Dr. Richard Dutton

Dr. Dutton, MD, is an anesthesiologist specializing in trauma anesthesiology. He serves as chair of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center, chief quality officer and attending anesthesiologist at U.S. Anesthesia Partners, and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Texas A&M University School of Medicine. His clinical focus includes trauma and perioperative anesthesiology, patient safety and quality improvement, and clinical informatics and operational performance. His research interests center on perioperative outcomes measurement and national clinical registries, patient safety and incident reporting systems, and trauma resuscitation and care delivery operations. Dr. Dutton was the founding executive director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, where he launched the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry and the Anesthesia Incident Reporting System. He has also held chief quality leadership roles within the American Society of Anesthesiologists and U.S. Anesthesia Partners, served as director of trauma anesthesiology and clinical operations at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and contributed national leadership through the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and federal advisory committees. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed an internal medicine internship at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, and finished his anesthesiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and earlier in his career served as an active-duty attending anesthesiologist in the United States Navy Medical Corps.