SNACC 45th ANNUAL MEETING
Getting Ready for the SNACC 45th Annual Meeting
Rafi Avitsian, MD
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| Ravi Avitsian, MD |
It is that time of the year again. Communication lines are wide open, emails rushing back and forth between Board members, last minute adjustment and checklists for faculty and moderators to bring yet another outstanding program for our 45th Annual Meeting in Boston. I would like to point out that this is only possible with the tireless efforts of our dear staff at SNACC’s management company, Ruggles Service Corporation. They have brought their immense experience in designing and implementing medical conferences to our Society. They go above and beyond to make our meeting a success, just like every year.
We are already seeing a large number of registrations for this year’s meeting, and I am sure that this is not just because the meeting is in Boston, the metropolis of intelligence and culture. I believe that our membership trusts our Society to bring cutting edge science to the surface, create the most academic environment to hear what is new in neurosciences and to provide information that will help us in improving care of patients and better educating those interested in patient care.
Following last year’s success in bringing a clinical workshop to our Thursday afternoon session, this year there will be another clinical workshop reviewing the use of ultrasound in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care. There will also be an educational workshop about using simulation for teaching in one of the most advanced centers for medical simulation in the nation. The topics selected for basic science and clinical symposiums – namely fluid management and neuromonitoring – are definitely prominent issues in our subspecialties. Thanks to Dr. Deepak Sharma for organizing an informative dinner symposium about perioperative monitoring of the brain.
The second day is full of outstanding lectures focusing on “Brains and Machines” as well as “Perioperative Coagulation and Anticoagulation.” There will also be two poster discussion sessions which, I believe, is the most excellent environment for scientific networking and knowing “who is doing what” in neurosciences. We have also added a “New Science” session to the program and this year there will be an update of the recently published studies on anesthesia for treatment of stroke. The last plenary session is also designed for those who would like to excel in reading and doing neuroscience research, as well as a guide to what to read and how to read.
We will again keep the recently started, but I hope a tradition-to-be, William L. Young fundraising dinner in one of the famous restaurants in Boston. The tickets for this event are limited and I urge you to reserve one as soon as possible. Click here for more information.
