Our Obstetric (OB) Anesthesiology and Women’s Health Grand Rounds program, directed by Grace Lim, MD, MS, features prominent national and local OB anesthesiologists and incorporates OB anesthesiology fellow journal club presentations.
Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month in a hybrid format during the academic year, 6:45 – 7:45 a.m. Lectures are broadcast virtually via Microsoft Teams and held in person at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, Education Room 3415.
Teams meeting logon info will be e-mailed to department staff. For individuals outside the department who wish to access the lecture, please email, please email Jasmin Brown.
Recordings of past lectures are archived on our SharePoint intranet for people inside the department (UPMC account required).
View the upcoming lecture schedule
Past Lectures
- Academic Year 2023-2024
Lecture Date
Presenter(s)
Lecture Title
6/11/2024
Anne Lavoie, MD, Assistant Professor; Obstetric Anesthesiologist, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
General Anesthesia Updates: Top 10 Practical Tips to Reduce Obstetric General Anesthesia, and the Obstetric Difficult Airway: State of the Art
5/14/2024
Jennifer Weller, MD, MClinEd, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCA, Professor, Head of Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Auckland City Hospital
Ethics, Humanity, and Professional Practice in Obstetric Anesthesia: Respectful, Trusting Relationships are Essential for Patient Safety: The Surgeon-Anesthesiologist Dyad
4/9/2024
Holly Ende, MD, Associate Professor, Obstetric Anesthesiology, Informatics Research Division, Vanderbilt University
Clinical Informatics in Obstetrics and Anesthesia
3/12/2024
Kylie Grady, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club:Epidural Catheter Replacement Rates with Dural Puncture Epidural Labor Analgesia Compared with Epidural Analgesia without Dural Puncture: A Retrospective Cohort Study
2/13/2024
Rebecca Thurston, PhD, Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Women's Health and Dementia; Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, Epidemiology, and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Interpersonal Trauma and Risk to Cardiovascular and Brain Health Among Women
1/9/2024
Noëlle Healy, MD, Obstetric Anaesthetist; Senior Dublin Ladies' Footballer; Former All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champion
Obstetrics as a Team Sport: How Do We Perform Better?
12/12/2023
Amy Lee, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Director, Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
Updates in Anesthesia for Non-Obstetric Surgery During Pregnancy
11/28/2023
Pervez Sultan, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Stanford University
What's New in Obstetric Anesthesia
10/10/2023
Emira Kuršumović, MD, Research Fellow, The Seventh National Audit Project (NAP7) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
National Audit Project (NAP7): Perioperative Cardiac Arrest & Obstetrics - An Update
9/12/2023
Kumiko Chino, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache: A Consensus Report From a Multisociety International Working Group
- Academic Year 2022-2023
Lecture Date
Presenter(s)
Lecture Title
6/13/2023
Rebecca Minehart, MD, MSHPEd, Assistant Professor; Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Medical Simulation, Harvard Medical School
Achieving High Performance Teamwork in Critical Events
5/23/2023
Robert Gaiser, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Residency Program Director, Yale University
Ethics, Humanity, & Professional Practice in Obstetric Anesthesia: Teaching Medical Professionalism in 2023
4/11/2023
Robert White, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Cornell University
Health Disparities in Obstetrical Care and Delivery Outcomes Associated with Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols
3/14/2023
Catherine Bergeron, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club
2/14/2023
Katrina Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Bioengineering Solutions for Treatment of Pelvic Floor Disorders
1/17/2023
Grant Lynde, MD, MBA, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Quality, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University
Engaging in Meaningful Quality and Practice Improvement
12/20/2022
Leslie Matthews, MD, PharmD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Effects of Anesthesia on Fetal and Infant Neurodevelopment
11/15/2022
Michaela Farber, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Chief, Division of Obstetric Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
What's New in Obstetric Anesthesia
10/11/2022
Vesela Kovacheva, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Development of Novel Machine Learning Tool to Predict Risk for Severe Maternal Morbidity and Optimize Anesthesiology Resources
9/12/2022
Catherine Bergeron, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club:Comparison of Apnoeic Oxygen Techniques in Term Pregnant Subjects: A Computational Modelling Study
- Academic Year 2021-2022
Lecture Date
Presenter(s)
Lecture Title
7/12/2022
Susanna Stanford, Patient Expert, Safety in Healthcare, Human Factors, and Communication Between Medics and Patients, United Kingdom
Patient Safety - Learning from Experience of Failed Neuraxial Anesthesia
6/14/2022
Marie-Louise Meng, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Women’s Anesthesiology, Duke University
Maternal Cardiac Disease: Peripartum Planning
5/24/2022
Libby Ellinas, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Center for the Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine (AWSM), Medical College of Wisconsin
Advancing Equity in Women's Health & Beyond
4/19/2022
Andrea Ibarra, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, UPMC Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Research Work-In-Progress Lecture - Effects of Preeclampsia on Cognitive Function
3/8/2022
Adam Dunmore, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club: Frequency and Risk Factors for Difficult Intubation in Women Undergoing General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
2/8/2022
Rachel Kacmar, MD, Associate Professor and Residency Program Director, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado
Medical Malpractice in OB Anesthesia
1/25/2022
Lisa Leffert, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology Yale University
OB Anesthesia Management for Pregnant Patient with Neurologic Disease
12/14/2021
Mark Rollins, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
What’s New in Fetal Anesthesiology
11/16/2021
C. Tyler Smith, MD, Assistant Professor and Director, Obstetric Anesthesia Education, UPMC Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
What's New in Obstetric Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Review of Articles in The Past Decade
10/26/2021
Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University – Palo Alto
Integrative "Multiomics" Analysis & Machine Learning in Perinatal Medicine
9/28/2021
Adam Dunmore, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club: Sugammadex Administration in Pregnant Women and in Women of Reproductive Potential
- Academic Year 2020-2021
Lecture Date
Presenter(s)
Lecture Title
6/8/2021
Sarah J. Kroh, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Women’s Health Fellow
Journal Club: Tranexamic Acid for the Prevention of Blood Loss After Cesarean Delivery
5/11/2021
Caitlin Sutton, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatric and Obstetric Anesthesiology Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Anesthesiology Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Ethical Dilemmas in Obstetric Anesthesia
4/20/2021
Allison Lee, MD MS Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Medical Director, Margaret Wood Center for Simulation and Education Division of Obstetric Anesthesia Columbia University Medical Center – New York
Simulation to Identify Latent System Errors
3/9/2021
Anne Wanaselja, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club: Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block for the Treatment of Postdural Puncture Headache
2/9/2021
Laurent Bollag, MD Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia University of Washington - Seattle
ERAS for Cesarean Delivery
1/26/2021
Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia Stanford University – Palo Alto
Evidence-Based Strategies to Optimize Post-Cesarean Delivery Analgesia
12/8/2020
Sarah J. Kroh, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Women’s Health Fellow
Journal Club: Association Between Epidural Analgesia During Labor and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring
11/10/2020
Ron George, MD Professor and Chief, Obstetric Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology University of California San Francisco
What's New in Obstetric Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Review of Articles in 2019
10/27/2020
Clemens Ortner, MD MSc, DESA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine Stanford University – Palo Alto
Point of Care Ultrasound in Obstetric Anesthesia
9/22/2020
Anne Wanaselja, MD, UPMC OB Anesthesia & Womens Health Fellow
Journal Club: Intravenous Dexmedetomidine for the Treatment of Shivering during Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized-control Trial