Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 AM – 8:15 AM ET
An Insider’s Guide to a Successful IARS Grant Submission

Moderators: Julie Freed, MD, PhD, Executive Vice Chair, Director of Clinical Research & Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Chair, IARS Mentored Research Award Study Section and Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Speakers: Jessica Spence, MD, PhD, FRCPC, 2021 IARS Mentored Research Awardee, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences, Associate Member, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; John Whittle, MBBS, MD(Res), FRCA, FFICM, Associate Professor of Perioperative Medicine, UCL Centre for Perioperative Medicine; Benjamin Steinberg, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
Anesthesia & Analgesia Cancer Patient Themed Issue Webinar

Moderator: Jenny E. Pennycuff, MD, MS, Associate Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Speakers: Prof Daniel Steffens, BPhty (Hons I), PhD, Director of the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Clinical Professor, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Juan P. Cata, MD, Physician-scientist and Anesthesiologist, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Seema Deshpande, MBBS, FASA, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Thursday, October 16, 2025, 9:00 am – 10:00 am ET
Maximize Your Chances: Guidance for the IARS International Outreach Travel Grant

Moderator: Kristin L. Schreiber, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA; IARS International Subcommittee Member and Chair, IARS International Outreach Travel Grant Review Study Section

Presenters: Kristin L. Schreiber, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA; IARS International Subcommittee Member and Chair, IARS International Outreach Travel Grant Review Study Section; Bradley Fritz, MD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; International Subcommittee Member and Member, International Outreach Travel Grant Review Study Section; Xinyan (Alice) Wang, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China; 2024-2025 International Outreach Travel Grant Recipient; Gerald Kirenga, MBChB, MMED Anaesthesia, FCA, Consultant Anesthesiologist, University of Rwanda, Dream Medical Center Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda; 2024-2025 International Outreach Travel Grant Recipient

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Update on Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplantation

Moderator: Richa Dhawan, MD, MPH, FASE, Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Presenters: Chris Salerno, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director of the Heart Transplant and MCS Program and a Co-Director of the Heart and Vascular Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Jennie Y. Ngai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY; Kristin Trela, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Thursday, January 23, 2025, 7:00 am – 8:00 am ET
An Insider’s Guide to a Successful IARS Grant Submission

Moderator: Julie Freed, MD, PhD, Executive Vice Chair, Director of Clinical Research & Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Chair, IARS Mentored Research Award Study Section

Presenters: Jessica Spence, MD, PhD, FRCPC, 2021 IARS Mentored Research Awardee; Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences; Associate Member, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; John Whittle, MBBS, MD(Res), FRCA, FFICM, Associate Professor of Perioperative Medicine, UCL Centre for Perioperative Medicine; Benjamin Steinberg, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto; Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thursday, January 9, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
Anesthesia & Analgesia December 2024 Themed-Issue Webinar: Obstetric Anesthesiology Quality and Safety

Guest Editor and Moderator: Jill M. Mhyre, MD, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Presenters: Marie-Pierre Bonnet, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Sorbonne University, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Anesthetist in Obstetric Anesthesia, Armand-Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France; Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, MD, PhD, Research Professor, INSERM and Université Paris Cité, Paris, France; Oscar van den Bosch, MD, Staff Anesthesiologist, Researcher, and Clinical Lead in Obstetric and Pediatric Anesthesiology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Engela Kuün, MBChB, DA(SA), FCA(SA), MMed(UP), Anaesthesiologist, Private Practice Pretoria, South Africa, Anaesthesiologist, Public Sessional Consultant Steve Biko Academic Hospital and University of Pretoria, South Africa  

Monday, July 29, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm ET
IARS Early-Career Feedback Session

Facilitators: Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MSc, Co-Chair, IARS Outreach, Retention and Engagement Subcommittee; Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Yvette Martin McGrew, MD, PhD, IARS Outreach, Retention and Engagement Subcommittee Member; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Kimberly Rengel, MD, IARS Outreach, Retention and Engagement Subcommittee Member; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; and Jessica Spence, MD, PhD, FRCPC, IARS Outreach, Retention and Engagement Subcommittee Member; Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, Faculty of Health Sciences; Associate Member, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
What’s New in Pediatric Emergence Delirium? Updates in Detection, Prevention, and Treatment

Moderator: Ian Yuan, MD, MDEng, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Attending Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Presenters: Vinicius Quintao, MD, MSc, PhD, Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia Fellowship Program Director, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Adam C. Adler, MD, MS, FAAP, FASE, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Jerry Y. Chao, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Perioperative Infection: New Risks and the Emerging Science of Prevention

Moderator and Presenter: Dustin R. Long, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington

Presenters: Randy Loftus, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Andrew Bowdle, MD, PhD, FASE, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmaceutics and the Laura Cheney Professor in Anesthesia Patient Safety, University of Washington; and Jeremiah R. Brown, PhD, Professor with Tenure of Epidemiology, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Director of the Center for Implementation Science, Dartmouth University, Lebanon, NH

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Perioperative Hypotension: A Key Driver of Organ Dysfunction and Perioperative Morbidity

Moderator and Presenter: J. Robert Sneyd, MD, FRCA, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

Presenters: Duminda Wijeysundera, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAHA, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; and Judith van Waes, MD, PhD, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands