About Us

OpenAnesthesia®, sponsored by the International Anesthesia Research Society, was founded by Dr. Edward C. Nemergut and Dr. Robert Thiele. It debuted in July 2009 with the broad goal of advancing graduate medical education in anesthesia. Since its inception as an experimental project, OpenAnesthesia™ has grown to be a comprehensive resource for anesthesiology residents and physicians worldwide.
OpenAnesthesia offers online education resources. We are dedicated to using cutting-edge technology and a modern approach to education to provide the best, most time-efficient continuous education that targets individual resident’s and physician’s strengths and weaknesses, and, of course, interests. Our goal, as from our inception, to offer an education system that is effective, engaging, and ultimately improves anesthesiology practice and patient care.

The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is a nonpolitical, not-for-profit medical society founded in 1922 to advance and support scientific research and education related to anesthesia, and to improve patient care through research. The IARS contributes more than $1 million annually to fund anesthesia research; provides a forum for anesthesiology leaders to share information and ideas; maintains a worldwide membership of physicians, health professionals in anesthesia-related practice, and physician residents and others with doctoral degrees; sponsors the SmartTots initiative in partnership with the FDA; and publishes the monthly Anesthesia & Analgesia journal in print and online as well as the clinical companion journal A&A Practice, published semi-monthly.
Editor-in-Chief
Incoming Editorial Board
Aditee Ambardekar, MD, MSEd
Pediatric Anesthesia Section Editor
UT Southwestern
Kanupriya Kumar, MD
Social Media Editor
Hospital for Special Surgery
Yuriy Bronshteyn, MD
POCUS Section Editor
Duke University
Emily Methangkool, MD
Cardiac Section Editor
University of California Los Angeles
Elizabeth Mahanna Gabrielli, MD
Neuroanesthesia Section Editor
University of Miami
Rebecca Minehart, MD
Obstetric Anesthesia Section Editor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeff Gadsden, MD
Regional Anesthesia Section Editor
Duke University
Samuel Percy, MD
Global Health Section Editor
Children’s Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado
Youn-Hoa Jung, MD
Critical Care Medicine Section Editor
Johns Hopkins University
Shalini Shah, MD
Pain Medicine Section Editor
University of California Irvine
Amanda M. Kleiman, MD
Keywords Section Editor
University of Virginia
Incoming Associate Editors
Cardiac Anesthesia
Seema Deshpande, MBBS
University of Maryland
Richard Thalappillil, MD
Montefiore Medical Center
Albert Tsai, MD
Stanford University
Critical Care Medicine
Mara Serbanescu, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Global Health
Beti Asnake, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Igaga, MD
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Keywords
Ellen Richter, MD
Emory University
Daniel Smith, MD
Maine Medical Center
Yiyu Zhao, MD
Yale University
Neuro Anesthesia
Diana Ayubcha, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Ferenc Rabai, MD
Mayo Clinic
Obstetric Anesthesia
Jaime Daly, MD
University of Colorado
Daniel Katz, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pain Medicine
Deepa Kattail, MD
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Geoffrey Panjeton, MD
St. Louis University Hospital
Pediatric Anesthesia
Elisha Peterson, MD
Children’s National Hospital
Jaime Rubin, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Jina Sinskey, MD
University of California San Francisco
Katherine Zaleski, MD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Liaison to Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society
POCUS
Ying Hui Low, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Eric Heinz, MD, PhD
George Washington University
Babar Fiza, MD
Emory University
Regional Anesthesia
James Kim, MD
UT Southwestern University
Emily Lin, MD
Memorial-Sloan Kettering
Liaison to Society for Technology in Anesthesia
Jorge Augusto Galvez, MD, MBI
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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