow re-design, worker safety, and remote presence robotics in high-consequence procedures and stroke.
  With a background in the aerospace industry, industrial safety, aviation safety, maritime safety and a career that still includes daily clinical work at Mayo Clinic, Dr Perry Bechtle brings a heartfelt and practical perspective to the organizational goal of achieving individual habitual excellence, true teamwork, vertical communication and safety in the science of healthcare delivery.