Keynote Speakers
Mrinalini Balki MBBS MD
Presenting: Maternal Major Hemorrhage and Uterotonics
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain management
Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Physiology
Staff Anesthesiologist
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Dr. Balki is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain management, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Physiology at the University of Toronto. She is also a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute.
Kendra Derry MSc MD FRCPC
Presenting: Anesthetic Care of the Pregnant Patient with Cardiovascular Disease
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
St. Michael’s Hospital
Dr. Kendra Derry is currently an anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital, as part of their cardiac anesthesia group. She completed medical school at the Schulich School of Medicine in London ON before completing a residency in anesthesiology through the University of Ottawa. She then went on to complete a fellowship in cardiac anesthesiology at the Ottawa Heart Institute. She has also completed an advanced structural heart imaging fellowship in Boston MA through Harvard University. Research interests include imaging for structural heart disease interventions and medical education.
Ronald B. George MD FRCPC
Presenting: Recovery after Cesarean: Expectations and Enhancements
Professor & Director of Obstetric Anesthesia
Mount Sinai Hospital
University of Toronto
Dr. Ronald George is Professor & Director of Obstetric Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in the University of Toronto. He is originally from Nova Scotia and spent more than 15 years at Dalhousie University, then most recently at UCSF in San Francisco. He was a Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society Career Scientist Award recipient aimed at enhancing analgesia and anesthesia for women and high-risk pregnancies. His research areas are cesarean recovery and patient centred labor analgesia. He plays an active role in the #OBAnes global community serving the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology and CAS as their representative on the WFSA Obstetric Anesthesia Committee.
Kan Ma MD FRCPC
Presenting: Obstetrical anesthesia in patients with neurological and neurosurgical diseases – 10 things you need to know
Lecturer
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Staff Physician
St. Michael’s Hospital
Dr. Ma completed his anesthesia residency program at McMaster University in 2017. He subsequently completed the Trauma-Neuroanesthesia and Critical Care Fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto in 2018, and the Neurosurgical Anesthesiology Fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University in 2019. His academic interest revolves around intraoperative neuromonitoring, intraoperative EEG monitoring and pain management for neurosurgery.
Faculty
Sanket Agrawal MD DM
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Staff Anesthesiologist, Neuroanesthesia
Toronto Western Hospital
Sinéad Campbell MB BCh BAO FCAI
Assistant Professor
Staff Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Toronto Western Hospital
David Carrasco Guariento MD
Airway Management fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Santiago Chaverra Kornerup MD
Advanced Airway Management Fellow
Toronto General Hospital
University of Toronto
Daniel Cordovani MD MSc
Associate Professor
McMaster University
Staff Anesthesiologist
Hamilton Health Sciences
Jason Denis (JD) Cyr MD FRCPC
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
Diogo B. da Conceicao MD
POCUS Clinical Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology
Toronto Western Hospital
Hermann dos Santos Fernandes MD PhD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Staff Anesthesiologist
Mount Sinai Hospital
Jason Goh MD
Airway Management fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Jay Han H.BSc MD MSc FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiologist
Toronto General Hospital
Melissa Ho HBSc MD FRCPC
Lecturer, Department of Anesthesia
Staff Anesthesiologist
North York General Hospital
Cheryl Hunchak MD CCFP(EM) MPH FCFP
Physician Advisor
Safe Medical Care and Learning
CMPA
Harsimran Kaur MD
Regional Anesthesia Clinical Fellow
Mount Sinai Hospital
Joseph Park MD FRCP
Clinical Associate Professor
Michael DeGroote School of Medicine
McMaster University
Ameya Pappu MD
Atul Prabhu MD
Anuja Rathore MD MCAI
POCUS Clinical Fellow, Department of Anesthesia
Toronto Western Hospital
Edward Rogers MD BSc MBBS FRCA RAMC
Regional Anaesthesia Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Western Hospital – UHN
Simone Schiavo MD, MSc
Fellowship Program Coordinator, Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Toronto Western Hospital – UHN
Howe Yee Chong MD MBBS FANZCA
Regional Anaesthesia Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Toronto Western Hospital
Fabricio Batistella Zasso MD MHSc MBA
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Staff Anesthesiologist
Mount Sinai Hospital
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