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
![Kelz, Max 2019 Max Kelz](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Kelz-Max-2019.png)
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_adams1 Meredith Adams](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/meredith_adams1-1-scaled-e1682694829332.jpg)
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
![Zarbock_Alexander_Prof. Dr. med. _20190816_Dei (10) Alexander Zarbock](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Zarbock_Alexander_Prof.-Dr.-med.-_20190816_Dei-10-1-scaled-e1682694961264.jpg)
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 headshot Allison Dalton](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Allison-Dalton-headshot-e1689538435279.png)
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
![Devinney Michael Devinney](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Devinney.jpeg)
Michael Devinney, MD, PhD
Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) Representative
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina
![julie-freed-headshot Julie Freed](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Ding_Xueqin_20425_planstone_profile.jpg)
Xueqin Ding, MD, PhD
International Representative
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
![MGH Pic Seun Johnson-Akeju](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/MGH-Pic-scaled-e1618431859831-300x300.jpeg)
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 headshot Kunal Karamchandani](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Kunal-headshot-e1689538559656.png)
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
![Kunal headshot Kunal Karamchandani](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/McIsaac.jpeg)
Daniel I McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa; Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Director of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Research, The Ottawa Hospital; Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES); Staff Anesthesiologist, The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Canada
![yNagasaka headshot Yasuko Nagasaka](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/yNagasaka-headshot-scaled-e1689538001330-300x300.jpeg)
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
![Prakash YS 2019 Y.S. Prakash](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Prakash-YS-2019-e1605283758216.jpg)
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
![Personnel Suresh Santhanam (11288) 040622 Santhanam Suresh](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Kendall-Smith-1.jpg)
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
![Tawfik, Vivianne 2020 Vivianne Tawfik](https://iars.org/wp-content/uploads/Tawfik-Vivianne-2020-e1616182470967-300x300.jpeg)
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
International Anesthesia Research Society