Speakers Databank

In order to expand the WELI network and facilitate speaking opportunities at the regional, national, and international level, we have compiled a self-identified list of speakers with their areas of expertise.

This list is intended to help identify potential speakers on various topics and includes people who range from early career to mid-late career. Though areas of expertise and individuals are identified, this list is not an endorsement by WELI regarding content or quality. It is the responsibility of both individual speakers, as well conference planners, to ensure that the demands of the speaking opportunity (venue, audience) are aligned with speaker experience and identified topic.

Click on a speaker’s name to view their list of talks.

Speaker	Email	Topics	Conflict of Interest	Talk Titles:
Rita Agarwal	[email protected]	opioid, acute/ inpatient pain, multimodal pain management, neuraxial blocks, MH, ambulatory anesthesia, dental sedation issues, opioid crises, and addiction, what’s new in pediatricanesthesia, pediatric trauma, pediatric neuroanesthesia, pediatric head trauma, dental anesthesia, advocacy, anesthesia for head injury and pediatric trauma	None	I have a lot of talks my most commonly given lectures include:- Dental sedation why is it different? – Legislative Advocacy for Children: Safer Dental Sedation – Opioid Use in Children – Anesthetic Considerations in the Head Injured Child – Pediatric Trauma – Pediatric Anesthesia Update – Acute Pain Management in Children – Biopsychosocial approach to pain management-medical considerations – Cystic fibrosis – Pain and opioid use and misuse, – MH and neuromuscular disease
Aditee Ambardekar, MD, MSEd	[email protected]	Current and future state of pediatric burn anesthesia, feedback and reflective practice, simulation-based education	None	Available upon request
Sean Barnes	[email protected]	Delirium, ICU rehabilitation, Social Media	None	Available upon request
Amy Beethe	[email protected]	Ambulatory anesthesia guidelines, Error Traps of pediatric Pain medicine, Anesthesia for patients with Osteogenesis imperfecta, Anesthesia for pediatric craniovault reconstruction	None	Available on request
Stephanie Black	[email protected]	medical education, feedback, professional engagement, organizational culture, education, learning theory, giving feedback, finding the fellowship/job you really want, professional fulfillment and career development, imposter syndrome, physician wellbeing, substance abuse in anesthesia, mindfulness	None	Available on request
Alyssa Burgart,MD,MA	[email protected]	ethics, behavior escalation, workplace safety, adolescent development, treatment refusal	None	Talks specific to anesthesia/pediatric anesthesia: Managing Challenging Behavior: Moving Beyond Reactionary Care Anesthesiologists views of drug shortages Machine Learning Implementation in Clinical Anesthesia: Opportunities and Challenges Don’t Talk to Me Like a Child! Pre-op Ethical Issues in AdolescentsTalks tailored to a general medical audience: Acknowledging Patient Emotions: The Key to Effective Communication Communication in Serious Illness in Pediatrics Era of Gene Therapy: A Case of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Refusal of Blood Products for Pregnant Women and Minors Autonomy, Hysteria, and Paternalism: Challenging Ethics Consults Involving Women and Reproductive Decision Making When Gut Feelings Aren’t Helping: Navigating Complicated Ethics in the Neuromuscular Clinic Medical Aid in Dying: What Pediatricians Need to Know Parental Refusals and Demands for Care
Denise Chang	[email protected]	Pediatric spine surgery, pediatric spinal tethering, considerations for adolescent pregnancy testing, teaching quality improvement	None	Available upon request
Debnath Chatterjee	[email protected]	anesthesia	None	1. Anesthesia for fetal interventions, 2. Button battery ingestions in toddlers
Destiny F. Chau, MD	[email protected]	Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Development, Mentoring Conflict Management	None
Vidya Chidambaran	[email protected]	Genomics, Epigenetics, opioid pharmacogenomics, systems biology, related to acute and chronic post-surgical pain in children	None	Available upon request
Kelly Chilson	[email protected]	Fontan Physiology, other cardiac topics	None	1. Anesthesia for Non Cardiac Surgery in Patients with CHD, 2. Development of a peer advocate program
Lynnie Correll	[email protected]	Integrative Medicine in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology	None	“Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medications – What the Anesthesiologist Needs to Know””Using Integrative Medicine Modalities to Improve Perioperative Stress in Adolescents”
Priti Dalal	[email protected]	Post-op apnea; Safety of breastfed infant after maternal anesthesia	None	Available on request
Christina Diaz	[email protected]	Negotiating the Workplace, Simulation, Conflict resolution, Dental Sedation	None	Review of Vaping and EVALI
Odinakachukwu (Odi) Ehie, MD	[email protected]	Tools to address microaggressions; allyship; health disparities and pediatric perioperative outcomes	None	Available upon request
Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz	[email protected]	pediatric airway management, diversity in anesthesiology	None	1. Pediatric difficult airway management, 2. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Anesthesiology
Jessica A. George, MD, MEd	[email protected]	Pediatric Enhanced Recovery after Surgery	None	1. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery – Minimizing Variability and Improving Outcomes 2. Pediatric Enhanced Recovery after Surgery 3. Adjuncts: Dexmedetomidine, Lidocaine, and Ketamine 4. The Role of ERAS in Children
Monica Hoagland, MD	[email protected]	Perioperative Management of Type I Diabetes, Fetal Anesthesia	None	Perioperative Management of Type 1 Diabetes \| Speaking Buddy: Lizabeth Martin, M
Anita Honkanen	[email protected]	Simulation, Cognitive Errors, Emergence Delirium, Safety and Systems issues in Periop, Authority Gradient in Team Communication; Lean Techniques in Periop Management; Change Management; Practitioner Wellness in Healthcare, Preop Anxiety in Pediatric Practice	None	Available on request
Ranu Jain	[email protected]	Maternal-fetal medicine	None	Available upon request
Nathalia Jimenez	[email protected]; [email protected]	Quality improvement efforts to decrease disparities in healthcare; Inclusive research practices- improving research in minority pediatric populations	None	Quality improvement efforts to decrease disparities in healthcare Inclusive research practices- improving research in minority pediatric populations
Jamie Kitzman, MD	[email protected]	Acupuncture	None
Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD, PhD	[email protected]	Pediatric Sedation, Non-OR Anesthesia, Vascular Anomalies, Anesthesia for Pediatric Interventional Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology	None
Lindsay Loveland Baptist	[email protected]	Pediatric cardiac anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia fellowship	None	Available upon request
Rebecca Margolis, DO	[email protected]	Physician Wellbeing, single lung ventilation, neonatal thoracic anesthesia, Tonsillectomy	None	Healthcare Provider Well-Being; TEF, CDH & Lung Isolation in Neonates
Melissa Masaracchia	[email protected]	tracheomalacia, tracheopexy, anesthesia, pediatric pain	None	Perioperative Challenges and Outcomes in Adolescent Bariatric SurgeryAnesthetic Considerations for Tracheomalacia and Tracheopexy Anesthetic Considerations for Tracheomalacia and Tacheopexy Subanesthetic ketamine infusions for the management of pediatric pain in non‐critical care settings
Olubukola Nafiu	[email protected]	Childhood Obesity and perioperative complications, Racial disparity in surgical outcomes, Predictors of pediatric acute postoperative pain	None	Vide supra
Viviane G. Nasr	[email protected]	Perioperative risk assessment, Congenital Heart Disease, ECMO	None	Pediatric risk assessmentCHD patients for non cardiac procedure Pulmonary Vein Stenosis ECMO primer for the anesthesiologist
Olivia Nelson	[email protected]	Fetal anesthesia, neonatal anesthesia, craniofacial surgery, anesthesia for fetal surgery	Grant from Masimo to study pulse oximetery in infants	Easing the transition to extrauterine life: advances in fetal surgery; The formerly premature infant
Joanna Rosing Paquin, MD	[email protected]	Sedation in pediatrics – specifically children with congenital cardiac disease	None	Sedation for non-invasive cardiac imaging: What are my options?
Christine Park, MD	[email protected]	Healthcare/medical simulation, innovations for next-generation simulation and healthcare education, leadership development, cognitive bias, traumatic event processing for healthcare providers, the zen of debriefing, simulation design, principles of ethics in simulation	None	Available on request
Jennifer Rabbits	[email protected]	postsurgical pain, psychosocial risk factors	None	1. Mechanisms of transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain, 2. Chronic Postsurgical Pain in Youth: Psychosocial Risk Factors and Preventive Strategies
Vidya T. Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP	[email protected]	sustainability, DEI, value based healthcare, mentoring	equity in Face2face/Opus Influunt/NDS Kalstars
Lori Riegger, MD	[email protected]	Fontan outcomes, Congenital cardiac anesthesiology , Anesthesia for the single ventricle, Williams Syndrome, Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)	None	“After the Fontan”
Patrick Ross, MD	[email protected]	Intra-operative mechanical ventilation, pediatric ARDS, measurement of work of breathing, high flow nasal oxygen delivery, post-intubation stridor	None	Available upon request
Hedwig Schroeck	[email protected]	Anesthesia for intra-operative MRI settings; Non-OR Anesthesia Safety/Crisis Management	None	“A Lone Warrior in a Strange Land: Crisis Management in Non-OR Anesthesia””Anesthetic challenges for procedures in the intra-operative MRI suite”
Jina Sinskey	[email protected]	design thinking and change management, well-being, conflict management, building a well-being curriculum, fetal anesthesia, virtual reality/augmented reality	Jina Sinskey is a clinical affiliate of the nonprofit Chariot Kids Consortium	Change Management and Design ThinkingWell-Being Curricular Interventions for Trainees Conflict Management: What Anesthesiologists Need to Know Anesthetic Approach to Fetal Surgery Virtual Reality for Pediatric Patients
Caitlin Sutton	[email protected]	anesthesia for fetal surgery (all types), spine ultrasound for epidurals	None	Ethics of informed consent for the anesthesiologist, for epidurals
Judit Szolnoki, MD MS PSL	[email protected]	anesthesia for fetal surgery (all types), spine ultrasound for epidurals	None
Johathan M. Tan, MD MPH MBI FASA	[email protected]	Social Determinants of Health, Air Quality and Respiratory Adverse Events, Spatial Data Science, Clinical Informatics, Health Care Policy, Health Economics/Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Quality Improvement and Race/Ethnicity and Social Determinants of Health	I receive grant funding from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER).
Rosalie Tassone	[email protected]	Pediatric Anesthesia, Medical Acupuncture, Pediatric Trauma	None	Medical Acupuncture: Where East Meets West; Pediatric Trauma Update
Katherine Taylor	[email protected]	congenital heart disease, POCUS	None	Available upon request
Princy Thottathil	[email protected]		None	1. “Behind the Mask: The Second Victim, Not a Question of If, But When” 2. Medical Ethics 3. Craniofacial Surgery 4. Professional Development: Compassion Fatigue & Resilience, Physician Wellbeing
Sarah Titler	[email protected]	Lactation and Female Physicians	None	Available upon request
Chinwe Unegbu	[email protected]	congenital heart disease, pediatric pulmonary hypertension	None	1. Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: Perioperative Implications, 2. Perioperative management of Children with Congenital Heart Disease
Anupama Wadhwa, MD	[email protected], [email protected]	Leveraging peer coaching for leadership development and physician wellness	None
Audra Webber	[email protected]	1) Pediatric obesity and anesthesia 2) Ambulatory Surgery Criteria (both pediatric and adult)	None	1) Pediatric Obesity – Trials, Tribulation, Tips and Tricks.2) Ambulatory Surgery Critera – Are we just making stuff up?
Emmett Whitaker, MD	[email protected]	Launching a New Clinical Paradigm	None
Eric Wittkugel, MD	[email protected]	Coaching Skills for Leaders, Mentors, Educators	None	Coaching: A New Idea in Healthcare; Leading with Empathy and Care;
Speaker	Email	Topics	Conflict of Interest	Titles