Board of Directors

The IARS Board 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. Board members are elected for a six-year term and may be re-elected to one successive six-year term.

Executive Committee

Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, MD

President

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Mass General Brigham

Boston, MA

Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD

Immediate Past President

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

Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD

President-Elect

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

Stanford, California

Meredith Adams, MD, MS, FASA, FAMIA

Secretary and Treasurer

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

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Julie K. Freed, MD, PhD

Executive Vice Chair, ​Associate Professor, and Director of NIGMS STAT Program, Department of Anesthesiology, Director of Clinical & Translational Research, Cardiovascular Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

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

Shahzad Shaefi, MD, MPH

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

Boston, MA

Jessica Spence, MD, PhD

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

Hamilton, 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