Anesthesia Patient Safety Program 2022: A Review of Closed Claims

Deepak Krishnan is an American Board certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon and the chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. and Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center. He is an associate professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA, where he teaches and practices. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Deepak obtained his dental degree from Bangalore University, India and trained in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Emory University’s College of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Upon completion of the residency, Deepak pursued further fellowship training in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery focusing on orthognathic surgery at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Deepak’s clinical interests are in Orthognathic and reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial trauma, pediatric maxillofacial surgery, ambulatory anaesthesia, and clinical research and simulation.
He currently serves on the Committee of Education and Training (CET) of the AAOMS and is the chair of the special committee on Emerging leaders in OMS. He is also a consultant to the AAOMS Committee on Anesthesia (CAN).
He is a past-president of the Ohio State Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the president of the Ohio Dental Society of Anesthesiology. He serves on the examination committee for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is the secretary and treasurer of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ACOMS). 

Dr. Perciaccante was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He received both his undergraduate and dental school education at New York University, and received his specialty training at Emory University. He continued his education by completing a Fellowship in Facial Aesthetic Surgery. In 2000, Dr. Perciaccante joined the full-time faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and served as the Residency Program Director and Chief of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital thru 2007. He continues on the part-time faculty at Emory as Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery and teaches the residents orthognathic surgery work-up and supervises them at Grady Memorial Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Dr. Perciaccante is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. He has written for several textbooks on Orthognathic Surgery, Temporomandibular Joint Surgery, Dentoalveolar Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery. He is in his fifth year as an examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery as well as holding the position of Section Editor for the Temporomandibular Disorders and Facial Pain Section and is the junior Chairman of Section II Dr. Perciaccante has served as the President of the Georgia Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery section of the International Association of Dental Research. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons and serves on the Committee on Resident Education and Training. Dr. Perciaccante is a consultant to the Georgia Board of Dentistry on Anesthesia. He is a site visitor for the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation, examining Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery resident training programs. Dr. Perciaccante provides general anesthesia for procedures when appropriate. He practices the full scope of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, including wisdom tooth removal and extractions, dental implant placement, maxillofacial pathology and reconstruction, surgery for temporomandibular disorders and facial trauma. Dr. Perciaccante has a particular interest in orthognathic (corrective jaw) surgery and facial aesthetic surgery.