Past Grand Rounds Guest Speakers

 GRAND ROUNDS GUEST SPEAKERS

March 12, 2026Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH, MS, Medical Director UCLA Simulation Center," Optimizing the Perioperative Care of Older Adults: Evidence-Based Strategies for Navigating Frailty, Cognition, and Shared Decision-Making”
March 6, 2026Dan Drzymalski, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Co-Chair of Moderate Sedation Committee, Division Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia, Tufts Medical Center " Keeping Sedation Safe During Non-Operating Room Anesthesia”
March 5, 2026Agnieszka Trzcinka, MD, FASE, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Cardiovascular Center Procedural Anesthesia, Tufts Medical Center " NORA and cardiac anesthesia: Managing resources and expectations”
February 26, 2026Maurice Joyce, MBBS, MD, FFARCSI, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Vice Chair for Education and Program Director, " Structured Approaches for Feedback/Evaluation”
January 29, 2026Brian O’Gara, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Anesthesiologist, Intensivist, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, " Cognitive Prehabilitation to Prevent Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders”
January 8, 2026Luis I. Rodriguez, MD, FASA, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Nicklaus Children’s Health System, Department of Anesthesia, Miami, FL, " Bad Outcomes in Strange Times”. Mitochondrial DNA mutation in specific patient population
December 5, 2025Liana Zucco, MD, MBBS FRCA MHQS, Director of Quality, Safety & Innovation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, " Quality & Safety in Anesthesia; Metrics, Strategy & Culture"
November 21, 2025Maria Bustillo, MD, FASA, Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Chief Division of Neuroanesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, "Evidence Base Blood Management Protocols for Spine Surgery"
October 30, 2025Ethan Brovman, MD, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Cardiac Anesthesia (Adult) Critical Care Medicine, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, " Perioperative Management of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices"
October 23, 2025Satya Krishna Ramachandran, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair of Quality, Safety, and Innovation in the Department of Anesthesiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, “QUALITY AND SAFETY SYSTEMS FROM CONCEPT TO IMPLEMENTATION”
September 5, 2025Seshadri Mudumbai, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Director for Clinical Informatics Systems and Perioperative Analytics Staff Anesthesiologist, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Service, VA Palo Alto HCS' "Reimaging Perioperative Care: How Large Language Models Can Shape Modern Anesthesia"
October 11, 2024Muhammad A. Farooq, MD, MBA, Duke University,  “Anesthesiologists as Perioperative Pain Physicians”
February 10, 2023BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, SAMBA-F, FASA, Systems Director of Preoperative Medicine at Inova in Falls Church Virginia, "Why Preoperative Medicine is Important"
October 28, 2022Dean Conners, MD, PhD, FASA, Ohio State University, "The Process and Evolution of a Law Suit: What to do When You Get Sued"
Sept 27, 2019Christina M. Spofford, MD, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, "In-Situ-Simulation for Busy Academic Department - How to get the most out of your teaching efforts"
April 5, 2019Jonathan Mark, MD, Duke University,  “Safer Perioperative Care: The Critical Role of Non-Technical Skills”
Oct 12, 2018Matthew Spann, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center,  "Implementing Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Protocols"
Oct 26, 2018Richard W. Rosenquist, MD, Cleveland Clinic, "Acute Pain Management in the Chronic Pain Patient"
March 23, 2018Michael Todd, MD, University of Minnesota School of Medicine,  "Neuromuscular Blockading Drugs and NMB Monitoring - Why Everything You Believe Is WRONG"
Jan 5, 2018Shira Gambrel, MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine,  "Current Concepts in Simulation"
May 19, 2017Carlo D. Franco, MD, Rush University, “PECS and Serratus Blocks: A Critical Look”
March 24, 2017Guy Weinberg, MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, "Lipid Resuscitation: A Model for T1 Research"
Nov 3, 2016Angela M. Bader, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School,  "Use of Checklists in Surgery"