Anesthesia Course Faculty

Michael F.  Murphy, MD, FRCPC (EM), FRCPC (Anes.) Professor and Chair, Anesthesia Professor, Emergency Medicine Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Dr. Murphy is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology in the United States and Canada.  He is Professor and Chair of Anesthesia and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University.  Prior to his current position, Dr. Murphy served as the Clinical Chief of Anesthesiology, Lincoln Medical Center, Lincolnton, NC; Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill and Emergency Physician at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.  Earlier, he 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, 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 full service, advanced life support EMS system, using advanced training systems.  He subsequently led initiatives for development of advanced EMS training systems in Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts Nevis, and Cuba. Dr. Murphy 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.  Dr. Murphy 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).  He is an internationally recognized educator in the field of airway management.  He is a founding Co-Director of The Difficult Airway Courses and recently authored the definitive textbook in difficult airway management, Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, with Orlando Hung, MD. David C. Abramson, MBChB Partner North Texas Children's Anesthesia Dallas, Texas Jeffrey M. Berman, MD Attending Anesthesiologist University of North Carolina Hospitals Professor of Anesthesiology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Idena Carroll, CRNA Staff Nurse Anesthetist Anesthesia Clinical & Educational Services Baton Rouge, Louisiana Chris Christodoulou, MD Consultant Anesthetist St. Boniface General Hospital Undergraduate Anesthesia Program Director Assistant Professor University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Laura Duggan, MD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesia University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia Lorraine J. Foley, MD Staff Anesthesiologist Winchester Hospital Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia Tufts School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts Eric A. Harris, MD Director of Alternate Site Anesthesia Jackson Memorial Hospital Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, Florida        Wendy Howard, MD Director of ENT Anesthesia and Difficult Airways Assistant Professor SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, New York Orlando Hung, MD Staff Neuroanesthesiologist QEII Health Sciences Center Professor, Department of Anesthesia Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Narasimhan Jagannathan, MD Attending Anesthesiologist Department of Pediatric Anesthesia Children's Memorial Hospital Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois Gordon Launcelott, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology QEII Health Sciences Center Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia J. Adam Law, MD Professor, Anesthesiology and Surgery Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Kirk MacQuarrie, MD Associate Clinical Chief, Department of Anesthesia QEII Health Sciences Center Associate Professor Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Robert W. Matthews, CRNA Chief of Nursing Anesthesia Department of Anesthesia University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Ian R. Morris, BEng, MD Associate Clinical Chief, Department of Anesthesia QEII Health Sciences Center Professor Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Holly A. Muir, MD Vice Chair of Clinical Operations Department of Anesthesia Chief, Division of Women's Anesthesia Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina Adeyemi J. Olufolabi, MB.BS Division of Women's Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology Duke University Medical Center Assistant Professor Duke University Durham, North Carolina John A. Rivas, CRNA Chief CRNA Clinical Coordinator, Nurse Anesthesia Program Veterans Administration Medical Center Co-coordinator of Simulated and Clinical Learning University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies Miami, Florida Brian Ross, MD Director of Obstetrical Anesthesiology Executive Director, Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation Professor Department of Anesthesiology University of Washington Seattle, Washington Narendra Vakharia, MD Staff Anesthesiologist QEII Health Sciences Center and IWK Health Center Assistant Professor Residency Training Program Director Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Sarah H. Wiser, MD Staff Anesthesiologist Brigham & Women's Hospital Clinical Instructor Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts David T. Wong, MD Department of Anesthesiology Toronto Western Hospital Associate Professor Toronto, Ontario