SOCCA Speakers Bureau Directory

Anna Budde, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Airway
Secondary Topic Area: Critical Care

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Emergency Out of OR Airway Management
2. Airway Management Strategies in a Patient with Physiologically Difficult Airway

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: ICU airway management, physiologically difficult airway, difficult airway management

Andrew Patterson, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Emory University
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Cardiovascular
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Hemodynamic Pharmacology – Things that Make the Blood Pressure Go Up
2. Hemodynamic Pharmacology – Things that Make the Blood Pressure Go Down
3. Hemodynamic Monitoring

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Translational
Research Interests: Hemodynamic Pharmacology, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Fluid Resuscitation, Preparing Trainees and Junior Faculty for Oral Board Examinations

Megan Anders MD, MS

Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Quality/Patient Safety

Title of Proposed Presentation(s):

• Spinal Ischemia After Aortic Surgery

Faculty Website Profile Link
Twitter Handle: @drmegs

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Perioperative clinical outcomes, patient safety, quality improvement.

Vaibhav Bora, MBBS, FASE, FASA, FCCP

Associate Professor
Augusta University – Medical College of Georgia.
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Cardiovascular

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Critical Care, shock states, echocardiography, TEE, POCUS, resuscitation, Cardiothoracic Critical Care, Mechanical circulatory support

Varun Goyal, MD

Associate Professor
University of Texas Health San Antonio
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Transplant

Title of Proposed Presentation:

1. Management of the Brain Dead Organ Donor

Faculty Website Profile Link

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Brain dead organ donation, Liver transplant anesthesia

Antonio Hernandez

Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Extracorporeal Support

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Temporary Support: Percutaneous Devices as a Bridge to Decision or Recovery
2. Future Direction: Prospects of Trained Immunity in Perioperative Medicine

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @ahernand73

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Translational, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Dr. Antonio Hernandez develops new therapies to enhance innate immunity antimicrobial function and protect against inflammation-induced organ injury. His research includes the study of trained immunity to alter the inflammatory response to infection or injury and has focused on synthetic de novo vaccine adjuvants which are candidates for pharmaceutical development for human use. He employs clinically relevant models of acute sepsis, sepsis-induced immunosuppression, and ischemia-reperfusion injury where he has trained the innate immune system to enhance antimicrobial function and reduce organ injury. His clinical interests focus on improving outcomes in cardiac surgery patients. His focus has been on standardizing perioperative transfusion therapy to reduce total blood utilization.

Craig Jabaley, MD

Associate Professor
Emory University
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Quality/Patient Safety

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. New and Reversed Practices in Critical Care: a Decade in Review
2. Perioperative Cardiac Arrest: Optimizing Outcomes
3. Practical Applications of Behavioral Economics to Overcome Implementation Barriers

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @CraigJabaley

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Craig S. Jabaley, MD, FCCM is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Emory University School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Emory Critical Care Center. He serves as the Critical Care Medicine Division Chief within the Department of Anesthesiology. His primary clinical focus is adult critical care medicine with additional time devoted to adult multispecialty anesthesiology. As Medical Director of the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at Emory University Hospital, a regional referral center for severe respiratory failure, ECMO, and mechanical circulatory support, he oversees a multidisciplinary team of critical care professionals. His research interests include mixed methods approaches to understanding the dissemination and uptake of healthcare information, implementation science, critical care health services research, and exploratory biomedical applications of time series analysis. He lectures nationally on the application of critical care fundamentals to routine perioperative practice. Dr. Jabaley serves in various capacities within the ABA, ASA, SCCM, and SOCCA and is an active reviewer and editorial board member for critical care and anesthesiology journals.

Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Twitter Handle: @KunalKaramchan2

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests:

1. Physiologically Difficult Airway
2. Atrial fibrillation
3. New persistent opioid use amongst ICU survivors
4. Perioperative handoffs
5. Substance Use Disorder and the ICU
6. Perioperative outcomes
7. Perioperative care of liver transplant
8. NORA-ICU

Michael Kiyatkin MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Montefiore Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Pulmonary/Ventilation

Title of Proposed Presentation:

• Universal, automated, and graded risk prediction as a foundation for computerized clinical decision support for prevention of postoperative respiratory failure

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: I am a clinical anesthesia-intensivist and clinical researcher with an interest in prediction and prevention of postoperative respiratory failure. I have previously built prediction models and examined associations between risk factors and respiratory outcomes. Most recently, I have been working on designing and testing implementation of computerized clinical decision support with associated best practice advisories for prevention of respiratory failure. I am currently working towards a mentored training grant. A closely related research interest is automated prediction of clinical deterioration in postoperative wards as well as exploration of the utility of the PACU as a triaging and extended observation site for high-risk patients.

Marcos Lopez, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

• Vascular mechanisms of perioperative organ injury

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @MarcLopezMD

Research Domain(s): Clinical and Translational
Research Interests: Dr. Lopez’s research focuses on vascular mechanisms underlying renal and brain dysfunction and injury.

Monica Lupei

Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Obstetrics

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Implicit bias in the OR to ICU patients’ handovers
2. Challenges Faced by Women Physicians in Academic Medicine
3. Ethical Dilemmas in Obstetrical Anesthesiology

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @LupeiMonica

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: ICU outcomes research, quality improvement, the operating room to critical care transfer research.

Aaron Mittel, MD

Assistant Professor
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Cardiovascular

NCBI Bibliography Link

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Perioperative clinical outcomes, postoperative lung injury, shock, resuscitation, ECMO, precision medicine

Shahla Siddiqui, MD MSc FCCM

Assistant Professor
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: ICU ethics

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Compassion in Medicine and Critical care
2. Role of women in Critical care – where we started where we are now
3. Professional fulfillment and burnout in intensivists

Twitter Handle: @shahlasi

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Translational, Education Research
Research Interests: Burnout, Humanities in ICU, ICU outcomes, DEI, Patient centered care, Medical Ethics

David Keegan Stombaugh, MD

Assistant Professor
The University of Virginia
[email protected]

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Cardiovascular

Title of Proposed Presentation:

• Perioperative Management of Pulmonary Hypertension

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link

Research Domain(s): Clinical

Madiha Syed

Assistant Professor
Cleveland Clinic
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Peripheral vasopressor use – who, when and how ?
2. Perioperative management of antiplatelet and anticoagulation agents

Faculty Website Profile Link
Twitter Handle: @madihasyed85

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Education Research
Research Interests:

• Peripheral vasopressor use
• Acute Kidney Injury
• Use of simulation in medical education

Robert Thiele, M.D.

Associate Professor
University of Virginia
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Subcellular Energetics: Potential Monitoring and Treatment Strategies
2. Cardiac Output Monitoring: What the Flotrac and the M-16 Have In Common
3. Fooled By Randomness: The Nihilist Approach to Critical Care

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link

Research Domain(s): Translational
Research Interests: My first area of research is in biomedical devices that anesthesiologists and intensivists are dependent on – advanced hemodynamic monitoring devices as well as near infrared spectroscopy equipment designed to measure the oxidation state of cytochrome aa3 in the brain, non-invasively, in real-time. That work is funded by the NIH (R-21 from NIBIB).

My second area of research is in sub cellular energetics – why do cells die when exposed to hypoxia/stress and what role do HIF-1 and other adaptive mechanisms play? It turns out that it’s likely NOT due to lack of oxygen, but more likely due to oxidative stress. This is basic science work my lab does.

My third area of interest revolves around exercise preconditioning – this work is an extension of ERAS work I did from 2013-2018. Now my group is learning to “train” people for surgery. We have published several papers on Perioperative activity (Fitbit) and outcomes, have an active grant funded by Apple, and are also doing animal research (rat treadmill training) to better understand how we can prepare patients for surgery.

Lastly, I am interested in “the science of science” – how to we evaluate the literature? How can we be confident in results when we don’t understand the statistical techniques used by so many authors? How do we handle predatory journals? I have a really nice slide deck going over the challenges of making sense of the literature – these thoughts were also captured in the article entitled “Apophenia and anesthesia: how we sometimes change our practice prematurely” published in Can J Anaesth. 2021 Aug;68(8):1185-1196.

Chiedozie Udeh, MD, MHEcon, MBA

Medical Director, ICU Operations
Cleveland Clinic
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Black or African American

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Quality/Patient Safety

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. ICU Telemedicine – Where are we and where are we going?
2. Pearls and Tips from Years of Quality Improvement
3. Achieving Systemness in Health System Integration

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Tele-critical care (Operations and Outcomes), Cost-effectiveness of interventions, Quality and Patient Safety, Inter-professional education and Teamwork, Systemness

Emily Vail, MD MSc.

Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Titles of Proposed Presentations:

1. Clinical management of deceased organ donors: Current evidence and opportunities for improvement
2. Developing scientific evidence to support clinical practice: The role of observational research

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Health services: critical care delivery, liver transplantation, clinical organ donor management, vasopressors
Observational research methods

Matthew Warner, MD

Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic (Minnesota)
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Anemia in critical illness and surgery: ubiquitous but benign?
2. Patient Blood Management (PBM): A roadmap for optimizing critical resources, reducing hospital costs, and improving patient improves
3. Don’t forget to fill the tank: How to establish a robust and sustainable perioperative anemia clinic

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @WarnerMatthewA

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests:

• Anemia management in surgical and critically ill patients
• Patient blood management and transfusion practice optimization, including re-evaluation of massive transfusion practices
• Novel therapeutics in transfusion medicine including factor and fibrinogen concentrates and cold-stored platelets

George Williams

Associate Professor
University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Black or African American

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Advances in Perioperative Nutrition (NPO Status is Outdated)
2. Management of ARDS: Past, Present and Future

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @dr_g_williams

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Perioperative Nutrition, ARDS

Erica Wittwer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Stellate ganglion blockade for treatment of refractory ventricular arrhythmias
2. Vasoplegia: Novel and traditional therapies (What you should know about Angiotensin II, hydroxocobalamin, and methylene blue)
3. Multimodal analgesia for cardiac surgery, reasons to consider methadone

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests:

• Stellate ganglion blockade for treatment of ventricular arrhythmias
• Treatment of post-cardiotomy vasoplegia. Novel and traditional therapies.
• Multimodal analgesia following cardiac surgery, the benefits of methadone
• AKI after cardiac surgery

Ahmed Zaky, MD, MSc, MPH, MBA, MSHQS,CMQ

Professor
University of Alabama At Birmingham
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Not Hispanic or Latino

Primary Topic Area: Critical Care
Secondary Topic Area: Quality/Patient Safety

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Challenging the KDIGO Paradigm. A Creatively Destructive Approach
2. Pulmonary hypertension in Pre-eclamaptic women
3. Stress Hyperglycemia in the Cardiac Surgical Patient

NCBI Bibliography Link

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests:

• Acute kidney injury
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Cardiac mechanics
• Cardiac implantable devices
• Curriculum development

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Jacob Gutsche, MD

Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Extracorporeal Support
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Mobile ECMO
2. ECMO for ARDS

Twitter Handle: @GutscheJacob

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: ECMO and patient selection

Jai Madhok

Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Extracorporeal Support
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Management of Anticoagulation in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
2. VA-ECMO: To vent or not to vent?
3. Vitamin B12 vs. Methylene Blue for refractory vasoplegia after cardiac surgery

Faculty Website Profile Link
Twitter Handle: @JaiMadhok1

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests:

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
• Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Anticoagulation management in ECMO and MCS
• Critical Care Ultrasonography / Echocardiography
• Perioperative use of SGLT-2 inhibitors
• Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury

Cortessa Russell, MD

Assistant Professor
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Extracorporeal Support
Secondary Topic Area: Critical Care

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Moving from Burnout to Engagement
2. ECMO 101

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Physician wellness, Burnout, Employee Engagement

Audrey Spelde, MD

Instructor
University of Pennsylvania
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Extracorporeal Support
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Use of right ventricular support in ARDS
2. ECMO lessons learned from the COVID pandemic
3. Supporting the microcirculation in mechanical circulatory support

Research Domain(s): Clinical, translational
Research Interests: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), extracorporeal life support (ECLS), mechanical circulatory support, microcirculation, temporary right ventricular assist devices

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Aaron LacKamp, MD

Associate Professor
University of Kansas
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Neuroscience
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title of Proposed Presentation:

• Advances in intracranial pressure management

Twitter Handle: @A_LacKamp

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: Intracranial pressure, hypertonic saline, intracranial hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage

Aleksandra Yakhkind, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Tufts Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Neuroscience
Secondary Topic Area: Critical Care

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. ICU Burnout: A Background, Present State and Steps Forward
2. Management of Stroke in the ICU
3. Stroke and Pregnancy

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @sashkind

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Education Research
Research Interests: I am a neurocritical care physician and can speak to ICU management of neurologic conditions to non-neurologists. My specific interests are in ICU burnout and healing the healer. My goal is for the critical care experience to not be traumatic for the trainees and staff. My specific interests are embodied communication, writing and creative expression and mentorship. I also have an interest in global health.

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Ben Daxon, MD

Assistant Professor
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Pulmonary Medicine/Ventilation
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Title of Proposed Presentation:

• In Defense of APRV

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @DoctorDaxon

Research Domain: Clinical
Research Interests:

• Mechanical Ventilation
• Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV)
• Cardiopulmonary physiology
• POCUS

Nitin Mehdiratta, MD

Assistant Professor
Duke University Medical Center
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian, White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Quality/Patient Safety
Secondary Topic Area: Critical Care

Title of Proposed Presentation:

• The wonderful world of critical care billing

Research Domain(s): Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Critical Care Billing, Coding Documentation and Integrity, Hospital acquired infection quality improvement

No speakers have listed this as their topic area.

No speakers have listed this as their topic area.

Talia Ben-Jacob, MD, MSc

Associate Professor
Cooper University Hospital, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: Choose not to say

Primary Topic Area: Shock/Resuscitation
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Titles of Proposed Presentations:

1. PeRLS: Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support
2. Mentorship
3. Perioperative Management of the Septic Patient

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @tbenjaco

Research Domain(s): Clinical
Research Interests: PeRLS: Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support, Women in critical care medicine and anesthesia, Mentorship and Sponsorship, Sepsis, Hemodynamic Monitoring

Athanasios Chalkias, MD, MSc, PhD, FESC, FAcadTM, FCP, FESAIC

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Shock/Resuscitation
Secondary Topic Area: Cardiovascular

Faculty Website Profile Link
NCBI Bibliography Link
Twitter Handle: @ChalkAth

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Translational
Research Interests: Athanasios Chalkias is an Asst. Professor of Anesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, Greece. As a physician-scientist, his clinical activity and research are dedicated to Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiovascular Dynamics, Translational Physiology, Resuscitation, and Translational Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology.

His main areas of interest include optimization of cardiovascular dynamics in high-risk surgical patients and critically ill patients; venous return; heart-lung interactions; hemodynamic coherence and microcirculation; adequacy of organ perfusion; oxygen transport to tissue; shock; advanced hemodynamic support; assessment of responsiveness to fluids, vasoactive drugs/inotropes/vasodilators, and blood/blood components; and individualized, physiology-guided management.

Prior to his current position he had worked at the Post-graduate Study Program (MSc) “Resuscitation” of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on resuscitation research (physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, experimental surgery, animal disease models) and teaching. He has an MSc degree in Resuscitation and a PhD degree in Perioperative Medicine/Pathophysiology.

Prof. Chalkias is the Co-Chair of the Scientific Writing & Task Forces Subcommittee and a member of the Committee on Research of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), a member of the Guidelines Committee and the CREM – Trauma and Resuscitation Subcommittee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), an active member of the Outcomes Research Consortium, a member of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and the Treasurer and Chair of the Committee on Shock of the Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (HSCPR). He is a full member, member of scientific advisory boards, and member of working groups of several international societies, on the editorial boards of several journals, and has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific peer reviewed articles, editorials, and book chapters.

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Allison Dalton, MD

Associate Professor
University of Chicago
[email protected]

Gender: Female
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Primary Topic Area: Wellness
Secondary Topic Area: TBD

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Education Research
Research Interests:

1. Wellness topics
2. Secondary trauma
3. Peer support programs

Babar Fiza, MD

Assistant Professor
Emory School of Medicine
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: Asian

Primary Topic Area: Perioperative Ultrasound
Secondary Topic Area: Critical Care

Title(s) of Proposed Presentation(s):

1. Perioperative lung ultrasound: reducing complications and improving outcomes
2. Perioperative Point of Care Ultrasound: A Moving Picture is Worth a Thousand Tests

Twitter Handle: @fiza_babar

Research Domain(s): Clinical, Education Research
Research Interests: Research has focused on the impact of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) on patient management and clinical workflows. My work in this arena has included examining the feasibility of anesthesiologist performed cardiac ultrasonography. Most recently, I led a study that examined the role of point-of-care vascular ultrasound in COVID-19 patients.

Frank O’Connell, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM

Staff Anesthesiologist
Atlanticare Regional Medical Center
65 W Jimmie Leeds Road
Pomona NJ 08240
[email protected]

Gender: Male
Race and Ethnicity: White or Caucasian

Topic Areas: Airway Management, Obstetrics, Trauma

Research Domain(s): Quality Improvement / Patient Safety
Research Interests: Address topics relevant to those practicing anesthesiology and critical care in a non academic, critical care environment, currently involved in educational initiatives related to Fundamentals of Critical Care Support including FCCS Obstetrics and FCCS Surgery