Annual Meeting Oversight Committee

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

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

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

Daniel I. McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC

IARS Board Member

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

Vice-Chair

Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH

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

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

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

Wei Dong Gao, MD, PhD

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

Baltimore, Maryland

Brice Gaudilliere, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine and (by courtesy) Department of Pediatrics

Stanford, California

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

Cynthia Lien, MD

John P. Kampine Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Vidya Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP

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

Columbus, Ohio

Kathryn Rosenblatt, MD

Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery At The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

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

Kendall Smith, MD, PhD

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

St. Louis, Missouri

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, Ontario, Canada