Board of Trustees
Executive Committee

Santhanam Suresh, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP
Chair
Senior Vice-President and Chief of Provider Integration, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Arthur C. King Board Designated Professorship in Anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Christian P. Werner, MD
Immediate Past Chair
Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairman at the Department of Anesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz, Germany

Beverley A. Orser, MD, PhD
Chair-Elect and Secretary
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

Laura E. Niklason, MD, PhD
Treasurer
Nicholas M. Greene Professor in Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering, Division Chief, Vice Chair, Research, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD
Journal Liaison
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
Trustees

Seun Johnson-Akeju, MD, MMSc
Anesthetist-in-Chief, Henry Isaiah Dorr Associate Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

George A. Mashour, MD, PhD
Chair, Anesthesiology; Robert B. Sweet Professor of Anesthesiology; Faculty, Neuroscience Graduate Program; Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD
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
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
Emeritus Trustees
IARS Emeritus Trustees have provided meaningful guidance and support to the society over the years and played a major part of making IARS what it is today.