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2023 Annual Convention/VAPOR Speakers

Monday, October 2


 

Melissa Byrne, DO, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine

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The Darkest Hour: Perioperative Adverse Events & The Second Victim Phenomenon

Learning Objectives: 

  • Define the incidence of adverse events in perioperative care
  • Evaluate the impact of adverse events on physicians' lives
  • Provide an organizational framework for support of anesthesiologists amidst perioperative catastrophes

Lynne Boone, DO

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, Harry S Truman Veteran’s Memorial Hospital 

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Mindfulness in Medicine: Mumbo-Jumbo or Meaningful Practice?

Learning Objectives:

  • Analyze outcomes of mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques with specific focus on health care professionals.
  • Explore pathways to moral resilience in the face of frequent moral distress and injury as experienced by physicians.
  • Explain the integration of mindfulness techniques to maximize clinical judgment and improve patient care.

David Ninan, DO, FAOCA, CPE

Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Kansas Health Science Center

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Non-Traditional Career Paths for Anesthesiologist

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe the importance of strategy in developing one's career
  • Discuss ways to customize one's career to best fit one's life goals
  • Discuss the importance of leveraging mentors customizing one's career

Anupama Wadhwa, MD, MBBS, MSC, FASA 

Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Perioperative Considerations of Patients after Bariatric Surgery and On Weight Loss Medications- What do we need to know about Semaglutides?

Learning Objectives:

  • Learners will learn the risks and considerations of anesthesia for patients presenting after bariatric surgery
  • Audience will learn the mechanisms of action of weight loss medications particularly semaglutides

Victor Gonzalez, Jr., DO

Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Baptist Health South Miami Hospital

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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) as a Rescue in ICU

Learning Objectives:

  • Identifying the utility of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a rescue technique in the ICU
  • Examining outcomes of patients undergoing mechanical circulatory support
  • Explain how ECMO as a rescue can be translated from ICU to the Perioperative Space


 

Chantel Gray, MD

Assistant Director of Faculty Development for the Division of Critical Care, Ohio State University

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My Patient Survived the ICU... Now What?

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS)
  • Discuss the development of Post ICU Care Clinics
  • Assess the effectiveness of follow-up services for ICU survivors

Timothy Welch, MD, MSPCH

Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center

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Perioperative Considerations for Adult Congenital Heart Patients for Non-Cardiac Surgery

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand both the cardiac and noncardiac sequelae of repaired or palliated congenital heart disease, and impact on perioperative management
  • Identify the major causes of perioperative morbidity and mortality amongst adults with congenital heart disease, specifically attributable to heart failure and arrhythmias
  • Develop rational anesthetic plans for ACHD patients presenting for noncardiac surgery in the following categories: residual shunts, Tetralogy of Fallot, Transposition of the Great Arteries, Ebstein's anomaly, and patients with Fontan physiology