45th Annual Shields Research Day

Promotional image, details on page and in caption — 45th Annual Shields Research Day on May 3, 2024

Theme: Collaboration and Innovation in Anesthesia

What is Shields Research Day?

The overall purpose of our Annual Shields Day event is to bring together our clinical faculty, fellows, residents and anesthesia assistants from the University-affiliated hospitals. Shields Research Day aims to provide a forum for updates on and stimulate further research into the frontiers of clinical science with regards to anesthesia and related topics (e.g., critical care management, obstetrical anesthesia, pain management, etc.). We have been growing in recent years!

We aim to provide an excellent research and training opportunity for Anesthesia faculty, residents, fellows, graduate students, and anesthesia assistants who wish to keep abreast of current research initiatives in the field.

Our trainees (residents, fellows, and graduate students) are provided with a unique opportunity to experience all the stages of presenting their peer-reviewed work at a scientific meeting, from the abstract writing and submission process to the poster design and oral presentation phase. The Annual Shields Research Day prepares trainees for a future role in academia, under the guidance of experienced faculty mentors.

The goal is to create synergies for collaborative research (both clinical and basic science) that will enhance the work and advance knowledge beyond what each investigator can accomplish independently. The participants will have an opportunity to discuss topics of interest in the field of anesthesia and gain a better understanding of research methodologies.

Event Details

Date: Friday, May 3, 2024
Time: 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST
Location: The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto

Key Dates and Deadlines for 2024

Call for Abstracts: January 29, 2024
Event Registration Opens: March 8, 2024
*NEW* Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts: March 15, 2024
Successful Applicants are Informed: April 8, 2024
Awards Deadline: April 12, 2024
*NEW* Event Registration Closes: April 28, 2024
Shields Research Day 2024: May 3, 2024

Program

Download the 45th Annual Shields Research Day Program

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Sachin Kheterpal

Keynote Address by Sachin Kheterpal, M.D., M.B.A.

Biography

Sachin Kheterpal, MD, MBA, is the University of Michigan Medical School’s associate dean for Research Information Technology and the Kevin K. Tremper Research Professor in Anesthesiology. He is responsible for establishing the vision and strategy to effectively use information technology (IT) to advance the research mission. Working closely with Health Information Technology and Services, the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR), departmental leadership, and other research and informatics teams across the medical school, he sets Research IT priorities to help ensure its competitive positioning for the future. To that end, he coordinates centralized Research IT efforts with departmental points of distributed innovation and champions the use of IT to differentiate Michigan Medicine in securing extramural funding, establishing industry partnerships, and attracting and retaining top faculty, staff, and students. Additionally, he serves as a liaison to University of Michigan's campus Research IT leadership to maximize the research impact of an integrated computing environment.

Sachin Kheterpal received his undergraduate degree, his medical degree, and his master's in business administration from the University of Michigan, where he also completed an anesthesiology residency and a transplant fellowship. His career has been focused on the novel use of IT, electronic health records (EHR), and mobile health for patient care, quality improvement, and research. He is recognized as a national leader in perioperative large dataset clinical research and has published numerous articles, editorials, and book chapters regarding intraoperative management and long-term postoperative outcomes.

Using innovative techniques to integrate administrative, EHR, and registry data across institutions, he established the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG) in 2008 and serves as its principal investigator. The group has accumulated more than 16 million patient records with risk-adjusted outcomes and detailed clinical intervention data spanning more than 60 health systems across the United States and Europe for outcomes research and quality improvement. Currently, he is the principal investigator of a $30 million PCORI-funded pragmatic large comparative effectiveness trial, THRIVE (Trajectories of Recovery after Intravenous Propofol vs inhaled VolatilE anesthesia), which will enroll 12,500 patients in a prospective, randomized controlled trial across 20 MPOG clinical sites.

Dr. Kheterpal is a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils, and a member of the NIH Novel and Exceptional Technology and Research Advisory Committee (NExTRAC). In 2022, Dr. Kheterpal was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his vision for and international leadership in anesthesiology informatics and clinical research.