Faculty Disclosures

Dr. Aditee Ambardekar earned her medical degree from The University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. She completed anesthesiology residency at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She joined the faculty at UPenn and CHOP in 2009. Dr. Ambardekar became interested in simulation-based education and graduate medical education very early in her career and earned a master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014, she joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at UT Southwestern Medical Center. As the only pediatric anesthesiologist at Parkland Hospital, she developed expertise in pediatric burn anesthesia. Dr. Ambardekar’s leadership roles include Residency Program Director and Assistant Designated Institutional Official in the Office of Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Ambardekar is a national education leader. She sat on the Anesthesiology Review Committee at the ACGME and was the Chair of the committee from 2020-2023. Dr. Ambardekar is an Applied Examiner with the American Board of Anesthesiology. Most recently, Dr. Ambardekar participated on the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Task Force on GME and led the group through a national consensus building initiative to assess and redefine aspects of pediatric anesthesiology fellowship, including new case log requirements, effective July 2026. Dr. Ambardekar’s academic interests include simulation, graduate medical education, and pediatric burn anesthesia. She curates pediatric anesthesia content specific to education for Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day. She is proud of helping her late colleague and mentor, Dr. Ronald Litman, publish the 3rd edition of his book, Litman’s Basics of Pediatric Anesthesia. When not at work, Dr. Ambardekar enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.

Sean Barnes MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins working in both the pediatric cardiac ICU and the pediatric cardiac operating room. Sean is currently the Chair of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Communications Committee. In 2010 he came to Johns Hopkins as the first combined pediatrics and anesthesia resident and was a chief resident in anesthesiology. He then completed his pediatric critical care fellowship and pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Hopkins. Sean’s academic focus is on prevention and management of pediatric delirium in the perioperative period. He also has a well-known interest in social media and the impact it has on medicine.

Dr. Megan Brockel received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Creighton University in Omaha, NE, completed anesthesiology residency at Washington University in Saint Louis, and completed pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital. She is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado. Her clinical and research interests include pediatric enhanced recovery after surgery and she has co-led these efforts at her institution for the past 10 years. She has served on the executive board of ERAS Society Pediatrics since 2018 and is currently the president-elect of the Society.

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology who practices pediatric anesthesia at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO). My interests clinically have centered around complex airway patients including the aerodigestive multidisciplinary program at CHCO, complex airway reconstruction, neonatal high-risk tracheostomy, efficiency & reliability of high volume routine pediatric ENT surgeries, and anesthesia for patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa for which CHCO is a center of excellence. At CHCO, I have served as the ENT Liaison, Director of Visitors Education, Co-director of Aerodigestive, and recently joined the Institute for Precision Medicine. I am also a researcher focused on airway management outcomes and medication administration for ENT patients. At the state level, I have been an active board member of the CSA for 11 years and have a keen interest in advocacy and policy making at the state and national level that supports physician-led and physician-driven Anesthesia care for all patients. Currently I am the secretary for the CSA and have an interest in improving our membership communications, member engagement and society visibility for all anesthesiologists in Colorado. Nationally, I serve as an officer in the Frontier Caucus (part of the ASA Governance structure), as a long-standing member of the House of Delegates representing Colorado, and on multiple committees at the ASA. I am also a proud board member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA), am on the executive committee of the pediatric difficult airway registry, and on the executive committee for the newly formed Advocacy arm of the SPA. I have also served as the chairperson for the SPA’s annual meeting and am an active member of the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI); in these roles I am interested in advancing membership engagement, the mission and values of the SPA, producing stellar educational experiences for our SPA members, and advancing our members practices as well as children’s health through advocacy, education, community, and engagement of all SPA members.

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Dr. Nina Deutsch is Chief of the Perioperative Anesthesiology Division at Boston Children's Hospital. She has been actively involved in both clinical and education-based research throughout her career. In addition to this, she greatly enjoys working with and mentoring junior faculty in both research and educational projects. On a national level, Dr. Deutsch is a past President of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA). She is also happy to chair the Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative in SPA.

Dr. DiNardo graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School (with honors). He completed his anesthesia residency and fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He joined the faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1999 where he served as the Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia until November 2022. Until recently he spent approximately one third of this clinical time as an Attending in the Cardiac ICU. Dr. DiNardo is certified in perioperative TEE and is the former Chairman of the PTEeXAM Committee. He has served as a Senior Oral Board Examiner for the ABA and currently is a member of the ABA Pediatric Examination Writing Committee, and Past Chair of the Pediatric MOCA Examination Writing Committee. He is Past-President of both the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and the Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists. He is the Anesthesia and Analgesia Section Editor for Pediatric Anesthesia. He is the author of 2 major textbooks on cardiac anesthesia, an editor of 2 textbooks on pediatric anesthesia, and an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and 80 book chapters. He and his wife, Olivia run the Sowa Goat Sanctuary in Harvard, MA. https://www.instagram.com/sowagoatsanctuary/ It is a home for displaced and abandoned farm animals. He is an avid biathlon fan and participant and proud father of Isabel.

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment and governance. Professor Duflo's first degrees were in history and economics from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. She subsequently received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. Professor Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into more than 17 languages, and the recently released Good Economics for Hard Times. Professor Duflo is the Editor of the American Economic Review, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Dr. Duncan Wiebe completed her intern year in general pediatrics in Omaha, NE and then completed her anesthesiology residency at MCW and pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Dr. Duncan Wiebe was an attending physician at Children's Wisconsin for two years before returning to Nebraska. She has been practicing at Children's Nebraska since 2011.

Associate professor in pediatric anesthesiology. Clinical interests: pediatric procedural sedation; Research interests: neuromuscular blockade, monitoring and reversal; Leadership interests: faculty affairs.

Jamie Fleming is dual fellowship trained in pediatric anesthesiology and chronic and interventional pain management. Her fellowship training was completed at Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado. She is currently faculty at Phoenix Children’s Hospital where she practices pediatric anesthesia and acute and chronic pain management.

I am the Division Chief at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. I am incredibly lucky to work with a dedicated and talented team of pediatric anesthesiologists, fellows, residents, and anesthetists who I laugh with and learn from every single day.

Dr. Downard is a pediatric anesthesiologist and Clinical Associate Professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Brenner Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Downard is a faculty mentor for Pediatric Quality and Process Improvement at Brenner Children’s Hospital and an active member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Global Committee, frequently volunteering abroad with several trips receiving funding from the Doximity Foundation and Wake Forest Pennell Foundation. Her research interest include resident education, single-lung ventilation techniques in young children, congenital syndromes, global health, physician wellness and quality improvement measures.

Med school:George Washington Medical School Residency: University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital Fellowship : Children's National Medical Center I have been as UTSW/ Children Health for just over 10 years. I am the program director for our fellowship.

Matthew Goodmanson is currently a pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2016. He went on to complete his residency in anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 2020 followed by a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital in 2021.

Dr. Genie Heitmiller is the Joseph E. Robert, Jr. Professor and Chief of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She joined Children’s National in 2015 after 35 years at Johns Hopkins, where she completed her residency training in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology as well as fellowships in cardiac and pediatric anesthesiology, then served as faculty in the Departments of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatrics with expertise in pediatric cardiac anesthesia. She was Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine prior to accepting the position at Children’s National. Dr. Heitmiller has contributed to the field of anesthesiology in numerous ways. She has authored or co-authored over ninety publications, including peer-reviewed manuscripts, invited publications, book chapters and an anesthesia handbook. She was on the leading edge of the national health quality movement and served as an original member of “Wake-Up Safe”, a federally certified patient safety organization and was a long-time member and then Chair of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Quality and Safety Committee. She also facilitated the development of the original PediCrisis checklists and app, which have subsequently been revised along with a more robust and easier to use app. During her time at Johns Hopkins, she served as the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Physician Advisor for Clinical Quality Improvement and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, was a long-time member and then Chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Risk Management Committee ,and was a core faculty member of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Additionally, her work in cardiac anesthesia was on the leading edge when, in 1990, she led the Transesophageal Echocardiography Program at Johns Hopkins. In 2006, she was one of the founding charter members of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. At Children’s National, in addition to her role as Chief, she is currently a member of the Appointment, Promotions and Tenure Committee, oversees the Hospital Pain Committee, and is on the Advisory Board of the Case Western Anesthesiology Assistants Masters Program. Dr. Heitmiller has mentored many throughout her career and finds her most reward in the successes of her mentees.

Dr. Jennifer Hernandez is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Medical City Dallas, where she provides perioperative care for neonates, infants, medically complex children and adults. Her clinical interests include perioperative respiratory disease and optimizing anesthesia care for high-risk infants. She has a strong interest in patient safety, quality improvement, and improving communication between anesthesia, surgery, nursing, and intensive care teams. She is actively involved in multidisciplinary quality improvement initiatives focused on patient safety.

Pediatric Anesthesiologist working at Texas Children's Hospital

Fiona Kelly has been a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in Bath for 11 years, having trained in Cambridge, London and the Southwest of the UK. She was airway lead in Bath for 8 years, and during that time co-led (with Professor Tim Cook) the introduction of Universal Videolaryngoscopy in 2017, second generation supraglottic airways for all adults from 2015 and mandatory attendance at departmental airway workshops from 2016. She is a full-time clinician in Bath, with 50% of her time spent working on ICU and 50% in operating theatres. Her job involves caring for sick children in the Emergency Department and on the paediatric ward, and stabilising them prior to transfer to the regional paediatric intensive care unit by a mobile specialist team. In addition, paediatric surgical operating lists make up about two thirds of Fiona’s time in the operating theatre. Fiona has been chair of the UK Difficult Airway Society/Association of Anaesthetists’ Human Factors and Ergonomics guideline group since 2017, and hopes that these will be published in 2022. Her interest in staff wellbeing and recovery from potentially traumatic events started after she was the consultant in charge during an ICU fire in Bath in 2011: she is lead consultant for ICU staff wellbeing in Bath and is a member of the UK Association of Anaesthetists’ Wellbeing Working Party.

Sherry Kim is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist from Portland, Oregon. She completed her anesthesiology residency from the University of Michigan and her fellowships in ICU, pediatric anesthesiology, and pediatric cardiac anesthesiology from Stanford University.

Dr. Kuan is a pediatric cardiac anesthesia faculty member at LPCH at Stanford University. He is a trained pediatrician, pediatric critical care physician, and medical simulationist who has an interest in medical education. He is the program director for the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Advanced Fellowship program at Stanford.

BS, Biology (2012) University of North Dakota MD (2016) University of North Dakota Anesthesiology Residency (2016-2020), Duke University - Durham, NC Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship (2020-2021), Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship (2021-2022), Boston Children's Hospital

Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH is the Chief of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Director of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He was a founding member of the Harvard Work Hours, Health, and Safety Group, the founding chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a founder and Principal Investigator of the I-PASS Study Group, and a founder of the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute. Dr. Landrigan has led a series of groundbreaking studies on the epidemiology of medical errors, and interventions designed to reduce their incidence. His most important work has been focused on developing reliable patient safety measurement tools, and developing and implementing interventions to improve the safety of hospital care. His work on the relationship between resident work hours, sleep, and patient safety contributed to national changes in resident work hour standards. More recently, he led the development of I-PASS, a multi-faceted handoff and communication improvement program that AHRQ has described as the gold standard for safe handoffs of care. I-PASS has been adopted by pediatric and adult hospitals across the country. Dr. Landrigan has authored over 150 publications in the medical literature, and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, leadership, and innovation.

Mackenzie Laurila is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. She went on to study medicine at Des Moines University in Iowa, which is where her interest in anesthesiology developed, and where she met her husband. In 2016, she embarked on residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Somewhat unexpectedly, she fell in love with pediatric anesthesia at Children’s Hospital in Omaha during the end of her CA-2 year and had the privilege of staying where this passion started for fellowship. During her training, she had the opportunity to present at both regional and national anesthesia conferences. As an attending, her interests are resident and fellow education, as well as environmental sustainability. When she is not practicing anesthesia, she loves to spend time with her husband, three young children, and Boston Terrier. She also enjoys cooking, baking, cycling, and yoga.

I am serving as the Executive Vice Chair for Pediatric Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital. I am board certified in Pediatric Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology. My interests are in Faculty leadership development, operating room management and crisis management.

Dr. Matava is Staff Anesthesiologist at SickKids Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Associate Chief of Perioperative Services for Bioinformatics and the Director of Anesthesia Informatics, Innovation and Technology in the Department of Anesthesia at SickKids. In addition, Dr. Matava has designed and developed numerous apps, and has been recognized with several teaching and innovation awards. His current research involves the use of cutting-edge technologies, such as 3D printing, Virtual Reality, and machine learning, to advance medical education and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Matava is also the co-director of CHISIL, a VR lab at SickKids and the University of Toronto, where he is exploring the use of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in medicine. His areas of clinical interest include airway management and regional anesthesia. He has served as the President of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society and currently serves as President Elect for the Society for Technology in Anesthesia Board.

Andrea Murray, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University and an attending pediatric anesthesiologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. She is deeply committed to developing sustainable global health models and serves on the leadership council for Stanford’s Division of Global Health Equity in Anesthesiology. She also contributes nationally through her work on the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Global Health Committee. Dr. Murray’s additional professional interests include medical education, simulation, regional anesthesia, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her dedication to medical education led to a faculty appointment in the Stanford School of Medicine through the Educators-4-CARE program, where she teaches medical students twice weekly. She has been recognized both locally and nationally for her humanitarian efforts.

Dr. Olutoyin Olutoye is the Anesthesiologist-In-Chief, Arthur C. King Professor & Chair of the Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and a Professor of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research interests have spanned clinical research on the effect of pain medication in adenotonsillectomy as well as the effect of drugs in the obese patient to translational research examining the effects of anesthesia on the developing sheep brain. Her recent academic focus is on the benefits of mentorship in medicine and faculty development.

I graduated from the University of Bristol, UK in 1999 and began training in acute/emergency medicine. After several years heading down this root, I realized that anesthesia seemed to be a far more sensible option and switched careers, becoming a Consultant Anaesthetist in 2011. In the interim I was lucky enough to meet a lovely American girl, settled down and got married. My wife suggested I see what living and working in the US was like, so I applied for a fellowship in paediatric anaesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and started work there in 2012. I was expecting to head back to the UK at the end of the fellowship, but ended up staying and have been on staff at BCH ever since. My research interests include difficult airway management and videolaryngoscopy in children.

Dr. Jennifer Rabbitts is an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and practices as a pediatric anesthesiologist and pain physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is passionate about improving pain outcomes after pediatric surgery, and currently leads NIH-funded research studies investigating risk and resiliency mechanisms underlying acute to chronic pain transition after surgery, examining prevalence and predictors of opioid misuse after adolescent spinal fusion surgery, and testing the SurgeryPal program which teaches adolescents pain self-management strategies to improve pain and recovery following spine surgery. At SPA she serves as a mentor for the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative, and on the SPA Young Investigator Grant committee.

Faith Ross is an associate professor at Seattle Children's Hospital and Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship.

I am a padiatric Anaesthesiologist. Have been in practice for more than 20 years. Currently I am an associate professor of Anesthesiology in Netter Medical school at Quinnipiac university. Prior to this I was at Yale university & Nationwide Children’s. Published and presented multiple studies on physician’s well being, reaction time and cognitive effects of sleep deprivation.

Rita Saynhalath is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Health. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed anesthesiology residency at Texas A&M/Scott & White Memorial hospital followed by pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She stayed on as an attending and now has served as the Associate Director of Pediatric Clinical Research. Her research interests include neurodevelopmental outcomes in children undergoing general anesthesia, upper respiratory viral infections and perioperative respiratory adverse events, and novel devices for pediatric anesthesia. She is also involved with the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists as a co-organizer for the Pediatric Parallel session since 2017, serves on multiple committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and is a question writer for the Pediatric Anesthesiology written board examination for the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Jina Sinskey is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at UCSF, specializing in pediatric anesthesia. She is the Vice Chair of Well-Being for the Department of Anesthesia at UCSF and serves as Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Physician Well-Being. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative. She is the Pediatric Anesthesia Section Editor for OpenAnesthesia and previously served as the quality improvement lead for the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at UCSF. She received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in anesthesiology at UCSF and her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. Prior to pursuing a career in medicine, she worked as a management consultant specializing in marketing strategy at the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). Her approach to clinician well-being leverages her experience in management consulting and quality improvement, where she applies concepts of change management, human-centered design, continuous process improvement, and implementation science to create systems approaches to reduce burnout and foster well-being. Her research interests include clinician well-being, virtual/augmented reality for pediatric patients, conflict management, fetal anesthesia, and medical education.

Dr. Sinton is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX. She is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine. She completed anesthesia residency at Johns Hopkins, pediatric anesthesia fellowship at University of North Carolina, and pediatric cardiovascular anesthesia fellowship at Texas Children’s. She has moved from Cincinnati Children’s to continue her career at Dell Children’s. She believes that we should look systematically at the autonomic pharmacology of agents we use every day for the safety of our vulnerable patients including those with Down Syndrome. She has completed an R21 for the study of autonomic nervous system involvement in the development of bradycardia during induction of general anesthesia with sevoflurane. Data from that effort led to quantification of developmental autonomic physiology in our perioperative patients. Next steps include using large-scale physiologic data to tie autonomic insights to renin-angiotensin phenotype and response perioperatively. On a personal note, she enjoys a morning workout and a matcha to start her day.

Lisa Spector, MD, is a certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and General Pediatrics. She is Division Chief of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida and is a Professor of Pediatrics through University of Central Florida.

Dr. Judit Szolnoki is a pediatric anesthesiologist, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, FL, Professor at University of Central Florida. She obtained her Medical Doctor (MD) degree from Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, followed by a residency in anesthesiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her post-graduate training includes fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Szolnoki furthered her education by completing the Master of Science Program in Patient Safety Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Szolnoki’s clinical interest includes pediatric patients with difficult airways, open airway procedures and epidermolysis bullosa patients. She also has special interest in leadership principles, coaching and leadership development of others.

David B Waisel, MD, is the Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. His academic career has focused on the ethical and historical relationships among patients, clinicians, institutions and societies.

Dr Wang is at Stanford University where she is Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Program Director for the Pediatrics/Anesthesiology Residency Program.

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Dr. Webber is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Rochester SOM where she is Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship. She serves as Speaker of the NYSSA, Co-Chair of the SAMBA Pediatric Committee, and Chair of the ASA Committee on Ambulatory Surgical Care. Her interests are pediatric obesity in ambulatory anesthesia, airway management, and quality metrics.

I completed my undergraduate medical education at Oregon Health & Sciences University followed by residency in anesthesiology at University of Michigan. I then completed a Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at University of Colorado, Children's Hospital Colorado. I have been on faculty at CHCO for the last two years where I have enjoyed being a member of the education team. I have also taken on the role of Medical Student site director to work on improving medical student exposure to and education around pediatric anesthesiology as a field. My passions outside of work include running, travel, skiing, and my soon-to-be husband Andrew /our cat, Moo.

During his distinguished career at Johns Hopkins and the University of Colorado, Myron Yaster, MD has changed the practice of anesthesiology, pediatrics, pediatric pain medicine and pediatric critical care medicine locally, nationally, and internationally. He has mentored more than 150 faculty and fellows who have gone on to establish independent, distinguished careers in academic and private practice medicine. Dr. Yaster is board-certified in Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesia, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. After completing residencies in Pediatrics (Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh) and Anesthesiology (University of Pennsylvania) and fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesia and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania) he joined the Hopkins faculty in 1982. He retired from Hopkins in 2016 and joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. He retired from the University of Colorado in 2021. In retirement he edits the daily Ron Litman’s Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day which reaches a daily audience of over 5,900 readers in 99 countries. In an ongoing series of clinical and laboratory experiments that started shortly after his arrival at Hopkins, Dr. Yaster has been at the forefront of studies that demonstrated that the newborn infant responds to pain. More importantly, he and his colleagues have proven that this pain can be prevented by the appropriate use of anesthetics (general and regional) and analgesic drugs. Clearly pain, anxiety, and discomfort (both physical and psychological) are not limited to the newborn and do not begin and end with the induction and conclusion of surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Yaster started the Pediatric Pain Service at Johns Hopkins and was until 2005 its clinical director. This program treats approximately 3,000 in- and out-patients a year and is considered by many to be among the best programs in the world. It sets the standard for practice nationally and internationally and has served as the source of extensive clinical and translational research as well as practice policy. He and his colleagues have published extensively in this area. He has authored more than 300 original papers and book chapters as both the first author and as the senior author. In the later capacity he has been the mentor of many individuals who have gone on to become leaders in the areas of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatric Pain Management. Finally, Dr. Yaster founded and was the first President of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. This is the largest subspecialty organization of its kind in this field. It currently has over 4,000 members. In recognition of his many contributions to the Society, the Society founded the Myron Yaster, MD Lifetime Achievement Award which is awarded annually to leaders in the field of Pediatric Anesthesiology.

Lillian Zamora, MD is a staff physician at Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital where she has been for the past 9 years. She did her medical school and residency training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson Mississippi and her fellowship training at Medical College of Wisconsin Childrens Hospital in pediatric anesthesia.

Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia, SC.

Dr. Zweig is currently a pediatric anesthesia fellow at URMC. She enjoys short walks on the beach and being silly with her two young children.