Invited Speakers
Steven Greenberg
Steven Greenberg has been practicing Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Endeavor Health in Evanston, Illinois, since 2006. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and continued his medical training at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the field of Anesthesiology. There, he served as Chief Resident of Anesthesiology and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter for clinical excellence. After his residency, Dr. Greenberg completed his training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, as a critical care fellow. He currently serves as Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine since 2018. In addition, Dr. Greenberg has been appointed to be the Jeffery S. Vender Endowed Anesthesiology Chair of Research and Education, where he has focused his efforts on reshaping the Anesthesiology Research Program at Endeavor and is enhancing perioperative safety research. He also was the longest serving ICU Medical Director of Evanston Hospital for the last decade and a half. Dr. Greenberg created and developed the Endeavor Health Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program and served as ECMO Medical Director for 6 years. The ECMO program outcomes are well above the national and international averages.
Dr. Greenberg has given over 100 lectures nationally and internationally, served on 4 editorial boards for anesthesia and medical journals and published several articles and has contributed to a variety of book chapters in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine texts. He has served on a variety of notable national committees including the Program Committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the Adult Concepts of Critical Care Committee for the SCCM (served as chair of the Adult Concepts course in 2014-2015), the Critical Care Steering Committee for the American College of Chest Physicians and was a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Critical Care Medicine. He was the Co-Chair of the 2019 SCCM Annual Congress in San Diego, CA. With his interest in safety, he has also served on both the editorial and executive boards of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and was appointed by the President to the position of Editor-in-Chief for the APSF Newsletter in 2017. This publication is distributed to 700,000 out of the 850,000 anesthesia professionals worldwide and it remains the most widely read safety publication globally. In addition, he was appointed to Associate Editor, Patient Safety Section, of Anesthesia & Analgesia. In 2020, he was elected by the APSF Board of Directors to be the Secretary of the organization (one of four officer positions) due to his work in extending patient safety education to 234 countries worldwide. In 2023, he continued his focus on spreading anesthesia patient safety education worldwide as he helped to create and co-chair the first ever Anesthesia Patient Safety Symposium (APSS), a Malaysian Virtual Safety Conference that was attended by over 1000 participants from 48 different countries. In 2024, Dr. Greenberg created and co-chaired the first ever International Conference on Anesthesia Patient Safety (ICAPS) held in Tokyo, Japan, and in collaboration with the ASA, JSA, and JFA. In 2024, he was elected as Vice President of the APSF. With his focus on safety, he has provided lectures for multiple national and international organizations on handoff communication, goal directed therapy, neuromuscular blockade, perioperative safety priorities, clinical deterioration, and developing practical point of care protocols for massive transfusion/hemorrhage.
Shahridan bin Mohd Fathil
Dr Shahridan bin Mohd Fathil obtained his MBBS from the University of Malaya in 1996. He underwent anaesthesia training initially in Malaysia, and then Ireland and England. He has also completed a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship in Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was appointed as a consultant and later senior consultant in Alexandra and Ng Teng Fong General hospitals, Singapore for nearly six years until April 2017. He was also appointed as clinical senior lecturer with NUS Yoong Loo Lin School of Medicine and was the trainer for the basic and advanced regional anaesthesia modules of the NUHS Anaesthesiology Residency at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. He is a consultant anaesthesiologist in Gleneagles Medini Hospital, Malaysia. His passions are ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and point-of-care ultrasound. He has been on humanitarian relief work in post-disaster missions in Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan, as well as in recently in Gaza during the conflict.
Michelle Humeidan
Michelle Humeidan is a graduate of the MD-PhD Program at the University of Kentucky. She completed Anesthesiology Residency and Fellowship in Neuroanesthesiology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, in Columbus, OH, USA. Dr. Humeidan is a Professor of Anesthesiology and currently serves as the Medical Director for Enhanced Surgical Recovery at Ohio State. Her doctoral work concentrated on translational studies of central nervous system aging, and Dr. Humeidan has since remained focused on neurological research, both preclinical and clinical. Through education, research, quality, and practice, she is committed to optimizing perioperative management of geriatric patients to facilitate the best possible functional recovery after surgery.
Jeffrey J. Pasternak
Dr. Jeffrey J. Pasternak is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Dr. Pasternak is the prior Chair of the Division of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and Radiology and is the current Program Director of the Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship Training Program at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Pasternak is a Past-President of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and the Neurosurgical Anesthesiology Section Editor for Up-To-Date.
Hairil Rizal
Assoc Prof Hairil Rizal is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Perioperative Physician in Singapore General Hospital. After completing his advanced specialist training in Singapore, he underwent fellowship in Perioperative Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada, followed by a MSc degree in the same discipline from University College London, UK. He holds a PhD from DukeNUS Medical School Singapore, on the utilisation of Data Science in Healthcare, a topic that he deeply believes in. His passion for lifelong learning has led him to be awarded the National Medical Research Council Research Training Fellowship in 2020 and the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship by the Public Service Commission, Singapore in 2022.
Since 2020, Hairil has been appointed as the Value Lead for SGH. He is tasked with guiding a cross-functional multidisciplinary team in scaling up and operationalising Value Based Healthcare initiatives across all areas in the hospital. In recognition for his passion and expertise in promoting positive systemic change, he has been awarded the “Distinguished Champion of Change Leader Award” by SingHealth in 2022. Furthermore, the team that he leads was subsequently awarded the “Distinguished Team Award” by SingHealth in 2024. He is concurrently the Director, Value Driven Care in SingHealth.
Frances Chung
Dr. Frances Chung is the ResMed Chair in Anesthesia, Perioperative, and Sleep Medicine Research at University Health Network and Professor, Dept of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at University of Toronto. She is a co-founder and past president of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine. In total, she has over 400 publications with a h-index of 93 and over 37500 citations. She is the inventor of the STOP-Bang Questionnaire for screening sleep apnea. The tool is being used worldwide (link: stopbang.ca). In 2022 and 2023, she received the “Best Female Scientist Award” from Research.com and was ranked top 1000 female scientist in the world (link: bio).