Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2019 Annual Meeting

Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2019 Annual Meeting

March 1, 2019

2019 CAS Annual Meeting
Dates: June 21-24, 2019
Where: Calgary, Alberta – Calgary TELUS Convention Centre
Email: anesthesia@cas.ca
Phone: 416 480 0602
Website: http://www.casconference.ca/en/

For Canadian anesthesiologists and colleagues from around the world, the CAS Annual Meeting provides an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of anesthesiology research, best practice, and hands-on learning experiences – and to connect with some of the brightest minds in the profession. As always the academic benefits of the CAS Annual Meeting are undeniable, as the conference offers an optimum opportunity to earn your CME credits. Section events provide exclusive access to discussions and/or events only accessible to members through your section fees. Participate in a host of other symposia, plenary sessions and case discussions through the development of your personal meeting agenda for the weekend. Don’t miss out on specialized lectures presented by renowned anesthesiologists who are pleased to be invited to present to their colleagues. Don’t miss out on the social side of the meeting program, offered to balance your learning with opportunities for networking and interaction. Connect with new colleagues, renowned speakers, friends, section members and board members.

2019 Visiting Professor Lecture – Dr. Eric Jacobsohn

December 3, 2018

Date/Time: 5:30PM-7:00PM January 9, 2019

Venue:
Lecture: Paetzold Auditorium, Rm. 1441, Jim Pattison Pavilion South, Vancouver General Hospital
Reception: Multi-Purpose Room, JPPS188, Jim Pattison Pavilion South (5:30PM-6:00PM)

 

Title: “The Future of Canadian Anesthesiology as a Scientific Profession: Time for Tough Choices”

Dr. Eric Jacobsohn, MD
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine
Max Rady College of Medicine
University of Manitoba

Dr. Jacobsohn is a Professor in Departments of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, and in the Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. He is the Associate Dean for PGME Student Affairs and Wellness in the Rady College of Medicine, is Director of Research at Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, and is Chair of Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia Clinical Trials Group (PACT).

Dr. Jacobsohn graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1984. After an initial career in general practice in Canada, he did his Anesthesiology residency and Critical Care fellowship at the Dalhousie University and University of Manitoba. Dr. Jacobsohn trained in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota and completed a Master’s Degree in Medical Education at the University of Illinois. He served as Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Critical Care at Washington University, St. Louis, until 2006. He then served as the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Manitoba, from 2006-2016.

In addition to an active clinical practice in cardiac anesthesia and critical care, Dr. Jacobsohn is active in administrative and clinical research, both in perioperative outcomes and critical care. In his position leading the Canadian PACT group, he is endeavoring to foster the development of infrastructure in Canada to execute high quality perioperative clinical trials, and to foster collaboration between similar groups internationally. He teaches and lectures extensively at the medical school, and nationally and internationally.

 

2018 Visiting Professor Lecture – Dr. Philip Peng

October 25, 2018


Time: Wednesday, November 7 2018

Venue: 6:00PM-7:00PM: Rm. 1441, Taylor-Fidler Auditorium, Jim Pattison Pavilion North
Vancouver General Hospital

Title: “Innervation of Hip Joint – Reflect on the Regional Anesthesia Blockade for Hip”

 

Dr. Philip Peng ,MMBS, FRCPC

Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management
University of Toronto

Objectives:

  1. To update the most recent understanding of the innervation to the hip
  2. To reflect upon the rationale which the regional anesthesia for hip based on in the past.
  3. To describe the new procedure based on the new understanding of hip innervation

Brief CV:

Dr. Philip Peng is a full time professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management of University of Toronto. He is currently the director for Anesthesia Pain Management Center. He has played an important role in the education of pain medicine and established major teaching courses. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) honored him with Founder designation in Pain Medicine for his role in establishing Pain Medicine subspecialty in Canada. He is also a leader and pioneer in the application of ultrasound for pain medicine. He has edited 7 books and published more than 150 peer-reviewed and publications and book chapters.

Reception: 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM (Light Refreshments will be served)
Taylor Fidler Auditorium (hallway), Jim Pattison Pavilion VGH
(Note: no food or drink allowed inside the auditorium)

Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Annual Report 2017

September 25, 2018

Thank you for taking a few minutes to go through this report. This year the report highlights a few areas in our department, with the usual detailed information placed as appendices. Please share with colleagues in your department, so they too can celebrate the successes of our colleagues as well as hopefully understand this diverse department a little better.

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Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar: Dr. Zheng Xie, M.D., Ph.D.

September 24, 2018


Time: Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 11:00 AM.

Venue: IRC 5 lecture hall.

Title: Anesthetic Mechanisms: From molecules to humans

 

Dr. Zheng , M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

University of Chicago.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Tens of millions of patients worldwide, from newborn to elderly, receive anesthesia each year. The mechanisms of Anesthetics remain largely unresolved despite significant progress over the past several decades. Recently, evidence has been uncovered suggesting that anesthetics are neurotoxic to the developing brain in animals and possibly in humans. In 2016, the FDA issued a warning about the potential long-term risks to cognitive functions in children who receive multiple or prolonged anesthesia during their early life (<3 year of age or during the third trimester of pregnancy of their mothers). Anesthetics may also cause significant deterioration in the cognitive functions of elderly patients. It is critically important for us to better understand the underlying mechanisms of anesthetic effects and related toxicities. My main research goal is to deepen our understanding of anesthetic mechanisms at the molecular level, in animal and human studies. We showed, using electrophysiological and molecular techniques, that anesthetics inhibit neurotransmitter release by interacting with neurotransmitter release machinery in neurons and chromaffin/PC-12 cells. Recently we found that drugs which elevate intracellular cAMP and/or block adenosine receptors could facilitate emergence from isoflurane and propofol anesthesia in rats. In a recent human trial, we reported that caffeine facilitates isoflurane anesthesia emergence in healthy volunteers. Our goal is to translate the current basic research findings to future clinical use in humans. Other ongoing studies involve anesthetic effects in autistic animal models and drugs which can reduce anesthetic induced neurotoxicity in the developing brain.

 

Representative publications:

Xie Z, Currie KPM and Fox AP: Etomidate elevates intracellular calcium levels and promotes catecholamine secretion in bovine chromaffin cells. J Physiol. (London) 560.3: 677-690 2004. http://jp.physoc.org/content/560/3/677.full?sid=ef6f9266-c409-49ce-ae35-e3a638e97a56

Xie Z, Herring BE and Fox AP: Excitatory and inhibitory actions of isoflurane in bovine chromaffin cells. J Neurophysiol. 96: 3042-3050 2006. http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/00571.2006v1

Herring BE, Xie Z, Marks J and Fox AP : Isoflurane inhibits the neurotransmitter release machinery via an interaction with syntaxin 1A. J Neurophysiol. 102: 1265 – 1273, 2009. http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/102/2/1265.pdf

Herring BE, McMillan K, Fox AP and Xie Z: Etomidate and Propofol Inhibit The Neurotransmitter Release Machinery at Different Sites. J Physiol. (London) 589.5, 1103-1115, 2011. http://jp.physoc.org/content/589/5/1103.full.pdf+html?sid=19d7919e-d643-4b4e-9202-6bb6d51e015b.

Xie Z, McMillan K, Wang, Q and Fox, AP: Interaction of anesthetics with SNARE proteins identified with RNAi. J Neurophysiol. 109:758-767, 2013. http://jn.physiology.org/content/109/3/758.full.pdf+html?sid=9a365e95-6050-496e-8312-cd5d358cfbe1

Wang Q, Fong R, Mason P, Fox AP and Xie Z: Caffeine Accelerates Recovery from General Anesthesia. J Neurophysiol. 111: 1331-1340, 2014 http://jn.physiology.org/content/jn/111/6/1331.full.pdf

 

 

Congratulations to our 2018 Anesthesia Residency Graduates!

July 27, 2018

Research Day 2018 Guest Lecture – Dr Steven Schafer

June 21, 2018

The 2018 Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Research Day 2018 Guest Lecture is available here

“Clinical Pharmacology – A Journey from Michael Jackson to TensorFlow”

Steven L. Shafer, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF

 

Dr. Shafer’s professional interests are the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs, opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. However, his real passion is not the drugs themselves, but rather the mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These include conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of drug interaction, models of receptor function that help elucidate mechanisms of drug action, and models that relate drug response to “in silico” pharmacogenetics.

 

 

APT Department Seminar: Pascal Bernatchez

May 22, 2018


Dr. Pascal Bernatchez

Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

 

 

 

New pharmacological options for heritable aortopathies and muscle disorders: old dog, new tricks?

Genetic aortopathies and muscular dystrophies are two seemingly unrelated groups of diseases with poor management options. Our laboratory has recently shown that cardiovascular medications that target the LDL-cholesterol synthesis pathways and the vasculature, particularly the endothelium, offer untapped therapeutic potential for patients afflicted by these conditions. Using classic and molecular pharmacology principles, we study how these medications mediate their unexpected effects and whether better treatments can be translated to the clinic.

 

Time: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 11:00am
Location: Room B151 of School of Population and Public Health (2206 East Mall, UBC)
Hosts: Dr. Pascal Bernatchez pascal.bernatchez@ubc.ca

All are welcome!

 

Research Day 2018 Keynote speaker: Dr Steven Shafer

May 16, 2018


Dr. Steven Shafer

Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University

 

 

Clinical Pharmacology: From Michael Jackson to Tensor Flow

Dr. Shafer’s professional interests are the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs, opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. However, his real passion is not the drugs themselves, but rather the mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These include conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of drug interaction, models of receptor function that help elucidate mechanisms of drug action, and models that relate drug response to “in silico” pharmacogenetics.

 

Time:  Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 6:15pm
Location:  Paetzold Auditorium (Jim Pattison Pavilion- Vancouver General Hospital)
Hosts: Dr. Don Griesdale donald.griesdale@ubc.ca Dr. Pascal Bernatchez pascal.bernatchez@ubc.ca

 

Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Visiting Professor Lecture – Video

May 14, 2018

The Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Visiting Professor Lecture is available here

“Local anesthetics – old drugs with a bright future”

Philipp Lirk, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Attending Anesthesiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill was one of the first female anesthesiologists in Western Canada in the 1950s. She earned a reputation for taking on difficult cases and became a key figure in developing obstetric anesthesia in BC. After a long career devoted to clinical care, Dr. Hugill was determined to support anesthesia research, which she said she was always interested in but unable to pursue herself. Motivated to facilitate collaborative research between anesthesiologists and pharmacologists, Dr. Hugill left a bequest to the Faculty of Medicine upon her death in 2012, adding to her previous 1991 gift that was matched by the BC Government to establish an endowed Chair in Anesthesia.

Dr. Philipp Lirk obtained his MD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. After a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he trained in Anesthesia & Critical Care in Innsbruck, and completed an MSc at the University of Cardiff (UK). In 2010, Dr. Lirk was appointed to the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, where he served as Head of Regional Anesthesia. In 2015, he earned a PhD at the University of Amsterdam with work on the pharmacology of local anesthetics. In 2017, Dr. Lirk moved to Boston to work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and currently divides his time between research on local anesthetics and anesthesia care for orthopedics & trauma. He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology; member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology’s Scientific Subcommittee on Regional Anesthesia; and member of the PROSPECT Working group of the European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy.