2025 Spring Meeting Planning Committee

Vishal Uppal, MBBS, MSc, FRCA; 2025 Scientific/Education Planning Committee Chair
Ki-Jinn Chin, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCPA; 2024 Scientific/Education Planning Committee Chair
Linda Le-Wendling, MD; 2026 Scientific/Education Planning Committee Chair
Steven Porter, MD; 2026 Scientific/Education Planning Committee Chair
Stuart Grant, MD; Ex-Officio, CME Committee Co-Chair
Samer Narouze, MD, PhD; Ex-Officio CME Chair
Rebecca Johnson, MD; Member-at-Large
Meg Rosenblatt, MD; Member-at-Large
Anish Parkash, MD; Resident Section Chair 2024-2025
David Provenzano, MD; Ex-Officio, ASRA Pain Medicine President
Brian Sites, MD; Ex-Officio, Editor-in-Chief
Oluwatobi Hunter, DNP, PMGT-BC, AGACNP-BC; PA/NP Representative
Hari Kalagara, MD; Member-at-Large (local Faculty)
Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA; Member-at-Large (International)
Sivasenthil Arumugam, MD; Member-at-Large Socia Media Chair
Sara Amaral, MD, EDRA, DESAIC; Member-at-Large Socia Media Chair

Faculty

Adam Amundson, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Sivasenthil Arumugam, MD, FASA; Woodland Anesthesiology Associates, UCONN, Avon, CT
Kimberlee Bayless, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP; George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
David Brown, MD; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Nibras Bughrara, MD, FCCM, FASA; Albany Medical College, Delmar, NY
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD; Rush University, Chicago, IL
Melissa Byrne, DO, MPH; University of Virginia, Crozet, VA
Juan Cata, MD; MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Ki-Jinn Chin, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCPC; Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Steven Cohen, MD; Northwestern, Walter Reed, Clarksville, MD
Steven Coppens, MD; University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Oscar deLeon, MD; Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
Ryan D’Souza, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Maxim Eckmann, MD, FASA; UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Hesham Elskarkawy, MD, MBA; MetroHealth Case Western, Westlake, OH
Michael Fettiplace, MD, PhD; University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Patrick Giam, MD, FASA; American Society of Anesthesiologists, Schaumburg, IL
Andrea Gomez Morad, MD; Hilo Medical Center, Hilo, HI
Veena Graff, MD; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Stuart Grant, MD, ChB, MMCI; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Rajnish Gupta, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Monica Harbell, MD; Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
Stephen Haskins, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Peter Hebbard, FANZCA; University of Melbourne, Wangratta, Victoria, Australia
Melody Herman, MD; Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, Waxhaw, NC
Nadia Hernandez, MD; McGovern School of Medicine at University of Texas Health, Houston, TX
Maggie Holtz, MD; WellStar Health System, Marietta, GA
Christine Hunt, DO, MS; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Barys Ihnatsenka, MD; University of Florida Health, Newberry, FL
Vivian Ip, MD; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Balavenkatasubramanian Jagannathan, MD; Asian Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Rebecca Johnson, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Hari Kalagara, MD, FCARCSI, EDRA; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Manoj Karmakar, MBBS, MD, FRCA, FHKCA; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
James Kim, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Lynn Kohan, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Sree Kolli, MD, EDRA; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Sandra Kopp, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Promil Kukreja, MD, PhD, FASA; USAP-FL, Orlando, FL
Kwesi Kwofie, MD, FRCPC; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Linda Le-Wendling, MD; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Edward Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA; Creta Interclinic Hospital, Heraklion, Greece
Iyabo Muse, MD; University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
Monika Nanda, MBBS, MPH, FASA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Samer Narouze, MD, PhD; University Hospitals Cleveland, Akron, OH
Joseph Neal, MD; Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA
Afak Nsiri, MD; Moroccan Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Intensif Care AFSRA, Casablanca, Morocco
Steven Orebaugh, MD; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Oliver Panzer, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Anahi Perlas, MD, FRCPC; University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Vrushali Ponde; Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Steven Porter, MD; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
David Provenzano, MD; Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, PA
Reva Ramlogan, BSc, MBBS; The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Anand Rao, PhD, MBA; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Meg Rosenblatt, MD; Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and West Hospitals, New York, NY
Richard Rosenquist, MD; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
John Rowlingson, MD; University of Virginia Health System and School of Medicine, Crozet, VA
Engy Said, MD; University of California, San Diego, CA
Kristopher Schroeder, MD, FASA; University of Wisconsin Department of Anesthesiology, Belleville, WI
Ana Schwartzmann, MD; LASRA, Montevideo, Uruguay
Eric Schwenk, MD; Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Sudipta Sen, MD, FASA; University of Texas Health Sciences Centre at Houston, Houston, TX
Harsha Shanthanna, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC; McMaster University, Ancaster, ON, Canada
Ashley Shilling, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Brian Sites, MD; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Plainfield, NH
Ana Sjaus, MD, FRCPC; Women’s and Obstetric Anesthesia, IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS, Canada
Ellen Soffin, MD, PhD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Rakesh Sondekoppam Vijayashankar, MBBS; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Lawrence Tsen, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Ban C. H. Tsui, BSc, BPharm, MSc, MD, FRCPC, FASRA; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, MSc, FRCA; Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Eugene Viscusi, MD; Thomas Jefferson University, Bensalem, PA
Gina Votta-Velis, MD, PhD; University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sylvia Wilson, MD; Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Jeff Xu, MD; Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Millwood, NY
Valerie Zaphiratos, MD, MSc, FRCPC; University of Montreal - CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC, Canada

Associate Faculty

Sara Amaral, MD, EDRA, DESAIC; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Archana Areti, MD, FUGRA; KMCH Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Coimabtore, Tamil Nadu, India
Alberto Ardon, MD, MPH; Mayo Clinic, St. Augustine, FL
Jon Bailey, MD, MSc, FRCPC, EDRA; Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Abhijit Biswas, FRCPC; University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Keerthi Chigurupati, MD, DM; USHA Cardiac Center, Siddharthnagar, Vijayawada, India
Jane Colish, MD, FRCPC; Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Matthew M. Colontonio, MD; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Renuka George, MD, FASA; University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Nigel Gilespie, MD; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Akua Gyambibi, MD, FRCPC; University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Oluwatobi Hunter, DNP, PMGT-BC, AGACNP-BC; Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA
Kellie Jaremko, MD, PhD; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
Tim Jen, MD, FRCPC; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dave Johnston, FRCA, EDRA; Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom
Amanda Kumar, MD; Duke University Medical Center, Hillsborough, NC
Rafael Lombardi, MD; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Anthony Machi, MD; Stanford University, Redwood City, CA
Christopher Prabhakar, MD, FRCPC; St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Julien Raft, MD; Cancer Lorraine Institut, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
Peter Rose, MSc, MD, FRCPC; Vancouver Acute Department of Anesthesiology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Rajnith Sivakumar, MD, EDRA; DipBiostats, Shatin, Hong Kong
Alex Stone, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Rani Sunder, MD; Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Bryant Tran, MD; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Dan Werry, MD, FRCPC; Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Poster Moderators

Fayyaz Ahmed, MD; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Yun-Yun Kathy Chen, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Mary Ghaly, MD; University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
Sakura Kinjo, MD; University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Vendhan Ramanujam, MD; Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
Sassan Sabouri, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Richa Sharma, MD; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 
Kamen Vlassakov, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Jeff Xu, MD; Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY