IARS, AUA and SOCCA Aligned Meeting Day and Critical Care Day
*Open to all IARS, AUA, and SOCCA attendees

6:45 am – 7:45 am

IARS Sponsored Breakfast/Themed Breakfast

6:45 am – 7:45 am

IARS First-Time Attendee Orientation Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

IARS Poster Session D: Open Viewing

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Opening Session and T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture

T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecturer: Christopher P. Austin, MD, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; National Institutes of Health

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Break with Exhibits

9:30 am – 5:00 pm

IARS, AUA, SOCCA and eSAS Scholars’ Program Sessions

10:00 am – 10:45 am

Review Course Lecture: Disaster Preparedness in Anesthesia – Lessons from Katrina, Super Storm Sandy, and the Boston Marathon Bombings

10:00 am – 11:00 am

PBLD Sessions:

• Critical Reading of a Scientific Article
• Management of the Newborn with Severe Un-Anticipated Critical Airway Obstruction. Emergency Tracheostomy Under Mask Ventilation When the EXIT Procedure Was Not an Option.

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Panel Sessions:

• Burst Suppression (BS) and Outcomes: How does one recognize BS? How can someone avoid it?
• How Advances in Technology Will Impact the Practice of Anesthesiology

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Symposium: Immune Health in Surgery and Critical Care – Challenges and Novel Opportunities

10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Workshop: Immersive Technologies for Anxiety and Pain Management ($25 registration fee)

11:00 am – 11:45 am

Review Course Lecture: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

PBLD Sessions: My 85-year-old Patient Never Fully Woke Up After Hip Surgery – What Could We Have Done Differently?

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• Wellness in Medicine: Solutions – Enhancing the Culture of Wellness and Personal Resilience
• SABM: Update in Alternatives to Peri-operative Blood Product Transfusion: New Research and Evidence Based Guidelines

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

IARS Poster Session D: Facilitated Discussion Session

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

PBLD: Acute Dissection of Ascending Aorta during Elective Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair (TEVAR)

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• ISPCOP: Critical (N)ORA Questions for the Patient with Obesity – Getting to the Answers?
• SOCCA: Advances in Critical Care and OR Anesthesia: Learning From Each Other
• APSF: Consensus Recommendations on the Conduct, Implementation, Research, and Education of Perioperative Handoffs

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Innovative Session: Minding the Mind: The Evidence on Preserving Neurocognitive Function during Cardiac Surgery

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

AUA Sponsored Symposium: Anesthesia and the Microbiome: Exploring a New Frontier in Perioperative Medicine

2:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Workshop: Ultrasound-Guided Interfascial Plane Blocks ($225 registration fee)

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

Review Course Lecture: The Global History of Opioids, Their Development, Trade and Temptations Leading into the Opioid Crisis – The Importance of History

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Campfire Session: Medication Errors: Learn from the Experts and Learn from Each Other: Together We Can Solve this Problem

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

PBLD Sessions:

• Liver Transplantation in a Patient with Portopulmonary Hypertension: Pre-operative and Intra-operative Considerations
• Perioperative Management of Patient with Sickle Cell Disease: Current Concepts and Controversies

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

International Science Symposium: WFSA Sponsored Symposium: Evidence in the Era of Fake News: Maintaining Scientific Honesty While Remaining Socially Relevant

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• SPAQI & ASER: The Aging Patient: Competing Agenda’s: Frailty, Family, and Functional Recovery. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reduce Surgery’s Impact
• AI: Balancing Profit, Efficiency, and Patient Safety in the Operating Room and ICU

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Taste of San Francisco Dine-Arounds 2

6:30 am – 7:30 am

Themed Breakfast: Supporting our Growing Families in Two Parts: 1) Three Perspectives on Maternity/Paternity Leave During Training and In Practice and 2) Perioperative Breast Pumping: Is it Possible in the OR?

6:30 am – 7:30 am

Themed Breakfast: Burnout in Anesthesia: Preventing it in Trainees and Attending Staff

7:30 am – 10:30 am

Workshops ($25 registration fee):

• (Slightly) Advanced Statistics for the Anesthesiologist: Propensity Score Matching and Time-to-Event Analyses
• ‘Why Did You Say That?’-Avoiding Intercultural Misunderstandings

7:30 am – 8:15 am

Review Course Lecture – Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury: Time for a New Paradigm?

7:30 am – 8:30 am

PBLD: How to Review a Scientific Original Study Manuscript

7:30 am – 9:30 am

A&A and SAGA Sponsored Symposium: Geriatric Anesthesia

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Panel Sessions:

• Opioid-Induced Cancer Progression: The Journey from Bench to Bedside
• Climbing the Leadership Ladder: How to Navigate Generational Divide and Build Lasting Teams!
• Prehabilitation and Medical Optimization in High-Risk Surgical Patients

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

IARS Poster Session E: Open Viewing

8:30 am – 9:15 am

Review Course Lecture: Innovations in Resident Education

9:30 am – 11:30 am

Kosaka Best Abstracts Session

11:30 am – 2:45 pm

Workshop: Health Care Disparities – Fighting the Battle of Unconscious Bias and Understanding Privilege in Health Care for Women and Children of Color ($25 registration fee)

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Review Course Lecture: Highlights in Cardiovascular Medicine: Implications for the Anesthesiologist

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Innovative Sessions:

• TED Talks
• What Systemic Biases Do Our Trainees and Faculty Face, and What Should We Be Doing About Them?

11:30 am – 12:30 pm

PBLD: SCA: The Arteriovenous ECMO patient for Colorectal Surgery

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• SPAQI: Considerations Related to Gender, Race, and other Health Disparities in the Preoperative Evaluation
• Social Media and Mobile Apps: Looking Beyond Retweets to Knowledge Dissemination and Novel Data for Research
• eSAS: Technology and Pain Medicine in 2020: Breakthrough or Just Another Widget?

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm

Minimizing Oxygen Desaturation During Anesthesia and Sedation in High-Risk Patients with the Use of High Flow Nasal Oxygen, Nasal CPAP, and Other Techniques

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

IARS Poster Session E: Facilitated Discussion Session

2:30 pm – 6:00 pm

AUA, eSAS, IARS, FAER, MPOG, PACT & SOCCA: A Vision for IMPACT: Initiative for Multicenter Pragmatic Anesthesiology Clinical Trials’ (IMPACT)

2:30 pm – 3:15 pm

Review Course Lecture: Novel Carotid Surgeries, TransCarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) and Baroreceptor Activation Therapy for Heart Failure (BAT): What does the Vascular Anesthesiologist Need to Know?

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

PBLD: One-lung Anesthesia for Pacing Wire Change in 115 Kg Fontan Patient

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Symposium: Perioperative Hypotension – A Key Driver of Organ Dysfunction and Perioperative Morbidity

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• STA: Machine Learning in Medicine: Where to Start, Were We Are Going
• Wooden Nails to Brass Tacks: Pragmatic Approaches to Data-Driven Quality Improvement

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Review Course Lecture: Sleep and Night Call: Strategies to Reduce Physician Fatigue and Improve Patient Safety

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Workshop: Case Studies in EEG-Guided Anesthetic Management ($25 registration fee)

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• SmartTots: Behavioral and Cognitive Changes in Children Following Anesthesia and Surgery: Assessment and Relevance
• SNACC: Future Forward Topics in Perioperative Basic Neuroscience
• Resuscitation for Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock with Whole Blood Therapy. Why Replace the Parts When You Can Replace the Whole Thing?
• Oxygen – The Perioperative Sweet Spot? Mechanisms and Outcomes

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Taste of San Francisco Dine-Arounds 3

6:15 am – 7:15 am

Themed Breakfast: SABM: The Road to Transfusion is Paved with Good Intentions – Barriers to Implementing Evidence-Based Patient Blood Management

6:30 am – 7:30 am

Women in Anesthesia Breakfast

7:30 am – 1:30 pm

Workshop: Conflict Management: What Anesthesiologists Need to Know ($25 registration fee)

7:30 am – 8:30 am

PBLD Sessions:

• Carotid Endarterectomy: Past, Present and Future!
• Blood, Sweat, and Tears – Massive Transfusion and Cardiac Arrest in a 0-Day Old Undergoing Resection of Sacrococcygeal Teratoma

7:30 am – 9:30 am

Symposium: Variation in Biopsychosocial Pain Phenotypes: Assessing Risk of Chronic Postsurgical Pain in Surgical Groups Across the Lifespan

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Innovative Session: Using a Simulation Platform to Teach Trainees Pattern Recognition Related to Drug Errors and Other Physiologic Events

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Panel Sessions:

• SEA: Addressing Professionalism Issues in the Workplace
• Perioperative Neuronal Injury and Cognitive Function
• Rapid Antidepressant Effects of Anesthetics- Evidence, Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

IARS Poster Session F: Open Viewing

9:30 am – 10:15 am

Review Course Lecture: MH Susceptibility, More Than an Anesthetic Disease

9:30 am – 10:30 am

PBLD Sessions:

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Perioperative Violence
• Physician Wellness for the Anesthesiologist: How Do We Avoid Burnout and Find Joy and Meaning in Our Practice?

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Panel Sessions:

• Pupillometry: An Eye into Anesthesia, Pain, and the Brain
• SOAP: Lost Mothers: Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Peripartum Outcomes
• STA: Advances and Applications of Technology in Pediatric Anesthesia: Apps, Analytics, Airways, Augmented Reality, and More
• SCA: Respecting the Right Ventricle: Right Ventricle Failure Pathophysiology, Diagnostics and Addressing Patient Management

10:30 am – 11:15 am

Review Course Lecture: Development, Reporting and Evaluation of Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements

10:30 am – 11:30 am

PBLD Sessions:

• What is New in Management of Cirrhotic Patient for a TIPS Procedure?
• SNACC: The Weekend Spine Trauma Patient, It’s No ‘Big Deal’

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

IARS Poster Session F: Facilitated Discussion Session

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

PBLD Sessions:

• SCA: The Noncardiac Surgical Patient with Right Ventricle Dysfunction and Pulmonary Hypertension
• What are ALIF, OLIF, PLIF, TLIF and XLIF? Challenge in Acute Pain Management for Spinal Fusion Surgeries

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Panel Sessions:

• Study Designs That Give More Juice for the Squeeze
• SOAP: Point-of-Care Assessment: The Next Frontier in Obstetric Anesthesiology
• How Mentorship and Sponsorship Can Make or Break Your Career in Academic Anesthesiology: Practical Tips for Success
• SPA & ESPA: Current Controversies in Pediatric Perioperative Care: An International Perspective

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

PBLD: ‘Put Me to Sleep, Doc, Just Don’t Give Me Any of That ANESTHESIA!’ What to do with My Patients Concerned About Possible Cognitive Effects of Anesthesia

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Innovative Session: SAMBA: Ambulatory Anesthesia in the Future

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Panel Sessions:

• SAM: Environmentally Sustainable Anesthesia Practice
• Skeletal Muscle – Undervalued Organ System
• The Data Gap in Clinical Pain Medicine