2026 Annual Meeting – May 1-3,2026
All sessions will be held in-person at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
Program Overview
Friday, May 1, 2026
Plenary Session: T.H. Seldon Memorial Lecture – From Evidence to Action: Overcoming Challenges in Clinical Practice Change
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Sharon E. Straus, CM, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Executive Vice President, Clinical Programs, Chief Medical Officer; Director, Knowledge Translation Program, Unity Health Toronto
Plenary Session: International Science Symposium – Algorithms to Clinical Innovations: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Transform Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
AI-driven Integration of Clinical and Biological Data for Peri-operative Care
Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
AI-driven Understanding of Human Cancer
Andrew H. Song, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
What Anesthesiologists Need to Know About AI
Hannah Lonsdale, MBChB, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Plenary Session: President’s Lecture – Tools for Analyzing, Repairing, and Simulating the Brain
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Ed Boyden, Ph.D., Y. Eva Tan Professor in NeurotechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Saturday Sessions: 7:00 am – 6:30 pm
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Sunday Sessions: 7:00 am – 1:45 pm