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
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