Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Karolina Brook, MD
Boris Burmistrovich, MD
Director of Quality and Safety
Director of Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
Karolina Brook, MD first joined our faculty in 2018 before leaving to complete her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship. Returning in 2020, she assumed the roles of Director of Quality and Safety for the Department of Anesthesiology and Medical Director, Quality and Safety, Hospital-Based Care. As such, she is an invaluable part of the Department and Hospital leadership teams.
Boris Burmistrovich, MD joined our team in July of 2019, coming on board as the Director of our Post- Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). Dr. Burmistrovich also serves as the Director of Perioperative Medicine within the Department.
Dr. Brook, a summa cum laude Princeton graduate in Chemistry, received her MD from Harvard and completed her Anesthesiology residency and Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. As Director of Quality and Safety, she has led various initiatives, including creating an anesthesia-specific incident reporting system and a mandatory quality assurance form, significantly improving adverse event tracking and risk identification. She also developed a safety dashboard for better communication with clinicians and teaches the resident’s quality improvement curriculum. Dr. Brook has published extensively on patient safety and quality improvement and is particularly passionate about safety culture and psychological safety. In her hospital leadership role, she focuses on improving hospital-wide compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid sepsis bundle and serves on the Patient Safety Steering Committee. In addition to her clinical work, she is passionate about teaching residents and physician finances. Outside of work, she serves as Secretary for the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists and is a member of the ASA Committee on Patient Safety and Education.
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, which, at the time, was part of the USSR, Dr. Burmistrovich spent his formative years with his family before eventually moving to Tartu to attend University of Tartu’s School of Medicine. In 1992, one year after Estonia’s independence was restored, Dr. Burmistrovich earned his MD and began pursuit of post-grad surgical training, also at University of Tartu. Following his training, he immigrated to the US, passed the ECFMG exam, and immersed himself in the anesthesia residency program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated from residency in 2000, and from there, pursued a fellowship in surgical critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital. He graduated from MGH in 2001. At the conclusion of his fellowship, Dr. Burmistrovich began his career as an attending physician with Anesthesia Associates of Massachusetts. While at the AAM, he worked as a SICU and Cardiac anesthesiologist, earning appointment as the Director of Cardiac Anesthesia at Mount Auburn Hospital. Dr. Burmistrovich remained with AAM until his arrival at BMC. As our Director of both the PACU and Perioperative Medicine, Dr. Burmistrovich has been integral to the advancement of clinical practice in these spaces. Most notably, strides have been made in regards to optimization of regional anesthesia plans for the perioperative period, as well as optimization of transferring patients to and from the ICU and PACU.
Outside of his clinical practice, Dr. Burmistrovich enjoys playing tennis and reading, as well as spending time with his children.
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