Speakers
Keynote Session, Thursday 18th, 4.00 PM
Doctor Lisa Bahrey
Education Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management,
University Health Network and Sinai Health Systems, Canada
Dr. Bahrey was the Postgraduate Residency Program Director for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto from 2015 to 2021. Dr Bahrey is currently a staff Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at the Toronto General Hospital and an Associate Professor University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate medical training at McMaster University, Residency in Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, and subsequent Fellowship in Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography at the Toronto General Hospital in 2000. Dr Bahrey has completed the Stepping Stones Educator Program and is a graduate of the Education Scholar’s Program at the University of Toronto’s Center for Faculty Development.
Her academic roles in Medical Education include Coordinator of Undergraduate Education and Electives for the Department of Anesthesia at TGH (2001-2012), Coordinator of Postgraduate Education (2012-2015), and Chief Examiner for the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto (2011-2015).
Dr. Bahrey was a Member of the Examination Board for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Anesthesia from 2009-2014 serving both the oral and written test committees. She currently continues her role as Surveyor for the Royal College Accreditation Committee and is a Member of the International Academy of Colleges of Anesthesiology (IACoA), serving as the Canadian Anesthesiology Representative for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada
Session 1 IPOMS, Thursday 18th,8.30 AM
Doctor Andrew McKechnie
Anaesthetic consultant at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust., President SOBA UK, United Kingdom
Dr Andrew McKechnie is an anaesthetic consultant at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. His clinical interests are in anaesthesia for patients with obesity and in airway management. As a result, his regular lists include ENT and Bariatric surgery and he is the airway and obesity lead for the Trust.
Andrew is the President of SOBA UK and during his first year, SOBA has collaborated on projects with many societies, seen membership engagement increase, and continued to promote best practices in this specialist area.
His research interests are currently focused on the management of patients with obesity He led on the recently published SOBA consent guidance, transfer guidance, Paeds guidance and is currently tackling an update to the 2015 SOBA UK/RCoA guidelines
Rynd Lecture, Thursday 18th, 10.30 AM
Professor Gisèle Pickering (MD, PhD, DPharm)
Prof of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, France
Professor Gisèle Pickering is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Director of the Inserm CIC1405 Clinical Research Centre, and member of the French Academy of Pharmacy. She took her Medical Degree (MB,BCh,BAO) at University College Cork (NUI). Her main topics of research concern analgesics and NMDAR antagonists for severe pain, the impact of pain on cognition/emotion, and pain management in older persons and disabled people. She is Chairperson of the Research Committee at the European Pain Society (EFIC), the author of over 150 publications and the editor of several books.
Obstetrics Session, Thursday 18th, 11.15PM
Doctor Mrinalini Balki
Consultant Anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Consultant Anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, since Aug 2004
Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Dept of Physiology, University of Toronto
Senior Clinician Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health system
Fellowship coordinator, Clinical and Basic Science in Obstetric Anesthesia, University of Toronto
Published 117 peer-reviewed journal articles and Book chapters. Delivered around 150 invited lectures in National and International conferences. Received numerous research grants, awards and lectureships. Established a research lab at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute to study myometrial contractility and PPH (this is the only one of its kind in North America).
ICU Session, Friday 19th, 11.15 AM
Professor Dominique Benoit
Head of Intensive care medicine and the Critical care cluster, Ghent University Hospital. Belgium.
Dominique Benoit is an associated professor at the Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Head of respectively the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and the Critical Care Cluster at the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. He was a senior clinical investigator at the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) from 2012 until 2023 and section editor of the journal of Intensive Care Medicine from 2012 until 2018. His main fields of interest are ethical decision-making and leadership in medicine, management of the critically immunocompromised host, and complex data analysis.
Paediatric Session, Friday 19th, 08.30 AM
Doctor Viviane Nasr
Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Dr. Viviane Nasr is a Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her work is mostly related to patients with congenital heart disease and the perioperative risk assessment of pediatric patients. She has written more than 100 publications, textbook chapters, and a handbook on pediatric cardiac anesthesia. In addition to her active academic career, she created and leads the Faculty Development Program at Boston Children’s and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS).
Training / Education session, Friday 19th, 2.00 PM
Doctor Eric S. Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAoME(hon), FRCPSCanada(hon)
Chief, Research, Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer, USA
Dr. Holmboe is Chief, Research, Milestones Development, and Evaluation Officer at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is Adjunct Professor of Medical Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
He previously served as the Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005. He served as the Chief Medical Officer at the American Board of Internal Medicine from 2009 until 2014.
His research interests include interventions to improve the quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and an honorary fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.
Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.
AMONG OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
More speakers will be introduced in the next two newsletters
Professor Donal O'Shea
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
Doctor Katie Grant
United Kingdom
Doctor Kirk Levins
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Ireland
Doctor Andrew Neill
Mater Hospital, Ireland
Doctor Rania Mehanna
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
Doctor Joe Brierley
Great Ormond St Hospital (GOSH) for Sick Children, UK