Anesthesiology Update 2027

Continuing Education

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May 3 - 7, 2027

This course is preparing to open for registration. Please check back soon.

This in-depth course provides a comprehensive review of the most important advances in clinical anesthesiology. Registrants can choose to attend either live streaming online or in person in Boston, MA.

Live Online or In Person

Choose your learning experience:

» ATTEND ONLINE for LIVE STREAMING education and online Q&A with faculty.

» ATTEND IN PERSON in Boston, MA at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Faculty provide dedicated time for Q&A with participants.

Additionally, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for on-demand online viewing for 6 months after the end of the course.

All live streaming and recorded sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)

Save $100. To ensure your participation at the lowest possible cost, early registration is strongly recommended.

Additional discounts are available to residents and fellows. See pricing table below.

Fee increases to after March 31, 2027

Continuing Education

Earn up to:

» 50.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

» 50.25 European CME credits (ECMEC^®)

»18.00 credits Risk Management Study, including:

2.75 credits of Opioid Education and Pain Management Training
2.75 credits of End-of-Life Care Studies

» Commensurate credits through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

» Nurse Anesthetists: This course has been submitted for AANA Class A CE credits

5 Days

This intensive program, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, updates busy anesthesia practitioners on current best practices in anesthesiology.

Overview

The Comprehensive 2027 Anesthesiology Update

Cardiac, Regional, Office-Based, Thoracic, Obstetric, Neuro, and Pediatric

Anesthesiology Update will be held on May 3–7, 2027. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA.

In the past year, there have been significant clinical changes that affect the practice of anesthesiology. This comprehensive CME program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and others with interest in the field to hear directly from world-renowned specialists and master clinicians about these changes.

The curriculum at Anesthesiology Update 2027 ensures that attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances, risk mitigation strategies, and anesthesiology guidelines, and also with specific recommendations to incorporate these updates into practice.

The format is engaging and attendees are encouraged to pose questions of the national and international experts who will be delivering the updates and education at this event.

Updates, best practices and new guidelines cover:

Understanding and preventing postoperative delirium and cognitive decline
Novel anesthetics and analgesics
Team-building lessons from Antarctica
New guidelines and recommendations: PONV prophylaxis and GLP-1s
Mastering the difficult airway
Evidence-based perioperative respiratory management
Telemonitoring and artificial intelligence in anesthesia care
Maternal and child health: cutting-edge topics
Optimizing management of critically ill patients in the operating room
State-of-the-art trauma care and blood management
Regional anesthesia pearls
Perioperative hemodynamic monitoring and optimization

Participants will take away important guidelines and checklists that they can put to immediate use in their anesthesia practice.

Program Highlights

2027 Guidelines, New Innovations, Challenging Cases, and State-of-the-Art Clinical and Patient Safety Updates in the Areas of:

Regional anesthesia
Cardiac anesthesia
Critical care medicine
Ambulatory anesthesia and office-based anesthesia
Pediatric anesthesia
Obstetric anesthesia
Thoracic anesthesia
Perioperative transfusion medicine
Neuroanesthesia
State-of-the-art pain management
Patient safety and risk reduction
Enhanced recovery after surgery

Important Drug Updates

Anesthetic drugs in the development pipeline
GLP-1 agonists
Target-controlled Infusion
New hypnotics
Methadone in clinical care

In addition to being presented live in person and streamed live online, all sessions will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing for 6 months after the conclusion of the course. All live streaming and recorded sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits, up to the approved maximum. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)

Developed and Offered By:

Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mass General Brigham, and Boston Children's Hospital.

Schedule

This program is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses.

All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

Please note that program changes/substitutions may be made without notice.

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Monday, May 3, 2027

Day 1

Monday, May 3, 2027

Tuesday, May 4, 2027

Day 2

Tuesday, May 4, 2027

Optional Lunch and Learn: Hands-on Front-of-Neck Access Training

Lunch provided
Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
(Limited to a maximum of 25 participants)

Drs. Ellen O’Sullivan and Bhavani Kodali

12:00-1:30 pm

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

Day 3

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

Optional Lunch and Learn: Hands-on Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound Workshop

Lunch provided
Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
(Limited to a maximum of 25 participants)

Drs. Maurizio Bottiroli and Aidan Sharkey

12:00-1:30 pm

Optional Evening Activity: Ether Dome Tour

Includes transportation and refreshments
Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
(Limited to a maximum of 50 participants)

Drs. Susan Vassallo and Jeremi Mountjoy

5:00-8:00 pm

Thursday, May 6, 2027

Day 4

Thursday, May 6, 2027

Optional Lunch and Learn: Hands-on Gastric Ultrasound Workshop

Lunch provided
Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
(Limited to a maximum of 25 participants)

Drs. Maria Borrelli, Yunping Li, Philip Hess, and Liana Zucco

12:00-1:15 pm

Friday, May 7, 2027

Day 5

Friday, May 7, 2027

Attend Online or In Person

The 2027 program offers participants two ways to attend. You can choose either option when you register:

ONLINE for live streaming education
IN PERSON in Boston, MA at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel

BOTH OPTIONS provide participants with:

Recordings of all sessions, which will be available for 6 months following the conclusion of this program.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits. All live (in-person and streaming) and recorded sessions are eligible for these credits. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)
The chance to pose your specific questions to course faculty.
Flexibility to change your attendance preference. Should your circumstances change after you have registered, you have the ability to change from one attendance option to the other up until two weeks before the program begins.

CLOSED CAPTIONING AND MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION

Live streaming participants can activate the closed captioning feature of the video platform to have the lectures captioned for them in real time.
We also offer a special multilingual feature: the closed captions are available in languages other than English. (Please note: Translations are A.I. generated, and 100% accuracy is not guaranteed. For the most accurate content, please view in the original English.) For a list of available languages, click here.

FOR OUR IN-PERSON ATTENDEES, continental breakfast will be offered each morning; lunch will be provided Monday through Thursday; and coffee and refreshments will be offered mid-morning, with a second coffee break mid-afternoon. In-person attendees also have the option to register for midday hands-on lunch-and learn workshops and an evening hands-on Regional Anesthesia workshop, as well as a tour of the historic Ether Dome.

In-Person Venue

Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 St. James Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
+1 617-267-5300

This luxury downtown Boston landmark hotel has been a symbol of the city’s rich history and offers top-notch accommodations and amenities. Located within the heart of Boston, Fairmont Copley Plaza is an easy walk to many of the city’s historic sites, shopping, museums, and restaurants.

Fairmont Copley Plaza has reserved a block of discounted rooms for course participants.

To reserve your room:

Online: To reserve your room online, please use the dedicated link (coming soon)
By phone: If you are calling the hotel rather than using the dedicated link above to request a discounted room, please call 1-866-540-4417 or 800-441-1414 and be sure to specify that you are enrolled in Anesthesiology Update 2027.

Important to note:

The number of discounted rooms is limited.
Discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The discounted room rate is only available until April 10, 2027, or until the block sells out.

Optional In-Person Activities

The 2027 program offers several add-on learning opportunities for in-person attendees, who can add any or all of them to their registration for an additional fee.

Hands-on Lunch-and-Learn Workshops

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, midday (lunch provided)

These workshops provide an opportunity to learn and practice hands-on skills in the following areas:

Front-of-Neck Access Training (Tuesday)
Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound (Wednesday)
Gastric Ultrasound (Thursday)

Each workshop is limited to 25 participants.

Ether Dome Tour

Wednesday evening, 5:00-8:00 pm (transportation and refreshments provided)

Enjoy a guided tour of a seminal location in the history of anesthesia, the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Tour is limited to 50 participants.

Hands-on Regional Anesthesia Workshop

Thursday evening, 5:00-9:00 pm (dinner provided)

This hands-on workshop provides an opportunity to work in very small groups with leading Harvard Medical School clinical faculty on important hand-on skills.

Workshop is limited to 50 participants.

More information

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply principles for practicing perioperative ultrasound
Diagnose and develop a treatment plan for cerebrovascular emergencies
Recognize best practices in preoperative evaluation and risk assessment
Integrate updated guidelines in practice when managing the difficult airway
Implement current principles for appropriate opioid use and pain management
Interpret the latest evidence-based practices in obstetric anesthesia

Incorporate multimodal general anesthesia and enhanced recovery into clinical practice
Discuss best practices in managing patients with morbid obesity and sleep apnea
Integrate evidence-based protocols when practicing regional anesthesia
Identify new drugs that can be incorporated into anesthesia practice

Faculty

Learn from Master Clinicians

Lectures are led by Harvard Medical School faculty and master clinicians from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as many leading national and international experts in the practice of anesthesiology.

Course Director

Sugantha Sundar

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Co-Directors

Keira P. Mason

Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Boston Children’s Hospital

Jeremi R. Mountjoy

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Assia Valovska

MD, FASA

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Brian O'Gara

MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Anesthesiologist, Intensivist, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Course Fees

Registration Details

Registrations for Harvard Medical School CME programs are made via our secure online registration system. At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration.

Upon receipt of your paid registration, an email confirmation will be sent to you. Be sure to include an email address that you check frequently. Your email address is used for critical information, including registration confirmation, evaluation, and certificate. Please do not make non-refundable travel arrangements until you have received an email confirming your paid registration.

Please review the cancellation policy.

Early Registration Deadline: March 31, 2027

Optional In-Person Activities
Hands-on Lunch-and-Learn Workshops Front-of-Neck Access Training (Tuesday) Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound (Wednesday) Gastric Ultrasound (Thursday) (Each lunch-and-learn workshop limited to 25 participants)	$75
Evening Workshops
Ether Dome Tour Wednesday evening, May 5 (off site): Includes refreshments and transportation (Limited to 50 participants)	$85
Regional Anesthesia Hands-on Workshop Thursday evening, May 6 (on site): Includes dinner (Limited to 50 participants)	$350

All attendees of Anesthesiology Update 2027 will be provided with an online syllabus. All sessions of the course will be recorded as they are live streamed and placed in the online course video library, so that registrants can review them at their convenience. The video library will be available to all registrants for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.

For our in-person attendees, continental breakfast will be offered each morning; lunch will be provided Monday through Thursday; and coffee and refreshments will be offered mid-morning, with a second coffee break mid-afternoon.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Harvard Medical School is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Live/Live Online Courses: To receive CME/CE credit, learners are required to complete the course evaluation. Once the evaluation is complete, you will be able to claim your credit and download your certificate. All evaluations and credit claims must be completed within 60 days of the course end date.

Online Courses: To receive CME/CE credit, learners must pass the course post-test and complete the course evaluation in order to claim credit before the final day of the accreditation period. Learners have access to the course for 60 days after the accreditation period has expired.

Physicians

Badge for Jointly Accredited Provider with Commendation Interprofessional Continuing Education

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 50.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Breakdown by Program Option

Course (not including optional workshops) = 39.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Optional Workshops (in person only)

Hands-on Front-of-Neck Access Workshop (Tuesday midday) = 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™
Hands-on Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound Workshop (Wednesday midday) = 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™
Hands-on Gastric Ultrasound Workshop (Thursday midday) = 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™
Ether Dome Tour (Wednesday evening) = 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Regional Anesthesia Workshop (Thursday evening) = 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Maximum credits for course plus all in-person workshops = 50.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Nurse Anesthetists

This program has been submitted for AANA Class A CE credits. Determination of credit is pending.

Risk Management

This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 18.00 credits of Risk Management Study. This includes:

2.75 credits in Opioid Education and Pain Management Training
2.75 credits of End-of-Life Care Education

Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

Union of European Medical Specialists

The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the Union of European Medical Specialists website.

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

Competencies

ABMS/ACGME Competencies

This course is designed to meet the following American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) / Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educational (ACGME) competencies:

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Patient Care and Procedural Skills

IOM Competencies

This course is designed to meet the following Institute of Medicine Core Competencies:

Employ Evidence-Based Practice
Work in Interdisciplinary Teams
Provide Patient-Centered Care
Apply Quality Improvement

Disclaimer & Disclosure

Disclaimer Policy

CME activities accredited by Harvard Medical School are offered solely for educational purposes and do not constitute any form of certification of competency. Practitioners should always consult additional sources of information and exercise their best professional judgment before making clinical decisions of any kind.

Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is calculated based on submission of a preliminary agenda and may be subject to change.

Disclosure

In accord with the disclosure policy of the Medical School as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), course planners, speakers, and content reviewers have been asked to disclose any relationships they have to companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. In addition, faculty have been asked to list any off-label uses of pharmaceuticals and/or devices for investigational or non-FDA approved purposes that they plan to discuss.

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Program Topics

Clinical Practice

Anesthesiology Update 2027

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Overview

The Comprehensive 2027 Anesthesiology Update

Developed and Offered By:

Who Should Participate

Schedule

Monday, May 3, 2027

Welcome

Neurosciences Update: Act 1

Surgical Stress as a Window into the Immune Origin of Postoperative Delirium

Understanding Confusion: The Neurobiology of Confusion

Postoperative Cognitive Decline

Interpreting Movements During General Anesthesia: The Efference Copy Network and Links to Accidental Awareness

Neurosciences Update: Act 2

ICU Sedation

Intervenable Opportunities to Reduce Postoperative Delirium

Increased Anesthetic Sensitivity in Older Patients: A Window into Brain Aging

Q&A

Welcome Reception (lunch provided)

Clinical Conundrums: Session 1

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Counting the Dead and Protecting the Living

Enhanced Recovery: Principles and Practice

Innovative Knowledge Building for the Operating Room: Convergent and Divergent Approaches—Impact on Patient Care

Q&A

Clinical Conundrums: Session 2

Malignant Hyperthermia

2026 New Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

Teamwork at the World’s End: Insights from Human Collaboration in Antarctica

Q&A

Tuesday, May 4, 2027

Airway Management in 2027: Session 1

Predicting Difficult Intubation: Making Sense of the Statistics

Latest Guidelines on Management of the Unanticipated Difficult Airway: What’s New

Q&A

Perioperative Respiratory Management

FiO2 During Anesthesia and Weaning: How Much and Why Is It Still So Important?

The Physiologically Difficult Airway

Predictors of the Need for Intubation in Hypoxemic Patients

Precision Ventilation in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

What EIT Has Taught Us During Anesthesia

Physiological Approach to Postextubation Respiratory Support

Individualizing PEEP During General Anesthesia: A Pragmatic Approach

Q&A

Optional Lunch and Learn: Hands-on Front-of-Neck Access Training

Airway Management in 2027: Session 2

Airway Management in Cardiac Arrest

Extubation: The Dark Side of Airway Management

Q&A

Maternal Health: Cutting-Edge Topics

What’s Your Platelet Count? And Other Concerns

Postdural Puncture Headache: State-of-the-Art Prevention, Management, and Follow-up

Nonoperating Room Anesthesia During Pregnancy

Pregnancy and Embolism

Q&A

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

Pharmacology and Beyond

Update in Anesthetic Pharmacology: What is New in 2027?

Bicarbonate Use in Acidosis

Perioperative Methadone: The Whys

Clinical Application of a Short-Acting Opioid

Perioperative Medicine: The Future of Anesthesiology in 2030

Q&A

What’s New in Perioperative Medicine

Perioperative Methadone: The Why Not

Remote Monitoring from Bench to Bedside

The Drug Titration Paradox: Something Obvious Finally Understood

Telemonitoring in the Surgical Ward: Things You Should Know Before Starting

Q&A

Optional Lunch and Learn: Hands-on Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound Workshop

Rapid-Fire Session

Perioperative Hemodynamic Monitoring and Optimization

The Kidney Under Attack: Rethinking Acute Kidney Injury in the Operating Room

From Venous Return to Fluid Challenges

From Fitness to Resilience: The Next Generation of Prehabilitation

Q&A

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Pearls

Role of Posterior Trunk Blocks

Nonoperating Room Anesthesia: Regional Anesthesia

Suzetrigine: Clinical Application