Professor's Rounds for Fellows

Fellows are invited to attend monthly Professor’s Rounds hosted by the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. Please find below a list of speakers who have presented their research work at the Rounds.

With the permission of the speaker, some of our sessions have been recorded and are available in our department's YouTube channel

Lecture Series Schedule

2024-25 Sessions

Date	Proposed Speaker	Topic
Monday, September 23, 2024	Dr. Shaheen Darani & Dr. Jory Simpson	Discover the Benefits of OLA Office of Learner Affairs (session not recorded)
Monday, October 28, 2024	Dr. Lakshmikumar Venkat Raghavan	Brain Stress Test: If you can stress the heart, so why can't we stress the brain? View the recording
Monday, November 25, 2924	Dr. Ian Randall	Prehabilitation and its Role in Pre-operative Optimization: Ready for Prim Time? View the recording

Upcoming Session Dates

January 27, 2025
February 24, 2025
March 24, 2025
April 28, 2025
May 26, 2025
June 23, 2025

Professors Rounds from 2010 - 2019 (archive schedule) click HERE to download.

Recordings of Past Sessions

2024 Sessions

Date	Speaker	Lecture Topic	Recording
January 22, 2024	Dr. Beverley Orser	"Perioperative neurocognitive deficits and the unexpected properties of general anesthetic drugs"	View the recording
February 26, 2024	Dr. Angela Jerath	"Impact of physician characteristics on patient outcomes after surgery"	View the recording
March 25, 2024	Dr. Lisa Isaac	“Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Canadian context; or How do we belong in Canada?”	View the recording
April 15, 2024	Drs. Selena Sehgal, Rodrigo Nakatani and Juan Bravo Montilla	"The Fellowship Experience"	View the recording
June 24, 2024	Dr. Ron George	Recovery after Cesarean: Expectations, Enhancements, & Experiences	View the recording

2022 - 2023

DATE	SPEAKER	LECTURE TOPIC	RECORDING


September 26, 2022	Dr. Philip Peng	Hip Joint: From Innervation to Innovation	Available HERE
October 31, 2022	Dr. Joel Parlow	Supporting Anesthesia Training in Low-Income Countries: Many Successes... Many Challenges	Available HERE
November 28, 2022	Dr. Colin McCartney	The Brachial Plexus Block: Past, Present and Future	Available HERE
January 23, 2023	Drs. Elio Belfiore, Fabricio Zasso, Filipe Santos	Canadian Fellowship Experience	Available HERE
February 27, 2023	Dr. Pablo Perez d'Empaire	Taking POCUS to the next level - Resuscitative TEE	Available HERE
March 27, 2023	Dr. Beverley Orser	General Anesthetic Drugs and Brains at Risk	Available HERE
April 24, 2023	Dr. Glen Bandiera	Licensure and certification – detangling the web of options	Available HERE Download the slide deck
May 29, 2023	Dr. Sheila Riazi, MSc, MD, FRCPC, Professor, Anesthesiology, Director, MH Investigation Unit, Toronto General Hospital and Chair, International Medical Advisory Council on MH	The Evolution of Research in MH at Toronto MH Centre	Available Here
September 11, 2023	Dr. Greg Hare	"Mitigating the Risk of Anemia: The Integrative Roles of Blood Management and Red Blood Cell Transfusion"	Available here Download the slide deck
October 16, 2023	Dr. Ki Jinn Chin	Habits, Strategies, and Tactics For Crafting A Life of Meaning	Available here

2021 - 2022

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC	RECORDING (if available)
June 6, 2022 October 25, 2021	Dr. Stephen Choi Dr. Anahi Perlas	Perioperative Neurocognitive DisordersAn Evolving Spectrum Gastrac Ultrasound - A useful tool of the latest fad?	HERE n/a
November 29, 2021	Dr. Laura Duggan (guest) U of Ottawa	How COVID has changed our practice	n/a
January 31, 2022	Drs.Robert Byrick and Ms. Samantha Tulipano	Medical Licensing Pathways in Ontario	HERE
March 7, 2022	Dr. Lashmi Venkatraghavan & Michael Dinsmore	"Scoping the Brain" - POCUS for Acute Brain Injury	HERE

2020 - 2021

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC	RECORDING (if available)
October 26, 2020	Dr. Edward Mariano	Interfascial Plane Blocks: Are they Here to Stay, Or Just A Trend?	n/a
November 23, 2020	Dr. Beverley Orser	Anesthesiology: Resetting Our Sights on Long-term Outcomes	n/a
January 25, 2021	Dr. Gianni R. Lorello	Ways of Knowing & Ways of Seeing: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Anesthesia	HERE
February 22, 2021	Dr. Karim Ladha	Perioperative Cannabis: Panacea or Poison?	n/a
March 29, 2021	Dr. Justyna Bartoszko	Why is my Cardiac Patient Still Bleeding?	HERE
May 3, 2021	Dr.Viren Naik	Royal College Routes to Certifications	HERE
June 7, 2021	Dr. Hannah Wunsch	Everything you need to know about using vasopressors	n/a

2019 - 2020

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

RECORDING (if available)

September 16, 2019

Dr. Beverley Orser

Medicaion Safety: Avoiding "Never Should Happen" Events in Your Practice

n/a

October 28, 2019

Dr. Haibo Zhang

Precision Medicine for Sepsis and ARDS

n/a

November 25, 2019

Drs. Cristian Arzola; Kristina Khanduja

Point-Of-Care Ultrasonography in the Obstetric Patient

n/a

January 27, 2020

Dr. Donogh Burns

Dr. Yiling Cheng

Dr. Niveditha Karuppiah

Dr. Keerthi Rao

A Comparison of Anesthesia Care: Canada (Toronto) VS. Other Countries - Our International Fellows Speak

n/a

February 24, 2020

Dr. Vincent Chan

Interfascial Plane Blocks - An Evidence Based Review

n/a

April 27, 2020

Dr. Fiona Campbell

Pain Matters - Anesthesiologists Leading Systems Change

n/a

May 27, 2020

Dr. Lashmi Venkatrghavan

“Known Knows” and “Unknown Knowns” in Neuroanesthesia

HERE

June 15, 2020

Dr. Colin J.L McCartney

Defining Success in Medicine: 7 Steps to the Career that you Want

HERE

2018 - 2019

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
October 22	Dr. Duminda Wijeysundera	Lessons learn from the METS Study about Preoperative Risk Assesment and the journey of scientific research.
November 26	Dr. Beverly Orser	Why do anesthesia research? What have we discovered?
January 26	Dr. Wesley Rajalaleen	Transforming NOMA - Giving back a child a smile
February 25	Dr. Wesla Parker/ Carolina Barbosa, Shikha Bansal, Elmari Neethling, Matthew Boyd	A comparison of anesthesia care: Canada vs. Other Countries - Our International Fellows Speak!
March 25	Dr. Peter Slinger	Mediastinal Masses and Other Lower Airway Problems
April 29	Dr. Tania DiRenna	My Patient is not doing ell on APS, so now what?
May 27	Dr. Rick Cooper	My Laryngoscopy failed - now what?