ICYMI: Have you read our latest Member Spotlight? Head to Instagram to read our Q&A with Dr. Eli Chernick, a GP-A who is now helping to shape rural health-care in Ontario as a leader at Middlesex Hospital Alliance.
🔗https://www.instagram.com/p/DW9KOz5lj9H
#OntarioDoctors #ONhealth
It's #EarthDay2026! 🌎
To celebrate, Dr. Anita Rao, the lead of our Environmental Sustainability Working Group made a quick video for us, highlighting the work the ESWG is doing & encouraging all our members to green their practice: https://youtu.be/VVLNl2pXhMo?si=MG7Eb_bZqQLorGRT
It's National Volunteer Week, a time when we say a big "thank you" to the many members who help ignite our work. We greatly appreciate their time, energy, & engagement!
If you're an OA member and would like to get more involved with the section, message us.
#NVW2026
Ahead of Earth Day, we're sharing an essay written for us by Josephine Lu Bing Liu, a third-year med student at Western: https://ow.ly/tfp150YLaFO
It's a quick but thorough summary of how anesthesiologists are "uniquely positioned to make a profound environmental impact." 🌎
We're just 2weeks away from Doctors' Day on May 1. 💙
The Ontario Medical Association has set up a quick and simple way for you to thank the doctors who have improved your life.
Head here to submit your message today: Oma.org/DoctorsDay
#ThankYouDoctors #OntarioDoctors #ONhealth
Happening tonight, April 15!
Ahead of #EarthDay2026 next week, we're re-sharing last year's Member Spotlight of Dr. Peter Menikefs, a key member of our Environmental Sustainability Working Group 🌎
Read his Q&A and learn he and the rest of the ESWG are doing to green health care: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIL9gyLMHGQ
🌟Registration is now open for the eighth annual Perioperative Care Congress, hosted by the Perioperative Care Congress 🌟
Join leaders in perioperative medicine from Nov 13-15 in Hamilton for engaging & forward-thinking presentations & discussions.
Register & learn more: Periopsociety.ca/pcc2026
The next @casupdate.bsky.social Pinnacle Rounds is this Wednesday & features Ontario anesthesiologist Dr. Kan Ma.
Learn more & register at: cas.ca/pinnacle-rounds
🚨New Instagram Member Spotlight Up🚨
We chat with Dr. Eli Chernick about a career path that has led her to being part of the Middlesex Health Alliance leadership team, a role that ensures that "the physician lens" is applied to everything they do.
Read her Q&A: https://www.instagram.com/p/DW9KOz5lj9H
Over on that other site, @ron-george.bsky.social shares his latest editorial, on #OBAnes workforce data, in The International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. Check it out: x.com/Ron_George/s...
⏳Time is running out ⏳
Register by April 15 & save on the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society's #CASAM2026, which features a comprehensive, cutting-edge scientific program designed to inform, connect & inspire.
🔗cas.ca/annual-meeting
#anesthesia #anesthesiology #medicalconference #MedEd
Ottawa: There's a new date for The Gas Exchange lecturer series. Join what organizer Dr. Wesley Rajaleelan describes as, "A deep dive into how early 🇨🇦 anesthesiologists built the specialty - from first full-time practitioners to the rise of 🇨🇦 anesthesia history & shaped modern patient safety."
📣 Reminder 📣
Nominations for our annual Ontario's Anesthesiologists Resident Award are now open until June 5.
Celebrate our residents for their outstanding contributions to education, leadership & advocacy.
Learn more: ontariosanesthesiologists.ca/anesthesia-residents
In Ontario, anesthesiologists are highly trained physicians whose years of rigorous education and training have prepared them to deliver the safe, effective care you and your loved ones need.
Learn more about what we do at https://ontariosanesthesiologists.ca
Our Environmental Sustainability Working Group is pleased to share its new infographic on reusable LMAs. Research shows that reusable LMAs are greener (including a 635% ⬇️ of greenhouse gases!) & cheaper: https://ow.ly/70aM50YzJIu
Pls share this w/ your centre's environmental sustainability group.
📣ICYMI📣 Nominations are now being accepted for our Distinguished Service Award, which is presented annually to an Ontario anesthesiologist who has provided significant service to our field.
Learn more at https://ow.ly/wsVn50YyE8r & submit your nomination by June 5.
#OAAM2026
Want to green your OR? Check out this new guideline with 21 recommendations to reduce, reuse, recycle & rethink. ♻️ Developed by the Best Practice in Surgery Group U of T with input from our members Drs. Syed A. Abbass & Martin Van Der Vyver.
🔗 https://www.cmaj.ca/content/198/5/E159
Be notified about when registration opens for this year's Ontario Anesthesia Meeting.
✅ Join our #OAAM2026 notification mailing list bit.ly/oam26notify
Your info will never be sold or traded & will only be used to reach out to you with news about the OAM.
🚨 You can still register for the UofT Department of Anesthesiology's March 28-29 Toronto Anesthesia Symposium. Join leaders in anesthesiology to discuss how QI strategies can shape safer, more effective preoperative care & create meaningful change.
Learn more & register: cpd.utoronto.ca/anesthesia
🍃We hear you're supposed to post something green today, so we're highlighting a Mar 25 webinar hosted by Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care & CASCADES Canada on #nixthenitrous, a cause championed by our Environmental Sustainability Working Group:
https://ow.ly/3Is850YttY6
You have < a month to take advantage of the early bird rate for #CASAM2026, hosted by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
This June, join 🇨🇦 anesthesiologists for a comprehensive, cutting-edge scientific program that will inform, connect & inspire. Register by April 15 & save cas.ca/annual-meeting
🎉Congrats to all the outstanding doctors who learned last week that they are officially ON's newest #anesthesia residents! A few of their faces are shared in this reel; join us in welcoming them. 🎉
If you’re an incoming OA resident let us know!
#CaRMS2026 #ontariodoctors
Tomorrow, March 13, is World Sleep Day. 😴
Celebrate it tonight with this European Society of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Therapy webinar featuring OA member Dr. Mandeep Singh: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3917713...
It's Canadian Women Physicians Day!
We're committed to encouraging girls & women to explore & join our field. We're thrilled that more & more women are choosing anesthesiology as their specialty, helping us deliver the highest levels of innovative, safe & sustainable patient care.
#WomenDocsCAN
Tomorrow is 🇨🇦 Women Physicians Day, when we celebrate the new faces joining our specialty & salute the trailblazers, such as Dr. Beverley Orser, an anesthesiologist, researcher & academic leader whose many titles inc. Chair of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine @uoftmedicine.bsky.social
#womendocsCAN
📣 Celebrate an outstanding Ontario anesthesiology resident for their contributions to education, leadership, & advocacy within the field of anesthesiology & beyond by nominating them for our Resident Award:
https://ow.ly/3Wiz50Yp5we 📣
Nominations due by Friday, June 5.
🚺 March 8 is International Women's Day! 🚺 To celebrate this special day, we have a quick message from our section chair, Dr. Cindy Wang.
#IWD #IWD2026 #womeninmedicine #ontariodoctors
Our Distinguished Service Award is our highest honour given to a member who has provided significant service to anesthesiology through clinical service, leadership, teaching, research or humanitarian work.
Nominate your outstanding colleague by June 5: https://ow.ly/bqwP50YoF1w
Is gender bias impacting how patients' pain is managed? Ontario anesthesiologist Dr. Tania Di Renna tackles this topic is a recent edition of CBC's Ontario Today:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-o...
