The Annual Meeting Oversight Committee (AMOC) provides oversight for the Annual Meeting, presented by IARS and SOCCA. The AMOC is a fast-paced committee responsible for the planning and execution of the Annual Meeting and other educational opportunities throughout the year.

Members of the AMOC are a subset of the IARS Board of Trustees, with the exception of the representative(s) from the Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS), IARS Mentored Research Awards Committee, The Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia (JSCA), and the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA). The AMOC term is one year and members can be reappointed. The IARS Board of Trustees Chair assigns Board Members to serve on the AMOC each year and may request that AMOC members retain their positions from the previous year.

Co-Chairs

Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD

IARS Trustee

Anesthesia Distinguished Professor; Chair of Admissions MD PhD Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine; MSTP Program Advisor, University of Pennsylvania; Director for Research Education, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Dripps Research Fellowship Program, University of Pennsylvania; Founding Director NEURRAL Center, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine; MSTP Program Steering Committee, University of Pennsylvania; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Meredith Adams, MD, MS, FASA, FAMIA

IARS Trustee

​Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Biomedical Informatics, and Public Health Sciences
Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Alexander Zarbock, MD, PhD

IARS Trustee, European Society of Anaesthesiology Representative

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Westfälische Wilhelms University Hospital Münster

Münster, Germany

Committee Members

Allison Dalton, MD

Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Representative

​Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care at the University of Chicago, Associate Chair for Education and Director of the Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship, Departmental wellness liaison and is the Founder and Director of the Anesthesia Peer Support Group

Chicago, IL

Michael Devinney, MD, PhD

Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative

​Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Xueqin Ding, MD, PhD

International Representative 

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Seun Johnson-Akeju, MD, MMSc

IARS Secretary and Treasurer

​Anesthetist-in-Chief, Henry Isaiah Dorr Associate Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Kunal Karamchandani, MD

Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Representative

​Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Daniel I. McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC

IARS Trustee

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa
Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Ottawa
Chair in Innovative Perioperative Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yasuko Nagasaka, MD, PhD

The Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia (JSCA) Representative

Professor in Anesthesia, Chair and Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Tokyo Women’s Medical University

Tokyo, Japan

Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD

IARS Chair

Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine; Associate Dean for Research, Midwest, Mayo Clinic; Consultant, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering; Chair, Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology, Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Kendall Smith, MD, PhD

Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative

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

St. Louis, Missouri

Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD

IARS Vice Chair

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine; Principal Investigator, Vivianne Tawfik Lab; Director, Fellowship in Anesthesia Research & Medicine (FARM), Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University

Stanford, California