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Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Bio
Dr Agarwal is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist who went to medical school and completed her anesthesia residency at Baylor College of Medicine, with a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Denver Children's Hospital. Her interests include pediatric pain management, regional anesthesia, ambulatory anesthesia, neuro-anesthesia, anesthetic effects on the developing brain, and medical education advocacy, mentorship and sponsorship. She has been Chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics: Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Management, and President of the Society of Pediatric Pain Management. She has completed a certificate program in health care leadership and in evidence based coaching and is working on becoming and International Federation of Coaching accredited Coach. She is passionate about advocacy for safer care for patients undergoing dental anesthesia, appropriate pain management for all children, and is very active with the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Session III - Track 1 General Session: Should Opioids be the Pariah of Pediatric Anesthesia?
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Associate Professor
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Houston, TX
Bio
Dr. Aina-Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Management at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, completed her residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Florida/Shands Hospital, and pursued fellowship training in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
She is deeply committed to medical education, global anesthesia outreach, and promoting diversity in medicine. She has received honors and awards, including the Texas Children’s Hospital Medical Staff In-Chief Excellence Award and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Mentoring Program Award.
Her work has been showcased in multiple poster and oral presentations at local, national, and international conferences. Dr. Aina-Jones has also contributed to academic literature, publishing peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Additionally, she served as a co-editor for Clinical Pediatric Anesthesia: A Case-Based Handbook.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Discussing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in SPA and Beyond
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Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 4:50 PM
Session IV - Track 2 Clinical Practice: Pediatric Anesthesiologists Outside the Operating Room: Opportunities for Growth
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Children's Medical Center Dallas-UTSW
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Bio
Dr. Alex is currently an associate professor at the Children's Medical Center in Dallas affiliated with UT Southwestern. He completed his residency at New York Presbyterian Cornell in Manhattan and completed his pediatric anesthesia fellowship at CHOP. His interests include regional anesthesia and resident education.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 19 - Little People, Big Challenges: Foramen Magnum Decompression in an Infant with Achondroplasia
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Bio
International fellow from Kingdom Saudi Arabia.
Currently pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellow.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 7 - How Do We Measure Up on Our Environmental Sustainability?
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Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Pediatric Anesthesia Associates Medical Group/Valley Children's Hospital
Madera, CA
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Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Valley Children's Hospital
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
WWspaD Panel - Case Discussions
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Professor, Residency Program Director
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Bio
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.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:55 PM - 4:15 PM
The Pediatric Anesthesiologist as a Leader in Simulation
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Professor of Anesthesiology and adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA
Bio
Dr. Corrie T. M. Anderson is a distinguished Full Professor of Anesthesiology and an Adjunct Full Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. He also holds a specialized Certificate of Added Qualification in Pain Management. With a career spanning over three decades, Dr. Anderson is a leading expert in pediatric pain management and regional anesthesiology.
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dr. Anderson demonstrated an early affinity for science. He went on to graduate with honors from Harvard University, where he majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. From there, he attended Stanford University Medical School and enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). While at Stanford, Dr. Anderson focused his graduate research on DNA repair, blending his interests in medicine and molecular biology.
After completing his studies at Stanford, Dr. Anderson moved to Massachusetts for his internship and residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital. Inspired by mentors and colleagues, he pivoted from pediatrics to specialize in anesthesiology. He fulfilled his anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and subsequently completed a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital.
In 1989, Dr. Anderson pioneered one of the first pediatric pain management programs in the United States at UCLA. His leadership roles at UCLA included serving as the Director of the Pain Management Program and later as the Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology. An inventor as well as a clinician, Dr. Anderson holds both American and European patents for an innovation known as the "Corrie Cover."
Relocating to Seattle in 2001, Dr. Anderson quickly became an integral part of the medical community. His exceptional teaching skills earned him the Golden Apple Seed Award on multiple occasions, as voted on by anesthesiology residents at the University of Washington. For over a decade, Seattle Magazine has consistently listed him among Seattle’s "Best Doctors," underscoring his impact on regional healthcare.
In recognition of his contributions to pediatric medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics honored Dr. Anderson with the prestigious Robert M. Smith Award. He also served as the Director of the Seattle Children's Hospital Center for Excellence in Pediatric Regional Anesthesiology until 2020. The National Medical Association's Anesthesiology Section paid tribute to his work by naming their annual difficult airway workshop the "Dr. Corrie T. M. Anderson Difficult Airway Workshop."
Committed to advancing the field through education and research, Dr. Anderson, along with his wife, founded the "Dr. Corrie T. M. Anderson and Virginia E. Williams II Regional Anesthesiology Research and Education Endowment" in 2015. This endowment is based in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:55 PM - 4:15 PM
Are You a Team Member? Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Team
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Professor T. Anthony Anderson, Ph.D., M.D. is a pediatric and adult anesthesiologist and Professor of Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research focuses on improving the management of acute pain, reducing the need for systemic pain medications (i.e., opioids), and decreasing the risk of developing chronic pain. He is interested in the development of novel technologies, specifically focused ultrasound, to reduce acute pain after injuries (i.e., from trauma and surgery), decrease the need for opioid analgesics, and reduce the risk of developing chronic pain. His research group also uses both national insurance claims data and EMR perioperative data to conduct QI projects and evaluate pediatric healthcare outcomes, including opioid use, pain, regional anesthesia, and perioperative healthcare disparities.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Professor of Anesthesiology
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Bio
Dean Andropoulos, M.D., M.H.C.M. is Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego, and completed Pediatrics and Anesthesiology residencies at the University of California, San Francisco. He also earned a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Andropoulos leads a department of more than 120 fellowship trained and Board Certified Pediatric Anesthesiologists, 35 certified registered nurse anesthetists, 20 fellows and residents, and 20 pediatric nurse practitioners performing more than 55,000 anesthetics annually ranging from simple outpatient surgeries, to complex cardiac and neurosurgical cases. Texas Children’s Department of Anesthesiology is a national leader in clinical care, safety and quality, education and research.
Dr. Andropoulos is the editor of two textbooks: Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease, 4th Edition, published 2023, where he serves as Editor in Chief, along with other Texas Children’s physicians. He is also the co-editor of Gregory’s Pediatric Anesthesia, 6th Edition, published in 2020. Dr. Andropoulos is also the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, and 50 textbook chapters relating to pediatric anesthetic research and clinical care. His research interests include neurological outcomes and brain protection for infant cardiac surgery, and clinical studies of anesthetic neurotoxicity.
Dr. Andropoulos has had research funding from the National Institutes of Health and has been co-principal investigator for the Texas Children’s Hospital/BCM Pediatric Heart Network Core Clinical Center – a National Institutes of Health funded clinical research network. Dr. Andropoulos was also the principal investigator for the Dexmedetomidine Study of the Pediatric Heart Network, investigating a new anesthetic technique for infant cardiac surgery.
Nationally, Dr. Andropoulos is founding director and first President of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society which now has more than 600 members devoted to clinical care, education, and training. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, and has been the President/CEO of the Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board and is the Medical Officer of the SmartTots organization, a public private partnership of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the International Anesthesia Research Society.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 4 - Bariatric Surgery in a Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Patient
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Associate Professor Anesthesiology & Peds
Univ of Arkansas/Arkansas Children's Northwest
Springdale, AR
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session III - Track 2 Clinical Practice: Personalizing Intraoperative Care in Children
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Bio
Dr. Thomas M. Austin is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta, a tertiary care facility with a very high acuity, Level-1 trauma and transplant services. His clinical expertise includes the perioperative care of patients from the neonatal period through adulthood. His academic and research interests include medical literature education, study design and replicability, multivariate variable selection, and prediction models.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Research Workshop: Turning an Idea into a Publication (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 13 - Don't Go Breaking my Heart! Or my Head!
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Bio
Wenyu Bai- Bibliographic Notes
Peer-Reviewed
Journal Article
4. Bai W, Golmirzaie K, et al. Evaluation of emergency pediatric tracheal intubation by pediatric anesthesiologists on inpatient units and the emergency department. Pediatric Anesthesia.26(4): 384-391, 04/2016. PM26738465
5. Bai W, Klumpner T, et al. Difficult airway management in children with trisomy 18: a retrospective single centre study of incidence, outcomes, and complications. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 130 (6), PMID: 36966022 doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.02.022
Book Chapters: Anesthetic management of an adolescent with Fontan physiology for a posterior spinal fusion. P 207, chapter 28: Lateral Tunnel Fenestrated Fontan in Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia- A Case-Based Approach. Edited by Laura K. Berenstain and James P. Spaeth. first, Cambridge,2021.
Online Platform for Peer Education
1. Bai W, Question of the week-Syndromes- Trisomy 18, 08/2021, Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society/ education/
2. Bai W, SPA Case Guide- Atrioventricular Septal Defect, 03/2023, Society of Pediatric
3. Bai, Ductus arteriosus dependency in newborns with congenital heart disease, 03/2024, Open Anesthesia
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Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 26 - A Child for PICC Placement in IR, A Quick Simple Case? How About NPO for NJ Tube Feed?
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Bio
I am a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine with a clinical interest in congenital heart disease for non-cardiac surgery and one-lung ventilation.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Bio
Heather Ballard, MD is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as the Director of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Anesthesia. Dr. Ballard received her MD from the Feinberg School of Medicine in 2006 and completed her residency in Anesthesiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2010 and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2011. Her research interests include health services outcomes research, medical education, simulation, and liver transplantation.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 8 - What!? No Blood! The Adolescent Jehovah's Witness Presenting for Liver Transplantation
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Bio
Dr Banoub is a senior Professor of Anesthesiology with dual subspeciality training in pediatric and cardiothoracic anesthesia and four board certifications. For decades, Dr Banoub held leading roles as medical director of pediatric and cardiac anesthesia service lines and played a key role in establishing, implementing and advancing various clinical initiatives including interventional congenital and structural heart disease Cath Lab programs, ultrasound guided regional anesthesia and advanced perioperative TEE. He has practiced in both private and academic settings, published many articles and book chapters, gave many presentations at local, national and international conferences, trained and mentored many residents and students. Dr Banoub also earned a healthcare focused MBA degree and received extensive physician executive and leadership coaching culminating in CPE certification from AAPL. He is a recognized fellow of the American Societies of Anesthesiology and Echocardiography and the American Association of Physician Leadership.
Dr Banoub also has a great passion for information technology and has attained physician executive training and certification in healthcare informatics. He served as physician champion during new EPIC and Cerner EMR implementations and as director of perioperative clinical informatics. Dr. Banoub is actively engaged through the American Society of Anesthesiologists Innovation and Informatics Committees in exploring new ways to utilize emerging artificial intelligence and advanced analytic tools to improve quality, safety and business operations. He continues to effectively impact the future of healthcare through active participation in local and national committees, societies and organizations. Dr. Banoub has great passion for mentoring and coaching physicians who are aspiring to lead the ongoing healthcare transformation and build an economically vibrant, high quality health system that preserves the physician-led and patient-centered focus.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 20 - Anaphylaxis in a Single Ventricle Fontan Patient in the Interventional Radiology Suite
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Residency at Columbia University Medical Center, fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital, currently practicing at University of California, Davis, Children's Hospital.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Chief of Quality, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin/Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Bio
Active clinical faculty in Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care.
Director of Quality for Pediatric Anesthesiology at Children" Wisconsin.
Medical Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director for ECMO
Vice Chair Pediatric Anesthesiology
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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ICF Certified Leadership Coach
Berenstain Coaching & Consulting
Ambler PA
Bio
After 30 years as a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, Laura Berenstain is now an International Coaching Federation certified Coach, coaching physicians for personal and professional development and well-being. She is an Advisory Board member and Coach for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative. Laura has traveled worldwide on mission trips teaching physicians how to care for children with complex congenital heart disease and has recently edited and published Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia: A Case-Based Approach. She has three amazing daughters who inspire her daily.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session IV - Track 1 General Session: SPA Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) Forum
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
WORKSHOP: Surfing the Wave of Uncertainty to Combat the Sharks of Anxiety (Live Participation Required)
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Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron, OH
Bio
Aspiring Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor Clinical
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Highland Park, IL
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 27 - A Simple Port Placement? Your Worst Nightmare is Just About to Start
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Bio
Stephanie Black, MD EdM, is Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, NH. She previously served as Assocaite Chief for Education and Professional Development at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was the Program Director for the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship. After 18 years in Philadelphia, she recently returned to her rural roots, where she is passionate about advocating for access to anesthesia care for the children of rural New England. She has spent most of her career as an educator, developing curricula and leading education teams. She is equally as passionate about professional fulfillment and career sustainability, and has devoted much of her energy to developing workplace systems that promote wellbing and longevity in anesthesia. Her education backgroup include curriculum design and implementation, and she has facilitated and lectured nationally and internationally on pediatric anesthesia, physician wellbeing, medical education, and organizational culture. She is also a lifework coach, primarily for women physicians.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
Pediatric Anesthesiologists as Master Educators
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Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellow at Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 17 - LTR - Laryngotracheal Reconstruction or Logistical Train W(R)eck
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Dr. Kimberly Blasius is a pediatric anesthesiologist and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine’s Charlotte campus. She earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed her anesthesiology residency at Mount Sinai, and pursued a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Blasius later expanded her expertise by earning an MBA, enriching her leadership and strategic acumen.
With a career rooted in professional development and simulation-based education, Dr. Blasius has conducted impactful research in the field of instability in medicine. A passionate advocate for mentorship and innovation, she has spearheaded initiatives to empower teams and foster inclusive, collaborative environments. Her dedication to cultivating talent and driving meaningful progress reflects her deep commitment to advancing patient care and academic medicine.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Karen Boretsky MD, FASA
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston USA
Harvard Medical School, Boston USA
• Founded Perioperative Regional Anesthesia Programs in 2 Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospitals, Published 55 original manuscripts, International Lecture & teaching invitations.
• Special Interest: Management of perioperative pediatric pain, Opioid-sparing pain management, Use of bedside ultrasound for diagnostics in infants and children
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Ultrasound-Guided Neuraxial Anesthesia
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Dr. Amber Borucki is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist whose focus is chronic pain management in children and adolescents/young adults and reducing or managing pain from chronic conditions or pain that occurs after surgery. Dr. Borucki completed her medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL. She attended anesthesia residency at the University of Chicago. She completed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital as well as a combined adult/pediatric pain medicine fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Borucki worked for one year in private practice in anesthesiology in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Borucki then began her 5-year tenure at UCSF as a pediatric anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist and was the Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Service at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. She is now a pediatric pain physician and anesthesiologist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. She is the Education Director for Pediatric Pain Medicine.
Notable accomplishments at UCSF include developing and co-chairing the UCSF Benioff Transbay Pediatric Pain Management Committee, serving on the Bridge to One Bay project to standardize pain care across all UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital locations, and assisting ChildKind designation (a prestigious designation for a hospital indicating that it prioritizes pediatric pain care). Dr. Borucki is a member of the medical advisory council for the Make a Wish Bay Area chapter. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) and also will be the program director for the upcoming 12th annual SPPM meeting. Dr. Borucki has also served on several committees through the American Society of Anesthesiologists and California Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Borucki served as an editorial board member for Paediatric and Neonatal Pain.
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Use of Opioids for Adolescents and Abuse Potential
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Meredith Rockeymoore Brooks, MD, MPH is a Pain Management Physician and Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas School of Osteopathic Medicine and is active mentoring students, working with patients and conducting research. She first became interested in pediatric pain during an advanced pediatric anesthesia fellowship training at Stanford Children’s Health, which was followed by pediatric pain and adult pain medicine fellowships at Stanford Hospital. Dr. Brooks has also received medical acupuncture training which she integrates into her clinical practice. Dr. Brooks graduated from Prairie View A&M University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she earned a certificate in health policy and received a Master’s in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her anesthesia residency at Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Brooks is a board certified anesthesiologist, pediatric anesthesiologist, and pain physician by the American Board of Anesthesiology. She is also a board certified physician acupuncturist by the American Board of Medical Acupuncture. On her free time she loves to cook, read, and travel. She is a proud wife to Jeremiah and mother to three children Zoe, Anaiah, and Joshua.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:05 AM - 10:55 AM
SPA Diversity Panel Discussion
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Bio
Dr. Brown is an associate professor and the clinical director of the division of cardiac anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital. She takes care of children and adults with congenital heart disease and has an interest in quality improvement and safety in these patients.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 21 - Congenital Heart Disease in Trisomy 21 Patients: Anesthetic Implications for Non-Cardiac Surgery
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD)
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Dr. Brown is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan where she divides her time between taking care of children in the operating room and researching how to improve postsurgical pain outcomes in children through behavioral interventions. Before that she completed her MD and PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania followed by residency and fellowship training at Penn and CHOP respectively. Her loves include analyzing data, writing, reading fiction, spending time with her family, and petting her dogs.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
Updates from SPA Young Investigator Research Award Recipients
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Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Bio
Dr. Brustowicz became interested in quality assurance processes just as the medical community was adopting these methodologies to improve the delivery of medical care. Attending a presentation by Dr. Don Berwick inspired him to become active in his hospital’s processes. Bob was instrumental in organizing many of Boston Children’s Hospital early QI Committees as the Chief Physician Advisor of their Quality Assurance Program. Familiar with both the Model for Improvement and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, he is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians and is certified in Health Care Quality and Management. Currently he serves as a Medical Consultant for the Quality Management and Performance Improvement Program for his department at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is the current President of Wake up Safe.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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I currently work at nationwide Childrens hospital in Columbus Ohio. My interests include sustainability, difficult airway management, faculty development and anesthesia for dental procedures while I'm at work. When at home my wife and 4 children keep me busy. In between I'll be found on my bicycle in the woods.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 7 - How Do We Measure Up on Our Environmental Sustainability?
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David Buck, MD, MBA, is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesia and Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He completed both his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship and advanced fellowship in quality improvement at Cincinnati Children’s. He currently serves as Vice Chief of Quality Improvement and Safety for the Department of Anesthesiology and has lectured nationally and internationally on quality improvement. Dr. Buck is also the Past President of Wake Up Safe, the pediatric anesthesia quality improvement initiative.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH
Bio
Special interest in pediatric regional anesthesia and pediatric liver transplantation.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
I am excited to be a part of the Texas Children's Heart Center team, Pediatric Anesthesia team, and the continuing commitment to excellence. I take my role and responsibilities very seriously to provide safe anesthesia for children with and without congenital heart disease undergoing procedures. I strive daily to provide quality anesthetic care with the goal of minimizing pain after surgical procedures.
Friday, February 26, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Simulation as a Tool for COVID-19 Management
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Ellise completed her anesthesiology training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY and a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, where she remained to complete a Comprehensive Pediatric Pain fellowship for one additional year. Currently, Ellise works as an attending at Long Island Jewish/Cohen Children's Medical Center.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Arvind is a funded researcher in sleep and neural stem cell physiology through NHLBI
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 2 - Interacting with the IRB
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Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
University of Texas at Southwestern
Bio
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Jerry Chao is a pediatric anesthesiologist and clinical researcher at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Session III - Track 2 Clinical Practice: COVID: Stories from the Front Lines
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Lynette Charity MD is a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist with over 40 years of experience. After graduating from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1974 with a B.S. in Biology-Chemistry, Dr. Charity attended Tufts University School of Medicine and received her medical degree in 1978. After a one year Internal Medicine internship, she completed a residency in Anesthesiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA and two fellowships in Neuroanesthesia and Obstetrical Anesthesia. Dr. Charity enlisted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps and while teaching Anesthesiology residents and becoming Asst. Chief of Anesthesia and Operative Services at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, she achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before leaving the military to join a civilian MD-only Private Practice Group. After 14 years in that group, she moved with her husband and children to Virginia where she worked as a civilian at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In the last 20 years of her career, she has done locum tenens assignments, was the Chief of Anesthesiology at Kadlec Medical Center in Tri-Cities, WA, practiced in Abu Dhabi, UAE and worked in various ambulatory surgery centers. She is now retired from clinical Anesthesiology and has honed her skills as a professional physician speaker. Her desire to stop the stigma of mental healthcare for physicians has led her to speak out about her own struggle with depression and shared that struggle in a TedxTalk.
Dr. Charity resides in Gilbert, AZ with her husband of 41 years, Anthony Sado MD. She has two adult children and a grandson. Besides her keynote presentations, Dr.Charity enjoys doing stand-up comedy because "laughter is the best medicine."
Saturday, February 27, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Pediatric Anesthesiology: Your Calling, But Don't Let It Kill You
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Professor of Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
Bio
Dr. Chatterjee is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado and a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 3 - Adventures During Emergent Thoracotomy in a Neonate with Congenital Lobar Emphysema: Hypoxia, Hypercarbia, and Lost EtCO2
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 3 - How to Moderate and Design an Effective PBLD
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Arkansas Children's Hospital
Little Rock, AR
Bio
Dr. Destiny F. Chau is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist and current program director of the advanced pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/ Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
After an undergraduate degree in engineering, Dr. Chau received her medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and remained there for her anesthesiology residency training. She subsequently completed a pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2010. She has a lifelong interest and track record in educating and mentoring students and faculty from diverse backgrounds. She enjoys learning, traveling, and being around people and nature.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Kathleen Chen completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Design from Tufts University in Medford, MA in 2002. She then continued her education and obtained her Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2003. Dr. Chen attended Tufts University, School of Medicine in Boston, MA where she earned her Medical Doctor degree in 2007. She was an intern and resident in the Department of Anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian, Weill Cornell in New York, NY until December 2008. She then completed Anesthesiology Residency training in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, in Boston, MA in July 2011. Dr. Chen then completed her Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA in September 2012.
Dr. Chen joined Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 after working as a staff pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital- Harvard Medical School and private practice. Shortly after matriculating at TCH/Baylor as a staff pediatric anesthesiologist, she was appointed as the Director of Anesthesiology at the Mark Wallace Tower ambulatory surgery operating rooms. In 2018, she founded Texas Children’s Hospital’s CHARIOT (Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology) program, in collaboration with Stanford University’s program. Her expertise in distraction through the use of immersive technologies has been featured in CNET.com, The Houston Chronicle, TMC Pulse, and KHOU Channel 11. Her practice specialty focuses on operational efficiency and workflow, improving the patient hospital experience, and minimizing anxiety and pain using distraction techniques and immersive technologies.
Friday, February 26, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Simulation as a Tool for COVID-19 Management
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Dr. Chiao is an internationally known anesthesiologist. His clinical focus is pediatric regional anesthesia acute pain. He has numerous publications and lectures internationally at leading conferences.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Physician-scientist, pain management, Professor
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Session III - Track 1 General Session: Should Opioids be the Pariah of Pediatric Anesthesia?
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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I completed anesthesiology residency at the University of Rochester. I completed my pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. I am currently an associate professor at the University of Washington, and I practice at Seattle Children’s Hospital. I am the Director of Anesthesiology at the Bellevue Clinic and Surgical Center. My areas of interest are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Quality Improvement.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 22 - Anterior Mediastinal Mass Management in a 10-Month-Old Patient
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St. Louis Children's Hospital
Washington University
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 5:10 PM
Session IV - Track 1 General Session: Dual CCAS-SPA Session: Cutting-Edge Cardiac Anesthesia in Children
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Staff Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia UBC
British Columbia Children's Hospital
Vancouver, BC Canada
Bio
I think you guys have a current bio already
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
Everything Old Is New Again: Introducing Integrative Medicine to the Pediatric Perioperative Arena
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Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Bio
Anesthesia Residency: UT Houston
Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship: Emory University
Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship: Emory University
Currently Assistant professor of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Program director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia fellowship
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 12 - When the Midnight Pediatric Emergency is not "Just a Lap Appy": Challenges with a Common Surgery in a Not-So-Common Patient
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Michelle DaCosta is originally from Dayton, Ohio. She went to the University of Michigan for her undergraduate degree, majoring in biopsychology with a minor in biology. After that Dr DaCosta attended medical school at Wright State University BSOM in Dayton, Ohio. She did her internship in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, residency in anesthesiology at Allegheny General in Pittsburgh, PA, and her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Washington University, in St Louis, MO. She also completed a combined pediatric cardiac and adult cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at Emory University. Dr DaCosta also completed her MBA with a healthcare administration certificate from the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business in Dec 2017. Dr DaCosta is triple board certified in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, and Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE). Dr DaCosta is very interested in global health and has traveled to Haiti and Bangladesh for pediatric anesthesiology mission trips.
Dr DaCosta is also currently a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) cardiovascular & Thoracic anesthesiology committee, as well as the ASA pediatric anesthesiology committee. She is also a board member of the Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists (AzSA) and is the current South Central District Director. She is also a member of the National Medical Association (NMA) anesthesiology and physician executives sections. Dr DaCosta is now the NMA Region 6 Vice Chair and part of the planning committee for the upcoming Region 6 regional meeting. She is also a new member of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Sports Science Committee.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 28 - Nuss Procedure in an Adolescent with a History of Multiple Cardiac Surgeries- What Could Go Wrong?
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Dr Priti Dalal is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Penn State Health Children's Hospital. She is Division Chief and Medical Director for Pediatric Anesthesiology. She is also Co-Chair of Promotion and Tenure and Pediatric anesthesia QS leader, Chair of the SPA-QS committee.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Session I: Updates from Pediatric Anesthesia Registries
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Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Rodrigo Daly Guris is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Davidson is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Designated Institutional Official for the residency and fellowship programs at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She also currently serves as the Interim Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology. Her main interests lie in medical education. She is actively involved in the Society for Education in Anesthesia and serves as co-director of the annual SEA Workshop on Teaching where she has met many SPA members. She lives in Vermont with her husband Mark and dog Sally. She is the mother of two adult daughters.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:05 PM - 2:25 PM
Who's Driving the Car? A Reflection on Personal and Professional Decision Making
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Clinical Director Pediatric Heart Transplant and VAD
Medical Director of Non-Cardiac OR Anesthesia
University of California, San Francisco
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Ultrasound Evaluation of Gastric Emptying Time in Neonates and Infants
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Current Advanced Pediatric Cardiac Fellow and General Pediatric Anesthesiology Attending at CHOP
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 15 - My Body, My Decision: Informed Consent, Assent, and the Child/Adolescent as Medical Decision Maker
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Nemours Children's Hospital (emeritus)
Orlando, FL
Bio
quality initiative of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA). He a pediatrician, pediatric intensivist and anesthesiologist. Jay has served in numerous leadership roles in the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and the AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Management. He is a former president of the SPA and was involved in the creation of Wake up Safe. Jay has held several institutional leadership roles, including chief medical officer and chief quality officer at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock), and anesthesiologist-in-chief and executive physician for quality and safety at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University. Jay retired as chief of quality, patient safety and clinical analytics at Nemours Children’s Health Florida. He serves as a member of the children’s surgery verification program committee of the American College of Surgeons, and professor of pediatrics (emeritus), Nemours Children’s Florida/University of Central Florida.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and Outline of Educational Program: A Celebration of Women in Pediatric Anesthesiology
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
SPA DEI Survey Results / Updates on SPA Actions to Improve Diversity
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr. Christina Diaz is Chief of the General Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, a role she assumed in January 2026. Prior to this appointment, she served for 17.5 years as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she dedicated her career to clinical excellence, trainee education, simulation, and faculty development.
Dr. Diaz currently serves as President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and is the Immediate Past President of the Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. Through these leadership roles, she advocates nationally for the unique needs of children and the vital role pediatric anesthesiologists play in their care.
A passionate educator, Dr. Diaz has held multiple educational leadership roles, including Fellowship Simulation Director, Assistant Program Director, and Residency Site Director. Over the past five years, she has focused on faculty development and leadership mentoring. She holds International Coaching Federation accreditation and is committed to developing the next generation of academic leaders.
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session II: AAP Ask the Experts
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 17 - LTR - Laryngotracheal Reconstruction or Logistical Train W(R)eck
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Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia
A.I. duPont Hosp for Children
Wilmington, DE
Bio
Nemours Children's Health
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Dr. Catherine Dietrich attended medical school, followed by residency in Anesthesiology, at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She subsequently completed her Pediatric fellowship and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Clinical Experience at Lucile Packard Stanford Children's Hospital. Since the summer of 2022, she has served as Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology faculty at Stanford Children's.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 12 - When the Midnight Pediatric Emergency is not "Just a Lap Appy": Challenges with a Common Surgery in a Not-So-Common Patient
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A former pediatrician, I found my passion and went back to pursue anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology. I attended UCSD for medical school, Stanford for Pediatric residency, and University of New Mexico for Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship where I stayed on as faculty and served as pediatric anesthesia fellowship director and division chief. Most recently, I have begun practicing at a private practice in Reno, NV after my husband relocated his job, but I still have enjoyed practicing pediatric anesthesia at Arkansas Children's and University of New Mexico during this time.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 2 - Something Awful Happened in the OR...Now What? Creating a Positive Path Forward in the Face of Trauma and Adversity.
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My previous career included a stint as pediatrician. I realized my calling in life is a pediatric anesthesiologist. This resulted in training at Rochester, New York (anesthesia residency) and Chicago, Illinois (pediatric fellowship). Presently I work for the University of Texas Southwestern at Children's Health Dallas/Plano.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 19 - Little People, Big Challenges: Foramen Magnum Decompression in an Infant with Achondroplasia
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Laura Downey, MD is a Professor at Emory University in the Department of Anesthesiology and a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Her research focuses on understanding the role of fibrinogen and platelets in hemostasis in children after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. She was awarded the 2019 SPA Young Investigators Grant to complete a clinical trial comparing fibrinogen concentrate to cryoprecipitate in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery. In 2021, she was awarded the 2021 International Anesthesia Research Society Mentored Research Award to study platelet function in neonates. She is currently the Secretary for the CCAS, Chair of the CCAS Research Committee, a member of the CCAS Hemostasis Interest Group, and a member of the ASA Patient Blood Management Committee. She enjoys traveling, triathlons, and hiking with her dog and husband.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Associate Professor of Urology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY
Bio
Dr. Drzewiecki is a board certified urologist, with a second specialty training and board certification in pediatric urology. She has worked at Montefiore/Einstein since July 2012 after finishing her pediatric urology fellowship at Vanderbilt University. She received her undergraduate degree from Emory University and her medical degree from New York Medical College, after which she completed a urologic residency at Boston University Medical Center. Dr. Drzewiecki focuses are on genital reconstructive procedures including hypospadias, genital gender affirming procedures, and minimally invasive procedures with the DaVinci robot. She has spearheaded multidisciplinary care for intersex and transgender/non binary individuals at both the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore as well as Montefiore/Einstein.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Faculty/Instructor, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
Meg began her career as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit registered nurse in Atlanta, GA at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She worked there as a staff nurse for almost four years and completed a course in Evidenced Based Practice. Meg chose to advance her career by pursuing a master's degree in Nurse Anesthesia at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. During her time in school she served for two weeks with Mercy Ships in Madagascar. Once she graduated she joined Texas Children's Hospital as a CRNA and she works at all three campus locations in Houston, Texas. While at Texas Children's, Meg served again with Mercy Ships, this time in Cameroon, Africa in 2017. In 2019 Meg administered anesthesia in Nagpur, India for a week long pediatric surgery camp. Meg is passionate about pediatric anesthesia, specifically ERAS implementation. Meg is a wife to Matt, a pilot, and a mom to Maddie. They are expecting their second child in the Fall of 2022.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Advanced Practice Providers (APP) Symposium
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Dr. Egbuta is a Staff Anesthesiologist and Pediatric Intensivist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a member of the Harvard Medical School Faculty—an Instructor of Anaesthesia. She completed a Residency in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Residency in Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as Fellowships in Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Anesthesiology, also at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She obtained her degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Egbuta is a co-director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Difficult Airway Management Course. She is also currently tasked with building up the Pediatric Anesthesia Curriculum for OPENPediatrics—a not-for-profit, open access, online educational platform that creates informational videos, simulators, and other critical care learning tools sponsored by Boston Children’s Hospital.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Training Pediatric Airway Experts: Anesthesia and PICU
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Associate Professor of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Bio
Dr. Odinakachukwu (Odi) Ehie, MD, MAEd is an Associate Professor and board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist with a deep commitment to medical education, global health equity, and inclusive excellence. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and completed her anesthesiology residency at NYU Langone Medical Center. She subsequently pursued fellowship training in pediatric anesthesiology at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, where she also led global health education initiatives focused on perioperative care and capacity building in Vietnam.
Dr. Ehie currently serves as Vice Chair for Opportunity & Outreach in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she leads departmental efforts focused on community, opportunity, recruitment, and engagement. She is also the Head of Clinical Skills Curriculum for the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP) and Faculty Director of Student Support for the UCSF School of Medicine, where she plays a key role in mentoring and advising medical students across all stages of training. Her educational leadership is grounded in both clinical expertise and pedagogical training—she recently earned a Masters in Education from UC Berkeley with a focus on equity-centered curriculum design and learner development.
Nationally, Dr. Ehie is the Chair of the Global Health Outreach Committee for the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) and serves as Vice Chair for Community, Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement (CORE) for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA). She is the Past Chair of the California Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) and continues to serve as an advisor and collaborator across multiple national inclusive excellence and global health initiatives.
Through her intersecting roles as educator, clinician, and advocate, Dr. Ehie is dedicated to transforming learning environments, advancing health equity, and cultivating inclusive academic communities that reflect and serve the diversity of our patients and learners.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Allyship/Call to Action
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Born and raised in Cyprus, of Greek heritage, I am an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (Co-chair SEA DEIJ committee), passionate about education (MHPE, Assessment committee UMichigan) and promoter of excellent pediatric perioperative care (Pediatric Anesthesiologist in-Chief, UMN-Twin Cities.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Branden Engorn, MD works clinically as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist, and Pediatric Intensivist as well as serves as the Director of Quality and Safety for the Department of Anesthesiology at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. Dr. Engorn also serves as a Physician QI Specialist for the Rady Children’s Hospital Sadler Center for Quality. Dr. Engorn is board certified in Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Engorn is a partner at Anesthesia Service Medical Group and a Voluntary Clinical Instructor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at University of San Diego Health Sciences.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Pediatric Anesthesiologists in the Pediatric ICU
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session II: WWspaD: What Would SPA Members Do? Panel
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Assistant Professor
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Bio
Pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago and assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 4 - Bariatric Surgery in a Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Patient
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I am originally from Belgium where I practiced as a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist in the department of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital in Brussels until September 2014. From October 2014 until June 2016, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Research Associate in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. I completed my PhD thesis in June 2015, entitled: “Perioperative Management of Bleeding in Children undergoing Cardiac Surgery”. After years in Toronto and Houston, I joined the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children's as a Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia in October 2024.
My research is focused on patient blood management, coagulation, and risk assessment of patients with congenital heart disease.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Clinical Anesthesia (retired)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Jeffrey M. Feldman, MD, MSE, FASA has been an Attending Anesthesiologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Feldman has a special interest in the technology of anesthesia delivery systems including low flow and closed circuit anesthesia, mechanical ventilation of the anesthetized patient and patient monitoring. Throughout his career, Dr. Feldman has combined his background in engineering with an interest in the use of technology to enhance patient care. This interest has been the motivation for research and educational activities as well as consulting with medical device companies.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St Petersburg, FL
Bio
Dr Fernandez is a pediatric anesthesiologist and acute and chronic pain management physician. She currently practices at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Dr. Fernandez interests are in quality improvement, clinical research and women empowerment. She has been president of SPAIN and PCCG. Dr. Fernandez created the series Women of Impact in Anesthesiology https://www.asahq.org/education-and-career/women-of-impact.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
Sunday, February 28, 2021
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Improvement Network (SPAIN)
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Dr. Marla B. Ferschl is the Executive Vice Chair for Pediatric Anesthesia, the Division Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Mission Bay and a Clinical Professor of Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF. Clinically, she is an anesthesiologist who treats children requiring sedation or anesthesia for procedures, radiologic studies, or surgery. Additionally, Dr. Ferschl attends on the integrated pediatric pain and palliative care service as a member of the acute pain team. Dr. Ferschl is also the director of fetal anesthesia at UCSF.
Throughout her career, Ferschl has demonstrated a strong commitment to medical education. She received an excellence in teaching award from the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2012 and was appointed as a member of the Academy of Medical Educators in 2019. Her past leadership roles have included serving as the program director for the ACGME accredited Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program, and the director of fellowship education in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care.
Ferschl’s research interests span anesthesia for fetal surgery, operating room efficiency, and adverse respiratory outcomes in pediatric anesthesia. She has also played a pivotal role in developing and implementing the Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP), a national speaker exchange program tailored for junior faculty in pediatric anesthesia.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Evidence Based Management of the Child with Upper-Respiratory Tract Infection
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
John is a the president elect of spa, chair of the department of anesthesiology and critical care at children’s hospital of Philadelphia and serves as the Secretary for the American board of anesthesiology
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session IV - Track 1 General Session: SPA Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) Forum
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Professor, University of Washington and Associate Chief. Seattle Children’s Hospital
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Kaitlin M. Flannery, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. She practices pediatric cardiac anesthesia at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She completed her medical degree at the University of Iowa, followed by anesthesiology residency at Stanford University, and pediatric anesthesia and pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is an active member of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS), for which she serves on the Communication Committee as a Question of the Week author.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 9 - Why so Blue?! Just a Quick, End-of-the-Day, Vocal Cord Injection...in a Patient with a Failing Fontan
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Bio
Randall Flick, M.D., M.P.H., is a consultant in the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology with a joint appointment in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Flick recently competed nearly 10 years as Director of the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center. In that role he oversaw all pediatric activity across the Mayo Clinic Enterprise reporting directly to the Mayo Clinic Dean for Practice and to the CEO. He holds the academic rank of Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics.
Dr. Flick received the R.N. diploma from St. Luke’s Hospital School of
Nursing and the B.A. degree in biology from Moorhead State University. He earned the M.D. degree from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine (AOA) and the M.P.H. degree from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Flick completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University; a residency in anesthesiology at Barnes Hospital-Washington U.; and a fellowship in advanced specialty training in pediatric anesthesiology and intensive care at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in 1995. He holds board certification in four specialities including pediatrics and pediatric critical care (ABP) as well as anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology (ABA). Dr. Flick is a past president the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Board of Directors and previously chaired the ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesiology. For the United States Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Flick has served as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products (AADPAC) and as a member of the Pediatric Advisory Committee (PAC) reporting directly to the FDA commissioner. Dr. Flick currently serves as a member of the National Institutes of Child Health and Development Pediatrics Study Section and as a site reviewer for the American College of Surgeons Childrens Surgery Verification Program. In the community, he has served as president of the local Ronald McDonald House Board, is a Global Medical Advisor to Americares International, a current trustee of the Minnesota Zoo and a past board member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI). Recognized as an international expert in his field, Dr. Flick has presented at numerous local, regional, national, and international meetings. He is a prolific publisher, with over 100 peer- reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters to his credit. Dr. Flick’s research interests include outcomes in pediatric anesthesia, neurodevelopment effect of anesthetic exposure, and quality in pediatric hospital care. He is Co-PI on a federally funded study of the effects of anesthetic exposure on the developing brain (R01 HD071907-04, MASK Study) and co-investigator on a follow-up study (R01 HD099147-01A1) Neuroimaging Studies in Pediatric Anesthesia Neurotoxicity. Dr. Flick and his wife Loree have three sons Bryant/Sara(Rochester, Minnesota), Garrett/Tori (Orlando, Florida), Grant/Emily (Minneapolis), grandsons (Owen and Albert), and granddaughter (Mara)
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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I grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC for medical school. I completed my anesthesiology residency at Duke and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Seattle Children’s, where I now work as an attending. After fellowship, I completed the University of Washington Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality. I currently serve as a member of the OR Microsystems Quality Improvement team at Seattle Children’s and have contributed to a variety of quality improvement initiatives and publications.
Friday, February 26, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
From the Ground Up: Minimizing Opioids at a Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Center
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Assistant Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology
UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Shaker Heights , OH
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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.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:05 PM - 3:20 PM
Session II: Staying Human in Pediatric Anesthesiology
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Dr. Fuller completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Spanish from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX in 2008. He then continued his education at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School in Houston, TX where he earned his Medical Doctor diploma in 2012. Dr. Fuller completed internship and residency in Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX from July 2012 to June 2016. Dr. Fuller then completed Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX in June 2017.
Dr. Fuller is interested in medical education, regional anesthesia, and acute pain medicine.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Julia Gálvez Delgado, openly transgender pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children's Hospital, specializes in pediatric perioperative clinical informatics. With a background in leadership roles in biomedical informatics, she prioritizes health equity and inclusion. Dr. Gálvez Delgado is dedicated to optimizing pediatric perioperative informatics, striving to integrate technological advancements with social inclusivity to advance equitable healthcare delivery.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
Lightning Abstracts
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. She is the Associate Division Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for General Anesthesiology, and the Director of the Difficult Airway Program at CHOP. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz is passionate about improving the safety of pediatric airway management and airway education. She is the site PI for the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Registry at CHOP and enjoys engaging other interested sites in performing airway research. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz serves on the board of Women in Anesthesiology and is the current President-Elect. She is passionate about improving the inclusion of women and underrepresented in medicine colleagues into academic medicine.
Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz received her undergraduate degree from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, at the City University of New York, where she studied biomedical science. She graduated from the New York University School of Medicine and completed her Anesthesiology residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2015. Dr. Garcia-Marcinkiewicz then did her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at CHOP and remained on faculty since 2016. She then obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. Her current focus is the development of an Airway education and research lab called the Pediatric Center for Airway Research, “PCAR”.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Pediatric Difficult Intubation (PeDI) Registry
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Pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist .
Division Chief and Vice Chair Pediatric Anesthesia.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Gentry is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, and she holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Bioethics and Palliative Care. She is the medical director of the pre-anesthesia clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Gentry's scholarly work is centered in perioperative ethical issues, such as shared decision making and informed consent in anesthesiology, adverse event communication, and initiatives that advance equity and inclusion.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Jessica Anne George is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins University, where she is also Medical Director of the Pediatric Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Last fall, she was elected to the ERASPediatrics Board of Directors. She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed her Anesthesiology residency at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. She continued her training with a Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. While working as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist, she obtained her Master of Education in the Health Professions and has played an active role in the training of Anesthesiology residents and fellows. She has a passion for perioperative education of patients, parents, and health care professionals alike, and is ardent in her efforts to improve patient outcomes and decrease mortality and morbidity in the clinical environment.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session III - Track 2 Clinical Practice: Personalizing Intraoperative Care in Children
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Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
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Nancy Glass practiced Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine for thirty years, and added Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine to her clinical activities from 2012-2022. Now retired from clinical practice, she has recently completed an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is working on a book of her hospice stories.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Mentorship and Sponsorship: Developing Leaders in Pediatric Anesthesia
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
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Dr. Stephen Gleich is serving as a Moderator for the Webinar. Dr. Gleich completed medical school at Mayo Clinic, followed by residencies in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology and fellowships in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Anesthesiology. He is currently Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics within the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and practices in both Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatric Critical Care.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Managing Blood Pressure in Anesthetized Children: Challenges and Implications
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Chris D. Glover, MD, MBA, FAAP is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital, where he oversees a large, multi-campus pediatric anesthesia enterprise. He is a nationally recognized leader in pediatric anesthesiology, physician development, and healthcare operations, with longstanding contributions to clinical care, education, and health equity
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Psychiatry (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division)
St. Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University
St. Louis, MO
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Dr. Anne L. Glowinski currently serves as the co-PI of an NIH R25 to integrate research training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry or CAP fellowship (2017-Present), Associate Chief (2011-Present) and Training Director (2005-Present) for the CAP Division of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.
Through her strategic collaborations with other leaders, the WashU CAP Division has become, particularly in the last decade: (i) A rich and innovative educational hub which is a major draw for medical students interested in Psychiatry or residents interested in CAP; (ii) well integrated in the medical school, children’s hospital and psychiatry Department -while defining and retaining its own values and strengths-; (iii) a highly successful mentorship environment for clinician scientists and other academics; (iv) a motor for clinical services’ expansion and innovation at WashU and in its surrounding communities; (v) a very productive per capita research group (e.g., over 150 original peer-reviewed manuscripts mid-2018 to Present) and (vi) a milieu valued for its support of staff, trainees, faculty and their families.
Regarding Anne’s own career development: She is a French-born American who graduated with an MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1992 and completed clinical residency and fellowship training in General (3 and a half years) and then Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2 years) at Johns Hopkins. After a brief Hopkins faculty appointment to serve as the Psychiatrist for the East Baltimore Mental Partnership schools, she and her family moved to St. Louis in the Fall of 1998 to join the Washington University or WashU Department of Psychiatry as a junior faculty/Behavioral Genetics post-doctoral NIH research trainee/Masters in Psychiatric Epidemiology student. She then transitioned from a T32 to a K08 Award focused on the genetic epidemiology of adolescent suicidal behavior in 2002, while still engaged in clinical service including the Directorship of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Consult-Liaison service from 1999 to 2003. By 2005 she had clearly identified that her main passions were teaching, mentoring and development of individuals, teams, and systems in Medicine and Child Mental Health and she pivoted to focus on these priorities while still staying engaged in research collaborations, mentoring and scholarly productivity, also a passion. As detailed in her CV, she is the author or co-author of almost 50 peer-reviewed publications collectively cited 2865 times with an h index of 22 and many other publications. Anne has played major roles in education and training at her institution, nationally and internationally and this has been rewarded by notable honors and awards including most recently by election to the AOA Medical Honor Society (selected to be the one faculty nominee by the WashU graduating medical school class), the WashU medical school Teacher of the Year Award (2019) and the WashU medical school 2017 Humanism in Medicine Award.
Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Mental Health Concerns Related to COVID-19 Pandemic
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Associate Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center / Children's Nebraska
Omaha, NE
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Dr. Jessica Goeller is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Her roles include Director of Perioperative Services at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She also leads as Section Chief of Comprehensive Pain Medicine, Medical Director of the Acute Pain Service, and Children's Specialty Physicians Board of Directors. Dr. Goeller serves the AOCA as a member of the Board of Governors and chair of the professional education committee. She graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, FL, completed her residency in Anesthesiology at Ohio Heritage Osteopathic College of Medicine and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s, both in Columbus, OH. She is also a US Army Veteran.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
The Power of No: The Importance of Setting Boundaries and Realistic Goals
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Dr. Susan M. Goobie, MD, FRCPC is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate with the Dept. of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Goobie’s current editorial positions include Executive Editor for Pediatric Anesthesia, Associate Editor for British Journal of Anesthesia, Associate Editor-in-Chief for BJA Open. She is a reviewer for many high impact medical journals including Anesthesiology, British Journal of Anesthesiology, Transfusion, Jama Peds, and Anaesthesia. At Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Goobie is co-chair of Perioperative Research, Director of Patient Blood Management, BCH liason for JW and bloodless surgery patients, and past chair of the BCH Pharmacokinetics Laboratory. Dr. Goobie holds leadership roles on scientific research committees including the IARS, ASA, CAS and SABM. She is Chair of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society Research Committee, Founder and Chair of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia PBM committee and is the Vice Chair of the ASA PBM committee. She is a collaborator for the WFSA Perioperative Patient Blood Management working group.
Dr. Goobie has published over 150 articles in the field and lectures nationally and internationally. She is from Newfoundland, Canada and lives in Boston, MA, USA. Together with her husband, she has 3 children and a golden retriever. She is an avid cyclist, skier and loves the outdoors.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 7 - Pediatric Trauma Management
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
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Cheryl K. Gooden, M.D. is a pediatric anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital and an Associate Professor in Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine.
Since 2005, she has been a global health advocate with involvement in humanitarian missions that have spanned several continents. For the past 13 years she has been involved in educational and healthcare initiatives with Komedyplast at El Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño in Lima, Peru.
She served as a member of the writing group for the 2015 PALS Guidelines, American Heart Association. She is an editor for “The Pediatric Procedural Sedation Handbook,” published by Oxford University Press in November 2018.
She is the current Chair for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Abstract Review Subcommittee on Pediatric Anesthesia, and Vice-Chair of the Women Physician’s Committee of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. She co-Chairs the International Scholars Committee of the Anesthesiology Foundation of New York and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Anesthesiology News.
Dr. Gooden is an Anesthesiologist Reviewer for the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Program. She serves as a Hotline Consultant for the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States. In October 2021, Dr. Gooden was appointed to the Board of the ASA Charitable Foundation. In May 2022, she was appointed to serve as a consultant for the FDA Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel, and the following year, she became a member of the Panel. Most recently, she was named to Connecticut Magazine’s 2025 “Top Doctors” list.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:05 AM - 10:55 AM
SPA Diversity Panel Discussion
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Dr. Diane Gordon is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, and Pediatric Anesthesiologist practicing at Children's Hospital Colorado. She trained at University of Utah and then Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She serves as the Sustainability Liaison for her department at Children's Colorado, she chairs the SPA Special Interest Group for Sustainability in Anesthesia and serves on the ASA's Committee on Environmental Health. She is in constant pursuit of ways to decrease the environmental impact of anesthesia, increase awareness of individual practitioner responsibility and motivate colleagues to take a leadership role in this arena in their home institutions.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
UTHealth / McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX
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Amy Graham-Carlson, MD was born and raised in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. She earned her undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Following graduation, she worked as an intensive care unit nurse for three years, an experience that strongly shaped her clinical perspective and influenced her decision to pursue a career in anesthesiology.
Dr. Graham-Carlson attended medical school at UTHealth McGovern Medical School. Her background in nursing, combined with a passion for caring for children and an appreciation for the breadth and complexity of pediatric cases, made pediatric anesthesiology a natural fit. She completed her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital through Baylor College of Medicine.
After fellowship, Dr. Graham-Carlson returned to UTHealth to join the faculty, where she now serves as Director of Clinical Operations for General Pediatric Anesthesiology. She was drawn by the challenging clinical environment, opportunities to teach residents and other trainees, and a departmental culture in which women are supported and empowered to succeed.
Her clinical interests include quality improvement in neonatal anesthesia, pediatric patient blood management, and pediatric sedation.
Outside of work, Dr. Graham-Carlson enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. Her personal interests include running, cooking, hiking in the Texas Hill Country, and sewing—an acquired hobby from the COVID era.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Exhibitor, Children's Surgery Program Manager
American College of Surgeons
Chicago, IL
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Catherine Grant, BSN RN is the Children’s Surgery Program Manager at the American College of Surgeons. Catherine manages the Children’s Surgery Verification Program including NSQIP Pediatric. She has worked at ACS since July 2013. Prior to working at ACS, Catherine's clinical experience included working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, cardiac services and pediatric nursing.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Stephanie Grant is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. At Emory, she is the Program Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship and is committed to the education of trainees. She is currently on the CCAS Board of Directors and is the Chair of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Program Directors’ Committee. Her research includes evaluating thrombin generation in patients with congenital heart disease.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 6 - COVID-19, MIS-C, Cardiac Decompensation, Coagulopathy, and the Cath Lab
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine. Expertise in airway management, acute pain management, device design/development/evaluation, education, disaster/MCI response.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Objective Monitoring of Regional Anesthesia in Children
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Houston, TX
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Evelyn Griffin, MD graduated from the McGovern Medical School in Houston. She completed her residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. She returned to the McGovern Medical School to complete a pediatric anesthesia fellowship. Following fellowship, she joined the UTHealth pediatric cardiovascular anesthesia team and continues to practice with this group. Her particular areas of interest include care of critically ill neonates, disaster preparedness, prevention of unplanned extubations and pressure injuries, "green" anesthesiology initiatives, and anesthesiology trainee education. Outside of work she enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, their daughter, and their dog.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
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Pediatric anesthesiologist
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
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Dr. Guzzetta has been a practicing pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta since completion of her fellowship in 1994. She is currently a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. She has performed extensive translational and clinical research focusing on: 1) understanding the maturational differences between the pediatric and adult hemostatic systems; 2) anticoagulation management of pediatric cardiac surgical patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass; 3) identification of factors associated with an increased risk of post-CPB bleeding; and 4) efforts to reduce bleeding in pediatric cardiac surgical patients after cardiopulmonary bypass. She is also active in the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and served as President from 2017-2019.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 5:10 PM
Session IV - Track 1 General Session: Dual CCAS-SPA Session: Cutting-Edge Cardiac Anesthesia in Children
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 6 - COVID-19, MIS-C, Cardiac Decompensation, Coagulopathy, and the Cath Lab
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Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Morgan Stanley Children's Hosp of NY Presbyte
Columbia University/New York
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Dr. Manon Haché is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center. She completed her Anesthesiology residency at the University of Montreal and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr Haché is the Director of Pediatric Anesthesia Quality and Safety and Pediatric Trauma Anesthesia at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Wake Up Safe
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Hello! My name is Dr. Ryan Hamlin and I am a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska. I have been in practice since 2014 and strive to provide safe and efficient pediatric anesthesia care to patients with congenital heart disease.
I currently live in Elkhorn, Nebraska with my wife and three children. Outside of medicine, I enjoy spending time with my family, coaching youth sports, cooking, and going to Nebraska Cornhusker football games.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 8 - Malignant Hyperthermia in Pediatric Patient
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Dr. Elizabeth Hansen is an Associate Professor at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington. She is passionate about sustainability in anesthesia and efforts to green the operating room as part of her commitment to environmental justice and equity. She chairs the Perioperative Green Team at Seattle Children's Hospital and is an active member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Special Interest Group for Sustainability. She leads an international consortium of pediatric anesthesia groups in reducing emissions from inhaled anesthetics called Project SPRUCE.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Nina is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She completed a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and has been on staff at the Alberta Children’s Hospital since 2014. Her passions include medical mission work, volunteering with multiple organizations including Project Outreach, True North Missions Society, and Operation of Hope, as well as working as a pediatric anesthesia educator with Operation Smile.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
WWspaD Panel - Case Discussions
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Professor Emeritus
Childrens National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC
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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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Challenges to Leading: One Woman's Journey from Medical Student to Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology
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My name is Michele Hendrickson. I am a pediatric anesthesiologist and pediatric pain medicine physician. I recently joined the Children's Hospital of New Orleans were I practice pediatric anesthesia, and am working to establish an acute pain service. I am also working with the health system to broaden the outpatient chronic pain services.
Prior to joining CHNOLA, I was the director of the Acute Pain Service at Riley Hospital for Children, where I also practiced chronic pediatric pain and pediatric anesthesia.
I completed my residency in Anesthesia at Duke University and then went on to pursue a combined Pediatric and Adult Pain Medicine Fellowship through Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I followed this with a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia at the University of Miami.
My areas of interest include opioid stewardship, multi-modal analgesia, and study of the transformation from acute to chronic pain.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
Updates from SPA Young Investigator Research Award Recipients
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2020 marked 42 years as an RN, 30 at Children's of Alabama, 26 as a CRNA and 8 at Samford University. I spent my RN time doing neonatal ICU/transport and my CRNA practice has been entirely at Children's. My primary scholarly interests include peds airway management, trauma and anesthesia effects on the developing brain. In 2017, my manuscript entitled Evidence Based Use of Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes in Children was published in the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. My husband and I have 4 children, 3 grandchildren with #4 on the way, and 2 pups. During down time, you will find us at the lake. I have so much for which to be thankful and am blessed beyond measure. Hebrews 12:1-2
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM
The Evidence Based Use of Sugammadex in Children
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Josephine Marie Hernández is Vice Chair of Education and Residency Director in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Services at Tufts Medical Center. She is the youngest of five children raised by a single mother on public assistance in the New York City Housing Projects, and the only one to graduate from college. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Harvard Medical School, and the Anesthesia Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, she has been at Tufts for over 18 years, where she served as Clinical Director of Operations for nine years and Director of the Medical Student Clerkship for twelve years. As Clinical Director, she was responsible for 25 operating suites and 5 Off-Site anesthetizing locations, and a staff of 100 faculty, CRNAs, and trainees. During her appointment as Medical Student Director, she was responsible for introducing anesthesiology to TUSM medical students in their first, third, and fourth years of training; the number of students interested in the specialty doubled after exposure to her rotation. In her fifth year as Program Director for thirty residents at Tufts, she increased the number of underrepresented physicians to 40% in the most recent Match. Dr. Hernández is a past recipient of the Most Supportive Faculty Member Award and the Mentor of the Year Award, as voted by Tufts anesthesia residents. Recently, she was honored with the Marcelle M. Willock M.D. Courage in Leadership Award for her work at Tufts. Dr. Hernández is an active member of various committees on diversity and equity issues -- and resident education -- at both the hospital and national level. She is current Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Pratt Physicians Organization at Tufts and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force for the Society for Education in Anesthesia. She has just trained to facilitate workshops at Tufts on bias reduction and will be starting these virtual workshops in March 2021.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:05 AM - 10:55 AM
SPA Diversity Panel Discussion
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellow
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Dr. Hetmaniuk is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiology fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She returned to training after 11 years in practice as a pediatric anesthesiologist at institutions such as Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Colorado. She is interested in lifelong learning and hopes to use her experiences to help both practicing providers and trainees to consider alternative educational pathways.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 22 - Anterior Mediastinal Mass Management in a 10-Month-Old Patient
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
Bio
Dr. Holman obtained her medical degree at Wayne State University. She completed residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University in 2015 and followed this with the completion of a Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2016. After fellowship, Dr. Holman stayed on as faculty at the U. In 2017, she was appointed to the position of Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia, and in 2023, Dr. Holman became the Director of the Pediatric Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine program for the University of Michigan. Her clinical and research interests include pediatric regional anesthesia and pain medicine as well as pediatric postoperative care and outcomes. Dr. Holman resides in Ann Arbor, MI with her husband and their three children (Alex 9, Austin 7, and Abbie 4) and Maine Coon cat (Hank 2). Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, drinking a good cup of coffee or a nice glass of wine, gardening, and diving into a good historical fiction or romance novel.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Faculty at Stanford University for over 20 years, Chief of Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology for 13 years, and currently Associate Dean for Wellness and Student Life Advising
Thursday, February 25, 2021
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and Outline of Educational Program: A Celebration of Women in Pediatric Anesthesiology
Saturday, February 27, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Session I: AAP Session
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Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Bio
Dr. Houck is a Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She completed training in Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and currently serves as the Clinical Director of the Hospitalist program at Boston Children’s Hospital at Waltham. In 2017, she was awarded a Masters of Public Health degree from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health with an emphasis on Quality and Safety research. She represents the entire pediatric anesthesiology community as one of just 3 pediatric anesthesiologists on the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Committee and is actively involved in efforts to improve perioperative quality and safety at Boston Children’s Hospital and throughout the country. In 2020, she was elected to serve a 4-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) where she advocated for optimal pediatric perioperative care and represented all of the pediatric surgical specialists in the Academy.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Shannon Hoy is the CRNA manager at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha Nebraska. She is a member of the Professional Practice Evaluation Committee, the Physicians and Providers Advisory Council as well as the Pediatric Intensive Care Interdisciplinary Committee. She completed her CRNA program at Clarkson College in Omaha Nebraska and her Doctorate at UMass Amherst. She served as the Chair of the Advanced Practice Symposium in 2024 at the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia as has presented in the past as well. She is also on the Cardiac Quality and Safety Committee with the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. She has served as past moderator of the Advanced Practice session at SPA and presented multiple years in the past.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Anesthetic Implications for Trisomy 13 and 18: Perspective Gained from One Hospital's Experience
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Dr. Elizabeth Hunt, known as Betsy, is from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. She is a Pediatric Intensivist, the Director of Johns Hopkins Simulation Center and Chair of the CPR Advisory Committee of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has been actively involved with the American Heart Association Scientific Guidelines. Dr. Hunt has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and leads research, program development and is invited to speak worldwide about her work related to improving the quality of care delivered during cardiac arrest and optimizing outcomes for children.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
#CodeBusters: Optimizing Care During Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
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Andrew Infosino is a Professor at UCSF in the Department of Anesthesia and Peri-operative Care and the Department of Pediatrics. He did his residency in anesthesiology at UCSF, his fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. And then joined the faculty at UCSF in 1996.
Andrew's clinical interests include physiology in infants and children, the pediatric difficult airway, single lung ventilation in infants and children, and emergence delirium. He has been very involved in anesthesia education at UCSF and nationally. He is the section editor for pediatric anesthesia and on the board of directors for ASA’s Anesthesia Toolbox, an online learning platform.
Andrew is on the ASA Committee on Pediatric Anesthesia, as well as the Educational Tract sub-committee and the Abstract review sub-committee for Pediatric Anesthesia. He is actively involved in the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) and is on their education committee and the SPA Global Committee. He is co-chair of the SPA Global Education Committee and editor of the SPA Global online Lecture Series.
Andrew is actively involved in fellow and junior faculty well-being and professional development and is a strong believer in the need for diversity, especially in leadership positions. He is a proud member or WELI as a mentor to junior faculty. He created ViSiPAP in 2017, the Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program, a reciprocal faculty exchange program, to help 'jumpstar' the academic careers of junior faculty and help develop tomorrow'''s leaders in pediatric anesthesia.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bio
- Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Chair, Research Committee, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Narasimhan "Sim" Jagannathan is a pediatric anesthesiologist with interests in airway management, pediatric patient safety, trainee education, and the development of anesthesia staffing and business models.
in pediatric airway management and patient safety. He currently serves as the Chief of Anesthesiology at Phoenix Children's Hospital, a role he assumed in December 2022.
Prior to this, Dr. Jagannathan was a Professor of Anesthesiology at Northwestern University Medical School and practiced at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago for 17 years.
Dr. Jagannathan's clinical research is centered on enhancing airway management techniques and ensuring patient safety in pediatric populations. He has conducted numerous randomized trials on advanced airway devices and techniques for children.
Dr. Jagannathan holds several editorial positions. He is the Section Editor for Airway Management for the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia and serves on the editorial boards of Pediatric Anesthesia, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, and Journal of Anesthesia. He also acts as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple medical journals.
Dr. Jagannathan is the current President of the Society for Airway Management and serves as an APPLIED Board Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. Additionally, he contributes as a Question Editor for the American Board of Anesthesiology Advanced Written Exam.
As an author and editor, Dr. Jagannathan has co-edited textbooks on pediatric and adult airway management, including Management of the Difficult Pediatric Airway.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Colorado / Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO
Bio
Norah Janosy MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado. With a focus on Physician Well-being, she is the co-founder and co-chair of the Well-being Committee the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, demonstrating her commitment to fostering a supportive and healthy professional environment.
In her clinical practice, Dr. Janosy specializes in caring for children with complex airway diseases, including aerodigestive disorders, and those with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). She enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive, perioperative care to children with aerodigestive disorders.
Dr. Janosy earned her medical degree from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and she completed residency in Anesthesiology and a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.
Beyond her professional achievements, Dr. Janosy finds fulfillment in her personal life, sharing joy with her husband and two children in the vibrant city of Denver, CO.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:55 PM - 4:15 PM
Are You a Team Member? Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Team
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
WORKSHOP: Surfing the Wave of Uncertainty to Combat the Sharks of Anxiety (Live Participation Required)
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Chief, Pediatric Urology
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Dayton Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor of Urology
The Ohio State University
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of Washington-Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA
Bio
Nathalia Jimenez, MD, MPH, is Professor and Vice Chair for Equity Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the UW School for Public Health. She is a pediatric anesthesiologist and principal investigator at Seattle Children’s Research institute. Her research focus on health disparities and patient outcomes in Hispanic/Latinx children. Her NIH funded work have identified barriers and facilitators to access to care among Hispanic/Latinx children, and development and evaluation of culturally and linguistically concordant programs to bridge care between hospitals and community services. She is currently funded by an R01 from NICHD to test the efficacy of a behavioral bilingual program, in four different states, to bridge services for families of children with traumatic brain injury.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
SPA DEI Survey Results / Updates on SPA Actions to Improve Diversity
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Pediatric and adult Cardiac Anesthesiologist. NBE certified in advanced preoperative echocardiography
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Ultrasound of the Lung in Pediatric Anesthesiology- Including COVID
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Nemours Children's Hospital/University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Bio
Kareen Jones, MD joined the Nemours Children's Hospital critical care and anesthesiology teams in August 2019 after completing a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. She has special interests in critical care data collection systems and cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality improvement. She earned her medical degree at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and completed residencies in pediatrics and global health at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She then completed a Johns Hopkins fellowship in pediatric critical care in Baltimore and an anesthesiology residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., where she served on the Stanford Anesthesia Diversity Council. Dr. Jones is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine and by the American Board of Anesthesia in general anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 11 - Calm the COVID Down! Don't Forget About Her Comorbidities!
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Nate Jones is a CRNA at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. He received his nurse anesthesia training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2015.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Sowing Good Seeds: Practical Advice for Clinical Preceptors
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University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 7 - Pediatric Trauma Management
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Megha Kanjia is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and is the Director of Quality Improvement. She found her love for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety during training and completed an Advanced fellowship in QI and Safety at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the Anderson Center before moving to Houston. She is ecstatic to be the President-elect of Wake Up Safe and is looking forward to the national and international growth of the organization as there have been new collaborations with various groups such as the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and Open Anesthesia. She spends her “free time” watching her three kids play soccer and squash with her husband, working out, and cooking for her family and friends. Her greatest occupational joy is working with the perioperative team at TCH who remind her every day that she has chosen a job she loves, and hopes to improve the care of perioperative patients alongside an amazing team.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Keech is a pediatric anesthesiologist in Iowa City, IA at the Stead Family Children's Hospital (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics). She competed her residency at the University of Washington and her fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital. Her clinical areas of interest include pediatric acute pain and regional anesthesia, pediatric out of OR anesthesia, and enjoying providing anesthetic are to a variety of surgical specialties. Outside of the operating room, Dr. Keech serves as an associate program director for the anesthesia residency program at the University of Iowa and an associate program director for the pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the University of Iowa. She also serves as the co-director for the medical student anesthesia rotation and medical director for the anesthesia (medical student) externship. Professionally, she loves being involved in the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia education committee, wellness committee, and the quality and safety committee. She served as the chair of the immediate past SPA meeting in the spring of 2022 in Tampa. She has a wonderful husband, even though he is a (thoracic) surgeon, and 4 amazing kids who keep her pretty busy with sports and life!
Saturday, February 27, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual Tasting & Pairing: Coming to Your Senses
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B.S. - Pennsylvania State University
MD - The University of Pittsburgh
Anesthesiology Residency - Yale University
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship - Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh / UPMC
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology - New York Medical College
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 30 - Emergency Surgery in a Patient with Mandibular Hypoplasia and MIS-C: What Could Go Wrong?
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Graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Mediicine; Residency in Pediatrics at Baylor School of Medicine and Texas Children's Medical Center, Residency in Anesthesiology at University of Pennsylvania, Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Anesthesia at CHOP. Faculty appointments: Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia and Vice Chair of Anesthesia at Duke University Medical Center, Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas TX; Professor of Anesthesia and Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia at Cohen Children's Medical Center and Zucker School of Medicine at Northwell/Hofstra
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Diversion of Resources during COVID-19 Pandemic: a Front-line COVID Perspective
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Sarina Khan received her B.S. from the University of Michigan -Ann Arbor in 2011. She then attended medical school at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 2016. She completed her residency in anesthesiology at the University of Michigan - Michigan Medicine in 2020, where she is currently a pediatric anesthesiology fellow.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 26 - A Child for PICC Placement in IR, A Quick Simple Case? How About NPO for NJ Tube Feed?
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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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 1 - Bedside Bronchoscopy for Hemoptysis Following "Uncomplicated" ASD Repair
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Clinical Professor
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Univ. of California, Davis
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Assistant Professor
Master of Science, Anesthesiologist Assistant Program
Nova Southeastern University
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Advanced Practice Providers (APP) Symposium
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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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 1 - Bedside Bronchoscopy for Hemoptysis Following "Uncomplicated" ASD Repair
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Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Oregon Health Sciences Univ
Portland, OR
Bio
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Program Director Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 3 - How to Moderate and Design an Effective PBLD
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Bio
Dr. Landrigan-Ossar is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, and Medical Director of Perioperative Services at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is the past chair of the Hospital Sedation Committee, and a member of the Vascular Anomalies and Cerebrovascular Centers at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Landrigan-Ossar is President of the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS), and immediate past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Session I: AAP Session
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Dr. Lau is an Associate Professor in Clinical Anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine, USC and the program director for the pediatric anesthesiology program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). After completing anesthesiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Lau completed pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at CHLA. Working to develop better pediatric anesthesiologists and physicians has been a core tenet of her work. She believes that mentorship and learning in a safe environment are the key components for physicians to be the best version of themselves which led to her work in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She is Chair of the DEI subcommittee for Graduate Medical Education at CHLA and Vice Chair of Education for the SPA DEI Committee.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr Lazar is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Anne and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where she serves as a co-director of resident education for pediatric anesthesia and is actively involved in creating and running educational workshops and new curricula. She is also a member of the regional anesthesia and pain management service and co-leads the Spinal Anesthesia Program. Her interests are regional anesthesia and pain management, thoracic anesthesia and education.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 27 - A Simple Port Placement? Your Worst Nightmare is Just About to Start
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Associate Professor; Vice Chair/Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR
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Dr. Tomás Lazo is an associate professor and pediatric anesthesiologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He serves as his department's Vice Chair and senior director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and serves on multiple local and national DEI committees in his specialty. He has a passion for helping the underserved and strives to improve visibility and authenticity for marginalized communities within medicine and anesthesia. He is also interested in global anesthesia – both in teaching overseas and providing direct care to underserved areas.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Amy Lee is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. She serves as the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship. Her clinical interests include caring for patients with epidermolysis bullosa and difficult airway management.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 3 - Adventures During Emergent Thoracotomy in a Neonate with Congenital Lobar Emphysema: Hypoxia, Hypercarbia, and Lost EtCO2
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As a pediatric anesthesiologist, my clinical experiences place me in a unique position to inform research and interventions on surgical patients. Through my clinical observations, I became interested in understanding factors that contribute to poor pediatric oral health outcomes, particularly in children who require anesthesia to treat their caries. My work in oral health services research outlines the limitations of health systems (e.g., emergency departments) and interventions that focus on health care (increased access to preventive dental care) to improve a population’s oral health status. My initial work in this area highlighted the great gap in understanding of safety factors, largely due to a lack of available data (Lee HH, 2013 Pediatric Anesthesia). The barriers to improving safety are numerous and inspire discussions within bioethics, health systems, clinical practice, and quality improvement (Lee HH, 2017 Pediatrics). Pediatric dental surgeries represent great financial burden to Medicaid programs, with estimates for surgical procedures in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers alone to be approximately $450 million per year. More recently, I have focused my work on household level determinants of oral health behaviors in high-risk children. I am currently co-PI of PROTECT (NIH/NIDCR UG3/UH3DE032003) to develop and test a CHW-led parenting support program that focuses on changing children’s oral health behaviors after dental surgery.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session II: WWspaD: What Would SPA Members Do? Panel
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Professor
Stead Family Children's Hospital
University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Bio
Dr. Jeong-Rim Lee is currently a professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine of Yonsei University College of Medicine. She graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine in 2001 and obtained her Ph.D. at the same university in 2006. Dr. Lee specializes in pediatric anesthesia and is the Division Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia at Severance Hospital. Her clinical and research interests include respiratory complications, airway management, and postoperative analgesia in pediatric patients undergoing abdominal, urologic, and endoscopic surgeries.
Dr. Lee was the Program Chair of the 2023 annual conference of the Asian Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists and worked as Director of Academic Affairs of the Korean Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists (KSPA) from 2019 to 2024.
Besides medicine and anesthesia, she loves to explore the world and play golf at distinctive local venues.
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
COVID in Korea
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Dr. Lisa Lee is currently an Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed anesthesia residency and a fellowship in regional anesthesia at Hahnemann University Hospital. She completed a second fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and Masters in Clinical Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests have been geared towards improving the perioperative outcomes in pediatric patients with airway/respiratory problems.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Research Workshop: Turning an Idea into a Publication (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Ashley LeFevre is a practicing pediatric anesthesiologist. She joined Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital- Memorial Healthcare Systems in Hollywood, Florida in late 2019. Prior to this she was on faculty at Emory University- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Neurobiology of Opioids, How they Affect the Immature Brain
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Mark Leonard CAA, AA
Mark Leonard is one of only two mid-level anesthesia providers certified to work in the USA and UK. He joined the faculty at Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Anesthesiology Assistant program in Tampa, in July 2018 as an Assistant Professor. He is a graduate from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Physicians’ Assistant in Anaesthesia (PA(A)) program, now called Anaesthesia Associates (AA) class of 2008. After graduation, Professor Leonard practiced as a PA(A) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, a 44 OR university teaching hospital, alongside over 100 attending anaesthesiologists, and close to 100 resident anaesthesiologists. Mark Leonard has a long history of teaching physicians, PA(A)s, AA’s and many other OR related professions, and sharing the knowledge he has gained from his clinical experience.
After qualification he helped developed one of the busiest USGRA block rooms in the United Kingdom, as well as a fast response block service to attend areas such as ED and ICU. Mark Leonard is committed to education in the field of regional anaesthesia. He has co-developed the Block GuRU App and posters which are distributed around the world. He has delivered teaching programs, lectures and other teaching materials all in the field of regional anaesthesia for parties across the globe. He has taught and lead many regional anaesthesia workshops around the world as well as publishing data from his hospital in the UK promoting the regional anaesthesia services delivered by his team.
Currently practicing as a Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant (CAA) in Trinity, Florida, alongside his academic role at NSU.
Mark Leonard lives in Odesa, Florida with his wife and two children, he has two older children living back in the UK. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family where they love to visit the beaches of Tampa and fishing the fantastic lakes, piers and coastlines around the wider Tampa area.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:05 PM - 2:25 PM
Essentials in Pediatric Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia
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Clinical Professor of Anesthesia
Oishei's Children's Hospital, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical sciences
University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Bio
Dr. Lerman is a pediatric anesthesiologist at John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, NY where he has worked since 2002. Before moving to Buffalo, he was Professor of Anesthesiology at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada since 1983. Dr. Lerman has authored more than 135 peer-reviewed manuscripts, edited/authored three textbooks (“Neonatal Anesthesia, 2nd edition 2023”, “A practice of anesthesia for infants and children, 7th edition 2024 and Manual of pediatric anesthesia, 8th edition 2025), >100 review articles, chapters and editorials, numerous grants and 2 patents. He has delivered more than 300 lectures in over 30 countries, many of which were named lectureships. He is former editor at Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesia and the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia and a former associate editor at Anesthesia & Analgesia, currently reviewing for numerous journals including Lancet.
Dr. Lerman’s interests in pediatric anesthesia have spanned more than four decades. During that period, he has investigated the effects of inhalational anesthetics in children, aspiration of breastmilk and the clinical pharmacology of numerous drugs in children. Clinically, his research focused on the management of the pediatric airway and tracheal intubation, premedication techniques, emergence delirium, and strategies to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 2 - Interacting with the IRB
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Vice Chair for Pediatric Laboratory Research
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY
Bio
Dr. Richard J. Levy, MD, FAAP is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Vice Chair for Pediatric Laboratory Research, and Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He is board certified in Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. As a PI on an NIH K08 award, his initial area of investigation focused on mitochondrial dysfunction in the murine septic heart. Over the last several years, he has focused his investigation on the neurotoxic and cardiotoxic effects of anesthetics in the developing brain and developing heart, respectively. He is currently funded by NIH to study and develop a benzoquinone molecule as a novel anesthetic. His talk will focus on his lab’s success in leveraging knowledge of propofol toxicity to guide anesthetic drug discovery and uncover a previously unknown pharmacological target within mitochondria.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
Updates from SPA Young Investigator Research Award Recipients
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Galaxy Li is a pediatric anesthesiologist and chief of pain medicine at Nemours Children’s Health Jacksonville. His clinical and research interests span from pediatric acute to chronic pain to environmental sustainability in medicine. As a graduate of the University of North Carolina, he acquired his bachelor’s degrees with honors distinction in chemistry and piano performance. Li earned his medical degree at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He continued his training with two fellowships – pediatric anesthesiology with Emory University at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and pain medicine with Harvard Medical School at Children’s Hospital Boston. Dr. Li is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology with subspecialty certifications in pediatric anesthesiology and pain medicine. He serves on faculty at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, on the board of directors for the Society of Pediatric Pain Medicine, on the board of directors for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Improvement Network, and as editor of SPPM Newsletter.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Bio
Dr. Libaw received his medical degree in 2015 from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed his internship and residency in Anesthesiology at UCSF from 2015 to 2019 and completed his fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology this past year at UCSF. He now serves as a Health Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care at UCSF.
His clinical interests are in pediatric anesthesiology and medical education. His research has focused on the use of virtual and augmented reality to reduce perioperative anxiety in pediatric patients.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 23 - CDH? TEF? How about Both? Managing Coexisting Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Premature Newborn
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Originally from El Paso, Texas, my educational background has taken me to Baylor College of Medicine (MD, 1999), Yale University (MPH in Global Health, 2001), University of Texas Southwestern (Pediatrics residency and Anesthesiology residency) and finally to Seattle Children’s Hospital (Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship). I am currently an assistant professor and attending anesthesiologist at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital with keen interests in global health, systems improvement and medical education. My recent publication topics have included quality improvement initiatives, machine learning predictions to prevent hypoxemia and the comparison of induction rooms to operating rooms with regard to perioperative anxiety. I have served the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia as the vice chair of the SPA Global Committee since 2014. My personal life revolves around my wife and keeping up with my 3 children (spanning elementary, middle and high school).
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Building and Improving Pediatric Anesthesia Services Using "Real World Data (RWD)" and Experience; What is This and How Do you Achieve This? (Live Participation Required)
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Professor, Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Dr. Ron Litman is a pediatric anesthesiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, OH, followed by an anesthesiology residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, and a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and critical care at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Litman is the current Medical Director of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and past Chair of the FDA’s Anesthesia and Analgesia Drug Products Advisory Committee. He serves as the Vice-Chair of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Conflict of Interest Committee, and in 2018 he completed a Master of Law (Healthcare) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He is the past Medical Director of the MHAUS hotline and a former MHAUS hotline consultant.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 8 - Malignant Hyperthermia in Pediatric Patient
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Chang Amber Liu is an Anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General for Children, and Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. Dr Liu is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Toronto. Then attended medical school at Dartmouth Medical School. She trained for Residency in Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She also completed a fellowship in Health Services Research at MGH. Dr Liu is the Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia at MGH. She is nationally recognized for her work in pediatric regional anesthesia. She has published her work in awake infant neuraxial anesthesia and clinical outcomes in the journals Pediatric Anesthesia, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and Anesthesia & Analgesia. Amber enjoys spending her spare time at the beach in the summer and skiing in the winter with her family, including her two young boys Bruce and Logan (3 and 7).
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Women in Pediatric Anesthesiology: Cornerstones of a Specialty
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Joyce Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Management at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her anesthesiology residency at Albany Medical Center and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Liu holds a D.O. and M.S. in Genetics from Michigan State University and an MBA from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
She is committed to providing safe, high-quality care for children, with clinical interests that include regional anesthesiology, pediatric pain management, and global health.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Lauren Lobaugh is Director of Safety for Anesthesia Services at Texas Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine. A pediatric anesthesiologist with over a decade of focused work in quality improvement and patient safety, she holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety and is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety.
Dr. Lobaugh serves locally within Baylor College of Medicine’s Quality Improvement and Patient Safety programs and nationally with the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Quality and Safety Committee, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Medication Safety Advisory Group, and Wake Up Safe. Her work centers on advancing medication safety in pediatric perioperative care, with a particular focus on systems design, human factors, and the integration of emerging technologies to reduce preventable harm.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 9 - Preoperative Anxiety: Parental Presence vs Premedication vs Virtual Reality
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Dan is an expert in clinical systems improvement with over 20 years of clinical experience. He has published research spanning patient safety, human factors, lean methodology, and medical technology. Dan has frequently been invited to present lectures, in the United States and internationally, on clinical transformation, physician engagement, continuous clinical improvement, and using real world data to improve patient outcomes.
Dan stays grounded in the everyday practicalities of delivering quality care by serving as an Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where he has fostered teams committed to continuous improvement. Dan is a passionate educator, and he has received numerous teaching awards as an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington. As an expert in systems improvement and human factors, Dan has also been sought after for consultation on non-healthcare safety and team performance issues, including improving U.S. Navy operations and commercial aviation teamwork. Dan received his medical education in the United Kingdom at the University of Nottingham.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Building and Improving Pediatric Anesthesia Services Using "Real World Data (RWD)" and Experience; What is This and How Do you Achieve This? (Live Participation Required)
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Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University/Nemours Children's Health
Wilmington, DE
Bio
To heal and serve are my core values. Growing up in communist Poland with limited personal freedoms required grit and perseverance. My mother was a fearless natural leader and remains my biggest role model to this day. After graduating Magna cum Laude from the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland I moved to the United States to pursue my dream of becoming an anesthesiologist. I had two beautiful boys and, with the support of my husband, pushed through residency, passed my boards, and completed pediatric anesthesia fellowship while taking care of my young family. It was not easy but my life experiences provided me with learning and growth and got me interested in physician well-being and coaching. As the Well-Being Director I am combining my American Association for Physician Leadership training, Stanford Medicine Well-Being Director training, Nemours Quality Improvement experience and Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Well-Being Committee networking to implement customized interventions at Nemours. To serve is one of my core values and developing future pediatric anesthesiologists gives me the mental energy and stimulation to never stop improving myself.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Duke University Hospital
Thursday, February 25, 2021
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
Blood Transfusion and Coagulation Management in Cardiac Surgery
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I lead division of anesthesia from 2017-2018 and the division of diagnostic imaging anesthesia at Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center from 2009-2017. The imaging division delivers over 4000 -5000 anesthetic or sedation cases each year. In both leadership positions I lead departmental initiatives as well as leading consensus building initiatives in a diverse and rapidly expanding anesthesia department. An important topic of my research is examining the effects of anesthetic agents including Propofol, dexmedetomidine and ketamine on the upper airway morphology in children with and without history of obstructive sleep apnea. I have written many high impact research articles on dexmedtomidine sedation. Subsequently, based on our outcomes and publications, other sedation programs have adopted our sedation protocols for upper airway dynamic evaluation with dexmedetomidine. All publications are included in www.researchgate.net.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 18 - An Epidermolysis Bullosa Patient with Difficult Airway Needing a Dental Rehabilitation and MRI
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Dr. Christine Mai is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at MGH. A native of Boston, she completed her medical school education at Boston University School of Medicine and her anesthesia residency training at Boston Medical Center. She is fellowship trained in pediatric anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University and after a year on faculty at Hopkins, she joined the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at MGH. Dr. Mai has a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions with a concentration in simulation education. Her scholarly interests are in simulation education, curriculum development, medical education research, history in anesthesia, and health and wellness initiatives.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Taking the Mystery Out of Curriculum Development: The Six (6) Steps (Sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Population Health
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Director, Global Child Health Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Attending Physician and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control,
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Yvonne (Bonnie) A. Maldonado, MD, is Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. She is also the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Maldonado attended Stanford University School of Medicine, where she completed a Pediatric internship. She was a Pediatric resident and fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Maldonado then served as an Officer in the Public Health Service in the Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she was awarded the Alexander D. Langmuir Prize, named in honor of the founder of the EIS Program. She has led a number of NIH, CDC, USAID, Gates Foundation and WHO funded domestic and international pediatric vaccine studies, as well as studies in prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection in the US, India, Mexico and Africa. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic she has over 10 clinical, epidemiology and laboratory-based studies in this area and is involved in epidemiologic modeling at the University, state and national level. She is the Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the American Public Health Association. She is a member of the Board of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, a liaison to the USPHS Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and previously a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Office of Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Maldonado has been the director of two federally funded T32 training grants in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology and has devoted substantial effort to teaching and training activities at Stanford University as well as in the national and international setting, including undergraduates, medical students, postdoctoral students, and infectious diseases fellows. Dr. Maldonado has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and is co-editor of the textbooks “Remington and Klein Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant” and “Report of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book)”.
Within the Dean’s office at the School of Medicine, Dr. Maldonado has served as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity since 2014, leading the School of Medicine’s diversity efforts. In that role she has oversight of four Associate Deans, including the Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, ensuring that there is a commitment to enhance medical student diversity. In addition, she is the PI of the NIMHD-funded Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity Center (SPHERE), one of the first national centers focused specifically on using precision-medicine tools to improve the health of underserved ethnic and racial groups. Her hope is to bring her expertise and resources in this role to promote diversity, inclusion and equity in the academic workforce.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
AAP Advocacy Lecture: Implications of COVID Pandemic on Pediatric Healthcare
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Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 5 - Quick Add-on CT-Guided Liver Biopsy in a 13-Year-Old "Healthy Fontan"
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Rebecca Margolis, DO, FAOCA is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she is Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and the inaugural Director of Well-Being for the Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine. She is the Founder of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Well-Being Committee and Vice Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committee on Physician Well-Being. Her academic focus centers on clinician sustainability and designing practical, realistic, systems-level solutions that strengthen workforce longevity and support clinicians after adverse events.
A dedicated educator and mentor, Dr. Margolis helps lead national well-being education efforts, contributes to trainee pipeline development, and serves as an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. Her clinical interests include thoracic anesthesia and one-lung ventilation, and her research interests include clinician support systems, obstructive sleep apnea, and medical education. She completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, anesthesiology residency at Virginia Commonwealth University, and fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
WORKSHOP: Surfing the Wave of Uncertainty to Combat the Sharks of Anxiety (Live Participation Required)
2:05 PM - 3:20 PM
Session II: Staying Human in Pediatric Anesthesiology
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CEO and Executive Coach
Physician Leadership LLC
Denver, Colorado, USA
Bio
Scott Markowitz, MD, MSOL (he, him, his) is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice-Chair for Professional Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis. Scott’s office develops initiatives to measure departmental culture, engagement, and well-being, and has produced, curated, and supported programming to promote engagement, resilience, professional development, and an increasingly diverse and inclusive leadership environment.
Scott focuses his administrative work on leadership development, promoting a diverse and inclusive leadership and workplace, promoting meaningful engagement among department members, and building leadership skills and capacity for every member of the department including faculty, clinical staff, and administrative staff. At the Washington University School of Medicine, Scott is Chair of the Senior Leadership Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He serves on the ASA’s ad hoc Committee on Harassment, incivility, and Disrespect, and also works closely with other leaders on the national initiative, Raising Anesthesiology Diversity and Anti-Racism (RADAR). A past Co-Director of the Leadership for Innovative Team Science program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, he has taught communication, leadership styles, conflict management, empowerment, accountability, time management, and coaching skills. Scott is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Diversity and Inclusion and Group on Faculty Affairs. Scott is also an advisory board member for the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, where he co-developed their leadership curriculum and co-chairs the workshop committee.
Scott holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and is an executive coach and a Gallup Certified Global Strengths Coach. Scott’s coaching practice focuses on developing leadership in academic healthcare.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
A Tale of POCUS Implementation in the OR. Dispelling the "Hocus Pocus"
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 10 - Microaggressions
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Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology
Seattle Children's/University of Washington
Seattle, WA
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Lynn D. Martin, M.D., M.B.A. is a Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine (1982) and his M.B.A. for the University of Tennessee (2010). He completed residencies in both Pediatrics (Phoenix Children’s Hospital: 1982-86) and Anesthesiology (Johns Hopkins University: 1986-88) followed by fellowships in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1988-90). He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology with specialty certification in pediatric anesthesia and the American Board of Pediatrics with specialty certification in pediatric critical care medicine. Dr. Martin was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (1990-93) and Seattle Children’s (1994-2023). While at Seattle Children’s, he served as the Director of the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine (2001-14) and Medical Director for Continuous Improvement and Innovation (2013-20).
Dr. Martin was elected to the board and officer of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, ultimately serving as the 13th President of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (2010-12). During his tenure as president, SPA celebrated their 25th Anniversary by hosted the first International Assemble for Pediatric Anesthesia (IAPA) in Washington, DC (2012). Perhaps best stated by the SPA Newsletter Editor at the time (Dr. Sean Flack) “I hope you will be inspired to continue the work that IAPA started. Ultimately, the success of IAPA will be determined by the friendships made in DC, relationships established between people and centers, and a commitment from all of us to work to improve patient safety, both home and abroad.” Dr. Martin was also instrumental in the creation of the Myron Yaster lifetime achievement award which acknowledges a lifetime contribution to the society’s mission.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Building and Improving Pediatric Anesthesia Services Using "Real World Data (RWD)" and Experience; What is This and How Do you Achieve This? (Live Participation Required)
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Melissa Masaracchia, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health and program director for the pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She obtained her medical degree at New York Medical College in 2011, completed residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2015 and went on to complete fellowship training both in adult regional anesthesia and acute pain management and in pediatric anesthesiology in 2016 and 2018, respectively. She serves on the editorial board for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Question of the Week Program and is a Vice Chair of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Pediatric SIG.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 25 - "But, I Don't Want to Mommy!" - Managing the Minor Patient Who Refuses Surgery
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Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
Loma Linda, CA
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Linda J. Mason, M.D., FASA, FCAI is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Loma Linda University and was the Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital from 1988-2024. Dr. Mason served the California Society of Anesthesiologists as President of the Society from May 2004 thru May 2005. She is currently an ASA Past President (2019 ASA President). Dr. Mason is Past President, Association of Anesthesiology Subspecialty Program Directors (AASPD) (2008-2009) and was a Member, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Review Committee for Anesthesiology (2010-2016). She was Board Certified in Pediatric Anesthesiology (2013) and was an Editor for the American Board of Anesthesiologist – Pediatric Anesthesiology Exam (1/1/2015-12/31/17). She has presented over 675 outside lectures and Visiting Professorships during her career. Dr. Mason is currently the Board Chair for the National Society Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council (PALC).
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Leading a Specialty on the National Stage
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Professor of Anesthesiology
McGovern Medical School UT Houston Health Science Center
Houston, TX
Bio
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Special interests in pediatric regional anesthesia, pediatric pain management, and pediatric difficult airway
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Lynne Maxwell, MD, FAAP is a pediatric anesthesiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maxwell completed pediatric and anesthesiology residencies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was the pediatric anesthesia faculty for 27 years before moving to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2002. Dr. Maxwell served six years both as a member of the executive committee of the AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, six years as an elected member of the AAP Committee on Drugs (COD) and six years as a member of the executive committee of the AAP Section on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr. Maxwell participated in the FDA NICHD neonatal drug initiative, pain subgroup, which identified barriers to drug safety and efficacy studies in the neonatal population and drug categories with specific needs for study in newborns. Her research has included efficacy and pharmacokinetic studies of analgesics in infants and children as well as issues of neonatal pain assessment and management. She is a recipient of the Robert M. Smith Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Pediatric Anesthesiology by the AAP Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. She was a consultant to the Pediatric Section editor of Anesthesia and Analgesia, and a associate editor for Pediatric Anesthesia. She is currently a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Women in Pediatric Anesthesiology: Cornerstones of a Specialty
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Training Pediatric Airway Experts: Anesthesia and PICU
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Jason T Maynes, PhD/MD is the Chief of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the Associate Chief of Perioperative Services (Research) at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is the holder of the Curtis Joseph and Harold Groves Chair in Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He completed his graduate degree in Biophysics with doctoral and post-doctoral training at the University of Alberta, University of California Berkeley, Los Alamos National Weapons Lab and Washington University in St. Louis. His clinical training was completed at the University of Alberta and Washington University in St. Louis, moving from St. Louis to Toronto in 2012. His research primarily involves finding new ways to quantify drug action, both therapeutic and toxic, including how to improve the clinical effect of anesthetics and pain medications. His lab has developed new therapies for heart failure, modeling cardiac function using stem-cell derived tissue, and has created platform technologies that measure cardiomyocyte function for the purposes of drug discovery. He holds patents and intellectual property around new therapies for heart failure, novel methods for quantifying cardiomyocyte function and for anti-viral small molecule therapies. His lab is currently funded by the CIHR, NSERC, Canada Foundation for Innovation, The Ontario Research Fund and The Labatt Family Heart Center, in addition to funding from pharmaceutical and venture capital groups.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Physics of Ultrasound for Pediatric Anesthesiologists
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Molly M.H. Herr, MD is a pediatric anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Herr is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin—Madison for her undergraduate and medical degrees and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine for her Anesthesiology residency and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship. Clinical interests include anesthesia/healthcare greening and sustainability, climate change and health, and the education of medical students and residents in sustainable healthcare practice. Dr. Herr has worked at the Mayo Clinic since 2005 and is the Chair of the Mayo Clinic Rochester Green Subcommittee, a member of the Mayo Clinic Green Committee and the Mayo Anesthesiology Equipment Committee. She is also one of nearly 300 Mayo Clinic Green Advocates, who work to promote sustainability in their work areas. Recently, she has become a liaison to the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee to help integrate climate change and health education into the medical school curriculum. She is also an advisor and mentor to the Mayo Clinic Rochester anesthesia residency interest group called CRISP (Coalition of Residents for Improving Sustainable Practices) and to the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine’s Medical Students for Sustainability Interest Group.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
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System Chief Medical & Quality Officer, UNC Health, Professor of Anesthesiology, UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Bio
Peggy P. McNaull, MD, is the Chief Medical and Quality Officer for UNC Health, a role she assumed in December of 2024.
Prior to assuming this new role, Dr McNaull was the Frederic A. Berry Professor and Chair of the University of Virginia (UVA) Department of Anesthesiology and Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. McNaull embraced the department’s history of excellence to provide anesthesiology services across multiple sites, train the next generation of anesthesiologists, and develop anesthesiology research programs, while exploring new opportunities to innovate and advance the department in response to the ever-changing healthcare environment. In this role, Dr. McNaull recruited and retained a group of preeminent faculty. The department and its faculty, under her leadership, reached new heights in clinical care, education, research and community endeavors.
Dr. McNaull started her career in healthcare as a nurse. After completing her BS at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in Atlanta, she practiced as an RN in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. She continued to serve as an RN while earning her MD at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She completed her Anesthesiology residency at the University of North Carolina where she was Chief Resident. Subsequently, she did her Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at UNC before completing a Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesiology fellowship program at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
From 2009 until 2018, Dr. McNaull served as UNC Department of Anesthesiology’s Division Chief for Pediatric Anesthesiology. She fostered the development of preeminent programs in pediatric anesthesia care including the only anesthesia-managed Pediatric Pain and Sedation Service in the state of North Carolina. In 2014, Dr. McNaull was appointed as her department’s first Vice Chair for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. In this role, Dr. McNaull advanced the efficiency and quality of care across the department and UNC’s operating rooms in many ways, including opioid stewardship, and enhanced recovery after surgery programs. In 2018, Dr. McNaull was appointed the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Quality and Safety for UNC Hospitals’ main campus in Chapel Hill where she was also integral in spreading some of the flagship programs she led, across the state through UNC Health’s system-wide care redesign effort.
Dr. McNaull has a national reputation in pediatric anesthesiology. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology and currently serves as the society’s President-elect. She recently co-chaired a task force charged with re-envisioning the future of the Pediatric Anesthesiology ACGME program. Additionally, Dr. McNaull is very involved in the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) where she serves as an Applied Examiner. She has participated in written exam development since 2009 as a question writer and editor. Dr. McNaull was recently selected by the board of directors to serve as the Vice Chair of the Advanced Exam Committee.
Dr. McNaull finds the greatest joy in being with her husband, Stewart, and their five amazing children Ben, Eli, Addie, Anderson and Molly.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Born and raised in upstate NY. CRNA at University of Vermont Medical Center. Enjoys cycling, X-C skiing, and smooth emergence.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Dental Delirium: Dexmedetomidine and Emergence Delirium in a Unique Patient Population
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Christina Miller is an assistant professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at Johns Hopkins Hospital, specializing in adult neuroanesthesia. She completed her BA at Dartmouth College and her MD at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed residency training in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she is now a faculty member. She has been a simulation educator since 2010 with extensive experience in the design of complex medical scenarios that use simulation to teach medical knowledge, communication skills and professionalism. She has expertise in the use of operating and programming high fidelity manikins and running simulation experiences in real time “on the fly” in response to the actions demonstrated by simulation learners, has developed a portfolio of over twenty simulation scenarios ranging from basic skill experiences to complex multi-disciplinary high acuity situations, and has partnered with experts in specialty fields within and outside anesthesia to design simulations specific to various content needs. She has published on various simulation topics such as the effects of high fidelity simulation in a “boot camp” setting on the confidence of the novice learner, design and execution of an ABA-style OSCE, and adaptation of a high fidelity complex scenario for virtual simulation.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
UT Houston/Memorial Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
Trained in Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist. Practiced at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine for over 20 years. Main clinical interests Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology, Pediatric Cardiology and NonInvasive Cardiac Imaging in the pediatric age group.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session III - Track 1 General Session: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Anesthesiology
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Assistant Professor
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Bio
Dr. Shazia Mohammad is a pediatric anesthesiologist and Associate Professor at Texas Children’s Hospital
(TCH), Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Specializing in single lung ventilation for pediatric patients and
promoting sustainability in anesthesia, Dr. Mohammad leads international and national workshops on
one lung ventilation (OLV) and has been at the forefront of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) OLV
national workshop for the past seven years. Her expertise is showcased in a published paper on pediatric
OLV techniques in the journal Pediatric Anesthesia.
In the realm of sustainability, Dr. Mohammad serves as the chair of the "Sustainable Perioperative Care
Committee" and represents the anesthesiology department on TCH's Green Team, an institution-wide
sustainability committee. Actively engaged in SPA Sustainability SIG and the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on
Environmental Health, she has instructed sustainability workshops at SPA in 2021 and 2022.
Beyond her specialized interests, Dr. Mohammad chairs the craniofacial service in the pediatric
anesthesiology department. Her passion for education and involvement in biomedical informatics and
technology further enrich her multifaceted contributions to the field.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Founder and Director of Chronic Pain medicine Program at Texas Children's Hospital. Currently working in adult pain medicine in the Bay Area.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:05 AM - 10:55 AM
SPA Diversity Panel Discussion
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I am an Associate Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology at the Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center of the Johns Hopkins Hospital with a special interest in pediatric acute pain management.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:15 PM - 4:50 PM
Session IV - Track 2 Clinical Practice: Pediatric Anesthesiologists Outside the Operating Room: Opportunities for Growth
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Division chief Pediatric CV Anesthesia Texas Children’s Hospital
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Bio
Shivani G. Mukkamala, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Emory University. Dr. Mukkamala is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist and practices at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Egleston Hospital. She is the director for the core pediatric anesthesiology residency rotation. Dr. Mukkamala also serves as the faculty advisor for the Anesthesiology Interest Group and as the career advisor for Emory University medical students pursuing anesthesiology. She completed her residency and fellowship at Columbia University in New York.
Dr. Mukkamala has a special interest in pediatric airways and chairs the difficult airway workshop at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. She was honored by the Emory University School of Medicine with the Dean’s Teaching Award 2020-2021. She is passionate about mentorship, minorities in medicine and physician burnout prevention. She speaks nationally on resilience and mindfulness. She serves as the Secretary on the executive board of AMWA Ignite, a curriculum for women medical students by women physicians and the program board for Brave Enough Women’s Conference.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Mindful Resilience
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Augusta University at Medical College of Georgia
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 20 - Anaphylaxis in a Single Ventricle Fontan Patient in the Interventional Radiology Suite
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Dr. Nafiu is a Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology and presently serves as the Vice Chair for Research and Pediatrics at the Montefiore Albert Einstein Anesthesiology Department, Bronx, NY. He is also the Section Editor for Health Disparity. Dr. Nafiu is passionate about the role of research in enhancing institutional tripartite mission. He enjoys mentoring peers and junior faculty and trainees in their research pursuit.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Associate Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Bio
Pediatric anesthesiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Associate professor of anesthesiology at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. My work interests include regional anesthesia, point of care ultrasound, competency-based education curriculum development. I love gardening, baking, reading and spending time with my family. Please see the link for a complete bio including publications.
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/n/suryakumar-narayanasamy
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 18 - An Epidermolysis Bullosa Patient with Difficult Airway Needing a Dental Rehabilitation and MRI
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Dr. Viviane Nasr is the Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She. Her work is mostly related to patients with congenital heart disease and the perioperative risk assessment of pediatric patients. She has written more than 140 publications, multiple textbook chapters and a handbook on pediatric cardiac anesthesia. In addition to her active academic career, she is the President of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
ERAS for Cardiac Surgery
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 6 - ECMO for the General Pediatric Anesthesiologist
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Dr Manchula Navaratnam is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford Children's Hospital. Manchula’s clinical and academic interests revolve around the peri-operative care of pediatric patients with heart failure, cardiac transplantation, ventricular assist devices and single ventricle physiology. Manchula is a passionate educator and is the founder and director of the pediatric cardiac anesthesia learning (PCAL) weekend workshops at Stanford. Manchula is actively engaged in faculty development for pediatric cardiac anesthesia faculty at Stanford and beyond and serves on the board of directors for the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 13 - Don't Go Breaking my Heart! Or my Head!
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Preoperative Care, Vice Chancellor
University of California San Franciso
San Francisco, CA
Bio
Renee Chapman Navarro, PharmD, MD, is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care. In 2010 she was appointed as the University of California, San Francisco’s inaugural Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Outreach. She is the first African American woman and first anesthesia faculty member to be appointed to the chancellor’s executive leadership team at UCSF.
As a faculty leader and educator her career at UCSF has progressed rapidly. She has held several leadership positions at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, including Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics and the Risk Management Committees, and Acting Chief of Anesthesia. She served for 10 years as the Medical Director of Perioperative Services and was elected by her peers to serve as the Chief of the Medical Staff.
Dr. Navarro has served as an examiner for the American Board of Anesthesia. She is a mentor, clinician educator and academic leader. She has served the department in resident selection and advising, finance, merits and promotions committees and also as a member of the department’s executive committee. Within the School of Medicine, she served as the Associate Dean for faculty affairs as well as an Advisory College Mentor, an Introduction to Medicine leader and Anesthesia Career Advisor.
Nationally, Dr. Navarro has continued her strong leadership and advocacy for equity and inclusion. She served as a member of the White House Fellowship selection committee, NIH Advisory Group to the Director’s working group on diversity, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Professional Diversity and the ASA Professional Issues Education Committee. Dr. Navarro is committed to public service, serving on the San Mateo Commission on the Status of Women, the San Mateo Commission on Disabilities and was the founding Chair of the Group on Women in Medicine and Science for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She now serves as Chair for the AAMC’s Group on Diversity and Inclusion and is leading the UCSF Action Collaborative to address gender harassment and sexual misconduct in academic medicine.
The Office of Diversity and Outreach has significantly impacted the university and community for which it received the 2016 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight into Diversity Magazine.
Dr. Navarro has received numerous awards including a mentorship award from California Assemblyman Leno and an Honorary Doctorate from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her impact on health equity and service has also been recognized by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown’s Proclamation of J. Renee Navarro Day in San Francisco.
Friday, February 26, 2021
10:05 AM - 10:55 AM
SPA Diversity Panel Discussion
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Ann Ng, MD, is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and practices in pediatric anesthesiology at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Ng earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her anesthesiology residency at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. She advanced her training with a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Baylor, where she then also served as faculty at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ng’s academic work focuses on medical education and resident wellness where she has developed wellness curricula and fostered trainee mentorship. She is a co-investigator on the multicenter TREX trial examining neurodevelopmental outcomes in pediatric anesthesia and has published on the anesthetic management of ketogenic diet patients.
Dr. Ng recently relocated to Seattle and has been enjoying exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and two children, who are 4 and 7 years old and becoming avid young hikers.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 10 - Tonsils of Trouble: Managing Complications Associated with Cyanosis in a Patient with a Glenn for Tonsillectomy
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Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Anesthesiology resident at Baylor College of Medicine. Planning to pursue further training in cardiothoracic anesthesiology.
Academic interest in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, technology and innovation in medical education.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Dora Ngwang
Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 10:32 AM
to April
Dr. Ngwang is a double boarded pediatric and adult anesthesiologist. Her home base is currently Atlanta, GA and currently works as a locums physician in community as well as holds academic appointments. Dr. Ngwang did her anesthesia residency at CaseWestern in Cleveland OH. Pediatric Fellowship at Case Western Rainbow babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland OH. She has experience and practiced in various diverse settings including Children's hospital, inpatient and outpatient. She is very proficient at Regional anesthesia.
Her academic interest include Regional anesthesia and international medical mission and education.
Personal interest include everything outdoors, traveling, medical mission trip ( 1-2 each year) cooking , spending time with family and friends. She is involved in several non profit organizations in her community as well as around the world
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 5 - Pediatric Substance Abuse in the Perioperative Period
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Soumya Nyshadham is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. She is on the acute pain service, and is the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at Emory University.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Research Workshop: Turning an Idea into a Publication (Live Participation Required)
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Bukola is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Seattle Children's Hospital and an assistant professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM). Her clinical interests include pediatric transplant anesthesiology and anesthesiology for spine surgery. She has an academic interest in simulation education and is an associate director for resident simulation in the department of Anesthesiology & Pain medicine at UWSOM. She is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and dedicated to investing in underserved and marginalized populations, locally and globally, to achieve health equity and equitable distribution of educational resources.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Professor, Div. Peds. Surgery Chair, ACS CSV Program
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Bio
Dr. Oldham completed undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina as a John M. Morehead scholar in 1971. He received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, completed general surgical residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, and trained in pediatric surgery at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Oldham served on the faculty at the University of Michigan until 1991 when he was appointed Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at Duke University. He remained at Duke until 1998 when he was recruited to the Marie Z. Uihlein Chair of Pediatric Surgery and the position of Surgeon-In-Chief at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He has been a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) since 1985 and was elected Secretary in 1997 and President in 2012. He served as Chair of the Organization of Children’s Hospitals Surgeons-in-Chief 2010-2012 and President of the Association of Pediatric Surgery Training Program Directors 2009-2011. He is actively involved in clinical outcomes and healthcare quality research, including previous service as Chair of the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatrics Steering Committee. He is the Medical Director of the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Program and Chair of the Verification Committee.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, Arthur C. King Professor, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
Bio
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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Navigating Academia: The Pathway Through Different Lenses
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Session II: Year in Review: Best Pediatric Anesthesiology Research
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Mary Jane Paras is a Pediatric Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an alumna of the Georgetown University Nurse Anesthesia program. She also is a pediatric lecturer and a simulation instructor at Samuel Merritt University's Nurse Anesthesia program. Her passion for caring for pediatric patients has taken her to various parts of the world including Inner Mongolia, China, and Macedonia. She served as the anesthesia team coordinator for the Virginia Hospital Medical Brigade, which provides surgical and anesthetic care to the constituents of Comayagua, Honduras.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
Surgical Missions in Low to Middle Income Countries and COVID-19: Shifting Gears
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Professor
Division Chief, General Anesthesia
Texas Children's Hospital
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Medical School: The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Medical College of Wisconsin
Fellowship: University of Michigan
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 14 - The Unexpected Neonatal Neck Mass
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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I'm an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. I have twenty years of clinical experience in Anesthesiology, the last fifteen dedicated to Pediatric Anesthesia. My areas of interest include the use of point of care ultrasound during the perioperative care of pediatric patients. Furthermore, the last ten years, I have participated in the care of pregnant patients undergoing fetal procedures leading to a growth interest in Fetal Anesthesia. I also participate in the education of fellows especially during the care of pediatric patients undergoing complex procedures. I have experience on developing and conducting research studies in the areas of airway dynamics and the response to anesthetics, use of new monitoring technology, such as the use of a non-invasive pulse co-oxymetry to monitor continuous hemoglobin trending and the use of a respiratory acoustic monitoring to monitor the respiratory rate continuously during the perioperative care of pediatric patients. I have also conducted studies in Fetal Anesthesia specifically in creating an enhanced recovery protocol for patients undergoing fetoscopic repair of a neural tube defect. My future goals are to continue the practice of Pediatric Anesthesia in an academic center with clinical interest in Fetal Anesthesia. I will also continue participating in research studies that have an impact in the perioperative care of pediatric patients.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Dr. Fiona Patrao is an assistant professor at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington since 2016. She obtained her medical school degree and completed her anesthesia residency at Manipal University in India where she was faculty for a year before immigrating to the United States. She completed another anesthesia residency at the University of Washington in 2015 and her pediatric anesthesia fellowship training at Seattle Children’s Hospital in 2016. She is passionate about resident and fellow education and has served as the residency site co-director at Seattle Children's and as an associate director in simulation for the anesthesia department at both Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington. Her interests have evolved to include mentorship and advocacy and she plays an active role in the University of Washington’s Peer Support Program and the Council for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as well as serves on the Seattle Children's Women in Medicine Council.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Building and Improving Pediatric Anesthesia Services Using "Real World Data (RWD)" and Experience; What is This and How Do you Achieve This? (Live Participation Required)
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Felipe D. Perez is a Clinical Assistant Professor who is board-certified as an Anesthesiologist and as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist. He is the Assistant Dean for Diversity in Medical Student Education in the Office of Diversity in Medical Education (ODME) at Stanford University School of Medicine. His parents emigrated from Mexico and was raised in an immigrant working class neighborhood of Long Beach, CA. After receiving his Bachelors at Stanford he dedicated three years to public health policy where he worked for local, state, and national levels of government. He worked for Congressman Henry Waxman, Assemblymember Hector De La Torre, and Senator Alex Padilla, on laws such as preventing homelessness and having restaurants post caloric information on their menus. He returned to Stanford University for his Medical Degree and stayed for residency, pediatric anesthesiology fellowship, and was hired on as faculty at both the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital. He is involved with leading diversity efforts locally and nationally. He co-chairs his clinical department’s Anesthesiology Diversity Council, he is a steering committee member of Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD), he founded CSA's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee, and is the communication chair for the national Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) DEI Committee.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Isabel Pesola is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist born and raised in Cali, Colombia. She moved to the United States for training. She completed her residency training at Mt. Sinai St Lukes/West hospital in NYC and her fellowship training at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr Pesola is interested is a member of the Task Force for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the Society for Education in Anesthesia. She is interested in Medical Education, Simulation and Airway Anesthesia.
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Discussing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in SPA and Beyond
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Addressing Implicit Bias and Allyship/Bystander Training at Workplace (Live Participation Required)
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Sophie Pestieau is on faculty at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, where she is the Vice-Chief of Clinical Affairs in the Division of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, and the Medical Director in the Center for Surgical Care. For many years, she has been an active member of the Acute Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia services. From an academic standpoint, she is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise and research focus on improving perioperative outcomes of children, by emphasizing the use regional anesthesia, multimodal analgesia, and clinical care pathways such as the perioperative surgical home and ERAS protocols.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Protocols for Spine Surgery
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Elisha Peterson MD PLLC
Washington, DC
Bio
Elisha Peterson MD MEd FAAP FASA is a Harvard-trained pain medicine physician, triple board certified anesthesiologist, and TEDx speaker. She is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at George Washington Hospital and former director of Chronic Pain at Children's National. In addition to helping thousands of children, adolescents, and young adults get their lives back from chronic pain, she is the host of the Sevo Sistas podcast- a podcast to demystify and diversity the field of anesthesiology all within the duration of an anesthesia break. She is also co-editor on the pediatric section of the Open Anesthesia podcast. She has peer reviewed publications and book chapters on chronic pain. Her passion as a medical educator motivated her to speak on national stages on the importance of improving the quality of care for children with chronic pain.
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Discussing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in SPA and Beyond
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 28 - Nuss Procedure in an Adolescent with a History of Multiple Cardiac Surgeries- What Could Go Wrong?
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Dr. Phillips spent her childhood in New Mexico before attending college in New York. She attended the University of New Mexico School of Medicine before completing a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah. Following ten years in pediatric practice she returned to UNM to complete a residency in Anesthesiology. She continues to enjoy the practice of medicine.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 2 - Something Awful Happened in the OR...Now What? Creating a Positive Path Forward in the Face of Trauma and Adversity.
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida
Orlando, FL
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Mitchell L. Phillips, MD, MBA, is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist at Nemours Children’s Hospital in sunny Florida. Before joining the land of palm trees and year-round sunshine, he honed his skills at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He recently wrapped up his Master of Business Administration at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, just in case medicine wasn’t enough of a challenge.
A proud graduate of the University of Miami (twice, actually), Dr. Phillips earned his BS in Coral Gables and his MD at the Miller School of Medicine in Miami. His training took him through a whirlwind of cities, from Miami’s Jackson Memorial for his internal medicine internship, to Atlanta’s Emory University for anesthesiology residency, and finally to Chicago for a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship.
Outside of the OR, Dr. Phillips can be found exploring the latest restaurant hotspots, cheering for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and staying loyal to his Miami Hurricanes. He shares his adventures with his wife, Laura and their energetic 2-year-old son, Milo, who runs the show at home.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 8 - What!? No Blood! The Adolescent Jehovah's Witness Presenting for Liver Transplantation
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Dr. Porche is Director of Anesthesia at the prestigious Proton Therapy Center (PTC), Houston - part of world-renowned M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. As Director, Dr. Porche guides the Anesthesia team to give individualized medications to each patient who requires sedation for their radiation treatments.
Dr. Porche is also the first African-American female in M. D. Anderson's history to earn the rank of Professor in any specialty. She has earned many awards, including the Edith Irby Jones Trailblazer Award given by the Houston Medical Forum.
Lynn, as her friends fondly address her, is a native Houstonian. She received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas - Austin, medical degree from the UT - Medical School - Houston, and completed her residency and fellowships in Cardiovascular & Pediatric Anesthesia from Baylor College of Medicine.
Lynn is married to Henry L. Porche and the proud mother of three, Henry III, Bobbi and Troy. Lynn's mother has also survived breast cancer.
Friday, February 26, 2021
9:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Session I: Discussing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in SPA and Beyond
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Clinical Assistant Professor
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Anesthesiologist in Pittsburgh, PA.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 24 - A 17-Year-Old Girl with Foot Drop After an Uneventful Popliteal Nerve Block: Should I Change My Practice?
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Assistant Professor
Mott Children's Hospital / University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Bio
I am a pediatric anesthesiologist and developmental neuroscientist investigating how anesthetics affect transitions in brain states to develop safer, more targeted anesthetic regimens for children.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
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Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Professor, Clinical
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati , OH
Bio
Vidya T. Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP is a nationally recognized pediatric anesthesiologist and
healthcare leader, currently serving as Medical Director of Adult Anesthesia Services in the Department of
Anesthesiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Professor of Clinical
Anesthesiology & Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Raman’s clinical
and academic expertise spans perioperative safety, operational efficiency, and patient-centered care
models for medically complex adult services at a children's hospital. She has led transformative
initiatives in quality improvement, workforce development, and high-reliability care delivery, while
championing physician leadership and mentorship over the last 2 decades. Her work has been widely published and presented.
She continues to advance innovative strategies that strengthen the pediatric–adult care continuum
and elevate outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Greening the Operating Room: Easy Sustainability Projects that Decrease Environmental Impact and Decrease Costs (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Moderated Case Report Poster Session
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Dr Rampersad is an Attending Anesthesiologist at Seattle Children's Hospital and was QI Director for anesthesia from 2004 - 2025. She is a member of Wake up Safe and the SPA's Quality and Safety committee. Her interests include medication safety, team behaviors, anesthesia for out of OR locations and pediatric pain management.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurological Surgery
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Bio
Dr. Reddy is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Her clinical and research focus is on craniofacial anesthesia and neuroanesthesia.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Perioperative Registry
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Mojca Remskar, MD, PhD, MACM is currently a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Minnesota. She is a fellowship trained cardiac anesthesiologist and pediatric anesthesiology certified anesthesiologist with special interest in adult and pediatric cardiac anesthesia. In 2010 she became the Residency Program Director, in 2014 Vice Chair of Education of the Department of Anesthesiology and in 2019 Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Anesthesiology. She teaches medical students, and anesthesiology residents and fellows and has received several Teacher of the Year awards. She began working with simulation in 2009 and was the Director of SimPORTAL and subsequently Medical Director of M Simulation at the University of Minnesota and medical director of Minneapolis VA Simulation Center. She is involved with curriculum development and assessment of the anesthesiology and surgery residency simulation program and is developing multidisciplinary educational curricula, which utilize high- and low-fidelity simulation. Her special area of interest is translation of clinical skills, medical knowledge and attitudes obtained in the simulation laboratory into the clinical world. Prior to joining University of Minnesota she worked at the University of California, Davis as a cardiac anesthesiologist. She received her doctorate and masters in cardiology from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, investigating neo-intimal in-stent re-stenosis and inflammatory involvement in acute coronary syndrome in the laboratory of Dr. Ganz at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, California (UCLA). She has written journal articles and a book chapter in medical and simulation literature. In her free time she enjoys mission trips to underdeveloped areas of the world to provide medical care to children in need.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 4 - Just Another Straight Forward Atrial Septal Defect Device Closure?
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I am a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen SOM at Ronald Reagan Medical Center. I am Board Certified in Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Pediatric Anesthesiology. Currently I am the Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship and Medical Director of the Pediatric Perioperative Surgical Home.
I began teaching at the UCLA Simulation Center in 2006. My focus is on teaching anesthesiology residents and fellows how to manage different critical events scenarios. The sessions include a debriefing of events and discussion of differential diagnosis as well as crisis management. My philosophy is to guide trainees through critical situations and practice management of complicated situations so that when crises occur in real life, they will be more prepared. I also developed a simulation program for advanced pediatric anesthesia training. This program is offered twice a year for pediatric anesthesia fellows and provides specialty specific critical events scenarios.
I am also an instructor for ABA MOCA simulation, I have been participating since its inception to advocate for learning through simulation. I believe simulation promotes patient safety through refinement of skills, team management, and communication. Additionally, I lead in-situ mock codes for various nursing units, including preoperative and postoperative units across multiple surgical sites at UCLA. These sessions are designed to enhance communication, teamwork, and collaboration among medical and nursing staff. Additionally, these sessions offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities for nursing staff, contributing to their ongoing professional development and ensuring high standards of care.
In addition to refining technical competence, my focus with simulation-based training is to help healthcare professionals build strong communication skills that reflect the diverse and evolving needs of the populations they serve. My goal is to support continuous learning and professional growth, ensuring that medical teams are equipped not only with clinical expertise but also with the cultural competence required to deliver compassionate, high-quality care to all patients.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Pediatric Anesthesiologist in Syracuse, NY interested in resident education, AIMS, Quality Improvement and pharmacy services. Father of 3 as well.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 16 - Just a Port and Bone Marrow Biopsy: An Evolving Airway in a Patient with Newly Diagnosed AML
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Assistant Professor Anesthesiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Bio
Attending in General Pediatric & Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia, Seattle Children's Hospital
Director of Education, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital
Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Building and Improving Pediatric Anesthesia Services Using "Real World Data (RWD)" and Experience; What is This and How Do you Achieve This? (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor
University of Minnesota; M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 4 - Just Another Straight Forward Atrial Septal Defect Device Closure?
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Professor of Anesthesiology, Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia, University of Michigan, Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 5 - Quick Add-on CT-Guided Liver Biopsy in a 13-Year-Old "Healthy Fontan"
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Penn State Hershey
Bio
David Rodgers is the manager of Interprofessional Learning and Simulation at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Marshall University. Clinically, he is a national registered paramedic with over 30 years’ experience.
Dr. Rodgers has a wide range of simulation experience. He was the founding director of a large teaching-hospital simulation center, helped expand the capabilities of an established pediatric simulation center, and operated his own simulation education consulting company.
Additionally, Dr. Rodgers has been active as a volunteer with the American Heart Association (AHA) having served as chairperson of the national Emergency Cardiovascular Care Education Subcommittee and as a member of the Program Administration Subcommittee (PROAD). He has been active with AHA international activities, serving as a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and was an AHA representative to the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Consensus 2005 and 2010 conferences. In recognition for his contributions to the AHA, he was appointed a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Roque is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist practicing in Seattle, WA. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Maryland before completing an anesthesiology residency at Oregon Health and Science University and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he still practices, serving primarily on the ENT and Sedation teams. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine of the University of Washington. Academically, many of his interests are within diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), with a focus on educating trainees and fellow anesthetists about transgender and gender-diverse patients and improving the perioperative care of this unique population. Dr. Roque serves on the DEI committee of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology and is also a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Medical Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Professor Emerita of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Duke Univ Med Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Bio
Dr. Ross is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia at Duke Health. Her early interests and publications were on pharmacokinetics of anesthetics in children and pediatric regional anesthesia. More recent work has involved leadership development through mentorship, consulting and coaching as well as process improvement and building of teams.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
WWspaD Panel - Case Discussions
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program - Tips for Anesthesiologists to Get Your Hospital Verified and Updates on What to Expect for Standards 2.0 (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor
Texas Children's Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Bio
Dr Rossmann Beel is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Medicine is a second career for her– she worked for eight years as an epidemiologist at UT Southwestern and for the City of Fort Worth prior to medical school. She still loves epidemiology and working with data, and clinical / outcomes research is something she finds fascinating and very much enjoys being involved with. Her clinical interests include anesthesia for scoliosis, liver transplant and cardiac catheterization. She is currently involved with research with the PEACOC Pediatric Anesthesia COVID Collaborative as well as local projects at Texas Children’s, and is the PI / Co-I on a number of studies both funded and unfunded.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Kasia Rubin is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She earned her undergraduate degree at Case Western Reserve University and her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, completing anesthesia training at Case affiliated hospitals, and her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She has been a division chief and a pediatric anesthesia fellowship director. In these and other leadership roles, she has utilized the advice in this presentation to help both herself and other colleagues work through the phases of self-doubt that are associated with Imposter Syndrome.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM
Imposter Syndrome: Maintaining Self-Image in a Competitive Specialty
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Executive Vice-Chair of Clinical Quality, Patient Safety and Clinical Research
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Pediatric anesthesiologist and pediatric pain researcher.
Executive Vice Chair - Department of Anesthesiology, UPMC
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Pharmacogenetics
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Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 30 - Emergency Surgery in a Patient with Mandibular Hypoplasia and MIS-C: What Could Go Wrong?
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Atlanta, GA
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Pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Runner and horticulture enthusiast outside of work!
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 29 - Post-extubation Stridor after Removal of Ingested Button Battery: A Case of Bilateral Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury from Suspected Electrical Burn
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Associate Anesthesiologist in Chief
Phoenix Children's Hospital
Phoenix, AZ
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Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Pediatric anesthesiologist currently working at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. Residency completed at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowship completed at Texas Children's Hospital-Baylor College of Medicine.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Creating Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) (Live Participation Required)
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Adam Schiavi is an anesthesiologist and neuro-intensivist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. He is the director of simulation education for the department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine. He has been a simulation educator for 12 years at Johns Hopkins. His research interests include the use of simulation as an educational modality in the development of clinical expertise.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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After receiving her undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Rochester, Dr. Schleelein did her Anesthesiology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and was elected chief resident from 2006 to 2007. She completed her fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and then joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine as Assistant Professor at CHOP. She became the department patient safety officer in 2010 and in 2015 was named the Safety Director for the Division of Anesthesiology. She was excited to be elected CHOP Medical Director of Patient Safety in 2016. In 2019, she joined the Watson Clinic, LLP team in Lakeland, Florida as the Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology.
During her career, her academic interest and quality improvement work has centered on adverse events in the perioperative complex. She has started an adverse events database and has completed several quality improvement and research projects focusing on the epidemiology of these events and improving team response.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Hosp
Baltimore, MD
Bio
Deborah Schwengel is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is director of the Education Research Core and editor-in-chief of the ASA Patient Safety Editorial Board. She is actively engaged in educational research and disaster preparedness readiness training.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Taking the Mystery Out of Curriculum Development: The Six (6) Steps (Sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:35 PM - 3:55 PM
Everything Old Is New Again: Introducing Integrative Medicine to the Pediatric Perioperative Arena
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Vice Chair of Faculty Development
Director of Pediatric CV Anesthesia
UMMC
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
Dr. Simpao is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a pediatric and maternal-fetal anesthesiologist and clinical informaticist who serves as Associate Division Chief for Research, co-Director of his department's Biomedical Informatics Program, and Associate Director of Anesthesia Services at CHOP's King of Prussia Hospital. He is the Immediate Past-President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia and serves on the ASA's Committee on Informatics and Information Technology and its AI Strategy Workgroup. He is an Associate Editor for Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesia, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Systems.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
Pediatric Anesthesiology and Informatics
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Born and raised in Monterey, California, Alpana Singh’s strong work ethic and ease with people of all ages stemmed from a youth spent working in her family’s South-Asian grocery store. It’s an immigrant work ethic that is built into her DNA. Her great-grandparents came from India to the Fiji Islands to work as indentured laborers and eventually settled on the island for three generations. Alpana’s parents immigrated from Fiji to the United States in 1975 to pursue a better a life for their family and like many Indian parents, they wanted their daughter to become a doctor. And although Alpana expressed an interest in science and biology, she also became enamored with food and restaurants from a very early age. As a little girl she loved watching cooking shows on PBS and would dream about traveling the world and eating all that delicious food! While waiting tables in college, she discovered wine and found that it united her varied interests in traveling, history, food and yes, even science..
At 19, she pursued a path in the business with a job as a wine sales clerk at Nielsen Bros. Market in Carmel, California. By 23, she had landed the sommelier position at the world-renowned Everest Restaurant in Chicago. Just three years later at the age of 26, Alpana went on to become the youngest woman and the only South Asian ever to pass the final level of the Master Sommelier exam which has a pass rate of 3%. There are 262 professionals world-wide who have earned the title of Master Sommelier since the organization’s inception. Of those, 27 are women.
This distinguished accomplishment, along with her effervescence, experience and energy, was magnetic, and it wasn’t long before Alpana found herself in the local spotlight. For ten seasons, she served as the host of the Emmy Award-winning restaurant review television show, Check, Please!, on Chicago’s PBS station, and returned in 2018 after a five-year absence.
In December 2012, Alpana opened The Boarding House, a wine-driven concept in the River North neighborhood. In February of 2015, Alpana opened her second restaurant, Seven Lions, on Chicago’s iconic Michigan Avenue. In 2016, Alpana announced her third restaurant venture, Terra & Vine, in Evanston, Illinois.
Alpana was proud to be included as a Crain’s 40 Under 40 honoree in Chicago in 2001 at the age of 24 and has since been a prominent member of the community. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Illinois Restaurant Association and Choose Chicago where she serves as Treasurer on the tourism board’s Executive Committee. She played a significant role in bringing the James Beard Foundation Awards to the city of Chicago in 2015.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual Tasting & Pairing: Coming to Your Senses
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Devika Singh, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She serves as an attending pediatric anesthesiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). With 18 years of experience in simulation-based educational activities, Dr. Singh completed the facilitator’s course at CHOP and the Institute of Medical Simulation in Boston in 2013, as well as Team STEPPS training in 2015. She also holds a master’s in medical education from the University of Pennsylvania which she completed in 2018.
Dr. Singh has developed multiple simulation educational programs and curricula, including a multi-institutional pediatric anesthesia fellows boot camp, now in its 15th year. She mentors junior faculty in the development and execution of simulation-based educational sessions for residents and fellows. As a co-director and standing faculty member for the ABA-endorsed MOCA center at CHOP, Dr. Singh has been actively involved with the ASA-endorsed MOCA simulation offered at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) meetings for the past decade. She has both developed and contributed to various simulation workshops for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and other organizations. These sessions have highlighted pediatric anesthetic techniques, perioperative PALS training using high-fidelity mannequins, navigating difficult conversations with families, and addressing challenges faced by new faculty. Additionally, she is an active member of the SPA simulation special interest group (SIG).
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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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.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 23 - CDH? TEF? How about Both? Managing Coexisting Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Premature Newborn
Saturday, February 27, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual Tasting & Pairing: Coming to Your Senses
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
WORKSHOP: Surfing the Wave of Uncertainty to Combat the Sharks of Anxiety (Live Participation Required)
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Jamie Sinton is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her training at Johns Hopkins, University of North Carolina and Texas Children’s hospital. Her work experience includes roles at Texas Children’s and Cincinnati Children’s, during the latter of which she had the opportunity to complete an NIH-funded study of children with Down syndrome. She now enjoys the continuity of care and cohesive team afforded by working in the Heart Center at Dell Children’s. She hopes to continue caring for this special population as well as academic pursuits relating to physiology and care of individuals with Down Syndrome.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 10 - Tonsils of Trouble: Managing Complications Associated with Cyanosis in a Patient with a Glenn for Tonsillectomy
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Bettina Smallman has been the Director of Pediatric Anesthesia at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, for the past 18 years.
She has a special interest in NORA and acute pain management in children with a focus on perioperative pharmacological management.
As a result of holding the position of the President of the Medical Staff at the University Hospital (2013 - 2015) she became acutely aware of the detrimental effect of poor communication and interpersonal conflict on patient care and the well-being of caregivers. As a result of this, she initiated and shared in the development and implementation of a simple communication tool, the U-TURN model, applicable to employees at every level of this major teaching hospital.
She obtained additional training as a Mediator and Conflict Dynamic Profile Facilitator.
After graduating from medicine in Freiburg, Germany, she moved to Canada, completing an anesthesiology residency and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Ottawa. She relocated to Syracuse in 1997 and now lives in the Finger Lakes region.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 16 - Just a Port and Bone Marrow Biopsy: An Evolving Airway in a Patient with Newly Diagnosed AML
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Claire Soria is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where she also serves as the Assistant Residency Program Director and the Director of Simulation Education. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed her anesthesia residency at the University of California, San Diego, and did her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 29 - Post-extubation Stridor after Removal of Ingested Button Battery: A Case of Bilateral Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury from Suspected Electrical Burn
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I am a native New Yorker with a great interest in global health which was sparked as an undergraduate at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and has been strengthened over the years with volunteer work in Asia and South America. I attended medical school at New York Medical College and completed Anesthesiology residency at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in New Jersey. After completion of a Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic I returned to New York as an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine. My academic interests include resident and fellow education and wellness. Being a new mom hasn't afforded much free time but I enjoy cycling and running half marathons.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 15 - My Body, My Decision: Informed Consent, Assent, and the Child/Adolescent as Medical Decision Maker
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Assistant Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Dayton Children's Hospital
Dayton, OH
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Kristen Spisak received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and her MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed Anesthesiology residency at Northwestern University and her fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Dayton Children’s Hospital where she serves as the Director of Comprehensive Pain Services and the Anesthesia lead for orthopedic and spine surgeries. Her areas of research interest include pediatric regional and neuraxial anesthesia, ERAS protocols, and multimodal pain management.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
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Genevieve Staudt, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Staudt received her Doctor of Medicine degree (medical degree) from the University of Iowa Medical School. She then completed a residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she stayed on as a faculty member in the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology.
In addition to serving as a member of several committees within the Pediatric Heart Institute at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Dr. Staudt serves as an editorial board member for Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. She has published several review articles related to the topic of caring for patients with congenital heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
Which Patients Should be Sent to a Cardiac Anesthesiologist?
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Emily is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at The University of Vermont Medical Center and the Anesthesiology Residency Program Director. She is interested in resident education and infant spinal anesthesia.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 9 - Preoperative Anxiety: Parental Presence vs Premedication vs Virtual Reality
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Paul Stricker is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Associate Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Stricker is a pediatric clinical outcomes researcher, with an emphasis on outcomes in children undergoing complex cranial vault reconstruction surgery. In 2012 Dr. Stricker founded the Pediatric Craniofacial Collaborative Group. He has led this group in creating the multicenter Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Perioperative Registry, and subsequently helped lead the publication of multiple scientific articles with this collaborative group.
In 2016 Dr. Stricker founded and now leads the Pediatric Perioperative Outcomes Group, an international collaboration whose mission is to develop core outcome sets for pediatric perioperative research, with the goal of promoting the systematic integration of patient-centered outcomes in clinical research.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Director of Vascular Access and Critical Care Ultrasound
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Houston, TX
Bio
Erik Su, MD completed fellowship training in pediatric critical care and an NRSA funded research training fellowship in neurocritical care and resuscitation at the University of Pittsburgh, and subsequently joined the faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. After becoming a testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography's ASCeXAM he decided to return to training in Cardiovascular Critical Care at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and is currently faculty at Mcgovern Medical School in Houston, Texas. He was a chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Ultrasound-Pediatric Course and enjoys teaching ultrasound both in his academic practice and courses internationally. He has also been an author and principal investigator in ultrasound related sponsored projects, and is an Associate Editor for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Intraoperative Crises
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Professor of Anesthesiology
Nemours Children's Hospital/University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Bio
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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Bio
I am a Professor of Clinical Practice (Anesthesiology) and have been practicing as a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado since 2006. I graduated from the National University of Singapore, School of Medicine and finished my residency in Singapore. Completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at The Children's Hospital, Colorado from 2003 - 2004.
I am the chair of the hospital Blood Utilization Review Committee and Co-chair the Hospital Patient Blood Management Program. Also have the privilege of being the Medical Director of the Anesthesiology Preoperative Clinic at CHCO.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Dr. Tassone is Chief of Anesthesia at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital. She serves the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine as Chair of the Research Committee.
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Session III - Track 2 Clinical Practice: COVID: Stories from the Front Lines
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Staff Cardiac Anesthesiologist
Hospital for Sick Children Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Bio
Dr Katherine Taylor is a pediatric cardiac anaesthesiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children. She began her medical career in Australia where she completed fellowships in pediatric and adult anesthesia and ICU before completing a fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children after which she joined the group as staff.
Her research interests include assessment and manipulation of cardiac output in high-risk pediatric anesthesia for which was awarded a PhD at the University of Sydney. Her research has been funded by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society and the University of Toronto. She is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, President of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society (CPAS) and on the Executive for the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS).
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
A Tale of POCUS Implementation in the OR. Dispelling the "Hocus Pocus"
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Nicole C. P. Thompson, MD, FAAP, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Science System. She is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology. Her clinical and academic interests are in difficult airway management and in global health. In addition to her duties at the University of Illinois, Dr. Thompson also provides care for patients at Shriners Hospital for Children - Chicago. Dr. Thompson is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is the immediate past chair for the Academic Section on Anesthesiology within the National Medical Association.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 5:10 PM
Session IV - Track 2 Clinical Practice: It's Just Another Tuesday: An Evidence-Based Approach to Common Challenges in Pediatric Anesthesia
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Associate Professor
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH
Bio
Dr. Tobias is a graduate of the University of Missouri (Kansas City) School of Medicine. He completed a pediatric residency at Texas Children’s Houston and the Baylor University affiliated programs in Houston, Texas followed by an anesthesiology residency and fellowships in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Tobias is board certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, pain medicine, and pediatric critical care medicine. Dr. Tobias is currently the Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio), a position that he has held for the past 12 years. He is also an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and a member of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Tobias is a professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at The Ohio State University.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 1 - Pearls on Starting a Clinical Research Project
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Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
Peds CV Anesthesia staff at Texas Children’s, Program Director of the Peds CV Anesthesia Fellowship
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: One-Lung Ventilation in Pediatric Patients (Live Participation Required)
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Ban Tsui, MD, MSC, is a Stanford University pediatric and adult anesthesiologist and professor. His research aims to transform regional anesthesia from an "art" to a reliable and reproducible "science" by exploring electrophysiological signal monitoring and integrating it with ultrasound advances. Dr. Tsui is dedicated to mentoring and motivating residents and fellows to incorporate research into their clinical practice. He has received funding from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society and was awarded the Distinguish Service Award by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine in 2022.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Regional Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery
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Immediate Past President of the CCAS.
Division Chief of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Co-Director of the Cardiac Center, Nemours Children's Hospital, Wilmington, Delaware.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 6 - ECMO for the General Pediatric Anesthesiologist
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Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL
Bio
Dr. Anna Varughese, MBBS, MD, FRCA, MPH, FAAP, is a distinguished pediatric anesthesiologist who serves as Professor of Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is the Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and also serves as the Associate Chief Quality and Safety Officer and Perioperative Director at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Varughese served for 15 years as Associate Chief of the Department of Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). She earned her Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005.
Renowned for her clinical expertise, Dr. Varughese has made significant contributions to the fields of patient safety, quality improvement, and perioperative care. Her exceptional mentorship was recognized by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), which honored her with the ASA Mentoring Award in 2013.
Dr. Varughese’s research focuses on health services and outcomes, emphasizing the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of patient care delivery. She has authored at least 60 peer-reviewed publications in major journals and books and has presented her work extensively at national and international scientific meetings.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Moderated Poster Presentations
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Dr. Mihaela Visoiu is a pediatric anesthesiologist with expertise in perioperative pain management and pediatric regional anesthesia. Most of her clinical time is spent in the operating rooms, rounding on the floor, providing patient care, and teaching and supervising student nurse anesthetists, anesthesiology residents, and fellows.
Dr. Visoiu collaborates with various surgical services to implement new protocols for postoperative pain control. In her research, she develops new techniques for the placement and use of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in children, infants, and neonates and compares those techniques with established methods for pain control.
Dr. Visoiu is interested in using clonidine as an adjunct medication for pediatric regional anesthesia and has investigated postoperative pain control outcomes and pain perception in teenagers and the transgender population. Her goals are to improve pediatric perioperative pain management, the safety of pediatric regional anesthesia, and family satisfaction with pain control. Dr. Visoiu’s research has been featured on the cover of the journal Pediatric Anesthesia three times (October 2018, March 2019, and January 2022).
Dr. Visoiu has significant experience participating in and leading multi-center clinical trials to understand the efficacy and safety of novel approaches to pain management and has extensive experience in managing large grant-funded projects. Dr. Visoiu worked with Dr. Sadhasivam as a coinvestigator in his NIH studies and will serve as principal investigator in a funded pupillometry NIH study.
Dr. Visoiu is also interested in advancing pediatric regional anesthesia education by developing ultrasound regional anesthesia simulators. In collaboration with the UPMC Department of Radiology and the Swanson School of Engineering and Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, she developed a neonatal ultrasound epidural caudal block simulator for single injection and catheter placement (U.S. provisional patent application, due for nationalization 04/2024). This simulator was featured by Pitt Fall Med Magazine 2023 in the article” Idea to Reality.”
Dr. Visoiu’s participation and leadership in the 28th Update Course in Pediatric Anesthesiology and High-Fidelity Pediatric Anesthesia Simulation Workshops held October 22–24, 2025, at ABC Medical Center in Mexico City, not only showcased her expertise in pediatric regional anesthesia but also fostered international academic exchange, advancing evidence-based practices in pediatric pain management. (https://www.anesthesiology.pitt.edu/news/dr-mihaela-visoiu-invited-international-expert-pediatric-regional-anesthesia-mexico-city)
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 24 - A 17-Year-Old Girl with Foot Drop After an Uneventful Popliteal Nerve Block: Should I Change My Practice?
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Dr. Elizabeth Vogel is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and the director of congenital cardiac anesthesia at Mayo Clinic Rochester. She received her MD at the University of Minnesota prior to completing her anesthesia residency at Mayo Clinic. She completed fellowships in pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital prior to returning to Minnesota. Her clinical and research interests include refining care for pediatric congenital heart patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery and optimizing care for pediatric patients in the cardiac cath lab.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 21 - Congenital Heart Disease in Trisomy 21 Patients: Anesthetic Implications for Non-Cardiac Surgery
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Associate Professor
Children's Memorial Hermann / University of Texas Health
Houston, TX
Bio
Eric Vu graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Bioengineering at Rice University. Subsequently, he completed medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch followed by Anesthesiology residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He then completed fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesiology, Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, and Pediatric Anesthesiology Research at Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital. He obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation from Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences with a focus on study design, biostatistics, and biomedical informatics. Today, Eric is a pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital / Northwestern University. He is the medical director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia and the program director of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship. In addition to taking care of children with congenital heart disease in the operating room, Eric pursues research in the area of analytics in physiological waveform analysis and has been supported with grants from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), and the NIH (National Institutes of Health) / NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Loan Repayment Program. He is working on real-time analytics for the detection of cerebral autoregulation with work supported by the Additional Ventures Single Ventricle Research Fund.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 1 - Pearls on Starting a Clinical Research Project
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Bio
I am an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at St.Louis University and a member of the SPA Committee of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. I conducted workshops on Women in Anesthesia at SPA meetings 2019 and 2020.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Equitable Professional Advancement. Fostering Diverse and Inclusive Professional Development in Pediatric Anesthesia (Live Participation Required)
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Updates on Difficult Airway Management in Children
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Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Bioengineering
UPMC Magee Womens Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
Bio
Dr Jonathan Waters is currently a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh; Chief of the Division of Anesthesiology at Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and, a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. In addition, he is Medical Director of the Patient Blood Management program of UPMC and Medical Director of the Blood Management Division for Procirca, Inc which is a UPMC owned Biomedical Engineering Company. His areas of expertise primarily focus on transfusion management, blood salvage and obstetrics. He has been federally funded to support investigation in these areas with over 150 peer-reviewed publications, five books on the topic of blood management and a book on neurologic disease in pregnancy. In addition to conducting research, he has served on the editorial board of the journal, Transfusion, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor. He is a past president of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM). He served on the Board of Directors of the AABB between 2011 and 2015. He chaired the blood management technical advisory panel for the Joint Commission from 2007 to 2016.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Pediatric Blood Management and Transfusion Safety (Live Participation Required)
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Leah Webb, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology and the Program Director for the Pediatric Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship at Children's Hospital Colorado affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Webb leads innovative simulation-based education initiatives, including the development and validation of a pediatric spine phantom used to teach and assess neuraxial ultrasound skills. She is an active contributor to several multidisciplinary teams, including the Anesthesiology Preoperative Clinic (APOC), and is committed to advancing safe, high-quality perioperative care for children.
Friday, February 26, 2021
4:50 PM - 6:00 PM
PBLD 25 - "But, I Don't Want to Mommy!" - Managing the Minor Patient Who Refuses Surgery
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Bio
Dr. Emmett Whitaker is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurological Sciences, and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Whitaker completed his medical education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his anesthesiology residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After training, he spent 5 years as an attending pediatric anesthesiologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Currently, Dr. Whitaker splits his time between clinical anesthesia practice and translational science. His lab studies the effects of early-life insults on the development of the brain and cerebral vasculature. Recently, he was awarded a Foundation for Anesthesia Education & Research Mentored Research Training Grant during which he will study the effects of sevoflurane on cerebrovascular autoregulation in neonatal offspring of preeclamptic pregnancies.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and Outline of Educational Program: A Celebration of Women in Pediatric Anesthesiology
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Implementing Infant Spinal Anesthesia in Your Practice (Live Participation Required)
Saturday, February 27, 2021
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Oral Presentations and Abstract Awards
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Session IV: Keynote Session
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Simulation Educator
Children's Hospital Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Bio
I am a Simulation Educator at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Prior to CHOP I was a flight paramedic, and an educator. Currently, I cover educational, research, system & process, & usability simulations for the PACU and OR throughout the enterprise and I’m leading the integration of immersive technology in simulation throughout the enterprise.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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I serve as a member of the Faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Perioperative Pain Medicine.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 10 - Microaggressions
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Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Bio
Dr. Chelsea Willie is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology who is a pediatrician turned pediatric intensivist turned pediatric anesthesiologist that now splits her time between the operating room (OR) and pediatric intensive care unit (ICU). This allows for a unique experience of combining several skills sets between specialties and forges an opportunity to improve communication and patient management between these environments.
Dr. Willie is nationally known for engaging in alternative modes of education including creating escape rooms to teach medical concepts, creating breakout boxes as a smaller experience, and instilling gamification principles into teaching endeavors. It is important that she not only “enjoys” teaching, but that she is effective in the process, so continues to search for ways to make learning both applicable and fun for adult learners. Most of her energy has been spent using simulation to teach and she serves as the director for the CW Midwest Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Bootcamp which is a regional event for pediatric anesthesia fellows to immerse in simulation events at the start of their training and allows faculty from neighboring Midwest institutions to network while providing multiple perspectives to educate fellows. Dr. Willie shares her enthusiasm for education by directing workshops at multiple national and international conferences, including the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia, the Society of Education in Anesthesia, and the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare.
Since July 2019, Dr. Willie has served as one of the Associate Program Directors for the Anesthesiology core residency program with a focus on developing the CA-1 resident curriculum. In this position she mentors, teaches, evaluates, heavily recruits, and gives some of the best hugs! She has dived into her passion to lift others and ensure that the perceived lesser among us have a voice as a co-chair for the Children’s Wisconsin Medstaff JEDI committee with a focus on health equity. This passion has expanded as she was selected to be the Director for DEI for the Department of Anesthesiology in July 2022, now entitled Director of Inclusion and Engagement.
When she is not moving the career needle forward, Dr. Willie is active at church teaching 6-year-olds, taking ballroom dance lessons, enjoying a theater performance, and traveling around the world. She is always willing to open her home to share her Southern hospitality. Yes, she sleeps…but most importantly…she lives!
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 14 - The Unexpected Neonatal Neck Mass
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Assistant Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
Bio
Assistant professor in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and associate program director of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session III - Track 1 General Session: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Anesthesiology
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I completed a pediatric residency (Duke/Wake Forest University) with board certification in 1993. I trained in anesthesia at the University of Florida with board certification in 1996 with fellowship training in neuroanesthesia 1997. I received training in a combined Pediatric Anesthesia (board certification 2013)/Pediatric Critical Care (board certification 2001) fellowships at Boston Children's Hospital. I have been practicing pediatric anesthesia for 20 years and pediatric cardiac anesthesia for 15 years. I was a pediatric cardiac intensivist for 9 years.
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session II: AAP Ask the Experts
Saturday, February 27, 2021
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Oral Presentations and Abstract Awards
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Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital / University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
Bio
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. His areas of expertise include preanesthetic evaluation processes, quality improvement, and anesthesia for airway evaluation and reconstruction.
To increase his effectiveness in faculty and fellow development, he has become a certified leadership and professional development coach. He has completed training with the Co-Active Coach Training Institute and is a Hudson Institute Certified Leadership Coach. He serves as a coach and consultant for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s WELI, the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative. As a professional coach, he teaches Peer to Peer Support coaching and Safety Coaching at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
His vision is to bring coaching into healthcare as a powerful way forward to energize our personal and professional growth, to develop effective leaders and to maximize our performance as individuals and as teams.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:45 PM - 5:10 PM
Session IV - Track 2 Clinical Practice: It's Just Another Tuesday: An Evidence-Based Approach to Common Challenges in Pediatric Anesthesia
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Clinical Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital
Los Angeles, CA
Bio
I am from Toronto, Canada and completed my medical degree at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. I completed my anesthesia residency at Stanford University, and went on to complete my pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. From there, I completed a pediatric chronic pain fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, with a focus in pediatric anesthesia, pediatric chronic pain, and regional anesthesia.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 11 - Calm the COVID Down! Don't Forget About Her Comorbidities!
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Pediatric Anesthesiologist Loma Linda University
Sunday, February 28, 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Session I: Updates from Pediatric Anesthesia Registries
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Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Medical Education
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Bio
Samuel Yanofsky, M.D, MSEd. is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where he attends at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine. I am a graduate of McGill University, Montréal, Québec (baccalaureate of science in physiology) and St Louis University medical school. I completed a residency in Anesthesiology at University of Connecticut Health center and continued with a two-year fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I graduated with a Master of Science in Medical Education from USC Rossier School of Education. Presently, I am responsible for supporting faculty development within the department. I served a six-year term including being president of the Pediatric Anesthesiology program directors association within the Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology (SPA). Within the Masters of Academic Medicine at USC Keck School of medicine program I am part of team of faculty training mid-level health care professionals in medical education focusing on leadership and organizational change. Presently, on a national level, I serve on the Board of Directors for the Society for Education in Anesthesia and I am member of the executive education committee for the SPA. In addition, I serve on the Woman’s Empowerment Leadership Initiative steering committee designing the leadership curriculum to further promote woman in their career as leaders in pediatric anesthesiology within the SPA. Further, I have mentored in establishing the new physician well-being committee for the SPA. I have developed and delivered many workshops and presentations on topics related to learning principles, teaching, evaluation, ACGME competencies, motivation, leadership, team development and physician well-being to a variety of health care professions’ faculty members and trainees. My area of research is in assessment and evaluation in Graduate Medical Education and Professional Development.
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Taking the Mystery Out of Curriculum Development: The Six (6) Steps (Sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
WORKSHOP: Surfing the Wave of Uncertainty to Combat the Sharks of Anxiety (Live Participation Required)
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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.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
10:45 AM - 11:55 AM
RT 5 - Pediatric Substance Abuse in the Perioperative Period
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Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology
New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell
New York, NY
Bio
Dr. Albert Yeung is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell where he specializes in pediatric anesthesia. At Weill Cornell, he is the co-director of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination program and Communication and Professionalism Education program for the Department of Anesthesiology residency program. He is an editor for the MOCA Minute committee for the American Board of Anesthesiology and is a member of various committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Yeung earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian and fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
COVID in New York City
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Professor of Anesthesiology
Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
Dr. Young started his career as a physician by first receiving his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Florida State University which was followed by his degree in medicine from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Young then completed his internship in internal medicine and residency in anesthesiology at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. This was then followed by completion of his fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Miami Children’s Hospital. Dr. Young then served 3 years active duty in the US Army as an anesthesiologist before coming to Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Young is currently a tenured Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and the Huffington Department of Education, Innovation, and Technology at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Young’s main interests include medical simulation, medical education, pediatric trauma, and pediatric resuscitation. Dr. Young is the recent past director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Simulation Program at Texas Children’s Hospital from the program’s inception in 2012. Dr. Young is currently the Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Vice-Chair of Faculty Development for the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Young has several national leadership roles including with the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, Society for Education in Anesthesia, and the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
Friday, February 26, 2021
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Simulation as a Tool for COVID-19 Management
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Taking the Mystery Out of Curriculum Development: The Six (6) Steps (Sponsored by the Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Bio
Dr. Zaleski is an Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia in the Boston Children's Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine as well as an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Zaleski completed her residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is board-certified in both Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology and currently cares exclusively for patients with congenital heart disease.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:25 PM
PBLD 9 - Why so Blue?! Just a Quick, End-of-the-Day, Vocal Cord Injection...in a Patient with a Failing Fontan
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Staff Anesthesiologist
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Saint Petersburg, FL
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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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WORKSHOP: A Practical Approach to Quality Improvement and Performance Management (Live Participation Required)
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Bio
Has been an invited faculty for simulation at regional, national as well as international conferences. Co-authored a chapter in pediatric anesthesia simulation. Published at
JAMA pediatrics, Pediatric CCM, Resuscitation, Current opinion in Anesthesiology.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
WORKSHOP: How to Use Distance Learning Techniques Effectively to Facilitate Medical Simulation and Other Education Activities (Sponsored by the SPA Simulation Special Interest Group and Society for Education in Anesthesia) (Live Participation Required)
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