ASA Resource Center Daily Schedule

SATURDAY, October 11, 2025
10 -10:30 a.m.  Mentorship in Action: Building Community, Confidence, and Career Growth Through the ASA Mentoring Program Speaker: Christine Vo, MD
  Whether you're a seasoned mentor or seeking guidance as a mentee, this session will offer insights and inspiration to help strengthen our specialty through meaningful mentorship.
 
10:30 - 11 a.m. ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting OnDemand Speaker: Bozidar Jovicevic, CEO EverMed
Vince Loffredo
  In this session, you’ll see how ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting OnDemand delivers 225+ hours of specialty-leading education in a modern, intuitive experience. We’ll walk you through how to access personalized content recommendations, interest-based content carousels, advanced search and filtering tools, and CME credit tracking—making it easy to stay current with the latest anesthesia knowledge on your schedule. 
 
11 - 11:30 a.m. The New ASA Insurance Program: What Can It Offer You and Your Practice? Stephen Weber
Vice President
USI Affinity
  Explore the new member-exclusive insurance program designed to protect every aspect of your life and career! In this session, you’ll learn about this brand-new ASA member benefit and the many new products available to you – both personally and professionally. The program offers a wide range of coverage options selected for ASA members—from medical malpractice and life insurance, to disability, dental, travel, and even pet insurance—all conveniently organized through one program website. Program experts will provide a product overview, answer your questions, and show you how to get coverage in place.
 
11:30 a.m. - Noon The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology's Collections - Space, Holdings, Uses, and Gaps Speaker: William L. McNiece, MD
   
 
12:30 - 1 p.m.  Manual External Defibrillation Cardioversion and Pacing: Are you ready? Speakers: Michael Kazior, MD
Samsun Lampotang, PhD
  Training in defibrillation, cardioversion and pacing is limited. Come and get acquainted with a free, online, guided-simulation, CME-bearing course from APSF that you can share with your colleagues.
 
1 - 1:30 p.m. The Future of NACOR® with Direct EHR Integration Speaker: Patrick Guffey, MD
  A critical component of recent substantial investment from ASA in AQI and the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR) is a foundational opportunity to collaborate with Epic in development of a new product which allows direct integration from the EHR to NACOR for highly valued, granular, and complete data capture that has historically been a challenge for all registries in the non-profit healthcare space. This product will offer NACOR participants using Epic the unique ability for AQI to automatically ingest detailed data into NACOR for use in dashboards, reports, certifications, risk-adjusted measurement, outcomes research, certifications, and more. This session will review the details of this new opportunity for increased data quality and quantity with limited clinician effort, how it works, how to get started, and where AQI is headed for expanded EHR integration, partnerships, and data use opportunities.
 
1:30 - 2 p.m. Meet the Ad Hoc Committee on LGBTQ+ Speaker: Antonio Hernandez Conte, MD, MBA, FASA
  This session will provide a meet-and-greet opportunity with the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on LGBTQ+. Leaders of this committee will provide updates on the valuable contributions they are making to ASA as well as dive into some emerging topics in ANESTHESIOLOGY surrounding the LGBTQ+ community.
 
2 - 2:30 p.m. How Can I Get My FASA Credential? Speaker: Gary Schwartz, MD, FASA
  Considering becoming a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists? Join a brief presentation and Q&A about the value of the prestigious FASA designation and how to apply.
 
2:30 - 3 p.m. Physician Wellbeing: From the WHY... to the HOW Jason Cheng, DO
Jina Sinskey, MD, FASA
Elliott Higgins, MD
  This session will highlight efforts to develop a comprehensive playbook for assessing, designing, implementing and measuring key influencers of wellbeing based on research-based efforts and implementation science methodology from the Committee on Physician Wellbeing. A brief discussion on the playbooks vision and strategic implementation with detailed discussion on data collection, drivers of wellbeing at the individual, group and institutional level, as well as recommendations on playbook testing and feedback will all be highlighted during this interactive discussion. 
 
 
SUNDAY, October 12, 2025
Noon - 12:30 p.m. Beyond Biting the Bullet. Advances in Anesthesiology from the Battlefield Speaker: Lindsay Murphy, MD
   
 
12:30 - 1 p.m. Summaries of Emerging Evidence (SEE): Look Inside with Sample Questions Speaker: Kristyn B. Ingram, MD, FASA
  Test your knowledge in this engaging look at Summaries of Emerging Evidence (SEE)—one of ASA's most popular CME programs. Members of the editorial board will walk you through how we identify the most important items from a world of research, and let you take a run at sample questions.
 
1 - 1:30 p.m. AQI® is Changing! Lessons Learned and a Look to the Future Speaker: Randall Clark, MD, FASA
  This session will explore key lessons learned from NACOR’s evolution after more than a decade of data collection and utilization, highlighting the current benefits of registry participation and the impact of data-driven decision-making on anesthesia practice. With substantial support and investment from the ASA, AQI NACOR has entered a pivotal phase to enhance its offerings and participation benefits to fulfill the AQI mission of elevating clinical care and patient safety in anesthesia. NACOR will continue to maintain the core benefits for registry participants such as performance monitoring, national benchmarking, research, and CMS MIPS reporting while focusing on data-driven and user-focused enhancements to move beyond the capabilities of the registry today. This session will highlight the details of strategic initiatives and short- and long-term goals for enhancing NACOR starting from data use opportunities and integration improvements through use of direct EHR pathways. 
 
1:30 - 2 p.m. ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting OnDemand Speaker: Bozidar Jovicevic, CEO EverMed
Vince Loffredo
   In this session, you’ll see how ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting OnDemand delivers 225+ hours of specialty-leading education in a modern, intuitive experience. We’ll walk you through how to access personalized content recommendations, interest-based content carousels, advanced search and filtering tools, and CME credit tracking—making it easy to stay current with the latest anesthesia knowledge on your schedule. 
 
2 - 2:30 p.m. HankAI x ASA: Better Coding, Compliance, and Collections using Artificial Intelligence 

Speaker: Jack Neil, MD

  This session will be an overview of the HankAI solution and be presented by co-found and ASA member, Dr. Jack Neil. Dr. Neil will give an overview of how the product works, key features/benefits, and a high level overview of the partnership with ASA. The session will be followed by a Q&A for participants to ask techinical questions around the solution. 
 
3 - 3:30 p.m. Leveraging Anesthesia Toolbox for Learner Education and Performance Monitoring Speaker: Jessica Stroner
  This session will walk faculty through powerful tools in Anesthesia Toolbox like Learning Plans, the Quiz Assignment Tracker, and the Learners Performance Report. Learn how to create custom quizzes and content, curate learning plans, and use analytics to support learner growth and success.
 
3:30 - 4 p.m. Can Residents Do More with Anesthesia Toolbox? Speaker: Jessica Stroner 
  Join us as we demonstrate how residents can use Anesthesia Toolbox features like the Quiz Bank and Rotation Study Guides to enhance self-guided learning and exam preparation.
 
4 - 5 p.m. Meet the 2025 ASA Charitable Foundation Global Scholars Speaker: Ban Sileshi, MD
  Be inspired by the stories of year's ASA, SPA, and PATA Global Scholars. We are proud to introduce these outstanding anesthesiologists from low resource settings who have been identified as future leaders of our specialty.
 
MONDAY, October 13, 2025
Noon - 12:30 p.m. What Great Looks Like: Quality Performance Measures Speakers: Victor Davila
Vilma Joseph
  Learn what great measures look like from leaders in the field and how to use quality measures and data analytics to improve patient care.
 
12:30 - 1 p.m. The American College of Anesthesiologists. A Means to Many Ends Speaker: Brian Harrington, MD
   
 

Curated by: Kate Fitzgerald

Last updated by: Sue for Justina

Date of last update: September 15, 2025