Anesthesiology Update 2026

  • Continuing Education
Anesthesia mask and light

This in-depth course, presented by the Harvard Medical School faculty, provides anesthesia practitioners with a comprehensive review of the most important advances in clinical anesthesiology and each of its major subspecialties, including ambulatory, thoracic, pediatric, obstetric, regional, and cardiac anesthesia. 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.

     

 

Find out more

 

 

In-Person Venue:

Fairmont Copley Plaza 

138 St. James Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts

$1,575

This is the full tuition. A $100 early registration discount is available. 

 

For tuition for residents, fellows, and students, please see the full table below. 

 

 

Early Registration Deadline:

Continuing Education Credits

Earn up to:

 

» 52.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits

 

» 50.25 AANA Class A CE credits

 

» 52.25 ECME Credits®

 

» 18.25 credits Risk Management Study, including: 

  • 3.25 credits of Opioid Education and Pain Management Training
  • 2.50 credits of End-of-Life Care Studies

 

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

 

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5 Days

This 5-day intensive program, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, updates busy anesthesia practitioners on current best practices in anesthesiology. 

 

See schedule below

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Overview

The Comprehensive 2026 Anesthesiology Update

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

Anesthesiology Update will be held on May 4–8, 2026. 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 a number of very 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 2026 ensures not only that attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the latest advances, risk mitigation strategies, and anesthesiology guidelines, but 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:

  • Hands on cardiac, gastric and lung ultrasound
  • Front of neck airway access
  • High flow nasal oxygen
  • Advances in transfusion practices
  • Artificial intelligence in anesthesia delivery
  • Brain health: using artificial intelligence to predict neurocognitive disorders
  • News from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
  • High risk obstetric patients: evidence-based care
  • Perioperative resuscitation
  • End-of-life care 
  • Mechanical circulatory support and intracardiac devices                                                                                                    
  • New developments in anesthetic pharmacology: hypnotics and analgesics
  • Recent advances in airway management
  • The agony of GLP-1 agonists
  • Care of the geriatric patient for surgery
  • Frontiers in quality measurement and improvement

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

Program Highlights

2026 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 30 days in order to receive CME credit.)

Developed and Offered By:

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Logo
  • Mass General Brigham logo
  • Boston Children's Hospital Logo

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.

Who Should Participate

 

  • Anesthesiologists
  • Nurse Anesthetists
  • Anesthesiologist Assistants
  • Residents and Fellows
  • Student Nurse Anesthetists

Schedule

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

 

All schedule times are Eastern Daylight Time.

 

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

Day 1

Monday, May 4, 2026

Welcome

Dr. Sugantha Sundar

7:15-7:30 am

Spotlight 2026

Moderator: Keira P. Mason, MD

Why the Future of Anesthesiology Shines Bright

Dr. Michael Gropper

7:30-8:00 am

Opioids and Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Latest in 2026

Dr. Evan Kharasch

8:00-8:30 am

Target Controlled Infusion (TCI): Why Don’t We Have It?

Dr. Talmage Egan

8:30-9:00 am

Current Risks and Benefits of Blood Transfusion

Dr. Michael Gropper

9:00-9:30 am

Q&A

Drs. Egan, Gropper, Kharasch, and Mason

9:30-9:45 am

Break

9:45-10:00 am

Understanding the Science

Moderator: Sugantha Sundar, MD

Patients Post-PACU: Out of Sight—Out of Mind?

Dr. Evan Kharasch

10:00-10:30 am

Multimodal General Anesthesia

Dr. Emery Brown

10:30-11:00 am

How Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) Evolved into a Viable Alternative to Inhalational Techniques: A View from the Front Lines

Dr. Talmage Egan

11:00-11:30 am

Q&A

Drs. Brown, Egan, Kharasch, and Sundar

11:30-11:45 am

Welcome Reception (lunch provided)

Available to in-person attendees. Join faculty and colleagues for this interactive networking opportunity.

11:45 am - 1:30 pm

Hot off the Press in 2026

Moderator: Brian O’Gara, MD

Physiological Effects of High Flow Nasal Cannula

Dr. Tommaso Mauri

1:30-2:00 pm

Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders

Dr. Sarah Saxena

2:00-2:30 pm

Spontaneous Ventilation: Friend or Foe?

Dr. Tommaso Mauri

2:30-3:00 pm

Exploring the Potential Role of Artificial Intelligence in Prediction and Management of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders

Dr. Sarah Saxena

3:00-3:30 pm

Q&A

Drs. Mauri, O'Gara, and Saxena

3:30-3:40 pm

Break

3:40-3:50 pm

Practice Parameters: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

Moderator: Sugantha Sundar, MD

Leveraging Technology and Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Anesthesia Systems

Dr. Emily Methangkool

3:50-4:20 pm

Artificial Intelligence and Medication Safety in the Perioperative Setting

Dr. Elizabeth Rebello

4:20-4:50 pm

Artificial Intelligence and the Anesthesia Workforce: Addressing Shortages and Optimizing Care

Dr. Steven Greenberg

4:50-5:20 pm

Fireside Chat: Patient Safety in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future of Anesthesia Care

Drs. Greenberg, Methangkool, and Rebello

5:20-5:35 pm

Q&A

Drs. Greenberg, Methangkool, Rebello, and Sundar

5:35-5:45 pm

Day 2

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

The High-Risk Obstetric Patient: Evidence-Based Practices

Moderator: Philip Hess, MD

POCUS in the Obstetric Patient

Dr. Philip Hess

7:30-8:00 am

Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy

Dr. Emily Naoum

8:00-8:30 am

Oxytocin and Alternative Uterotonic Agents for Cesarean Delivery

Dr. Lawrence Tsen

8:30-9:00 am

Maternal Hemorrhage: Don’t Give up on Mom

Dr. Pamela Flood

9:00-9:30 am

Pain During Cesarean Delivery: Avoiding Traumatic Birth Experiences

Dr. Michaela Farber

9:30-10:00 am

Q&A

Drs. Farber, Flood, Hess, Naoum, and Tsen

10:00-10:15 am

Break

10:15-10:30 am

What Is New in 2026

Moderator: Keira P. Mason, MD

The Analgesic Pipeline: Suzetrigine and Vocacapsaicin

Dr. Steven Shafer

10:30-11:00 am

Waking up Happy: General Anesthesia for Patients with Chronic Pain

Dr. Pamela Flood

11:00-11:30 am

Q&A

Drs. Flood, Mason, and Shafer

11:30-11:45 am

Optional 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 and Yunping Li

11:45 am-1:30 pm

Clinical Conundrums: Session 1

Moderator: Keira P. Mason, MD

Pain Management in People Using Opioids

Dr. Patrice Forget

1:30-2:00 pm

All Things Are Poison: Antidotes in Anesthesia

Dr. Hugh Hemmings

2:00-2:30 pm

Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery

Dr. Patrice Forget

2:30-3:00 pm

Cognitive Computing and Disruptive Technology: Why We Won’t Be Replaced Anytime Soon

Dr. Steven Shafer

3:00-3:30 pm

Hot Topics in Anesthesia: What Is New in the Last 12 Months

Dr. Hugh Hemmings

3:30-4:00 pm

Q&A

Drs. Forget, Hemmings, Mason, and Shafer

4:00-4:10 pm

Break

4:10-4:20 pmp

Airway Management in 2026

Moderator: Jeremi R. Mountjoy, MD, FRCPC

The Management of "Cannot Intubate, Cannot Oxygenate" Scenario

Dr. Ellen O'Sullivan

4:20-4:50 pm

Unexpected Difficult Intubation: Are You Prepared?

Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali

4:50-5:20 pm

Challenges of the Bleeding Airway

Dr. Ellen O'Sullivan

5:20-5:50 pm

Q&A

Drs. Kodali, Mountjoy, and Sullivan

5:50-6:00 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

6:00-8:30 pm

Day 3

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Cutting-Edge Topics

Moderator: Brian O’Gara, MD

Perioperative Resuscitation and Life Support: What Is Different in the Operating Room

Dr. Mark Nunnally

7:30-8:00 am

The Science Has Spoken and It’s Probably Wrong

Dr. Brian Sites

8:00-8:35 am

Management of Sepsis in 2026: New Guidelines

Dr. Mark Nunnally

8:35-9:05 am

Q&A

Drs. Nunnally, O'Gara, and Sites

9:05-9:15 am

Break

9:15-9:30 am

Current Practices in Ambulatory and Office-Based Anesthesia

Moderator: Fred E. Shapiro, DO, FASA

Preoperative Evaluation for Ambulatory Surgery

Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer

9:30-10:00 am

Enhanced Recovery in Ambulatory Surgery

Dr. Richard Urman

10:00-10:30 am

Office-Based Anesthesia Update 2026

Dr. Fred Shapiro

10:30-11:00 am

Outcomes in Ambulatory Surgery

Dr. Niraja Rajan

11:00-11:30 am

Q&A

Drs. Rajan, Shapiro, Sweitzer, and Urman

11:30-11:45 am

Optional Hands-on Lung Ultrasound Workshop

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

Dr. Aidan Sharkey

11:45 am-1:30 pm

Pain Management: Results-Driven Practice

Moderator: Brinda Kamdar, MD

Regional Blocks for Hip and Rib Fractures: Evidence-Based Techniques and Best Practice

Dr. Phillipp Gerner

1:30-2:00 pm

Adding Perioperative Methadone to Your Practice: Understanding the Current Evidence

Dr. Alexander Stone

2:00-2:30 pm

Ultrasound-Guided Neuraxial Blocks

Dr. Brinda Kamdar

2:30-3:00 pm

Q&A

Drs. Gerner, Kamdar, Sharkey, and Stone

3:00-3:15 pm

Break

3:15-3:30 pm

Pain Management: Pearls of Wisdom

Moderator: Assia T. Valovska, MD

Tips and Pearls for Getting Published in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine: Insight from an Editor-In-Chief

Dr. Brian Sites

3:30-4:00 pm

Update on Rebound Pain After Nerve Blocks

Dr. Vishal Uppal

4:00-4:30 pm

Building an Evidence Base for Personalized Regional Anesthesia

Dr. Kristin Schreiber

4:30-5:00 pm

Management of Pain After Cesarean Section When Neuraxial Opioids Are Not an Option

Dr. Vishal Uppal

5:00-5:30 pm

Q&A

Drs. Schreiber, Sites, Uppal, and Valovska

5:30-5:45 pm

Break

5:45-6:00 pm

Optional Evening Hands-on Workshop: Regional Anesthesia

  • Includes dinner
  • Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
  • (Limited to a maximum of 50 participants)

Dr. Sassan Sabouri

6:00-9:00 pm

Day 4

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Clinical Practice Impact

Moderator: Sugantha Sundar ,MD

Lessons from the ASA Advisory on Perioperative Care of Older Adults

Dr. Karen Domino

7:30-8:00 am

Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Preoperative Screening and Testing

Dr. Thomas Vetter

8:00-8:30 am

Hemostatic Resuscitation for Traumatic Hemorrhage

Dr. Richard Dutton

8:30-9:00 am

Perioperative Use of Genetics and Genomics to Improve Patient Care

Dr. Danny Muehlschlegel

9:00-9:30 am

Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade

Dr. Karen Domino

9:30-10:00 am

Q&A

Drs. Domino, Dutton, Muehlschlegel, Sundar, and Vetter

10:00-10:10 am

Break

10:10-10:20 am

Evidence-Based Care Delivery

Moderator: Keira P. Mason, MD

Quality in Anesthesiology: Do We Know It When We See It?

Dr. Richard Dutton

10:20-10:50 am

Preoperative Optimization of Patients with Complex Diseases

Dr. Thomas Vetter

10:50-11:20 am

Frontiers in Quality Measurement and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology

Dr. Mark Pimental

11:20-11:50 am

Q&A

Drs. Dutton, Mason, Pimental, and Vetter

11:50 am-12:00 pm

Optional Hands-on Cardiac Ultrasound Workshop

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

Dr. Maurizio Bottiroli

12:00-1:30 pm

Critical Thinking

Moderator: Assia T. Valovska, MD

Neuroprognostication and Shared Decision-Making

Dr. Susanne Muehlschlegel

1:30-2:00 pm

Optimizing the ABCDEF Bundle

Dr. John Devlin

2:00-2:30 pm

Risk Prediction: Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Danny Muehlschlegel

2:30-3:00 pm

Q&A

Drs. Devlin, D. Muehlschlegel, S. Muehlschlegel, and Valovska

3:00-3:15 pm

Break

3:15-3:30 pm

Keeping Our Children Safe

Moderator: Keira P. Mason, MD

Blood Management in 2026

Dr. Susan Goobie

3:30-3:55 pm

Scores in Pediatric Anesthesia

Dr. Walid Habre

3:55-4:20 pm

Remimazolam: Is This the New Propofol?

Dr. Keira Mason

4:20-4:45 pm

Play Now or Pay Later: State-of-the-Art Pain Management in Children

Dr. Karen Boretsky

4:45-5:10 pm

Learning from Our Mistakes: Lessons Learned

Dr. Cathie Jones

5:10-5:35 pm

Q&A

Drs. Boretsky, Goobie, Habre, Jones, and Mason

5:35-5:45 pm

Break

5:45-6:00 pm

Optional Evening Hands-on Workshop: Front of Neck Access

  • Includes dinner
  • Available to in-person attendees for an additional fee
  • (Limited to a maximum of 50 participants)

Drs. Bhavani Shankar Kodali, Stephanie Yacoubian, Jennifer Dearden, and Ellen O'Sullivan

6:00-9:30 pm

Day 5

Friday, May 8, 2026

Clinical Conundrums: Session 2

Moderator: Jeremi R. Mountjoy, MD, FRCPC

State of the Art in Awake Craniotomy

Dr. Nicolai Goettel

7:30-8:00 am

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Anesthesia: Where We Are and Future Directions

Dr. Louisa Palmer

8:00-8:30 am

From Mendelson to GLP-1 Agonists: Risk Factors for Pulmonary Aspiration

Dr. Ion Hobai

8:30-9:00 am

Perioperative Management of Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices

Dr. Dennis Liu

9:00-9:30 am

Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Non-Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Jerome Crowley

9:30-10:00 am

Q&A

Drs. Crowley, Goettel, Hobai, Mountjoy, and Palmer

10:00-10:15 am

Break

10:15-10:30 am

End-of-Life Care

Moderator: Yuan Chi Lin, MD

Ethical Dilemmas in the ICU: The Anesthesiologist’s Moral Compass

Dr. Shahla Siddiqui

10:30-11:00 am

The Power of Hope

Dr. Richard Leiter

11:00-11:30 am

Comfort: Symptom Management for Patients and Their Families at the End of Life

Dr. Natsu Matsuya

11:30 am-12:00 pm

Communication Needs of Patients and Their Families at the End of Life

Dr. Lannie Santo

12:00-12:30 pm

Continuity: Hospice Care and Care of the Bereaved in 2026

Dr. Greta Khanna

12:30-1:00 pm

Q&A

Drs. Khanna, Leiter, Lin, Matsuya, Santo, and Siddiqui

1:00-1:10 pm

Concluding Remarks

Dr. Sugantha Sundar

1:10-1:30 pm

Optional In-Person Activities

The 2026 program offers several optional learning opportunities for in-person attendees. In-person attendees can add any or all of these opportunities to their registration for an additional fee. 

Hands-on Ultrasound Workshops

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday midday (lunch provided)

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

  • Gastric Ultrasound (Tuesday)
  • Lung Ultrasound (Wednesday)
  • Cardiac Ultrasound (Thursday)

Each workshop is limited to 25 participants. 

Ether Dome Tour

Tuesday evening, 6:00-8:30 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.

Limited to 50 participants. 

Hands-on Evening Workshops

Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 6:00-9:30 pm (dinner provided)

These hands-on workshops provide an opportunity to work in very small groups with leading Harvard Medical School clinical faculty on important hand-on skills:

  • Regional Anesthesia Workshop (Wednesday)
  • Front of Neck Access Workshop (Thursday)

Each workshop is limited to 50 participants. 

More information

Customize Your Learning Experience

Attend Online or In Person

The 2026 program offers participants two ways to attend. You can choose one of these two options when you register:

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

OR

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

BOTH OPTIONS provide participants with:

  • RECORDINGS of all sessions, which will be made available online for viewing, at your convenience, 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 30 days in order 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 for either the ONLINE or IN-PERSON program, you have the ability to change from one attendance option to the other up until two weeks before the program begins.

In-Person Venue

Fairmont Copley Hotel

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 this dedicated reservation link.
  • 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 2026.

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, 2026, or until the block sells out.

OPTIMIZED FOR IN-PERSON and REMOTE EDUCATION

The 2026 program has been enhanced for both in-person and distance learning. In addition to being held live in Boston, all sessions will be live streamed and recorded. The recordings will be made available to participants for online viewing for 6 months after the end of the course. 


SPECIAL FEATURE FOR LIVE STREAMING PARTICIPANTS: CLOSED CAPTIONING AND MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION

Live streaming participants of Anesthesiology Update will be able to activate the closed captioning feature of the video platform and have the lectures captioned for them in real time.

We also offer a special multilingual feature. For more details, click here

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

 

Co-Directors

Maurizio Bottiroli, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Karen Boretsky, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Maria Borrelli, DO, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Emery Brown, MD, PhD

Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School

Jerome Crowley, MD, MPH, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Jennifer Dearden, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

John Devlin, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM, FCCP, Lecturer on Medicine, Part-Time

Michaela K. Farber, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Philipp Gerner, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Nicolai Goettel, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Susan M. Goobie, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Walid Habre, MD, Senior Lecturer on Anaesthesia 

Philip Hess, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia; Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Ion Hobai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Cathie Jones, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Brinda Kamdar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Great Khanna, PhD, MA, Instructor within the Department of Supportive Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Richard E. Leiter, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Yunping Li, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Yuan-Chi Lin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics)

Keira P. Mason, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Natsu (Fukui) Matsuya, MD, Instructor in Medicine

Jeremi Mountjoy, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Emily Naoum, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Louisa J. Palmer, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Sassan Sabouri, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Lannie C. Santo, MD, MPH, Instructor in Medicine

Fred E. Shapiro, DO, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia 

Aidan Sharkey, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Shahla Siddiqui, MBBS, MSc, FCCM, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Alexander B. Stone, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Sugantha Sundar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Lawrence Tsen, MD, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia

Assia Valovska, MD, FASA, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Susan Vassallo, MD, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

Stephanie Yacoubian, MD, Instructor in Anaesthesia

Course Fees

Fee Disclaimer

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:

Role Course Fee Early Registration Course Fee
Physician (MD/DO) $1,575.00 $1,475.00
Nurse (RN/APRN) $1,575.00 $1,475.00
PA $1,575.00 $1,475.00
Resident/Fellow $1,375.00 $1,275.00
Allied Health Professional / Other $1,575.00 $1,475.00

Optional In-Person Activities

Hands-on Ultrasound Workshops 
(lunch provided)

  • Gastric Ultrasound (Tuesday)
  • Lung Ultrasound (Wednesday)
  • Cardiac Ultrasound (Thursday)

(Each ultrasound workshop limited to a maximum of 25 participants)

$75
Evening Workshops
(Each evening workshop limited to a maximum of 50 participants)
Ether Dome Tour
Tuesday evening, May 5 (off site): Includes refreshments and transportation
$85
Regional Anesthesia Hands-on Workshop
Wednesday evening, May 6 (on site): Includes dinner 
$350
Front of Neck Access Hands-on Workshop
Thursday evening, May 7 (on site): Includes dinner
$350

 

All attendees of Anesthesiology Update 2026 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 and coffee and snacks will be available during morning and afternoon breaks. On the afternoon of Monday, May 4, in-person attendees are invited to a welcome reception to meet and network with faculty and colleagues.

Click Here to Register

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.

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 52.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • Course only, no optional Hands-on Ultrasound or Evening Workshops = 38.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
  • Course, including 3 optional Hands-on Ultrasound Workshops (4.25)  = 42.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
  • Course with Tues. Ether Dome Tour (2.50), Weds. Regional Anesthesia Workshop (3.50) and Thurs. Front of Neck Access Workshop (3.50)  = a maximum of 48.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits

This program has been prior approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology for 50.25 Class A CE credits; Code Number 1046283; Expiration Date 5/8/2026.

This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 18.25 credits of Risk Management Study. This includes:

  • 3.25 credits in Opioid Education and Pain Management Training
  • 2.50 credits of End-of-Life Care Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Patient Care and Procedural Skills
  • Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Disclaimer & Disclosure

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.

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.

Registration for courses managed by Harvard Medical School can only be completed through Harvard Medical School’s official registration portal: cmeregistration.hms.harvard.edu. Attendee registrations made through any other sites cannot be honored and will not be refunded. Please report any unauthorized websites or solicitations for registrations.

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