Aligned Meeting Day – all IARS, AUA and SOCCA attendees are welcome!

7:00am – 7:30am

Poster Session D
Setup

7:00am – 8:00am

IARS First-Time Attendee Continental Breakfast
If you’ve never been to the IARS Annual Meeting (or you just want a few pointers) here’s your chance to learn from the experts how to get the most from your Annual Meeting experience.

Planning for Retirement Continental Breakfast
It’s never too early (or late) to start planning for retirement. Come talk to others about steps you can take to make sure you’re ready!

General Continental Breakfast
Come meet your fellow anesthesiologists over a cup of coffee – you never know who you’ll run into!

8:00am – 9:30am

Opening General Session and T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture

Welcome Comments
Colleen Koch, MD, MS, MBA, FACC, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Introduction
Davy Cheng, MD, MSc, FRCPS, FCAHS, CCPE, IARS Board of Trustees

Health Research Funding in the 21st Century: Not for the Faint of Heart
Michael J. Strong, MD, FRCP(C), FANN, FCAHS, President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Professor of Neurology and Dean of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University

8:00am – 5:00pm

Poster Session D
Open Viewing

10:00am – 12:00pm

AUA Symposium

Anesthesia and Consciousness: How Investigations of the Anesthetized State Shape Current Concepts of Consciousness
Moderated by Ines P. Koerner, MD, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University

The Controversial Correlates of Consciousness
George A. Mashour, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Medicine

Consciousness, Sensory Disconnection and Anesthesia
Robert Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FRCA, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Subcortical Arousal Systems and Emergence from General Anesthesia
Ken Solt, MD, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

Using Anesthesia to Probe Disorders of Consciousness
Stefanie Blain-Moraes, PhD, McGill University

10:00am – 11:30am

IARS Panel

Nudging Physicians to Change Behavior: The Theory, Conduct, and Critical Assessment of Nudge-Type Interventions
Moderated by Craig Steven Jabaley, MD, Emory University Hospital

Behavioral Change in Perioperative Quality Improvement: Lessons from the Business World
Grant Lynde, MD, MBA, Emory University

Applications of Nudge Theory in the Anesthesiology and Perioperative Domains
Craig Steven Jabaley, MD, Emory University Hospital

Implementation and Assessment of Nudge-Type and Other Quality Improvement Interventions
Vikas N. O’Reilly-Shah, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine

10:00am – 11:30am

IARS Panel

Information Technology, Decision Support, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence: How They Will Transform the Practice of Anesthesiology
Moderated by Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

Use of Information Technology and Decision Support in Anesthesiology
Warren S. Sandberg, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Closed-Loop Anesthesia Administration
Thomas Hemmerling, MD, MSc, DEAA, McGill University

Machine Learning for Improving Management of Acute and Chronic Pain
Timothy T. Houle, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Anesthesiology
Steven L. Shafer, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine

10:00am – 10:45am

IARS Review Course Lecture

The ASRA Regional and Pain Anticoagulation Guidelines
Honorio Benzon, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

10:00am – 11:00am

IARS Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Multiple Challenges During Trans-catheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation for Severe Stenosis and Regurgitation of an RV to PA Conduit
Mounir Banoub, MD, MBA, CPE, FASA, FAAPL, University Medical Center

10:00am – 11:00am

IARS Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Let Me Outta Here! Can There Be AMA Discharge From PACU?
Karl Poterack, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

11:30am – 1:00pm

IARS Panel

Physician Wellness in Hospital Medicine: Thriving, Not Simply Surviving
Moderated by Santhanam Suresh, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Creating a Culture of Wellness
Anne Boat, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Improving Practice Efficiency
Jeffery S. Vender, MD, The University of Chicago Medicine

Becoming a More Resilient Physician
Gregory B. Hammer, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine

11:30am – 1:00pm

WFSA and IARS Panel

Controversies in Global Health
Moderated by Davy Cheng, MD, MSc, FRCPS, FCAHS, CCPE, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists

Surgical Safety Checklist: Controversy of Impact on Postoperative Outcomes
Janet Martin, MSc (HTA&M), PharmD, Western University

Controversy in Perioperative FiO2 on Postoperative Morbidity and Wound Infection
Janet Martin, MSc (HTA&M), PharmD, Western University

Global Perspective and Controversy on Task-Sharing in Anesthesia
Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, MD, DPH, Baerum Hospital; President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists

11:30am – 1:00pm

SOCCA Panel

Towards Precision Medicine Intensive Care Unit
Moderated by Robert David Stevens, MD, FCCM, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Clinical Informatics for Predictive and Prognostic Modeling in the ICU
Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic

Omics Applications in Neurotrauma Research: From Pathobiology to Treatment
Alan I. Faden, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine

The NIH All of Us Precision Health Initiative
Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, University of Michigan Medicine

Machine Learning in Intensive Care Medicine
Robert D. Stevens, MD, FCCM, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

12:00pm – 12:45pm

IARS Review Course Lecture

The Development, Use, and Limitations of Standards, Guidelines and Best Practices
Karl Poterack, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IARS Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Tonsillectomy in Obese Children with Down Syndrome: Not Just Another T&A!
Wilson T. Chimbira, MD, FRCA, University of Michigan Medicine and Olubukola O. Nafiu, MD, FRCA, MS, University of Michigan Medicine

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IARS Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Random Drug Testing in Anesthesia: Prevention and Protection or Invasive and Generation of a Slippery Slope?
Richard C. Prielipp, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School; APSF Board of Directors; Mark Rice, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lunch on Your Own

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Poster Session D
Poster Session

2:30pm – 5:30pm

IARS Workshop

Reflections on the Balancing Act between Work and Life
Moderated by Guelay Bilen-Rosas, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; James Fehr, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Kathrine Keech, MD, University Of Iowa; Norah R. Janosy, MD, University of Colorado; Martha Wynn, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Myron Yaster, MD, University of Colorado

2:30pm – 4:00pm

SAMBA Innovative Session

Wait, You Can’t Do That or Can You? Controversies in Ambulatory Anesthesia
Moderated by Niraja Rajan, MD, Penn State Hershey Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Girish P. Joshi, MB,BS, MD, FFARCSI, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Richard Urman, MD, MBA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School

2:30pm – 4:00pm

ISPCOP Panel

Fables, Facts and Best Practice Updates: The Patient with Obesity
Moderated by Roman Schumann, MD, Tufts Medical Center

NPO Assessment in the Obese Patient: When Ultrasound Can Help and How to Do It
Peter B.C. Van de Putte, MD, AZ Monica

Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Obese Patients – the Challenge and What We Know
Roman Schumann, MD, Tufts Medical Center

Antibiotics, Heparins and Vasopressors: Evidence-Based Optimized Dosing Guidance
Luc De Baerdemaeker, MD, PhD, UZ Gent Hospital

Intubation and Extubation for the Obese Patient – Myths and Safe Approaches
Tiffany Moon, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2:30pm – 4:00pm

SOAP Panel

Attaining the Opioid-Free Cesarean Delivery
Moderated by Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA, Stanford University School of Medicine

Opioid Use after Cesarean Delivery
Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA, Stanford University School of Medicine

In-Hospital Opioid-Sparing Multimodal Analgesic Techniques
Pervez Sultan, MD, MB, ChB, FRCA, University College London Hospital

Changing Opioid Prescription Patterns after Cesarean Delivery
Brian Bateman, MD, Msc, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

2:30pm – 3:15pm

IARS Review Course Lecture

Pain Outcomes, Patient Registries and Learning Health Systems: Delivery of Best Pain Care at Lower Cost
Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, Stanford University

2:30pm – 3:15pm

SNACC Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Anesthesia for Stroke-Challenges and Opportunities
Shobana Rajan, MD, Cleveland Clinic

4:30pm – 6:30pm

International Science Symposium

Dementia: Let’s Stop Losing Our Minds
Moderated by Christian P. Werner, MD, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University

Dementia Update: What’s New in the Field
Sandra E. Black, OC, OOnt, MD, FRCP(C), FRSC, FAAN, FAHA, University of Toronto

Critical Illness: What Matters is the Mind
E. Wes Ely, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Mechanisms of Mind Loss: The Clock is Ticking
Erik S. Musiek, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

4:30pm – 6:00pm

eSAS Panel

Getting Beyond the Anesthesiology Department: Broad Impact through Broad Thinking
Moderated by Michael R. Mathis, MD, University of Michigan Medicine

Collaboration with Surgeons: Opportunities for Perioperative Data to Enhance Surgical Registries
Michael R. Mathis, MD, University of Michigan Medicine

Collaboration with Primary Care: Opportunities to Improve Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Robert B. Schonberger, MD, MHS, Yale University School of Medicine

Collaboration with Pharmacists: Opportunities to Refine Medication Selection, Dosing and Delivery
Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD, MBBS, Yale University School of Medicine

4:30pm – 6:30pm

IARS Innovative Session

A Walking History of Medicine in Montreal: Osler, Penfield and Bethune
Moderated by Daniel Chartrand, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Montreal Neurological Hospital; Michael Aaron Chyfetz, MD, MSc, Montefiore Medical Center; Albert Einstein College of Medicine

4:30pm – 5:15pm

SOCCA Review Course Lecture

Reducing Variation in Red Blood Cell Transfusions – Are We Making Progress?
Stephen D. Surgenor, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health

4:30pm – 5:30pm

IARS Problem-Based Learning Discussion

Perioperative Pain Management in Patients on Buprenorphine
Daniel Burkhardt, MD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; Sakura Kinjo, MD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

5:30pm – 6:15pm

SOCCA Review Course Lecture

What is The Magic Number? Blood Pressure Thresholds in the Operating Room, ICU and Beyond
Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Celebration of Science Reception

6:00am – 7:00am

Women in Anesthesia Continental Breakfast
Sorry fellas, this one is ladies only please!

International Connections Continental Breakfast
What’s better than starting the day with a cup of coffee (or tea!) and fellow anesthesiologists from around the world?

General Continental Breakfast
Come meet your fellow anesthesiologists over a cup of coffee – you never know who you’ll run into!

7:00am – 9:00am

Kosaka Best of Meeting Abstract Awards

7:30am – 8:00am

Poster Session E
Setup

8:00am – 5:00pm

Poster Session E
Open Viewing

9:30am – 11:30am

Symposia

The Evolution of Onco-Anaesthesia: Changing How We Care for the Cancer Surgery Patient
Moderated by Julia Dubowitz, MBBS, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Translational Research in Onco-Anaesthesia: Where Are We Likely to Find Meaningful Answers?
Bernhard Riedel, MB.ChB, FCA, FAHA, FASE, M.Med., FANZCA, MBA, PhD, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Making a Case for Specialized Onco-Anaesthesia for Perioperative Care of Cancer Surgery Patients
Vijaya Gottumukkala, M.B., B.S., MD(Anes), F.R.C.A, The University of Texas

Modulating the Perioperative Surgical Stress Response to Improve Long Term Outcomes in Cancer Patients
Gregory Walter Fischer, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Expanding Onco-Anaesthesia Research in the Era of Metadata
Juan Cata, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

9:30am – 11:00am

APSF Panel

Can We Eliminate Medical Errors in the Operating Room?
Moderated by Richard C. Prielipp, MD, MBA, FCCM, University of Minnesota, APSF Board of Directors

Perioperative Medication Errors: What is the Scope of the Problem?
Karen C. Nanji, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

Eliminating Medication Errors Using Process Design
Eliot Grigg, MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington

There Has to Be a Better Way
Ken Catchpole, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina

Recommended Best Practices to Keep our Patients Safe, Expert Opinion Review
Joyce A. Wahr, MD, FAHA, University of Minnesota

9:30am – 11:30am

SNACC Panel

Opioid-Free Anesthesia: Biologic Basis and Potential Applications in Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Moderated by Dhanesh Kumar Gupta, MD, Duke University School of Medicine

Mechanisms of Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia and Possible Future Therapeutic Approaches
Jianren Mao, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Use of Esmolol, Lidocaine, Dexmedetomidine, and Ketamine for Opioid Free Anesthesia
Helene Beloeil, MD, PhD, University Rennes

Is Remifentanil Essential for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology?
Dhanesh Kumar Gupta, MD, Duke University School of Medicine

9:30am – 11:00am

Panel

The Enterprise Electronic Medical Record Data Access Problem: How to Build a Perioperative Data Warehouse for Quality Improvement, Reporting, and Research
Moderated by Richard H. Epstein, MD, Anesthesia Information Systems Clinical Anesthesiology

Where’s Waldo?: Deconstructing a Complex EMR to Build a Perioperative Data Warehouse
Ira Hofer, MD, University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

Holding on to the Baby When IT Throws Out the Bathwater: Maintaining Your Existing Data Warehouse
Jonathan Wanderer, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Making Lemonade When All You Get Are Lemons: Building a Data Warehouse in the Face of IT Roadblocks
Paul Potnuru, MD, University of Miami – Miller School of Medicine

Getting to Yes: How to Convince Your IT Department to Support Your Data Warehouse Project
Mohamed Rehman, MD, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

9:30am – 12:30pm

Workshop

Advanced Perioperative Ultrasound: Ultrasound Findings in Life-Threatening Perioperative Emergencies
Moderated by Julia B. Sobol, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; David Kiamanesh, MD, Stony Brook University School of Medicine; James A. Osorio, MD, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical Center; Oliver Panzer, MD, Columbia University Medical Center,New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Cortessa Russell, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center – New York Presbyterian; Paul D. Weyker, MD, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

9:30am – 10:30am

SASM Problem Based Learning Discussion

Perioperative Care of the Patient with OSA
Crispiana Cozowicz, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery

9:30am – 10:30am

SAMBA Problem Based Learning Discussion

Ambulatory Anesthesia – Common Problems during Pediatric Care
Kumar G Belani, MD, SAMBA, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital

11:00am – 12:30pm

SmartTots Panel

Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity: A Conundrum for Clinicians
Moderated by Lena Sun, MD, MPH, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Clinical Studies: Do We have an Answer?
Mary McCann, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School

Preclinical Studies: Are These Models Reliable?
Jeffrey Sall, PhD, MD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Can We Tie the Preclinical Data to Clinical Data?
Lena Sun, MD, MPH, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

11:00am – 12:30pm

SOCCA Panel

Critical Care Anesthesiologist & Acute Care Continuum of Complex Stroke Patient
Moderated by Ozan Akca, MD, FCCM, University of Louisville Hospital

Management of Acute Complex Stroke – From Emergency Room to the Interventional Suite
Miguel Cobas, MD, FCCM, University of Miami, Jackson South Medical Center

Should I Do MAC Or General Anesthesia for My Thrombectomy Patient?
Jerrad Robert Businger, DO, University of Louisville Hospital

Where to Admit the Acute Complex Stroke Patient after Thrombectomy?
Alexander C Fort, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Critical Care Anesthesiologist’s Role from ER to IR to the ICU: The MVP of Acute Complex Stroke
Ozan Akca, MD, FCCM, University of Louisville Hospital

Perioperative Stroke – Diagnostics, Prevention & Management
Phillip Vlisides, MD, University of Michigan Medicine

11:00am – 12:30pm

Panel

Understanding Observational Studies: Updates from Perioperative Epidemiologists
Moderated by Karthik Raghunathan, MD, MPH, Duke University School of Medicine

Hospital-level Analyses
Duminda Nalaka Wijeysundera, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

Studies that Use Propensity Scores
W. Scott Beattie, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine

Natural Experiments
Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine

11:30am – 12:15pm

Review Course Lecture

Airway Management of the Obstetric Patient: What’s New?
Sonia Vaida, MD, Penn State College of Medicine; Thomas Hemmerling, MD, MSc, DEAA, McGill University

11:30am – 12:30pm

Review Course Lecture

Pulmonary Alveolar Hemorrhage in a Patient with Short-Term Ventricular Assist Device Awaiting Heart Transplantation
Gebhard Wagener, MD, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Medical Center; Amy Wang, MD, Columbia University

11:30am – 12:30pm

Review Course Lecture

Updates to Perioperative Management of the Left Ventricular Assist Presenting for a Non-Cardiac Procedure
Sathish S. Kumar, MD, University of Michigan Medicine; Michael R. Mathis, MD, University of Michigan Medicine

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Poster Session E
Poster Session

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lunch on Your Own

2:00pm – 3:30pm

SOCCA Panel

Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy: Mechanisms and Management
Moderated by Wei Chao, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Coagulopathy in Sepsis: An Overview
Jean-Francois Pittet, MD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Molecular Link between Inflammation and Coagulopathy in Sepsis
Brittney Williams, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine

DIC in Sepsis: A Practical Approach
Jecko Thachil, MD, Manchester Royal Infirmary

2:00pm – 3:30pm

STA Panel

Beyond the Hype: Emerging Technologies and Their Potential to Improve Anesthesia Education, Research, and Care Delivery
Moderated by Kai Kuck, PhD, STA, University of Utah

Anesthesia Technology: We Can See the Future
Kai Kuck, PhD, STA, University of Utah

Blockchain and Anesthesia: Moving Beyond Bitcoin to Enhance Patient Safety
John F. Pearson, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Man vs. Machine or Man plus Machine? Leveraging Machine Learning and AI to Improve Health Care
Parisa Rashidi, PhD, University of Florida College of Medicine

Using Virtual and Augmented Reality to Augment Anesthesia Education and the Patient Experience
Clyde Matava, MBChB, DA, MMed, Hospital for Sick Children

How Can Mobile, Wearable, and Internet of Things Technology Help Me to Help My Patients?
Jeff Mandel, MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

2:00pm – 6:00pm

Initiative for Multicenter Pragmatic Anesthesiology Clinical Trials’ (IMPACT)

The program will showcase promising pragmatic trials from some of tomorrow’s leaders in anesthesiology research. The agenda will include:

• A panel on innovative and efficient approaches to multicenter clinical trials.
• A presentation and review of three selected clinical trial protocols. The review will include constructive feedback regarding clarity of hypotheses, merit of research methods, and feasibility.The goal of the review panel is to address issues common to many proposals to ensure an educational experience for all investigators who attend the symposium, in addition to those whose proposals are selected.

The presentation will include:

• The Comparison of Analgesic Regimen Effectiveness for Surgery (CARES) Trial
  Karim Ladha, MD, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital
• TRICS IV-Restrictive versus Liberal Transfusion in Younger Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
  David Mazer, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital
• Improving Population Health via the Surgical Encounter: Targeting Underuse of Statins
  Robert Schonberger, MD, MHS, Yale School of Medicine

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Review Course Lecture

Cardiovascular Outcomes in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Implications for Anesthesiology
John Augoustides, MD, FASE,FAHA, University of Pennsylvania; Harish Ramakrishna, MD, FACC, FESC, FASE, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IARS Problem Based Learning Discussion

Elizabeth Watson Duggan, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

Heroin for Labor Pain: What Are You Smoking or How to Get Controversial Research through the IRB
Michael H. Andreae, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Workshop

Bootcamp for Brief Cognitive Assessment Skills in the Perioperative Setting
Moderated by Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP/CCN, University of Florida College of Medicine; Franchesca Arias, PhD, University of Florida College of Medicine

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Symposia

Cell Death & Survival: Beyond Oxygenation
Moderated by Mervyn Singer, MB BS, MD, FRCP(Lon), FRCP(Edin), FFICM; University College London

Sepsis and Mitochondria
Mervyn Singer, MB BS, MD, FRCP(Lon), FRCP(Edin), FFICM, University College London

Exercise Preconditioning
Zhen Yan, MD PhD, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Hibernating Animals and Stress
Quintin Jose Quinones, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center

Tying It All Together: Future Strategies and Therapy
Robert Thiele, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Panel

Encouraging the Next Generation of Women: Growing Junior Faculty as Leaders
Moderated by Kathryn K Lauer, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin

Leading from Within: How to Build a Team while Managing Clinical Service Demands
Susan A Smith, MD, The Ochsner Clinic Anesthesiology and Critical Care

How to Strategically Say “No” in Order to Build Your Career
Harriet W. Hopf, MD, University of Utah Health Care

Designing an Academic Roadmap Success: Faculty Development and Mentorship in an Academic Anesthesiology Career
Colleen Koch, MD, MS, MBA, FACC, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Challenges in Leading Up, Down and Laterally
Mada Helou, MD, University Hospitals at Case Medical Center

Using Emotional Intelligence and Mindful Communication to Gain (or Lose) Professional Influence
Elizabeth Watson Duggan, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Israel Society of Anesthesiologists & Israel Association of Obstetric Anesthesia Obstetric Anesthesia in Israel Panel

Modern Obstetric Anesthesia Challenges in Traditional Populations
Moderated by Yehuda Ginosar, BSc, MBBS, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center

Be Fruitful and Multiply: Anesthetic Challenges of High Order (>5) Cesarean Delivery
Alexander Ioscovich, MD, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University

In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children: Do Anesthetic Interventions Have a Role to Play in Preventing Post-Partum Depression?
Sharon Orbach-Zinger, MD, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Tel-Aviv University

Two Nations Are in Thy Womb: Health Care and Obstetric Anesthesia as a Bridge to Peace
Yehuda Ginosar, BSc, MBBS, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Innovative Session

Anesthetic Management of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (IONM) Signal Changes: A Case-Based, Simulation-Driven Learning Experience
Moderated by Colby G Simmons, DO, MBA, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Leslie Jameson, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine

4:00pm – 5:00pm

SNACC Problem Based Learning Discussion

Perioperative Management of Patient with Closed Head Injury for Non-Neurologic Procedure
Letha Mathews, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

4:00 pm – 5:00pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation: Challenges in prevention and management
Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Taste of Montreal Dine-Arounds – Taste of Montreal Dine-Around
Be sure to sign up for this intimate dining experience, where you’ll meet your fellow anesthesiologists and enjoy some of the best food in Montreal!

6:15am – 7:15am

Marketing Yourself for Success Continental Breakfast
We know you’re great, and it’s time everyone else knows it, too. Come have coffee and a bagel while you pick up some marketing pointers.

Trending Topics Continental Breakfast
Jump feet-first into the day with discussions about what’s new, controversial, excited, and top-of-mind in anesthesia.

General Continental Breakfast
Come meet your fellow anesthesiologists over a cup of coffee – you never know who you’ll run into!

7:30am – 8:00am

Poster Session F
Setup

7:30am – 9:30am

Symposia

Intraoperative Opioids: Postoperative Consequences, Opioid-Free Anesthesia and Nociception-Index Guided Administration
Moderated by Philippe Richebé, MD, PhD, University of Montreal

Opioid-Induced Tolerance and Hyperalgesia in Perioperative Medicine
Martin S. Angst, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine

Opioid Free Anesthesia: Future Direction?
Patricia Marie Lavand’homme, MD, PhD, University Catholic of Louvain

Intraoperative Opioids: Postoperative Consequences, Opioid-free Anesthesia and Nociception-index Guided Administration
Philippe Richebé, MD, PhD, University of Montreal

7:30am – 9:00am

TAS, SOAP, SPA, and SAGA Panel

Trauma Anesthesia for Special Populations; Obstetric, Pediatric and Geriatric Patients
Moderated by Michael Murray, MD, Geisinger Medical Center Anesthesiology

Trauma Anesthesia in Obstetrical Patients
Manuel C. Vallejo, MD, D.MD, West Virginia University

Management of Pediatric Patients Who Have Sustained Trauma
David A Young, MD, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children’s Hospital Anesthesiology

Anesthesia in Geriatric Trauma Patients
Maurice Francis Joyce, III MD, EdM, Alpert Medical School of Brown University Anesthesiology

7:30am – 8:15am

SPAQI Review Course Lecture

Perioperative Troponin and MINS (Myocardial Injury after Noncardiac Surgery)
Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

7:30am – 8:30am

Problem Based Learning Discussion

Rib Fracture Pain Management – Controversies and Conundrums
Naveen Eipe, MD, The Ottawa Hospital

7:30am – 8:30am

Problem Based Learning Discussion

Facts and Myths of Hyperkalemia
Corey S. Scher, MD, New York University School of Medicine

8:00am – 5:00pm

Poster Session F
Open Viewing

9:30am – 11:00am

Panel

Anesthesia and Sensory Awareness: How Mechanism May Inform Clinical Practice
Moderated by Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Unconsciousness, Sensory Disconnection and Predictive Coding: Why it Matters to the Anesthesiologist
Robert Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FRCA, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Spatiotemporal Waves of Cortical Activity are Evoked by Sensory Stimuli in the Anesthetized Brain
Alex Proekt, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Cortical Networks Mediating Auditory Predictive Coding: Changes Across Awareness States
Matthew Banks, PhD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Thalamocortical Circuit Activation: Good or Evil?
Aeyal Raz, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

9:30am – 11:00am

Panel

Anesthesiologists as Monitors of Physiology: Remote Monitoring of Postoperative and High-Risk Patients
Moderated by Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Remote Monitoring – Updates and Future Studies
Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Results of One Year of Remote Monitoring of Postoperative Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Kyan C Safavi, MD, MBA, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Routine Post-Surgical Anesthesia Visit to Improve Patient Outcome (TRACE)
Wolfgang Buhre, MD, PhD, University Clinic Maastricht

Remotely Monitoring ECMO Patients – How to Do It
Kenneth T Shelton, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Biosensors and Wearables in Healthcare
Stephen A. Esper, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

9:30am – 12:00pm

Innovative Session

Exploring Healthcare Disparities in Perioperative Medicine: Why Do We Care?
Moderated by Helen H Lee, MD, MPH, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Exploring Healthcare Disparities in Perioperative Medicine: Why Do We Care?
Nathalia Jimenez, MD, MPH, Seattle Children’s Hospital; Michael H. Andreae, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; J. Renee Navarro, PharmD, MD, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine; Erika Blacksher, PhD, University of Washington; Amos Jones, Esq. Doctor of Laws, Hepatitis Foundation International;Jay S Kaufman, PhD, McGill University

9:30am – 10:15am

ISPCOP Review Course Lecture

Ambulatory Surgery in Morbid Obesity – Quo Vadis?
Naveen Eipe, MD, The Ottawa Hospital

9:30am – 12:30pm

Workshop

(Slightly) Advanced Statistics: Regression Analysis for the Anesthesiologist
Moderated by Lisa Kit-Ying Lee, MD, MS, University of California Los Angeles

Thomas M. Austin, MD, MS, Emory University School of Medicine; Dmitry Tumin, PhD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

9:30am – 10:30am

SAGA Problem Based Learning Discussion

My Patient is 92 Years Old, has a DNR, and Wants to have Elective Shoulder Surgery!
Julie McSwain, MD, Medical University of South Carolina; Sylvia H. Wilson, MD, Medical University of South Carolina

9:30am – 10:30am

Problem Based Learning Discussion

What is New in Management of Cirrhotic Patient for a TIPS Procedure?
Marina Moguilevitch, MD, Montefiore Medical Center Anesthesiology

11:00am – 12:30pm

SPAQI and SAGA Panel

Mind Your Elders! A Multidisciplinary Approach to Geriatric Perioperative Care
Moderated by Jeanna D. Blitz, MD, New York University School of Medicine

The Geriatric Patient: A Paradigm Shift in Preoperative Assessment
Heather Nye, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Perioperative Frailty-Epidemiology and Assessment
Daniel I. McIsaac, MD, MPH, FRCPC, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine

Cognitive Vital Signs for Your Older Adult Patient
Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP/CCN, University of Florida College of Medicine

Prehabilitation for the Elderly Surgical Patient
Michelle Humeidan, MD, PhD, The Ohio State University – Wexner Medical Center

Intraoperative Management of the Geriatric Patient
Zdravka Zafirova, MD, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:00am – 12:30pm

Panel

What’s New in Critical Care: Cardiac, Neuro, Surgical and Medical Intensive Care
Moderated by Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

What’s New in Cardiac Critical Care
Michael Wall, MD, FCCM, University of Minnesota Medical School

What’s New in Neuro Critical Care
Jean G. Charchaflieh, MD, MPH, DrPH, Yale School of Medicine

What’s New in Surgical Critical Care
Jean-Francois Pittet, MD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

What’s New in Medical Critical Care
Ronald Pearl, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

11:30am – 12:15pm

ASER Review Course Lecture

Perioperative Medicine and Enhanced Recovery: Current State and Future Directions
Santhanam Suresh, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Tong Joo (TJ) Gan, MD, MHS, FRCA, MBA, Stony Brook University School of Medicine

11:30am – 12:30pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

What’s Up: Evaluating Unexpected Intraoperative Hyperkalemia
Roman Schumann, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine; Jeffrey Gardner, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch on Your Own

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Poster Session F
Poster Session

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

What’s up: Evaluating Unexpected Intraoperative Hyperkalemia
Jeffrey Gardner, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

Turning Blue on the Way to PACU: Unexpected Deterioration in a Pediatric Patient
Claude Abdallah, MD, MSc, Children’s National Health System

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Symposia

Organ Protection during the Perioperative Period
Moderated by Holger K. Eltzschig, MD, PhD, University of Texas McGovern Medical School

Introduction
Jean-Francois Pittet, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Novel Therapeutic Concepts for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Holger K. Eltzschig, MD, PhD, University of Texas McGovern Medical School

Cardioprotection during the Perioperative Period
Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD, University of California Los Angeles

Hepatic Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
Simon C. Robson, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Perioperative Kidney Protection
Alexander Zarbock, MD, University Hospital Műnster

2:00pm – 3:30pm

SAGA Panel

Waves of Delirium: Anesthetic-Induced EEG Patterns that Predict Post-Operative Delirium
Moderated by Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Understanding Relationships between Intraoperative EEG Features, Anesthetic Dosage, Patient Cognition
Miles Berger, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center

Delirium in the PACU: What Does It Mean for Patient Safety? Can It be Predicted and/or Prevented?
Paul S. Garcia, MD, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center

Electroencephalographic Evidence of Sensitivity to Volatile Anesthetic Agents as a Predictor of Post
Bradley A Fritz, MD, Washington University School of Medicine

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Panel

Incivility in Academic Medicine: Incidence, Instigators and Impact
Moderated by Maya Hastie, MD, Columbia University Medical Center

Defining ‘Incivility’ in Medicine
Qi Cui Ott, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Managing Incivility: The Art and Science
Jonathan Hastie, MD, Columbia University Anesthesiology

Impact of Incivility in the Workplace
Harriet W Hopf, MD, University of Utah Health Care

Sources of Incivility in Medicine
Maya Hastie, MD, Columbia University Medical Center

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Innovative Session

Practical Lessons from Over 25-Years of Work in TIVA & Anesthetic Clinical Pharmacology
Moderated by Dhanesh Kumar Gupta, MD, Duke University School of Medicine; Talmage Dan Egan, MD, University of Utah

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Review Course Lecture

Patient Selection for Ambulatory Surgery: Can Any Patient Be an Outpatient?
Girish P. Joshi, MB BS, MD, FFARCSI, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Problem Based Learning Discussion

One-Lung Anesthesia for Pacing Wire Change in 115kg Fontan Patient
Susan P Taylor, MD, MPH, Medical College of Wisconsin

4:00pm – 5:30pm

eSAS Panel

Update and Primer on New Techniques in Basic Science Anesthesia Research (Optogenetics, CRISPR Cas-9, and Next-Gen Sequencing)
Moderated by Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

Optogenetic and Viral Tools for Identification and Manipulation of Neural Circuits
Aaron Norris, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine

Next-Generation Sequencing for Understanding Cell-Specific Contributions to Your Disease of Interest
Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

CRISPR Cas-9 Targeted Mutations and Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuits Relevant to Hypnosis
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Panel

Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia: Innovations from the Other Side of the Drape
Moderated Santhanam Suresh, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

ERAS for Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia: Regional Anesthesia’s New Turf
Jeremy Deer, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Can Neurologic Injury from Cardiac Surgery be Prevented by Hemodynamic Optimization?
Ken M. Brady, MD, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A Conundrum that We All Have to Face
James DiNardo, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital

4:00pm – 4:45pm

Review Course Lecture

Emergency General Surgery, the Elderly and Non-beneficial Surgery: Problems, Solutions and Outcomes
Geeta Aggarwal, MBBS, MRCP, FRCA, Royal Surrey County Hospital; Nial Quiney, MBBS, FRCA, Royal Surrey County Hospital

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Taste of Montreal Dine-Arounds