CME Credit:
Accreditation and Credit Designation
The California Society of Anesthesiologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education to physicians.
The California Society of Anesthesiologists designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Attendees should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® and MOCA® are registered certification marks of The American Board of Anesthesiology®
This activity contributes to the patient safety CME requirement for the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology® (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements. The main sessions of this activity are certified for 19.75 MOCA units. Optional attendance will increase this total for those who participate in workshops.
Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
The California Society of Anesthesiologists requires all planners, faculty, and any person in a position to control content for this educational activity to identify all financial relationships with any ineligible company, as defined by ACCME. Disclosures of relevant financial relationships will be published in activity materials and distributed to all registered attendees. Unless otherwise noted, faculty and planners have no relevant financial disclosures. All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.
Program of Events:
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2026
CSA Committee meetings (All committee meetings are held in the Disneyland Hotel Adventure Tower)
1:00-2:00 PM Membership Committee (Adventure Room)
1:00-2:00 PM Sustainability in Healthcare (Safari Room)
2:00-3:00 PM Educational Programs Division (Adventure Room)
3:00-4:00 PM Pain Management Committee (Safari Room)
3:00-4:00 PM Communications Division (Adventure Room)
4:00-5:00 PM JEDI Committee (Safari Room)
4:00-5:00 PM Finance and Administration (Adventure Room)
5:00-6:00 PM Practice Management Committee (Safari Room)
5:00-6:00 PM Bylaws Committee (Adventure Room)
6:00-7:00 PM CSA Foundation (Safari Room)
6:00-7:00 PM WWISE Committee (Adventure Room)
7:00-8:30 PM Legislative Affairs Committee (Adventure Room)
8:30-9:00 PM GASPAC Board (Adventure Room)
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2026
Maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ / MOCA credits
All Friday sessions are non-overlapping. Attendees may claim credit commensurate with participation.
6:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Hours
7:00 – 8:00 AM Breakfast Sleeping Beauty Pavilion
Morning General Session: Magic Kingdom
7:15 – 7:30 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
7:30 – 9:15 AM Elevating Perioperative Care (1.75 CME Total)
Moderator: Rakhi Dayal, MD
7:30 AM Methadone and Suboxone in Perioperative Care (0.5 CME)
Rakhi Dayal, MD
8:00 AM Nerve Injuries Associated with Peripheral Nerve Blockade (0.5 CME)
Michael Jung, MD
8:30 AM Ethical Implications of DNR, Palliative Surgery, and Assisted Dying (0.5 CME) Ioana Pasca, MD
9:00 AM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
9:15 – 9:30 AM Morning Break
9:30 – 11:15 AM Innovations in Cardiac Anesthesia (1.75 CME Total) (General Session: Magic Kingdom)
Moderator: Melissa McCabe, MD
9:30 AM Managing Carotid Stenosis (0.5 CME)
Milad Sharifpour, MD
10:00 AM Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery and Anesthesia for Patients with Elevated Troponins (0.5 CME)
Melissa McCabe, MD, MSCR, FASA
10:30 AM Hemodynamic Decompensation for the private practitioner (0.5 CME)
Omar Durra, MD
11:00 AM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Lunch Sleeping Beauty Pavilion
Optional Roundtable Discussion: Integrating Integrative Medicine into Your Perioperative Practice; Jennifer Norenberg MD
*This session is not accredited for CME
12:00 – 1:00 PM Institute for Safe Medication Practice Lunch Symposium *
(*Separate registration, this session is not part of the CSA program.) Location: Monorail Room
Afternoon General Session: Magic Kingdom
12:15 – 1:45 PM Blood Management & Cutting – Edge Topics (1.5 CME)
Moderator: Julie Fowler, MD
12:15 PM Massive Hemorrhage Management AND POC testing (0.75 CME)
James Littlejohn, MD
1:00 PM How to Create a PBM Program Using PDSA for Anemia: The Kaiser Experience (.5 CME)
Jennifer Noerenberg, MD and Mark Thoma, MD
1:30 PM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
1:45 PM Afternoon break
2:15 – 4:30 PM Patient Safety and Future Threats (2.25 CME Total)
Moderator: Jennifer Noerenberg, MD
2:15 PM Safety in Non – OR Anesthesia (0.5 CME)
Ben Beal, MD
2:45 PM Patient Safety and Artificial Intelligence – Promises and Perils (0.5 CME)
Jason Cheng, DO
3:15 PM How ERAS Programs Can Cut Costs and Improve Safety (0.5 CME)
Jennifer Noerenberg, MD
3:45 PM APSF Priorities & Future Focus (0.5 CME)
Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH
4:15 PM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
4:30 – 6:30 PM GASPAC Reception, Sleeping Beauty Pavilion
Become a GASPAC Donor to receive an invitation to the reception. Learn more here: https://www.gaspac.org/contribution.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026
Maximum of 9.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ / 7.5 credits from main scientific sessions
Optional workshops require separate registration and overlap with main sessions.
6:30 – 7:30 AM Breakfast Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
7:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration Hours
Optional Workshops Monorail
| 7:30 – 9:00 AM 1.5 CME 1.5 | POCUS: Certified Mentors for ASA POCUS Certification (Separate registration) Faculty: Engy T. Said, MD Omar Durra, MD Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA |
| 9:30 – 11:30 AM 2.0 CME 2.0 | Regional Anesthesia’s Newest Blocks: Clevipectoral, Errector Spinae, Serratus Anterior, Quadratus Lumborum, iPACK, PENG, and Beyond (Separate Registration) Faculty: Engy T. Said, MD Baher Boctor, MD Pamela Chia, MD, MS Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA Trevor Whitwell, MD |
Morning General Session: Magic Kingdom
7:30 – 8:30 AM The Vision of ASA and CSA Leadership: Meet the ASA and CSA President (1.0 CME)
Moderator: Christina Menor, MD, FASA, President, California Society of Anesthesiologists
Kraig de Lanzac, MD, MBA, FASA, First Vice President, American Society of Anesthesiologists
8:30 AM Leffingwell: Beyond the Comfort Zone: My Journey to Finding the Leader Within (0.75 CME)
Narendra Trivedi MD, FASA
9:15 AM Panel Discussion; audience interaction with Leaders (0.5 CME)
9:45 – 10:15 AM Morning Break Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM Thinking Beyond Traditional Anesthesia Boundaries(1.75 CME Total)
Moderator: Eugenia Ayrian, MD
10:15 AM EEG Monitoring and Dreaming Under Anesthesia
Harrison Chow, MD, FASA (0.5 CME)
10:30 AM Perioperative Management of Patients with TBI and Intracranial Hemorrhage
Martin Krause(0.5 CME)
11:15 AM From Basics to Barriers: Evoked Potential Monitoring for Neuro Anesthesiologists
Eugenia Aryian (0.5 CME)
11:45 AM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
Early Career Track: Optional Roundtable discussion: Publication and Research Advice from the Experts – Manuscript Review and Mentorship
John Brock – Utne MD, PhD
12:30 – 1:00 pm Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Data Update General Session: Magic Kingdom *
(*this session is not accredited for CME and is not part of the CSA program.)
Optional Workshop Monorail
| 12:00-4:00PM 4.0 CME 4.0 | EEG Workshop: Practical, end-to-end overview of intraoperative EEG—why it matters, how to interpret signals and artifacts, how drugs, nociception, and age affect readings, and how to apply these concepts through real clinical cases. (Separate registration) Faculty: Odmara Barreto Chang, MD Paul Garcia, MD PhD Matthias Kruezer, PhD Alex Papangelou, MD |
Afternoon General Session: Magic Kingdom
1:45 – 3:30 PM Clinical Conundrums (1.75 CME Total)
Moderator: Vanessa Henke, MD
1:45 PM Managing Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension (0.5 CME) Vanessa Henke MD
2:15 PM Managing Septic Shock in the Operating Room (0.5 CME)
David Stahl, MD
2:45 PM Managing Aortic Stenosis (0.5 CME)
Vanessa Henke MD
3:15 PM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
3:00 – 4:00 PM Afternoon Break Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
4:00 – 5:45 PM Obstetrics (1.75 CME)
Moderator: Mark Zakowski, MD, FASA
4:00 PM Maternal Mortality – How Can We Make a Difference(0.5 CME)
Mark Zakowski, MD, FASA
4:30PM Combined Spinal Epidural and Dural Puncture Epidural and Additives (0.5 CME)
Leonard Soloniuk and Kenneth Nguyen, DO
5:00 PM Sedation Supplementation During Cesarean Delivery Daniel Conti (0.5 CME)
Daniel Conti, MD
5:30 – 5:45 PM Panel Discussion with audience interaction (0.25 CME)
6:00 – 7:00 PM Annual Networking Reception Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2026
Maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ / 6.0 credits from main scientific sessions and workshop (requires additional registration fee) combined.
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast & First Poster Session Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
7:00 AM – 12:00 PM Registration Hours
Morning General Session: Magic Kingdom
8:00 – 9:00 AM Innovations in Pediatric Anesthesia (1.0 CME)
Moderator: Rita Agarwal, MD
8:00 AM Pediatric Regional Anesthesia: Which Block, For Whom, and When (0.5 CME)
Carole Lin, MD
8:30 AM Expanding Horizons: Innovations in Pediatric Non – Operating Room Anesthesia (0.5 CME)
Karen Flotides, DO, FAOCA
9:00 – 10:00 AM Break & Second Poster Session Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
10:00 – 11:00 AM Student Oral Competition (1.0 CME)
11:00 – 1:00 PM The Future is now…. or is it? (2.0 CME)
11:00 AM Preoperative Risk Prediction Using AI (0.5 CME)
Justin Calvert, MD
11:30 AM If only we would have known this yesterday… Predictive Analytics in Perioperative Medicine (0.5 CME)
Brad Cohn, MD, FASA
12:00 PM Scenarios and economics of automation (AI) for scheduling and staffing optimization (0.5 CME)
Christine Doyle, MD, MBI, FASA
12:30 PM Panel Discussion: Am I Going to be Out of a Job? Future Directions of AI in Anesthesiology (0.5 CME)
Justin Calvert, MD, Brad Cohn, MD, Christine Doyle, MD, MBI, FASA, and Jeff Kwok, MD, MBA
1:00 – 3:30 PM Lunch Exhibit Hall: Magic Kingdom
Optional Roundtable: Early Career Track | Personal Finance Building Blocks, Jeff Kwok MD *This session is not accredited for CME.
Mock Orals: Sign up required (no additional fee), Vanessa Henke MD*This session is not accredited for CME.
1:00 – 2:30 PM CSA Board of Directors Meeting Safari Room in Adventure Tower
Optional Workshop
| 1:30 – 3:30 PM 2.0 CME 2.0 | Airway Management in Anesthesia: Applying the ASA Algorithm and Advanced Techniques in Airway Management Workshop (Separate Registration) Faculty: Ioana Pasca, MD Alvaro “Andres” Macias MD, MHA, FASA Pariza Rahman, MD Peter Cheng, DO Andrew Nguyen, MD |
GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understand how AI may impact different practice models uniquely and similarly, and why.
Delineate options for anesthesia management in patients with chronic pain conditions or substance use disorders.
Outline factors contributing to nerve injury related to peripheral nerve blockade.
Understand the ethical implications related to anesthesia and ICU management in patients nearing end of life.
Develop safe management plans for patients with cardiovascular diseases including carotid stenosis, MINS, and unstable hemodynamic states.
Identify optimal situations in which POC coagulation monitoring facilitates appropriate transfusion therapy.
Outline steps needed to develop a center – specific PBM program.
Discuss key patient safety areas including concerns specific to NORA and ERAS
Recognize the role EEG and processed EEG have in anesthesia and critical care patient management.
Explain safe management strategies for patients with pulmonary embolism, septic shock, or aortic stenosis.
Delineate key aspects of peripartum management that contribute to safe, patient centric anesthesia care.
Differentiate pediatric patients for whom regional anesthesia will be beneficial.
Evaluate innovations in pediatric NORA care.
Explore the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in preoperative risk evaluation.
Examine AI – based preoperative tool use in the real – world.
Identify practical applications of AI in anesthesiology, across short and longer time horizons, in the context of the current healthcare workforce and economic climate.
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