Department of Anesthesia

Past Shields Day Lecturers

2019		Dr. Danielle Martin MD, CCFP, FCFP, MPP Executive Vice-President & Chief Medical Executive, WCH Institute for Health System and Virtual Care You can view the Shields Day presentation slides HERE.
2018		Professor Irene Tracey MA (Oxon), D.Phil., FRCA, FMedSci Chair of Anaesthetic Science, Oxford University Head, Nuffield Department of Clnical Neurosciences, Oxford University
2017		Hugh C. Hemmings Jr., M.D., Ph.D, FRCA Joseph F. Artusio Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Professor of Pharmacology, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell The Synaptic Pharmacology of General Anesthesia
2016		Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D Russell and Mary Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology and Director, Division of Clinical Trials and Translational Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Washington Universit in St. Louis Perioperative Application of Long-Duration Opiods
2015		Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain Under General Anesthesia
2014		Alex Evers, M.D. Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine Head of Department of Anesthesiology Anesthetic Binding Sites in Brain: New Methods, New Targets, New Insights
2013		Todd Doorman, M.D. Professor & Vice, Chair Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Continuing medical education: the link between physician learning and health care outcomes
2012		Mervyn Maze, M.D. William K Hamilton MB ChB, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology Professor & Chair of Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California at San Francisco Why do patients get Postoperative Cognitive Decline?
2011		Lee Fleisher, M.D. Robert Dunning Dripps Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Health System Consulting Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Optimizing Perioperative Outcomes: Risk Assessment, Patient Preferences and Performance Measures
2010		James Eisenach, M.D. Vice-Chairman for Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology: Challenges and Changes in the Journal for the Next 5 Years
2009		Mark Warner, M.D. Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Dean of the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education Director and President of the American Board of Anesthesiology How New Technologies and Practices Will Influence Perioperative Safety
2008		Charles Natanson, M.D. Senior Investigator and Head, Anesthesia Section, NIH Clinical Center Unintended Consequences of Randomization in Clinical Trials
2007		Daniel Sessler, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of OUTCOMES RESEARCH at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lolita & Samuel Weakley Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the OUTCOMES RESEARCH Institute at the University of Louisville OUTCOMES RESEARCH – Moving from physiology to large scale outcomes
2006		Peter Moore, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis The Perfection of Man: Advances in Science, Medicine and Technology