The IARS is committed to advancing the field of anesthesiology through a number of research and educational initiatives that benefit not only practicing anesthesiologists but also patients of all ages. We strive to provide you with the latest news through several education newsletters as well as the important updates on this page.
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Register for the European Society of Paediatric Anaesthesia (ESPA) Neuromuscular Monitoring and Reversal Webinar, November 13, 2024 at 6:30 pm CET (9:30 am ET)!
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Learn from two renowned experts on this topic:
- Joseph D. Tobias, MD, Chief, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics, The Ohio State University
- Francis Veyckemans, MD, UCLouvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium
Enhance your practice and patient outcomes!
More: https://www.euroespa.com/espa-webinar-invitation-neuromuscular-monitoring-and-reversal/
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in US Anesthesiology Residency Matching
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Medical journals like Anesthesia & Analgesia do not exist in an academic bubble or scientific vacuum. Part and parcel with a public responsibility, ideally, these scholarly publications equally serve the needs, address the concerns, and reflect the priorities of their global stakeholders and the larger societies in which they coexist. Against this backdrop, further (a) promoting health equity and thereby reducing disparities in health and healthcare, and in turn, further improving healthcare outcomes in all patient populations, and (b) advancing academic and nonacademic professional accomplishment in all clinicians, together represent two of the greatest continued opportunities for medical journals across all specialties and subspecialties — including anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain medicine. Building upon the October 2023 themed issue of the Journal, this month’s issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia contains a high-impact bundle of papers on diversity, equity and inclusion. These papers span a wide spectrum: pain management during cesarean delivery; obstetric skills in rural hospitals; language preference and preoperative cognitive screening in older adults; gender differences in authorship and quality of anesthesia clinical practice guidelines; and using bibliometric data to define and understand publishing network equity. This content will hopefully stimulate further dialogue and action.
November 2024 A&A Video Summary: Featured Articles
OCTOBER 28, 2024
View this video summary covering three featured articles from the November 2024 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Submit Your Abstracts Now for the 2025 Annual Meeting, Presented by IARS and SOCCA!
Submission Deadline: November 3, 2024
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Share your original research by November 3, 2024 for a chance to present to your peers and thought leaders in anesthesiology at the 2025 Annual Meeting, March 20-23, 2025, in Honolulu, Hawaii! Don’t miss this valuable opportunity!
Be sure to review the submission guidelines when preparing your abstract. Abstract submitters will receive notifications on the status of their submissions in December 2024.
Act Now! Share Your Original Research
IARS Board Shares the Vision of the IARS
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In an open mind piece in the current issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the IARS Board of Trustees reflects on the goals and priorities of the organization and the updated mission and vision. Additionally, they highlight several exciting new initiatives that IARS is pursuing. Read more.
IARS and Journal Activities from ANESTHESIOLOGY 2024 in Philadelphia
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The IARS and Anesthesia & Analgesia actively engaged during ANESTHESIOLOGY 2024 in Philadelphia, October 17-22, through a variety of outlets.
- Research Lounge: As in previous years, the IARS was a cosponsor of the research lounge at the meeting.
- SmartTots Investigator Meeting: Leading investigators in pediatric anesthetic neurotoxicity shared the latest research findings in this important area of study.
- The A&A editorial leadership team met with the journal affiliate society leaders of APSF, ASER, ISAP, SABM, SAMBA, SCA, SOAP, SOCCA, STA, TAS and the WFSA to share editorial updates and field questions.
- IARS Editors at ASA: Many of the Anesthesia & Analgesia and A&A Practice and OpenAnesthesia® Editors presented at the meeting. See a list of who spoke at the meeting.
Below (left to right): 1. A&A Editors connected with the leaders of the Indian College of Anaesthesiologists in the exhibit hall. 2. IARS Board Chair Dr. Y.S. Prakash (left) and IARS Program Director Tricia Brazil engaged with SmartTots Investigator Dr. Caleb Ing during the Friends of FAER Reception.
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Apply to Attend the IARS-Sponsored Gordon Research Conference on Interdisciplinary Insights into Altered States of Consciousness Across Species
Application Deadline: December 29, 2024
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Take part in advancing the scientific understanding of consciousness, anesthesia and evolutionary biology by participating in this unique IARS-sponsored Gordon Research Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights into Altered States of Consciousness Across Species, January 26-31, 2025, in Lucca, Italy. This premier, international scientific conference occurs over five days in a remote location to allow ample time to focus on high-quality scientific interactions and build future collaborations and friendships between scientists at all career stages. Applications for this meeting must be submitted by December 29, 2024. Apply early before the participant spots are filled!
Conference Chair Ken Solt, MD, from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, reflected on the significance of this leading-edge conference for advancing this area of study. “Understanding the neuroscientific underpinnings of consciousness has broad implications for human health, including the treatment of disorders of consciousness due to brain injury, sleep disorders, perioperative neurocognitive disorders, and neuropsychiatric disorders. These topics are studied by investigators in diverse fields including neurology, anesthesiology, psychiatry, sleep medicine, and evolutionary biology, who may not be familiar with each other’s work,” Dr. Solt revealed. “This Gordon Research Conference (GRC) will bring together experts from around the world to discuss recent findings that will advance the development of novel strategies to treat these complex clinical problems.”
View additional details and apply for this conference.
2020 IARS Mentored Research Award Recipient Interview: Kamrouz Ghadimi, MD, MHSc, FAHA
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Kamrouz Ghadimi, MD, MHSc, FAHA
Study: Right Ventricular Metabolic Dysregulation after Surgery for Heart Failure
Kamrouz Ghadimi, MD, MHSc, FAHA, credits his IARS Mentored Research Award in 2020, and the formal training he received through the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Duke SOM’s Clinical Research Training Program with propelling his career and research forward. This initial research project, “Right Ventricular Metabolic Dysregulation after Surgery for Heart Failure,” set out to determine the role of dysregulated fatty acid oxidation (FAO) in cardiometabolic pathways that underlie right ventricular dysfunction and failure after operations that surgically treat left heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Leveraging a unique biospecimen dataset, the study outcomes indicated for the first time that cardiometabolic pathways and biomarkers, including FAO intermediate metabolites, were involved in early right heart failure. Now an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Director of the Clinical Research Unit for the Department for the Duke University Health System, Dr. Ghadimi oversees a multitude of prospective clinical and translational research protocols, helps develop research policy and operations within his department, and contributes to shaping the research environment within Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Health at large. Additionally, he provides oversight of the biospecimen repository for his department, which now houses more than 120,000 samples contributed by patients from multiple clinical trials over the years, and actively participates in their health system-wide precision health initiative, called OneDukeGen. In his interview, Dr. Ghadimi recalls his research journey, how his IMRA-funded study impacted patient care and the specialty of anesthesiology and his hopes for the future of anesthesia research.
Upcoming Webinar: Global Critical Care: The Crisis and Way Forward on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Critical care is underprioritized globally despite a growing burden of critical illness and evident pandemic under-preparedness. In this panel, we will discuss the global burden of critical illness, essential emergency and critical care, the fundamentals of everywhere and every time, and training the global workforce.
Moderator: Vanessa Moll, MD, PhD, DESA, FCCM, FASA, Professor, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Presenters
Global Critical Care (and Essential Emergency and Critical Care): Training the Global Workforce
Ana M. Crawford, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The Global Burden of Critical Illness
Didi Odinkemelu, MD, Resident Physician, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: The Fundamentals Everywhere and Every Time
Vanessa Moll, MD, PhD, DESA, FCCM, FASA
View the 2024 webinar schedule.
View Recordings from Previous Webinars
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Missed a previous webinar? IARS full members can access a valuable library of recordings from previous webinars from 2021, 2022 and 2023. Plus, take advantage of opportunities to claim Enduring Material CME credits.
Login to the Member Site to access this valuable learning.
Discover Anesthesia Community Activities on the Events Calendar
OCTOBER 28, 2024
View meetings and events from the IARS and the anesthesia community on the Anesthesia Community Events Calendar. If you have a meeting or event you would like to include on this calendar, email [email protected]. Please include the date, time, location and website URL for the meeting or event.
Explore On-Demand Recordings and Earn CME
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Missed the 2024 Annual Meeting, presented by IARS and SOCCA? It’s not too late to purchase session recordings from the meeting for just $150.
Attended the 2024 meeting but missed some sessions you wanted to attend? You have automatic access to on-demand session recordings.
Registrants received an email on July 1 with a unique link to view all recorded sessions. On-demand recordings will be available until November 15, 2024.
To claim CME credit for watching the recording as enduring material, just click the link on the session page labeled “OA360-CME.”
You cannot claim credit for both the Live Activity and the Enduring Material CME activity for the Annual Meeting.
OA Global Health Equity Ask the Expert
OCTOBER 28, 2024
OA Global Health Equity Section Editor Dr. Sam Percy interviews OA Global Health Equity Associate Section Editor Dr. Betelehem Asnake about her background and work creating a health equity curriculum for surgery and anesthesia residents that is freely available online.
OA-SOAP Fellows Webinar Series
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Allison Mitchell, MD, presents “Fixing the Broken Pipeline: How Assessment Bias Affects Trainees.”
Spanish-language content is now available
OCTOBER 28, 2024
on OpenAnesthesia, translated by Pediatric Spanish Education Associate Editor, Marco V. Padilla, MD.
International Anesthesia Research Society
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