PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Somnia, Inc., North America’s leading provider of office-based and ambulatory anesthesia services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kristan Marter, of Burlington, New Jersey as Regional Business Development Manager for the Philadelphia area. With over 20 years of experience in the areas of medical sales and business development, Marter will lead Somnia’s efforts to expand its office-based anesthesia service into the Mid-Atlantic region. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Medical College of Virginia, and completed post graduate training at Virginia Commonwealth University in the area of Information Systems.
Headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, Somnia currently provides office-based and ambulatory anesthesia services to physicians. The newly created Philadelphia office, located in Center City, will enable Somnia to deliver optimum-level service to patients and clients in the metro area.
“With the rising popularity of office-based medical procedures, the presence of an anesthesiologist adds to increased patient safety and comfort,” said Marc E. Koch, MD, MBA, President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Somnia, Inc. “While our focus is on continuing the growth of our national company, we take pride in giving our clients local attention.” Koch added that patients increasingly appreciate the convenience of a procedure performed in a doctor’s office and should accept nothing less than the gold standard, a board certified anesthesiologist, when undergoing an office-based surgery.
Office-based surgery is one of the fastest growing areas in medicine. Improved technology and short-acting anesthetics have enabled less invasive surgeries to become safer, more common and more conducive to an office setting. According to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA), the overall volume of surgeries has increased dramatically in recent years, growing from 20 million to 40 million cases from 1981 to 1999, and is expected to surpass 50 million cases by 2006.
Begun in 1996 as Resource Anesthesiology Associates by Yale-trained anesthesiologists Marc Koch, MD, and Robert Goldstein, MD, the firm is riding a wave of increased surgeries, especially those being done in outpatient settings like doctors’ offices and ambulatory surgery centers (ASC). Since 1999, the firm’s annual revenue of has grown from, $1.3 to a projected $16.5 million for 2004.
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CONTACT: Anthony J. Guglielmi, Public Affairs of Somnia,office: +1-877-476-6642, ext. 38, or pager: +1-877-405-5088
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