Mike F Murphy M.D., FRCPC (EM), FRCPC (Anes.)

Professor and Chair, Anesthesia
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr Murphy is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology in both the US and Canada. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and his anesthesiology training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has served as Chief of Emergency Medicine of the Victoria General Hospital and the Izaak Walton Killam Children’s Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, all the while also practicing as an anesthesiologist in each institution. Dr. Murphy was appointed as the first Executive Director of Emergency Medical Services for the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, and was responsible for designing and implementing a high performance, full service, advanced life support EMS system in the province, using advanced training systems. He implemented a simulation center in Nova Scotia. He subsequently led initiatives for development of advanced EMS training systems in Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts Nevis, and Cuba. He served as the Clinical Chief of Anesthesiology, Lincoln Medical Center, Lincolnton, NC; Clinical Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill and an Emergency Physician at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Currently, Dr Murphy is Professor and Chair of Anesthesia and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University.  He served on the Canadian Airway Focus Group of the Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society and is on the Board of the Society for Airway Management (SAM). Dr Murphy is an internationally recognized educator in the field of airway management. With Dr. Walls, Dr. Murphy is a founding Co-Director of The Difficult Airway Course.

Ron M Walls M.D.

Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Dr. Walls is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at Harvard Medical School. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Senior Editor of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, Editor-in-Chief of UpToDate, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society (publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine.) He is a peer reviewer for Anesthesia, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the six emergency medicine journals in North America and Europe.

Dr. Walls has researched, published and taught in the areas of Emergency Medicine, with an emphasis on emergency airway management for many years. He is the principle investigator of NEAR - the National Emergency Airway Registry, a multi-center, international, emergency airway research project that has studied over 16,000 Emergency Department intubations in over 30 centers. He has been a regular speaker at the ACEP Annual Scientific Assembly for the past 19 years and at numerous other regional, national and international meetings and has been an invited visiting professor at 39
institutions. Dr. Walls has over 130 scientific publications, 10 editions of 4 textbooks, and 18 textbook chapters.

Robert C. Luten, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
University of Florida
Health Sciences Center
Jacksonville, FL

David C. Abramson, MBChB, FFA(SA), FAAP

Partner,
North Texas Children’s Anesthesia
Dallas, TX

Dr Abramson trained in Cape Town, South Africa, as a Cardiac Anesthesiologist. In 1992, he took a teaching position at the University of Texas in Houston. He became director of Cardiothoracic and Liver Transplant anesthesia and won numerous teaching awards from both Residents in the program and the University.

For a brief period he entered private practice, joining a group in Houston. Wishing to return to academia, he spent a year doing a Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia in Denver and Houston and subsequently ran the Pediatric Anesthesia division a the University of Texas, Houston for two years.

In 2002, he joined a group dedicated to providing pediatric anesthesia. His special interest in the pediatric airway was maintained with a large craniofacial practice.

Jeffrey M. Berman, MD, FAAP

Attending Anesthesiologist
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC USA
Clinical Interests: Anesthetic care for trauma including burns; resuscitation medicine
Research interests: Resuscitation, inhalation injury
Chair UNC Resuscitation Committee
UNC Disaster Committee
Board of Directors International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society
Chair: American Burn Association Special Interest Group on Anesthesia/Respiratory Therapy/Critical Care
AHA National Faculty for PALS
AHA regional faculty for ACLS, PALS
Editorial Board Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
Capt USNR (ret)

Idena Carroll, CRNA, M.S.

Staff Nurse Anesthetist
Anesthesia Clinical & Educational Services, P.A.
Baton Rouge, LA

Lorraine J. Foley, MD

Winchester Anesthesia Associates
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Tufts School of Medicine
Boston, MA

After completing a surgical internship, Dr Foley completed her residency in Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston in 1993. She remained on staff as an Instructor in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School till 1999. She Then went into private practice as a partner with Winchester Anesthesia Associates at Winchester Hospital, Winchester, MA. during her residency, she developed her interest in Difficult Airway management. She was on of the founding members of the Society for Airway Management founded in 1995. She presently sits on the Board of SAM. She is also the 1st recipient for the Distinguished Service Award for the Society for Airway Management. She is not only on faculty with this course but is on faculty for the SAM Annual Scientific Meetings and ASA difficult Airway Course. Dr Foley developed the Foley Airway Stylet(FAST), a flexible fiberoptic scope that assist in visualizing intubation through an Intubating LMA. She has multiple publications and has written 4 chapters in airway management. Her other interests is Dissemination of information of the Difficult airway.

Eric A. Harris, MD, MBA

Director of Alternate Site Anesthesia,
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
University of Miami School
of Medicine, Miami, FL

Eric A. Harris, MD MBA has been in academic practice since 1997. His interests include alternate site anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, and difficult airway management. He is the director of alternate-site anesthesia at Jackson Memorial Hospital / University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, FL. His publications and research cover the administration of anesthesia in remote locations, including the CT scanner, the neuroradiology suite, and the MRI machine. He lives in Weston FL with his wife and children.

Orlando Hung, MD, FRCPC

Staff Neuroanesthesiologist
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Professor, Departments of Anesthesia, Surgery and Pharmacology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Dr. Orlando Hung is a professor in the Departments of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Hung has a significant interest in the development and application of alternative intubating techniques. In particular, he has demonstrated the use of the light-guided intubating technique for oral and nasal intubation, as well as light-guided Fastrach, retrograde and digital intubation. His other research interests include the development of pulmonary drug delivery systems for opioids and cannabinoids using the liposome technology. He has received many awards, grants, as well as patents for his pulmonary drug delivery systems.

Babu V. Koka, MD

Chief of Perioperative Anesthesia,
Department of Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Gordon Launcelott, MD

Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

J. Adam Law, MD, FRCP(C)

Attending Anesthesiologist
QEII Health Sciences Center
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

Dr. Law spent the first six years of his medical career as a family practitioner in a very small town, desperately hoping he wouldn't have to manage anyone's airway. The ensuing residency in anesthesia and fellowship in cardiac and neuroanesthesia helped allay that anxiety, leaving in its place a keen interest in teaching and practicing airway management. He is now subspecialty head of neuroanesthesia and medical director of the local simulation center in Halifax. He has authored and co-authored a number of articles and book chapters on airway management, and has also co-edited a text on the subject. Dr. Law has been on the faculty of the Difficult Airway Course/Anesthesia since its inauguration in 2001. When not proselytizing about airways, he enjoys spending time with his young family.

Kirk MacQuarrie, MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University
Staff Anesthesiologist,
Queen Elizabeth II Health
Science Center
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada

Robert W. Matthews, CRNA, MSNA

Department of Anesthesia
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC

After receiving his Masters in Nursing Anesthesia from the University of New England, Robert began and continues to practice at the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill. Robert has spent eleven years as a Paramedic and four years as a Certified Emergency Nurse serving in both rural and academic level one trauma centers. Currently he practices as Chief of Nursing Anesthesia at the University of North Carolina, an academic referral center. His extensive and varied professional experience has exposed Robert to all forms of airway management. Robert is currently perusing his Doctorate in Nursing Anesthesia from Virginia Commonwealth University and enjoys teaching Physicians, Residents and CRNAs the science and art of airway management.

Ian R. Morris BEng, MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Chief
VG Site,
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center
Sub-Speciality Chief
Thoracic Anesthesia and Liver Transplantation
Anesthesia Professor
Department of Anesthesia
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada

Holly A. Muir, MD, FRCPC

Vice Chair Clinical Operations
Department of Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Women's Anesthesia
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Adeyemi (Yemi) J. Olufolabi MB.BS, DCH, FRCA

Fellowship Director
Division of Women's Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Duke University
Durham, NC

John A. Rivas CRNA, MS, ARNP

Chief CRNA, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Miami, FL
Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Anesthesia Program, Veterans Affairs Dvision, Medical Center, Miami, Florida
University of Miami School of Nursing & Health Studies
Co-coordinator, Simulated & Clinical Learning
University of Miami School of Nursing & Health Studies, Nurse Anesthesia Program
Jackson Memorial Hospital

Brian Ross, MD

Professor,
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Robert J. Vissers, MD

Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
Legacy Emanuel Hospital
Adjunct Associate Professor
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR

Dr. Vissers completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia in 1995, where he served as Chief Resident. His first appointment was as Attending Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. It was here that his academic interest in airway management began and was site investigator for the first NEAR study. He also began working with airway course during this time. He was the Emergency Medicine Residency Director at the University of North Carolina from 1997 to 2004. He then moved to his present position as Chief of Emergency Medicine at Emanuel Hospital, and Adjunct Associate Professor at OHSU, Portland Oregon. He is an author on over forty publications, many related to airway management. He has served on several editorial boards, including Academic Emergency Medicine, Journal Watch for Emergency Medicine, and The Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is an Item Writer for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. His national teaching experience is extensive. He has been faculty on The Airway Course since 1997 and national faculty for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly for the past seven years. In 1999 he was awarded the ACEP National Teaching Award.

Richard D. Zane, MD

Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Dr. Richard Zane is vice chair of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as medical director for emergency preparedness and bio-defense and director of pre-hospital care for Partners Healthcare. Dr. Zane has had extensive experience in designing systems of pre-hospital care and disaster response and has been an advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues of hospital emergency preparedness. In his role as director of pre-hospital care, Dr. Zane oversees the transfer and transportation of over 50,000 ambulance patients per year.

Dr. Zane attended Temple University School of Medicine graduating in 1993 and then went on to specialty training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 1998