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Welcome! Please find the current preliminary program for the 2019 summit listed below. Note that any aspect of this program is subject to change and the below program should not be considered final including presentation timings and poster numbers.


  Wed - Feb 24      Thu - Feb 25      Fri - Feb 26      Sat - Feb 27   

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2027

7:40 - 8:35 AM
LECTURE
OPENING REMARKS + FRANK MICHOTA MEMORIAL LECTURE
Grand Ballroom 2&3

7:50
Beyond Fix It: Navigating the Goals and Tradeoffs of Surgery
Gretchen Schwarze University of Wisconsin

8:35 - 9:10 AM
LECTURE
SESSION 4
Grand Ballroom 2&3

8:35
Right Patient, Right Location
Kenneth Cummings1, Cheryl Orr2 1Cleveland Clinic . 2Barton Memorial Hospital

9:00
Q&A

9:10 - 10:15 AM
LECTURE
SESSION 5
Grand Ballroom 2&3

9:10
Biomarkers: What Do I Do?
Nat Smilowitz NYU Langone Health

9:30
Heart Disease in Women: Perioperative Considerations
Rebecca Gerlach University of New Mexico

9:50
Dysautonomia, POTS, MCAS: A Patient-Centered Approach
Emmanuelle Duceppe Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit? de Montr?al

10:05
Q&A

10:15 - 10:35 AM
BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
Foyer

10:35 - 12:00 PM
LECTURE
SESSION 6
Grand Ballroom 2&3

10:35
Optimizing the Pediatrics to Adult Care Transition in the Perioperative Setting
Moises Auron Cleveland Clinic

10:55
International Perspectives in Perioperative Medicine
Karina Vazquez1, Moises Auron2, Emmanuelle Ducceppe3 1Salvador Zubir?n National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition . 2Cleveland Clinic . 3Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit? de Montr?al

11:20
CCTA v Stress Testing: What Do I Do?
Nat Smilowitz NYU Langone Health

11:50
Q&A

12:00 - 1:30 PM
BREAK
LUNCH
On Own

1:30 - 2:15 PM
LECTURE
GO/NO GO
Grand Ballroom 2&3

1:30
Sunil Sahai1, Gretchen Schwarze4, Kurt Pfeifer3, Cheryl Orr2 1UT MD Anderson Cancer Center . 2Barton Memorial Hospital . 3Medical College of Wisconsin . 4University of Wisconsin

2:15 - 3:00 PM
LECTURE
SESSION 7
Grand Ballroom 2&3

2:15
Cognitive Frailty: An Emerging Periop Care Need
Frances Chung University of Toronto

2:35
Quasi-"Legal" Substances: What Do I Do?
Lily Ackermann2 1Dept Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University . 2Thomas Jefferson University

2:50
Q&A

3:00 - 3:20 PM
BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
Foyer

3:20 - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP
EPIC/EMR SESSION
Grand Ballroom 1

3:20 - 4:05 PM
BREAKOUT SESSION
BREAKOUT 3A
Buckhead Ballroom 1

3:20
Please don't cancel my case in the preop area! Inpatient surgery preparedness and multiD team-based opportunities
Shpresa Mullikin4, Garret Weber3, Lara India1, Efren Manjarrez2 1Medical College of Wisconson . 2University of Miami Miller School of Medicine . 3Westchester Medical Center . 4Medical College of Wisconsin


BREAKOUT 3B
Buckhead Ballroom 2

It takes a village: exploring pathways for multidisciplinary pediatric Perioperative best practice
Lauren Welsh PreOpApp Kids


BREAKOUT 3C
Grand Ballroom 2&3

Getting Started with Periop Quality Improvement
Lindee Strizich5, Matthew Pappas3, Ashlee Rumer1, Njeri Wainaina2 1The Ohio State University . 2Medical College of Wisconsin . 3Cleveland Clinic Foundation . 4Oregon Health and Science University . 5Oregon Health a Science University


BREAKOUT 3D
Cascade

Billing 201--Value Opportunities


BREAKOUT 3E
Azalea

Frailty through the Lens of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Conditions
Mehranah Khalighi University of Washington/ Veterans Affairs Administration

4:15 - 5:00 PM
BREAKOUT SESSION
BREAKOUT 4A
Buckhead Ballroom 1

4:15
Challenging Inpatient VTE scenarioes: anticoagulants meet antiplatelet agents
Scott Kaatz Henry Ford Hospital


BREAKOUT 4B
Buckhead Ballroom 2

New Frontiers in Collaborative Practice Agreements: APPs and pediatric periop medicine
Christopher Berner Western Anesthesiology Associates, Inc


BREAKOUT 4C
Grand Ballroom 2&3

Getting promoted in preop medicine
Angela Bader2, Barbara Slawski4, Heather Nye3, Richard Urman5 1MGB . 2MassGeneralBrigham, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School . 3University of California San Francisco . 4Medical College of Wisconsin . 5The Ohio State University


BREAKOUT 4D
Cascade

Billing Open Session--Bring Your Questions


BREAKOUT 4E
Azalea

Advanced Cardiac Cases
Steven Cohn University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

5:15 - 6:35 PM
SOCIAL
PERIOP TRIVIA
Grand Ballroom 2&3