REGISTRATION FEES

Online registration is available until: Wednesday, October 25, 2023.

Registration fees include all Lectures, Continuing Medical Education credits, Welcome Reception & Dinner, Cracker Barrel Refreshments & Dessert Bar, Continental Breakfast Saturday/Sunday, Lunch on Saturday/Sunday, and Coffee Breaks.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Registration cancellations may be made until October 20, 2023 without penalty. Sorry, no refunds after October 20, 2023.

Agenda

Friday, Oct 27, 2023

• 4:00-6:00 pm

Registration

• 6:00 pm

Cocktail Reception

• 7:00 pm 

Dinner Program - How to Do Well at Well-Being

Gail Gazelle, MD, MCC

Saturday, Oct 28, 2023

• 6:30 am

Yoga Session; Reiki Available

Emily Jean Davidson, MD, MPH, RYT

• 7:30 am

Registration, Breakfast, Exhibits

• 8:00 am 

Welcome from Program Director

• 8:10-8:50 am

The Value of Coaching: How to Recharge, Build Resilience, and Embrace Self-Care

Bistra G. Vlassakova, MD

My lecture aims to dive into how coaching can be a game-changer in the war on burnout among healthcare providers. In this session, I will unpack the growing issue of physician stress and burnout, and present coaching as an effective solution for fostering emotional well-being and work-life balance. I will explore how coaching offers personalized strategies enabling physicians to optimize their abilities to create a more balanced lifestyle. We will discuss how coaching helps build emotional resilience and equips medical professionals with mindfulness techniques to navigate the high-stakes, stressful environments they encounter daily.

• 8:50-9:30 am

Suicide Prevention

Ruben J. Azocar, MD, MHCM, FCCM, FASA

A review of the US mental health crisis as a factor leading to suicide being the 12th cause of death in the country. Physician in general and anesthesiologists in particular are in the highest risk group.

• 9:30-10:10 am 

Overcoming Addiction Amongst Healthcare Workers

Michael Fitzsimons, MD

• 10:10-10:30 am 

Coffee Break, Exhibits

• 10:30-11:10 am 

Safety Considerations with the Current Ambulatory Trends

Gustavo A. Lozada, MD, MSED

• 11:10-11:50 am 

Healthy Brain, Happy Brain: Optimizing Pediatric Brain Health

Sulpicio G. Soriano II, MD, FASA

Optimizing perioperative outcome in pediatric patients is dependent on the management of physiological changes associated with anesthetic and surgical interventions. This review will highlight relevant literature that addresses brain health in infants and children undergoing surgery and anesthesia.

• 11:50 am-12:15 pm

• 12:15-1:30 pm 

Lunch & Learn Guest Lecture - Impact of Doctors: A Personal Story

Jon Hochstein, MD 

I will share my story as a chronic health patient since I was a toddler and how my healthcare staff inspired me to pursue medicine, and ultimately allowed me to pursue my dreams.

• 1:30-2:05 pm 

Optimal Anesthesia Care in the Dental Clinic:  Dexmedetomidine and Remimazolam

Keira P. Mason, MD

Sedation Practice - Understand the pharmacology, physiology and clinical practice.

• 2:05-2:40 pm 

Gi Soo Lee, MD, EdM

Post-adenotonsillectomy patients with residual OSA often have multilevel upper airway obstruction. Drug induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is often performed in the OR setting to identify these upper airway obstructive sites. The key to a successful DISE exam is the close communication between Anesthesiologist and Otolaryngologist required to achieve the precise neuromuscular states of the patient under sedation while identifying these sites.

• 2:40-3:15 pm 

Update on Perioperative Management of Patients on Glucagon-like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Receptor Agonists

Gustavo A. Lozada, MD, MSED

• 3:15-4:00 pm

Healing Ourselves: Acupuncture Workshop 

Cynthia S. Tung, MD, MPH

• 4:00 pm

Afternoon at leisure, Dinner on own

• 8:00-10:00 pm 

Cracker Barrel Panel Session

w/dessert & refreshments

A lively panel discussion and question-and-answer session with speakers from both days allows attendees to follow up on presentations or other topics of their choice

Sunday, Oct 29, 2023

• 6:30 am

Yoga Session; Reiki Available

Emily Jean Davidson, MD, MPH, RYT

• 7:30 am

Breakfast, Exhibits

• 8:00 am 

Welcome from Program Director

• 8:10-8:50 am

The Science of Teamwork in Healthcare

Rebecca D. Minehart, MD, MED

• 8:50-9:30 am

Sustainability: Priorities for Environmental & Physician Health

Prabhakar Devavaram, MBBS

Join us for a session as we delve into the profound effects of anesthetic greenhouse gases on the environment, alongside the consequential occupational risks and climate change repercussions. Advocate a role for environmental consciousness within our medical practice and engage in discussions about the proactive measures we can take to curtail greenhouse gas emissions by refining our anesthetic techniques.

• 9:30-10:10 am 

Clinician Missteps: Medication Errors, Patient Safety and Clinician Wellbeing

Lia E. Tron, MD, MPH & Terry Morris, DNP

Medical error is a major cause of patient morbidity and mortality. Anesthesia care is particularly vulnerable to medication errors because most of the technology designed to reduce medication error risk is not available to anesthesia clinicians. This presentation will focus on sharing best practices to protect against human error and cognitive overload in the anesthesia work environment. When a clinician makes an error, it can disrupt clinician well-being profoundly. We will include ideas for improving clinician well-being in the face of clinical error and look at the interplay between clinician well-being and patient safety.

• 10:10-10:30 am 

Coffee Break, Exhibits

• 10:30-11:10 am 

Liposomal Bupivacaine for Regional Anesthesia

Hyun Kee Chung, MD, FACA

Miracles, myths, or is it all about the money? In this lesson, we will discuss the background of liposomal bupivacaine as well as its mechanism. We are going to look at all of the studies that were done on how effective it is and find out why it is being taken off the hospital formularies.

• 11:10-11:50 am 

Walid Alrayashi, MD

This talk that will cover unique considerations in pediatric regional anesthesiology. These will include: techniques, dosing, common procedures, and controversies. We will also review current state of pediatric regional anesthesiology and future directions.

• 11:50 am-12:15 pm

• 12:15-1:45 pm 

Lunch & Learn - Surviving the (Law)Suits: Recognizing and Supporting the Second Victim

Christopher M. Conley, MD, FASA

This talk describes navigating the emotional, administrative, and medicolegal aspects of a devastating case. Within, I review the high incidence of physicians being named in lawsuits, give a “what to expect,” (outlining the stages of suit from filing the complaint all the way to settlements and trials), and, most importantly, describe a framework for resiliency in the face of these events, including support for physicians as the “second victims” in these scenarios.

• 1:45-2:30 pm 

Ensuring Safe Surgical Care for Children Globally

Faye M. Evans, MD

5 billion people do not have access to safe, affordable, surgical and anesthesia care when needed and over 1.7 billion are children. This session will give an overview of the challenges of working in a low-resourced setting and ongoing efforts to try to ensure safe surgical and anesthesia care.

• 2:30 pm 

Closing Remarks / Adjourn

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This activity has been approved for 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

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