Bio
Dr. Lorello's research focuses on access to healthcare and social justice within anesthesiology, and medicine more broadly. Specifically, he looks at better understanding the norms, expectations, rules, policies, and institutional processes that govern how work is performed and how people interact with the greater societal structures - known as relations of ruling. These ruling relations are found in texts, photographs, policies, regulations, and institutional guidelines which govern people from afar. These practices and texts are not neutral and are oftentimes produced by people in power, thereby reinforcing the interests and ideals of these people in power. Gianni looks at highlighting these ruling relations and how they go unnoticed by understanding the disconnections between lived experiences and these ruling relations, thereby uncovering how institutional power is maintained and reinforced through seemingly ordinary organizational practices and procedures, privileging certain interests while marginalizing others.