She is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina who specializes in teaching operating room workflow, procedures, ultrasound, and ergonomics to new trainees. She taught the CA-1 intro to the OR for the past 10 years at the University of Chicago, which she will continue this June at the University
of North Carolina. Clinically, her focus is in the neurosurgical and otolaryngologic operating rooms.

Dr. Clebone Ruskin’s research focuses on human performance in the operating room, including critical event checklists and ergonomics. In the air traffic control environment, she co-authored an alarm design framework, resulting in the creation of several new alarms. Her work has been published in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, Transportation Research, Pediatric Anesthesia, The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, the Journal of Clinical
Monitoring and Computing, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and Anesthesiology. She also focuses on mentoring faculty and trainees through the steps of a research project, from idea to data to publication. She also co-course directed an undergraduate class, ‘Extreme Physiology’, at the University of Chicago, with plans to continue at the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Clebone Ruskin earned her M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, in 2007 and then served an internship in Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School/Framingham Union Hospital in Framingham, MA, until 2008. Subsequently, she completed a residency in the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. From 2011–2012, she was in a Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. She is board-certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and in Pediatric Anesthesiology. Her honors and awards include the William E. Collins Award for Outstanding Human Factors Publication of the year from AsHFA. She is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) and a member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists. With AsMA, she has served on the Scientific Program Committee as a member, Deputy Chair, and Chair, and in the Associate Fellows Group.