Board of Trustees

The IARS Board of Trustees is composed of an engaged group of thought leaders in anesthesia education and research who are focused on supporting and advancing the work of our anesthesia community. Trustees are elected for a six-year term and may be re-elected to one successive six-year term.

Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD

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

Beverley A. Orser, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC

Immediate Past Chair

Affiliate Scientist, Biological Sciences, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Professor, departments of physiology and anesthesia, Chair, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in Anaesthesia, Tier 2

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD

Vice Chair

​Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine; Director, Fellowship in Anesthesia Research & Medicine (FARM) program, Stanford University

Stanford, California

Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, MD

Secretary and Treasurer

Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital
Henry Isaiah Dorr Professor, Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Meredith Adams, MD, MS, FASA, FAMIA

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

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Daniel I. McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC

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

Duminda Wijeysundera, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAHA

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Professor, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alexander Zarbock, MD, PhD

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

Münster, Germany

Andre H. Williams

Executive Director

Lorton, VA