NJSSA 2024 Annual Meeting

The overall purpose of this activity is to educate our attendees about equity and diversity in healthcare delivery, and the leadership role anesthesiologists can play to ensure the delivery of equitable care in their communities and healthcare setting.

Statement of Need
Current practice of our learners may lack diversity and equity in healthcare delivery, in addition to lacking the tools to identify quality and safety aspects of anesthesia care.

Learning Objectives
By completing this program participants should be able to:

• Comprehend the new competencies required for organizational success
• Recognize the problem of persistent Post-Surgical Pain (PPSP) and how to measure it
• Be equipped to use details of a patient’s phenotype to explain differential efficacy of analgesic interventions
• Cognize how the nomenclature regarding preoperative consultations limits their effectiveness, and how renaming them "evaluation and optimization" can improve perioperative communication
• Identify unique quality and safety aspects of anesthesia practice

Meeting Schedule

7:00am - Registration, breakfast and exhibits

8:00am - Welcome

Amanda Burden, MD, FASA, FSSH
NJSSA President

Richard Colavita, MD, FASA
NJSSA Vice-President and Program Chair

8:15am - ASA Update: Working For You

Patrick Giam, MD, FASA
ASA First Vice President

Learning Objectives:

• To learn about topics of ASA members interest including, “Who We Are”,  ASAPAC Update, advocacy focus areas for 2024, and updates on key member-focused initiatives and programs

9:00am - New Skills for Leaders in Healthcare

Joanne Conroy, MD
CEO & President, Dartmouth Health
Chair, American Hospital Association Board of Trustees

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the new competencies required for organizational success
• Appreciate the multiple venues where aspiring leaders can have impact
• Understand the demographic shifts that executive search consultants are tracking

10:00am - Resident Poster Discussions (break)

10:45am - Moving from “Clearance” to “Evaluation and Optimization”: How a Change in Language Can Help Improve Preoperative Evaluations

George Tewfik, MD, MBA, FASA
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Director of Quality Assurance, Director of Anesthesia Simulation and Director of Clinical Informatics

Learning Objectives:

• To review the purpose of a specialist consultation, and how it fits into preoperative anesthesia evaluation.
• To understand how the nomenclature regarding preoperative consultations limits their effectiveness, and how renaming them "evaluation and optimization" can improve perioperative communication.
• To review strategies to help incorporate a change in nomenclature from "Clearance" to "Evaluation and optimization" at one's home

11:45am - Resident Poster Discussions

12:15pm - Lunch

1:15pm - Medical Student Airway Workshop

1:15pm - 13th Annual Ervin Moss, MD Patient Safety Lecture: Event Reporting, Metacognition and Anesthesia Practice

Avery Tung, MD, FCCM
Professor, Quality Chief for Anesthesia, Section Chief, Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago

Learning Objectives:

• Identify unique quality/safety aspects of anesthesia practice
• Discuss & review existing literature on cognitive challenges in medical decision making including cognitive vs deliberate thinking and advantages and disadvantages of each with respect to anesthesia.
• Highlight the role and value of event reporting in optimizing anesthesia safety including metacognition, awareness of high-risk environments, and sharing events among providers to maximize exposure.

2:15pm - Personalizing Preventive Analgesia: Measuring and Using Psychosocial and Psychophysical Phenotyping

Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Learning Objectives:

• Gain a basic understanding of the problem of persistent Post-Surgical Pain (PPSP) and how to measure it
• Be able to contextualize the biopsychosocial model and patient phenotyping
• Gain concrete examples of ways to use patient phenotyping in predicting the transition to chronic pain
• Be equipped to use knowledge of a patient’s phenotype to explain differential efficacy of analgesic interventions

3:15pm - Regulatory and Legal Update

AJ Sabath
Lobbyist, NJSSA

CEO and President, Advocacy & Management Group

John D. Fanburg, Esq.
Legal Counsel, NJSSA

Chair, Health Law Practice Group

Managing Partner Brach Eichler, LLC

3:40pm - Announcement of Poster Competition Winners

3:45pm - Annual Business Meeting

President’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Director’s Report

Nominating Committee Report

Election of Officers

4:00pm - Adjournment

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4:30pm - BLS/ACLS/PALS Re-certification Course

Resident Poster Competition

All New Jersey Anesthesia Residents are invited to present their research or medically challenging case at NJSSA's 64^th Annual Meeting at the Hyatt in New Brunswick, NJ.    New for 2024 - Residents will present their e-poster on a large display monitor.  All Residents presenters are expected to be available at their presentation time.  

$250 will be awarded for the best research case and for the most medically-challenging case.  Winners of the e-poster competition will be announced at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting.

View Poster Abstracts

Medical Student Airway Workshop

NJSSA is proud to offer an Airway Workshop for medical students! Medical students currently enrolled in a medical school (M.D. or D.O.) in the state of New Jersey are eligible for this workshop. 

Leading academic faculty will introduce medical students to airway anatomy, basic and advanced airway techniques, and an armamentarium of airway devices using a hands-on, intensely interactive approach.  Stations will be setup with a small group of medical students, along with an attending and a resident for instruction.


NOTE: Annual Meeting attendance is required of all workshop attendees.

AHA Re-Certification Course
 
CANCELLED DUE TO LOW REGISTRATION FOR THE COURSE

We are offering a re-certification course for BLS/ACLS/PALS immediately following the NJSSA Annual Meeting on March 23, 2024.   NJSSA members will receive a discounted rate on each course.

You must register for the Annual Meeting before you can register for the re-certification course.  The confirmation email you receive after registering for the Annual Meeting will include a link to register for the re-certification course.

Certification cards will be mailed 1-2 weeks after completion.

NOTE: SPACE IS LIMITED AND PAYMENTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE