Special Guest Speaker (non-TF)
Victoria Vance, Esq
Victoria Vance began her legal career as a trial attorney, defending doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies in high value and complex litigation. She was then recruited to move in house and develop the nationwide litigation program for The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Upon her return to the law firm setting — and the courtroom — Ms. Vance became Chair of the Health Care Practice Group at Tucker Ellis LLP, a national law firm, based in Cleveland, Ohio. In her current role, Ms. Vance provides a full range of health care regulatory counsel, investigation, trial and litigation services to health care providers, senior care facilities, medical malpractice insurers, underwriters, and pharmaceutical clients. She has advised national and international clients on the risks and regulatory challenges of the COVID pandemic. Ms. Vance also draws on her experience as a trained mediator to assist clients in evaluating litigation and developing case management strategies. Ms. Vance is a frequent speaker on a broad range of medical and health care topics. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from John Carroll University, and her law degree from The Cornell Law School.
CH: Carin Hagberg, MD
Dr. Hagberg serves as the Chief Academic Officer and Head of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She is also the Bud Johnson Clinical Distinguished Chair and Professor with Term Tenure at MD Anderson and is an Adjunct Professor at the UTHealth McGovern Medical School.
The focus of Dr. Hagberg’s career has been Neuroanesthesia and difficult airway management, including both educational and clinical research aspects in these areas.
Dr. Hagberg is a Past President and Immediate Past Executive Director of the Society for Airway Management (SAM). She received the Distinguished Service Award from this Society in 2012.
Dr. Hagberg has been involved in the development of the ASA Practice Guidelines on Management of the Difficult Airway in one form or another since their development in 1992 and publication in 1993 and is currently serving as Co-Chair of the ASA Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway.
Additionally, Dr. Hagberg serves as Chair of the Project for Universal Management of Airways, an international and multidisciplined collaborative for universal airway management.
Dr. Hagberg was named as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare Award in Houston, Texas in 2019 and received the 18th Sir William Macewan Medal from the Difficult Airway Society, the Distinguished Research Award from the International Airway Management Society in 2018 and has an Honorary Membership in the European Anaesthesia Management Society. Additionally, she also serves as an Overseas Advisor for the All India Difficult Airway Association and is a member of many local, national and international committees, serving in various roles.
Dr. Hagberg has received over 50 research grants and is well published in the area of Airway Management, with approximately 100 peer reviewed articles and 50 book chapters, as well as approximately 25 editorials or letters to the editor. Dr. Hagberg serves as the editor of many books, including 5 of the 7 books that she has published. She is currently working on the 5th edition of the international textbook on Airway Management, Hagberg and Benumof¹s Airway Management, as well as the 1rst edition of the Perioperative Care of the Cancer Patient. Dr. Hagberg also serves as an editor for many different journals and is a well-known international speaker.
RD: Richard Dutton, MD MS
Richard P. Dutton, M.D., M.B.A.
• BA: Harvard University, 1983
• MD: Tufts University School of Medicine, 1987
• MBA: University of Maryland, 2001
• Residency in anesthesiology: Massachusetts General Hospital 1988-91
• Attending anesthesiologist National Naval Medical Center 1991-1994
• Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Trauma Anesthesiology, Director of Clinical Operations R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland 1994-2011
• Founding Executive Director, American Society of Anesthesiologist’s Anesthesia Quality Institute 2009-2015; launched the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry.
• Chief Quality Officer, US Anesthesia Partners, 2015-present
• Serves on ASA and federal committees developing measures for anesthesia performance, perioperative patient experience and new models of healthcare
• Practices anesthesiology at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas
• Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Texas A&M School of Medicine.
BA: Basem Abdelmalak, MD, FASA, SAMBA-F
Dr. Abdelmalak is a professor of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He leads Anesthesia Services for Bronchoscopic Surgery and is the Quality Improvement Officer and Director of the Center for Procedural Sedation implementing the anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation. He also frequently performs the Therapeutic Whole Lung Lavage procedure to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) and lipoid pneumonia patients.
Dr. Abdelmalak is board-certified in Anesthesiology and fellowship trained in Critical Care medicine. His many clinical interests include anesthesia for ENT and bronchoscopic surgery, and difficult airway management.
He recently served as a member of the ASA task forced that updated and published the 2022 ASA practice parameters for the management of the difficult airway.
He is also a part of the Anesthesiology Outcomes Research Department.
His research interest is focused on the study of perioperative diabetes, insulin pumps, and hyperglycemia management. He has been the primary investigator of many research projects investigating these topics.
He served the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists as president in 2015, the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA), as a founding member, and president 2017-2019 and the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) as president 2019-2020. Currently, he serves the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) as a member of the board of directors representing the State of Ohio, chair of the educational track subcommittee on Ambulatory Anesthesia and a member of both the Committee on Practice Management and Quality Management and Departmental Administration.
Dr. Abdelmalak was awarded the distinguished status of Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in 2017 and Fellow of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia in 2020.
He has received numerous honors and awards, including being named one of America’s Top Anesthesiologists according to the Consumers' Research Council of America and Safety Champion by the Cleveland Clinic Quality Institute.
A frequently invited lecturer at national and international conferences, Dr. Abdelmalak authored many scientific articles and book chapters in his field, and recently co-edited two textbooks titled Anesthesia for Otolaryngologic Surgery and Clinical Airway Management; An Illustrated Case Based Approach by Cambridge University Press.
He continues to be heavily involved with the education and training of medical students and residents and recently received the Scholarship in Teaching Award from Case Western Reserve University.
PAK: Allan Klock, MD
P. Allan Klock Jr., MD is a board certified anesthesiologist. He is professor and executive vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care and the Anesthesia Medical Director of the Operating Rooms at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Klock received a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. After he earned his MD from the University of Connecticut, he completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He later completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness and the Leadership Development Program for Physicians in Academic Health Centers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
At the University of Chicago, Dr. Klock has been section chief for urologic anesthesia and medical director of the post-anesthesia care unit and medical director of his department’s ambulatory clinics. As vice chair for clinical affairs, Dr. Klock is responsible for clinical operations at over 45 anesthetizing locations at the University of Chicago Medical Center campus. Dr. Klock serves on his department’s quality assurance, education, resident recruitment and executive committees. He also served two terms as an officer of the Medical Center’s Medical Staff Organization before his term as Medical Staff President from 2011 to 2014
Dr. Klock’s academic and clinical interests include airway management. Dr. Klock is past president of the Society for Airway Management and is co-director of the Airway Study and Training Center at the University of Chicago. He has lectured nationally and internationally and has published journal articles and book chapters on the subject of difficult airway management. He served on the American Society of Anesthesiologists task force that in 2022 published revised guidelines for management of the difficult airway.
Dr. Klock’s other major area of interest is educating non-anesthesiologist health professionals about making sedation more effective and safer. Dr. Klock has developed a curriculum entitled, “Safer Sedation and Analgesia” that has been delivered to over 600 surgeons, gastroenterologists, radiologists, nurses and other professionals who administer or supervise sedation during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
WR: Will Rosenblatt, MD
Dr. Rosenblatt is a professor of anesthesiology at the Yale School of Medicine, Director of Head and Neck Anesthesia at Yale New Haven Hospital and Director of the Threatened Adult Airway Response Team. In 2019, Dr. Rosenblatt was invited to join the American Society of Anesthesiologists Difficult Airway Task Force and is a chief designer of the new 2022 ASA Difficult Airway Infographic and Decision Tree Tool. Dr. Rosenblatt has authored more than 30 original articles and book chapters on difficult airway management and is the editor of Master Techniques in Airway Management (LLW 2015). He is also a member of the PUMA working group, designing universal airway management guidelines. His education project, AirwayOnDemand, has hosted more than 120 on site airway management courses for practices and societies across the North, Central, and South America.
Dr. Rosenblatt maintains the largest free, on-line, airway managment video content in the world. The AirwayOnDemand Youtube channel includes nearly 400 videos, has 10,000 subscribers and 5 million views.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Rosenblatt is Founder and President of REMEDY, Recovered Medical Equipment for the Developing World. REMEDY was established as a 501-c-3, tax exempt charity in 1991. REMEDY has moved hundreds of tons of prepared but unused medical supplies from over 600 hospitals in the United States to developing world health centers. In 1996 REMEDY was received the Rolex award for Enterprise. Though REMEDY remains active at Yale New Haven Hospital, Dr. Rosenblatt's attention has turned to REMEDY's off-shoot program Med-Eq. Med-Eq is a virtual warehouse where more than 15,000 material donations have been made to its 400 charity members.
SM: Sheila Myatra, MD
Prof. Myatra is a Consultant in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India. She is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) University, Mumbai.
Dr. Myatra serves as the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). She is the President Elect of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), immediate Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) and past Vice Chancellor of the Indian College of Critical Care Medicine.
She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SCC) Research Committee, SSC COVID Guidelines Committee and is a Steering Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA). She serves on the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Diversity Task Force. She served as a member of the ASA Task Force on the Management of the Difficult Airway, and on the committee of the Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA), an international, multidisciplinary collaborative for universal airway management.
Prof. Myatra received the Distinguished Education Award from the International Airway Management Society in 2021 and the ISCCM Research Grant in 2020.
Her research interests include airway management, hemodynamic monitoring and sepsis. She developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring, called the “tidal volume challenge” (CCM 2017). She serves on the editorial board of Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Critical Care, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (past). Prof. Myatra has over 100 peer reviewed articles and 30 book chapters.
For papers by Dr. Myatra, go to:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Myatra+S&sort=pubdate
RG: Robert Grief, MD
After studying medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria, Dr. Greif specialized in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. Following a post-doc research fellowship at UCSF-San Francisco, CA, he became an associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna in 2002. In 2004 he was recruited by the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; and promoted to professor at the University of Bern in 2009.
Beside his engagement in clinical anaesthesia and patient care his research focuses on airway management, resuscitation and medical education. He deepened his interest in medical education attending the Master of Medical Education program at the University of Bern and during the Clinical Teaching Facilitator Program at the Stanford Faculty Development Program, CA, USA.
Currently he serves as the ERC Board Director of Guidelines and ILCOR, and he is Chair of the ILCOR Task Force Education, Implementation, Team. Dr. Greif is treasurer and past president of the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) and volunteers as lead for its “Teach the Airway Teacher” (TAT) course. Prof Greif is Fellow and Honorary Member of the ERC and EAMS.
Prof. Greif is the vice-president of the Cantonal Ethics Committee Bern. At the University of Bern he is a head office member of the Masters of Medical Education program. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, associate editor of the European Journal of Anaesthesia, and editor of Resuscitation Plus.
Prof. Greif lectures and teaches medical and clinical teaching, simulation, resuscitation and airway management, at national and international conferences, and at several Universities in Europe. He covers the position of senior consultant for research since 2020 at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern University Hospital. He was called in 2020 as full professor of Medical Education at the School of Medicine, Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria.
MS: Massimiliano Sorbello, MD FEAMS
Massimiliano Sorbello, MD, FEAMS Born in Catania, Italy, September 10, 1973
Massimiliano is an airway enthusiastic anesthesiologist working in a large University hospital in Catania, Italy, with amazing view between mount Etna, Mediterranean sea and centuries of history.
He has been working in different Specialties in Operatory Room and in ICU, and he was also in charge for Airway Management teaching programs in postgraduate School in Anesthesia and Intensive Care in University of Catania.
He is past chair of the Italian national Society of Anesthesia Airway Management research group, past chair of ESAIC SC11, task force member of ESAIC COVID19 task force, task force member of EACTA thoracic subcommittee and President of European Airway Management Society.
He is also part of ASA Task force for difficult airway guidelines and member of the working group of Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA).
Speaker in many congresses, workshops and scientific meeting in Italy and worldwide, where he enjoys in meeting international airway experts and friends and enthusiastic people which whom to share knowledge and experiences.
Massimiliano has authored or co-authored more than 140 scientific papers (H-index 22), books, websites modules and e-learning platforms.
When he is not working or sitting in front of his Mac, you could find him travelling or diving down deep his beloved Mediterranean Sea. And now, hugging his small princess Sofia…