The Annual Meeting Oversight Committee (AMOC) provides oversight for the IARS Annual Meeting and other educational events throughout the year. The AMOC is supported by the Director of Meetings & Education and other IARS staff to develop IARS educational content and program functionality.

Time Commitment and Expectations:

• Participate on a monthly conference call, as needed;
• Attend 2 summer AMOC Meetings, virtually;
• Attend a Fall AMOC Meeting, virtually;
• Complete duties as outlined for individual roles;
• Attend the IARS Annual Meeting;
• Attend the AMOC Meeting at the IARS Annual Meeting.

Term:

The AMOC term is two years and members can be reappointed. The IARS Board may request that AMOC members retain their positions from the previous year.

Co-Chairs

Meredith Adams, MD, MS, FASA, FAMIA

IARS Board President-Elect

Professor of Anesthesiology, Artificial Intelligence, Translational Neuroscience, and Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

Jessica Spence, MD, PhD

IARS Board Member

Assistant Professor, Departments of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Health Research Methodology, Evaluation, and Impact, McMaster University, Scientist, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Committee Members

Thomas Anderson, MD, PhD

Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University

Stanford, California

Ioannis Angelidis, MD, MSPH

Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Representative 

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cameron Bosinski, MD, MS

Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

Michael Devinney, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Xuequin Ding, MD, Ph.D.

Vice Chair of Faculty Development, MetroHealth Medical Center
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Jennifer Elia, MD

Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Representative

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care; Director, Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowship, UCI School of Medicine

Irvine, California

Bradley Fritz, MD, MSCI

Washington University in St Louis, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

Wei Dong Gao, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Hilary Grocott, MD

Head, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

David Hao, MD

A&A Practice Representative

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Executive Editor, A&A Practice, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD

Dr. Richard K. and Erika N. Richards Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University

Stanford, California

Vidya Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP

Professor, Clinical in the Department of Anesthesia, The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Katarina Ruscic, MD, PhD

Senior Division Director of Multispecialty Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Tetsuro Sakai, MD, PhD, MHA, FASA

Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Stefan Schaller, Full Professor, MD

Professor of Anaesthesia and Anaesthesiological Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH

CME Co-Chair | IARS Board Member

Vice Chair, Professional Affairs; Dept of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Co-Director; ECMO Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Affiliate Member Broad of Institute of MIT/ Harvard, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School 

Boston, Massachusetts

Alexandra Sideris, PhD

C.V. Starr Director of Pain Research and the Director of the Pain Prevention Research Center (PPRC) at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)

New York, New York

Saul Siller, MD, PhD

Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative
Assistant Professor and Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

Kendall Smith, MD, PhD

Assistant Residency Program Director, Residency Affairs, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

Santhanam Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP, FASA, FASRA

CME Co-Chair | IARS Board Member Emeritus

​Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics, Stritch School of Medicine; Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center

Evanston, Illinois

Susana Vacas, MD, PhD

​Associate Professor, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Prof. Alessandro Vittori, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù IRCCS

Rome, Italy

E. Railey White, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania