Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Brain Guardians: The Anesthesiologist’s Role in Optimizing Brain Protection in Older Adults

Moderator: Roman Schumann, MD, FASA, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery (sec), Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Speakers: Meredith Miller, MD, PhD, Instructor, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA; Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and Houman Amirfarzan, MD, Assistant Professor, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET
Methadone and Dexmedetomidine in the Perioperative Period: Global Practices and Controversies

Moderators: Harsh Dubey, MBBS, Eastern Health, Richmond, Australia and Sarah Lee, FANZCA, MBBS/BMedSci, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia

Speakers: David Barlow, Trainee, Melbourne, Australia; John Webster, Trainee, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Victoria; Professor Evan Kharasch, MD, PhD, Merel H. Harmel Professor of Anaesthesiology and Vice Chair for Innovation, Department of Anaesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Professor Stephanie Pan, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Professor James Xie, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Professor Thomas Anthony Anderson, MD, PhD, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Noam Winter, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA; Hon Professor Timothy G Short, MB, ChB, MD Otago, FANZCA; Pamela Macintyre, MBBS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, Professor, Adelaide University and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia; Geoffrey Gourlay, B.Pharm., Ph.D. FFPMANZCA, Retired. Formerly Chief Medical Scientist / Associate Professor, Pain Management Unit, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park South Aust 5042, Australia; Krishnan Ramanujan, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Postoperative- and Post-ICU Vital Sign Monitoring In and Out of Hospital – The Status, Challenges and State of the Art

Moderator: Emilie Siegvardt, MD, PhD Student, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Speakers: Eske Aasvang, MD, PhD, Professor, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Christian Meyhoff, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Head of Research, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Ashish Khanna, MD, MS, FASA, FCCM, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Advancing Lung-Protective Ventilation in Perioperative Care: Targeting Pulmonary Complications and Enhancing Outcomes

Moderator: Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD, Anesthesiologist, Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Speakers: Timur Yurttas, MD, Anesthesiology, Member of the PROVE Network and the PROFLOW Series, Department of Anesthesiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland; Julia Abram, MD, Specialist in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria; Martin Scharffenberg, MD, Anesthesiology Specialist, Clinician Scientist, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonary Engineering Group, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Scaling Outpatient Total Joint Arthroplasty Across an Integrated Health System: Clinical Innovation and Implementation Lessons

Moderator: Edward Yap, MD, The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, CA

Speakers: Bradley Cohn, MD, The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, CA; Mark S. Thoma, MD, FASA, The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, CA; and Jennifer Noerenberg, MD, Southern California Permanente Medical, San Francisco, CA

Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM ET
Beyond Awareness: Practical Approaches to Overcoming Barriers in Physician Mental Health

Moderator: Daniel Saddawi-Konefka, MD, MBA, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, President, The Emotional PPE Project, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Speakers: Jina Sinskey, MD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; K. Elliott Higgins, MD, Director of Health & Well-Being, Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Lucy Li, MD, Attending Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; and Courtney Burns, BSE, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM ET
Breathing Easy – From Difficult Airway to Every Airway – Improving Safety of Airway Management in Pediatric Anesthesia

Moderator: Mary Lyn Stein, MD, Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Speakers: Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, MD, MSCE, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Lina Sarimento, MD, MSc, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, National Institute of Pediatrics (Mexico), Mexico City, Mexico; Vinicius Quintao, MD, MSc, PhD, Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Assistant Professor, Faculdade de medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Unveiling the Past, Embracing the Present, Shaping the Future of Transplant Anesthesia, Co – Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia

Moderator: Gebhard Wagener, MD, Anesthesiologist, Intensivist and Clinical Researcher, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Speakers: Lorenzo De Marchi, MD, FASE, Director of Transplant and Thoracic Anesthesia, Georgetown Medical Center, Washington, DC; Tetsuro Sakai, MD, PhD, MHA, FASA, Tenured Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Ryan M. Chadha, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL

Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Vasoplegia: Facts, Fable, Future

Moderator: Nikolaos Skubas, MD, Chair of CT Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Professor of Anesthesiology, Case Western, Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Speakers: Luai Zakaria, MD, Staff Cardiologist and Intensivist, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Matthew A. Levin, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Associate Vice Chair of Research and Director of Research Informatics for the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, and Medical Director of the Clinical Data Science Team, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Women in Medicine Month Spotlight Webinar | Women in Physician Scientist and Clinical Leadership Roles in Anesthesiology and Critical Care: Pathways, Barriers and the Role of Sponsorship, Co-Sponsored by Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS)

Moderator: Sylvia Ranjeva, MD, PhD, Critical Care Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Speakers: Rebecca Minehart, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Vice Chair, Faculty Development; Division Chief, Obstetric Anesthesia, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI; Beverley Orser, OOnt, MD, PhD, FRSC, FRCPC, FCAHS, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto; Anesthesiologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Kimberly Rengel, MD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Katarina Ruscic, MD, PhD, Director of Anesthesia for Plastic, Reconstructive and Breast Oncology Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Precision Medical Education in Anesthesia: Harnessing Data to Advance Learning in the Digital Era

Moderator: Glenn Woodworth, MD, Professor and Director of Education Scholarship, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, OR

Presenters: McKenzie Hollon, MD, FASE, Vice Chair for Education and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Sumeet Gopwani, MD, Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Director of Pediatric Transplant Anesthesia, and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; Gregory J. Booth, MD, Lieutenant Commander, Navy; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and Staff Anesthesiologist, Program Director, Anesthesiology Program and Vice Chair, Institutional Review Board, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Bethesda, MD; Khaled Kittana, MD, PGY-1 Anesthesiology Resident, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Opioid Risk

Moderator: Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, MAS, Chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia, Clinical Director of Anesthesiology, Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion Surgery Center, and Vice Chair of Perioperative Informatics, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

Presenters: Sesh Mudumbai, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University; Staff Anesthesiologist at the VA Palo Alto HCS, Stanford, CA; Ariana M. Nelson, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, MAS, Chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia, Clinical Director of Anesthesiology, Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion Surgery Center, and Vice Chair of Perioperative Informatics, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Heparin and Hamburgers: Perioperative Implications of Alpha Gal Syndrome for the Anesthesiologist

Moderator: Matthias Riess, MD, PhD, FASA, TVHS, Staff Anesthesiologist and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Presenters: Basil Kahwash, MD, MMHC, Allergist/Immunologist, Ohio ENT & Allergy Physicians, Columbus, OH; Maziar Nourian, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Kara Siegrist, MD, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Medical Director Electrophysiology and Cardiac Catheterization Lab Anesthesia, and Medical Director Liver Transplant Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Women of Impact in Anesthesiology: Advancing in Leadership

Moderator: Allison M. Fernandez, MD, MBA, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Presenters: Vidya T. Raman, MD, MBA, Professor, Clinical in the Department of Anesthesia at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Linda J. Mason, MD, FASA, FCAI, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, and Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA; Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, FASA, Ralph M Waters Distinguished Chair in Anesthesiology and Chair and Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Opioid Use Disorder and the Anesthesiologist: What You Need to Know to Impact This Escalating Crisis

Moderator: Eugene R. Viscusi, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, and Vice Chair of the Division of Pain Management, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Presenters: Lynn Kohan, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Division Chief and Chronic Pain Program Director, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Senior Vice-Chair, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo; Chief, Pain Medicine and Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY; Eugene R. Viscusi, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, and Vice Chair of the Division of Pain Management, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Interesting Articles You May Have Missed from the Subspecialty ICU Literature

Moderator: Erin K. Hennessey, MD, MEHP, Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Presenters: Ameeka Pannu, MD, Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist, and Program Director for the Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Boston, MA; Dragos Galusca, MD, Division Director, Critical Care, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Nazish K. Hashmi, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Divisions of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Program Director, Critical Care Fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Global Critical Care: The Crisis and Way Forward

Moderator: Vanessa Moll, MD, PhD, DESA, FCCM, FASA, Professor, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Presenters: Ana M. Crawford, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Didi Odinkemelu, MD, Resident Physician, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Vanessa Moll, MD, PhD, DESA, FCCM, FASA, Professor, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Current Controversies in Critical Care

Moderator: Brigid Flynn, MD, FCCM, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Chief, Division of Critical Care, Director, Cardiothoracic ICU, Director, ECMO Services TUKHS, Chair, Anesthesia Research Committee, Pro/Con Section Editor, JCVA, University of Kansas Health System, Kansas City, KS

Presenters: Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Associate Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Ashish Khanna, MD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, FASA, Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC; Somnath Bose, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School; Staff Anesthesiologist, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Boston, MA; Kristen Carey Rock, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

 

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
The Crossroads of Hematology and Intensive Care Medicine

Moderator: Ingrid Moreno Duarte, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Children’s Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Presenters: Alberto Furzan, MD, Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Intensivist, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; Ian J. Welsby, MBBS, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Sreekanth R. Cheruku, MD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management and Co-Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

 

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Obstetric Anesthesia Quality: How to Measure It?

Moderator: Jill Mhyre, MD, The Dola S Thompson Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AK

Presenters: Ruth Landau, MD, Virginia Apgar Professor of Anesthesiology and Division Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia, Columbia University, New York, NY; Past-President, Society for Obstetric Anesthesiology and Perinatology (SOAP);  Mark Zakowski, MD, FASA, Professor of Anesthesiology, Obstetric Anesthesiology Program Director, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Past-President, Society for Obstetric Anesthesia; Past-President, California Society of Anesthesiologists; Chair, ASA Committee on Obstetric Anesthesia; and Vice-Chair, ASA Committee on Quality Management and Departmental Administration; and Kelly Fedoruk, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Quality Lead, Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology and Maternal Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Predict Intensive Care Unit Indices and Outcomes

Moderator: Andrew Barker, MD, Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Director, and the Co-Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Presenters: Ryan L. Melvin, PhD, Principal Data Scientist, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Jessica F. Schaedel, MD, MPH, CA-2 Resident in the Systemic Training in Anesthesia Research (STAR) Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Emily Wasson, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Division of Critical Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; and Matthew Zapf, MD, Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Research Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

 

Tuesday, January 9, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Challenges in Managing Diabetic Patients-SGLT2 Inhibitors, GLP1 Agonists, and Insulin Pumps

Moderator: Sakura Kinjo, MD, Clinical Professor, Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA

Presenters: Atul Gupta, MBBS, MPH, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Girish P. Joshi, MBBS, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and Attending Anesthesiologist, Parkland Health, Dallas, Texas; and Robert Rushakoff, MD, MS, Professor, Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA

 

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Pulmonary Hypertension Update: Definition, Dangers and Disasters

Moderator: Mary Beth Brady, MD, Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Presenters: Paul M. Heerdt, PhD, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology; Director of Applied Hemodynamics, Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Jochen Steppan, MD, DESA, FAHA, FASA, Director of Perioperative Medicine, High Risk Cardiovascular Disease; Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine,  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; and Stephanie Ibekwe, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

 

Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Preserving Brain Health in Older Adults: How Can We Help as Anesthesiologists?

Moderator: Nafisseh Warner, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Pain Research, and Director of Opioid and Pain Medicine Education, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Presenters: Deborah J. Culley, MD, Robert Dunning Dripps Professor in Anesthesia and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Neuroanesthesiology Division, Assistant Biomarker Core Leader, Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

 

Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Junior Faculty Success: Leadership Development Tools that Work

Moderators: Mada F. Helou, MD; Associate Professor and Program Director for Anesthesiology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical, Cleveland, OH; and Mary J. Njoku, MD, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Presenters: Nicholas Pesa, MD, Associate Program Director for Anesthesiology, Associate Program Director for Anesthesiology, Division Chief of Transplant Anesthesia and Chief Quality Officer of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH; George W. Williams, II, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; and Vice Chair for Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX; Muhammad Jaffar, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Anesthesiology Residency Program Director, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI; and Ayodele Oke, MD, Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX

 

Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Fixing Hemodynamic Instability – Problems and Solutions – Co-Sponsored by the APSF

Moderator: Daniel J. Cole, MD, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, and Vice Chair for Professional and Business Development, Anesthesiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Presenters: Michael Scott, MB ChB, Professor and Division Chief in Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; M. Alparslan Turan, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Vice Chairman at Department of Outcomes Research Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Matthew McEvoy, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Multispecialty Anesthesiology; Vice Chair, Perioperative Medicine; Fellowship Director  Perioperative Medicine; Director, Perioperative Consult Service; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; and Allison Mary Janda, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Perioperative Brain Health – Insights from Young Investigators

Moderator: Bradley A. Fritz, MD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care & Division of Clinical and Translational Research, Associate Medical Director for the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MI

Presenters: Mitra Heshmati, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, with a joint appointment in the Dept. of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Kathryn R. Rosenblatt, MD, MHS, Director, Neurosurgical Anesthesia Fellowship, and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Michael J. Devinney, Jr., MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; and S. Kendall Smith, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Associate Program Director, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Assistant Program Director for Residency Affairs, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Is Less Really More for the Brain in the ICU

Moderator: Christopher G. Hughes, MD, MS, FCCM, Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Multispecialty Anesthesiology, Chief, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and Medical Director, Neuro ICU, Member, VUMC Institutional Review Board, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Presenters: Michael Devinney, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Christina Boncyk, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Informatics Research Division, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; and Christina Hayhurst, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine; Fellowship Director, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine; Director, Clinical Operations, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

 

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
“So, Doc, I Hear Anesthesia is Bad for My Brain”: Translating Research into Shared Decision-Making and Better Care for Older Patients Concerned about Postoperative Neurocognitive Disorders

Moderator: Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Associate Director of Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Biomarker Core; Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Presenters: Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; and Stacie G. Deiner, MD, William LeRoy Garth Professor in Medical Science and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School, Lebanon, NH

 

Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Preparing the Mind for Surgery: Examining the Potential for Physical, Cognitive, and Mindfulness Training to Improve Postoperative Outcomes

Moderator: Christopher Hughes, MD, MS, FCCM, Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Multispecialty Anesthesiology, Chief, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine and Medical Director, Neuro ICU, Member, VUMC Institutional Review Board, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Presenters: Kimberly Rengel, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Michelle Humeidan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesiology; Medical Director, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Associate Faculty, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research; The Ohio State University – Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; Balachundhar Subramaniam, MD, MPH, FASE, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Ellison “Jeep” Pierce Chair of Anesthesia, Director, Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet and Director of the Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; and Brian O’Gara, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Attending Anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesia, Division of Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Division of  Cardiac Anesthesia; Program Director of the Anesthesia Resident Research Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Perioperative Teams: Mythical or Magical? How to Apply Organizational Psychology Research Findings to Enhance Perioperative Team Building and Performance

Moderator and Presenter: Elizabeth Duggan, MD, MA I&O Psychology, Univerisity of Alabama Birmingham,  Birmingham, AL

Presenter: Neal Outland, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Biomarkers, Risk Factors and Practice Recommendations for Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders

Moderator and Presenter: Lisbeth Evered, BSc, Mbiostat, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY; Scientific Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Presenters: David Scott, MB, BS, PhD, Director of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Professor, Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and Stacie G. Deiner, MD, William LeRoy Garth Professor in Medical Science and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School, Lebanon, NH

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Anesthesia Effects on Neuroplasticity in Developing Brain – Clinical Aspect and Research Insight

Moderator: Beverley Orser, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presenters: Laszlo Vutskits, MD, PhD, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Mary Ellen McCann, MD, MPH, Harvard University School of Medicine, Wellesley Hills, MA; Guang Yang, PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY; and Zhongcong Xie, M.D., PhD, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, Boston, MA

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Sleep and Circadian Disruption: Risk Factors and Pathological Pathways for Delirium and Neurocognitive Dysfunction

Moderator: Lei Gao, MBBS, MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Presenters: Michael Devinney, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Reine Ibala, BS, Cornell University, New York, NY; Melissa Knauert, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; and Elizabeth Wilcox, MD, FRCPC, MPH, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada

 

Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnant Women: Updates on Screening, Treatment, and Management – Co-Sponsored by the Society for Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine

Moderator and Presenter: Jennifer Dominguez, MD, MHS, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

Presenters: Christine Won, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Mahesh Nagappa, MD, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; and Ghada Bourjeily, MD, The Miriam Hospital/Brown University, Providence, RI

 

Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Neurological Complication After TEVAR Procedures

Moderator: Hilary Grocott, MD, FRCPC, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Presenters: Thomas Lindsay, MD, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Hamdy Awad, MD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Sujatha Bhandary, MD, FASE, FASA, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; and Theodore Wein, MD, FRCPC, FAHA, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Anesthesia Education in the Time of COVID – Co-Sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia 

Moderator: John Mitchell, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Presenters: Susan Martinelli, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC; Julie Huffmyer, MD, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; Sara Neves, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; and Fei Chen, PhD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Tuesday, July 13, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
SmartTots: Behavioral and Cognitive Changes in Children Following Anesthesia and Surgery: Assessment and Relevance

Moderator: Laszlo Vutskits, MD, PhD, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Presenters: Andrew Davidson, MBBS, MD, FANZCA, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Caleb Ing, MD, MS, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; Kristen Uhl, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and Cynthia Salorio, PhD, ABPP, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

 

Tuesday, June 15, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Airway and Gastric Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Anesthesia

Moderator: Kong Eric You-Ten, PhD, MD, FRCPC, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Presenters: Cristian Arzola, MD, MSc, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Naveed Siddiqui, MD, MSc, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; and Fabricio Zasso, MD, MBA, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

 

Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
The Anesthesiologist’s Role in Reducing the Impact of the Opioid Crisis

Presenters: David Edwards, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; and Christina Hayhurst, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

 

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Controversies in Care of the Critically Ill COVID-19 Patient

Presenters: Shahla Siddiqui, MBBS, DABA, MSc, Beth Israel Deaconess Lahey Medical Center, Boston, MA; Natalia Ivascu, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; George Williams II, MD, FCCP, McGovern School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX; and Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA