Featured Guest Speakers
Donal J. Buggy, DSc, MD, MSc, FRCPI, FFSEM, FRCA, FESA-IC, FCAI
President, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
Consultant in Anaesthesiology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Professor of Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland
Rohesh Fernando, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education
Winston-Salem, NC
Olivia Gosseries, MD
University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
Steven Greenberg, MD
Jeffery S. Vender, MD, Chair of Anesthesiology Research and Education
Endeavor Health
Vice President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)
Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Darren F. Hight, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy
University Hospital Inselspital
Bern, Switzerland
Keyvan Karkouti, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Professor and Chief, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management
University Health Network; Sinai Health System; Women's College Hospital
University of Toronto
Evan Kharasch, MD, PhD
Merel H. Harmel Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
General, Vascular and Transplant Anesthesiology Division
Center for Translational Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA
Kevin K. Tremper Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Dean for Research Information Technology
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Bhavani Shankar Kodali, MBBS, MD, FASA
Division Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology
Faculty Member of Anesthesiology
University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD
Hannah Lonsdale, MBChB
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Director, Pediatric Medical Simulation
Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Director of Perioperative Services, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Monty Mythen, MD, FRCA, FFICM
Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Critical Care
Edwards Lifesciences
Beverley A. Orser, OOnt, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Professor of Physiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Co-Director, Perioperative Brain Health Centre, Sunnybrook HSC
International Member, US National Academy of Sciences (Medicine)
Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto
Ellen P. O'Sullivan, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FCPSP(Hon), FCANECSA(Hon)
Dept. Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Airway Lead Advisor, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
International Liaison Officer, Difficult Airway Society
Executive Director, World Alliance of Airway Management
Elected Council Member, European Society Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care
Jaideep J. Pandit, MA, BM, DPhil, FRCA, FFPMRCA, DM
Professor of Anaesthesia, University of Oxford
Consultant Anaesthetist, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Shawna Pandya, MD, MSc
Assistant Clinical Professor,
University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Director of the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences Space Medicine Group
Ornella Piazza, MD
Full Professor, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry
Salernitana Medical School/DIPMED
University of Salerno, Fisciano SA, Italy
Elizabeth Rebello, MD, FACHE, FASA, CPPS, CMQ
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Daniel I. Sessler, MD
Professor and Vice President for Clinical and Outcomes Research
Center for Outcomes Research and Department of Anesthesiology
UTHealth, Houston, TX
Allan F. Simpao, MD, MBI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, MSc, FRCA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Staff Anesthesiologist, QEII and IWK Health Sciences Centre
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia & Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Christian Wunder, DEAA
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Robert-Bosch Krankenhaus
Stuttgart, Germany
Harvard Medical School
Karen Boretsky, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Emery Brown, MD, PhD
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Dearden, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Michaela K. Farber, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Lynne Ferrari, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Michael Fitzsimons, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Arthur R. Formanek, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Gennadiy Fuzaylov, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Susan M. Goobie, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Philip Hess, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia; Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Ion Hobai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Robert Holzman, MD, Professor of Anaesthesia
Houman Javedan, MB ChB, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brinda Kamdar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Anastasia Katsiampoura, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Samir Kendale, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Monica Kleinman, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)
Richard E. Leiter, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Michael H. Li, MBBS, MPHTM, GCCT, FANZCA, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Yuan-Chi Lin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)
Keira P. Mason, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Natsu (Fukui) Matsuya, MD, Instructor in Medicine
Sue Morris, PsyD, Instructor in Psychology
Jeremi Mountjoy, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Emily Naoum, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Louisa J. Palmer, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Riccardo Pinciroli, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Satya Krishna Ramachandran, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
James P. Rathmell, MD, MBA, Leroy D. Vandam Professor of Anesthesia
Jonah Rubin, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Lannie C. Santo, MD, MPH, Instructor in Medicine
Sankalp Sehgal, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Aidan Sharkey, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Douglas Shook, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Shahla Siddiqui, MBBS, MSc, FCCM, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Jamie Sparling, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia
Sugantha Sundar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Lawrence Tsen, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Assia Valovska, MD, FASA, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Susan Vassallo, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Kamen V. Vlassakov, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Stephanie Yacoubian, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia