Programme
THURSDAY, 18TH MAY 2023
O'Reilly Hall
8:30 - 8:35
Welcome Address by Prof George Shorten, CAI President
8:35 - 10:00
IPOMS
Perioperative bariatric medicine
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Andrea Haren
Consultant in intensive care and anesthesiology, St Vincent's University Hospital
SPEAKERS:
Dr Andrew McKechnie
Anaesthetic consultant at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust., President SOBA UK
'Obesity: Patients live with it so why do Anaesthetists fail to plan well for it'
Prof Donal O'Shea
Consultant Endocrinologist and HSE Lead for Obesity
'Update on Obesity Treatment and the Model of Care.'
Prof Helen Heneghan
Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Professor of Surgery, UCD
'Surgical Treatment of Obesity in Ireland'
Ms Maura Murphy
Secretary The Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity (ICPO)
'The Lived Experience of obesity'
George Moore Auditorium
08:35 - 10:00
Delaney Medal Competition
Kindly sponsored by Fannin Ltd
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Brian O'Brien
(Vice-President, College of Anesthesiologists of Ireland)
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY
Morning coffee break kindly sponsored by Aguettant Ltd.
RYND LECTURE
Kindly sponsored by the St Vincent’s Anaesthesia Foundation
10:30 - 11:15 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Aine O’Gara
SPEAKER: Prof Gisèle Pickering
Prof of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
'Ketamine for pain: Friend or Foe?'
Obstetrics
11:15 - 12:45 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON: Sudhir Immanni
Consultant anaesthesiologist at Waterford University Hospital
SPEAKERS:
Dr Mrinalini Balki Consultant Anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
'Uterine Atony and Uterotonics – What’s new?'
Dr Katie Grant
Medicolegal Lead for Risk Prevention, Medical Protection
'Learning from medicolegal cases in obstetric anaesthesia’'
Dr Karn Cliffe
Director of Nursing & Midwifery, Research, Standard Practice & Quality
'Maternal sepsis – Current challenges & possible solutions.'
Faculty of Pain Medicine
11:15 - 12:45 - George Moore Auditorium
CHAIRPERSON: Dr John Browne
SPEAKERS:
Dr Kirk Levins
'Pain: Hijacking the Disappointment Pathway'
Prof Dirk De Ridder
Professor of Neurosurgery at The University of Otago, New Zealand.
'The brain anatomy of pain and suffering with clinical implications'
12:45- 14:00 LUNCH BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY
CAI AGM
12.45
UCD Birch suite
Sustainability
14:00 - 15:30 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Dónall Ó’Cróinín
Chair, Sustainability Committee College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland & Consultant Anaesthesiologist Mercy University Hospital, Cork.
SPEAKERS:
Ms Alifia Chakera
Head of Pharmaceutical Sustainability for the Scottish Government and award-winning founder of the Nitrous Oxide Project.
'Gas Gossip: facts and fiction.
A practical approach on flattening emissions from anaesthetic gases, avoiding pitfalls and greenwashing'.
Dr Ola Lokken
Specialist Anaesthetic Trainee
'Can we hope? How the Irish health sector is planning to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis'.
Mr John Gibbons
Journalist, Environmental campaigner and founder of climatechange.ie website.
'This is NOT an Environmental Crisis, it is an Everything Crisis'
Faculty of Pain Medicine
14:00 - 15:30 - George Moore Auditorium
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Aine O’Gara
SPEAKERS:
Ms Martina Phelan
Chair, Chronic Pain Ireland
'The Patient Experience'
Dr Brona Fullen
Associate Professor, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin
'Exercise and education in cancer pain management – the Physiotherapists perspective'
Pain Medicine Medal
Kindly sponsored by Platform 20
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY
Keynote Lectures
O'Reilly Hall
16:00 - 17:00 The future of Anaesthesia training
CHAIRPERSON:
Prof Camillus Power
Director of Postgraduate Training and Education CAI
SPEAKERS:
Dr Lisa Bahrey
Education Director, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, University Health Network and Sinai Health Systems
'The Canadian Evolution in Anesthesiology Training: past, present, and future.'
Dr Amit Bardia
Assistant Professor, DACCPM, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
'Determining Anesthesia trainee competency: shifting from case logs to patient outcomes.'
Prof Brendan Tangney
Professor in Computer Science in the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin
'Reflections on Reflection'
ICC-CTG Hybrid Meeting
17.00 - 19.00
UCD Birch suite
Workshop 1
8.30 - 11.30
TIVA Workshop
More information to follow
Workshop 2
13.30 - 16.00
ISRA Workshop
More information to follow
ISRA AGM