Anesthesiology Update 2026
- Continuing Education
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.
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
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.
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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:
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 schedule times are Eastern Daylight Time.
Please note that program changes/substitutions may be made without notice.
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
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
5:20-5:50 pm
Q&A
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
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
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
8:00-8:30 am
Hemostatic Resuscitation for Traumatic Hemorrhage
8:30-9:00 am
Perioperative Use of Genetics and Genomics to Improve Patient Care
9:00-9:30 am
Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade
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
10:50-11:20 am
Frontiers in Quality Measurement and Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology
11:20-11:50 am
Q&A
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
2:00-2:30 pm
Risk Prediction: Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Surgery
2:30-3:00 pm
Q&A
3:00-3:15 pm
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
3:55-4:20 pm
Remimazolam: Is This the New Propofol?
4:20-4:45 pm
Play Now or Pay Later: State-of-the-Art Pain Management in Children
4:45-5:10 pm
Learning from Our Mistakes: Lessons Learned
5:10-5:35 pm
Q&A
5:35-5:45 pm
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
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
8:30-9:00 am
Perioperative Management of Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices
9:00-9:30 am
Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Non-Cardiac Surgery
9:30-10:00 am
Q&A
10:00-10:15 am
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
11:30 am-12:00 pm
Communication Needs of Patients and Their Families at the End of Life
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
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.
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 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
- Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
- Harvard Medical School
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Directors
Keira P. Mason
MD
- 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
Karen Domino, MD
UW Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Adjunct professor of Neurological Surgery
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Richard Dutton, MD, MBA
Chief Quality Officer, US Anesthesia Partners
Talmage D. Egan, MD, FASA
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Pamela Flood, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Patrice Forget, MD, PhD
Clinical Chair in Anaesthesia
University of Aberdeen
King’s College, Aberdeen, UK
Steven Greenberg, MD
Jeffery S. Vender, MD, Chair of Anesthesiology Research and Education
Endeavor Health
Vice President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)
Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Michael A. Gropper, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair
UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Professor of Physiology
Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute
San Francisco, CA
Hugh Hemmings, MD, PhD
Chair of Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Evan Kharasch, MD, PhD
Merel H. Harmel Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
General, Vascular and Transplant Anesthesiology Division
Center for Translational Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Bhavani Shankar Kodali, MBBS, MD, FASA
Division Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology
Faculty Member of Anesthesiology
University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD
Tommaso Mauri, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
University of Milan and Maggiore Policlinico Hospital
Milan, Italy
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Director of Perioperative Services, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Danny Muehlschlegel, MD, MPH, MBA
Professor, Director (Chair) of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCME)
Mark C. Rogers Professorship in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Susanne Muehlschlegel, MD, MPH, FNCS, FCCM, FAAN
Professor, Dept. of Neurology, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, and Neurosurgery (Neurosciences Critical Care Division)
Director of Clinical Research in Neurocritical Care
Johns Hopkins Institute for Humanizing Medicine (Member)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Core Faculty, Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, JH Carey Business School
Baltimore, MD
Mark E. Nunnally, MD, FCCM
Director, Patient Blood Management
Professor, Depts. of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine,
Neurology, Surgery and Medicine
NYU Langone Health
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY
Ellen P. O'Sullivan, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FCPSP(Hon), FCANECSA(Hon)
Dept. Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Airway Lead Advisor, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
International Liaison Officer, Difficult Airway Society
Executive Director, World Alliance of Airway Management
Elected Council Member, European Society Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care
Elizabeth Rebello, MD, FACHE, FASA, CPPS, CMQ
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Sarah Saxena, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology-Perioperative Care, Helora, Mons
Course Director, Anesthesiology-Pain Management, University of Mons
Subforum Lead for the Geriatric Patient, European Society of Anaesthesiology-Intensive Care (ESAIC)
Incoming Board Member, ESAIC
Board Member, Belgian Professional Association of Specialists in Anesthesia and Resuscitation (APSAR)
Belgium
Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD
Chief of Regional Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford Medicine School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
(Adult MSD) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Port Angeles, Washington
Brian D. Sites, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Orthopaedics
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Hanover, NH
BobbieJean Sweitzer, MD
Systems Director, Preoperative Medicine at Inova Health in Virginia
Professor of Medical Education
University of Virginia
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, MSc, FRCA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Staff Anesthesiologist, QEII and IWK Health Sciences Centre
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia & Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA
Jay J. Jacoby Endowed Professor and System Chair
Department of Anesthesiology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Thomas Vetter, MD, MPH
Director of Perioperative Care, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care
Professor, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care
Division Chief, Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
The University of Texas at Austin
Dell Medical School
Austin, TX
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.
| 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
(Each ultrasound workshop limited to a maximum of 25 participants) | $75 |
Evening Workshops | |
| 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.