Johnson Scaria, BSN, BSc, MBA, has been appointed senior director of perioperative services at Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute (BGMC/GVI).
In this role, Scaria will be responsible for providing leadership to all Perioperative Service areas, including the BGMC/GVI Operating Rooms, PACU, Ambulatory Surgery, Preadmission Testing, GI Lab, Urology and Central Sterile Processing. He will work closely with physicians and senior leadership in the strategic planning and development of service lines, providing clinical and service excellence.
Scaria most recently served as director of perioperative and procedural business operations at BGMC/GVI. In that role, he worked with perioperative and procedural departmental leaders to improve efficiencies in the delivery of patient care services, focusing on new strategic opportunities, contracts and resources (supplies and equipment). Prior to that, he served as director of cardiovascular and neuro endovascular services at BGMC/GVI, where he showed remarkable success in the development of new technologies and procedural growth in the procedure labs over the last 10 years.
Scaria will now report to Barbara Kuppel, chief nursing officer at BGMC/GVI.
Scaria received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Bachelor of Life Science from McMaster University and his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in health care from the University of Phoenix.