4th Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit, February 5-7, 2009

The 4th Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit will take place at Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach, Florida, February 5-7, 2009.

Click here for the information brochure in PDF format (1.6 MB).

Register today at the CME website of the University of Miami.

The summit is a collaborative project between the University of Miami, Cleveland Clinic and the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).

Summit Director

Amir K. Jaffer, MD
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
University of Miami, Miami, Florida

Summit Co-Directors

David L. Hepner, M.D.
Associate Director, Weiner Center for Preoperative Evaluation,
Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Franklin A. Michota, Jr., MD
Director of Academic Affairs
Department of Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Map of the Meeting Location


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Map of Eden Roc Resort

3rd Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit

The 3rd Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit took place at the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic, September 10-12, 2007 and was a remarkable success. Proceedings from the summit were published in a supplement of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine and are indexed by Pubmed.

See photos from the 3rd Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit below. Click on the photos for full-size images.

Publications from Perioperative Summit

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit
IMPACT Consults
Abstracts
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Electronic Supplement 1 to Volume 74, September 2007

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit
IMPACT Consults
Abstracts
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Electronic Supplement 1 to Volume 73, September 2006

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Supplement 1 to Volume 73, March 2006

Online Cases

7 Challenging Perioperative Cases
Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Medical Consultation Service
Clinical Professor of Medicine, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, New York

Webcasts from 2nd Perioperative Summit

Nuances in Perioperative Beta-blocker Therapy for Non-cardiac Surgery
Don Poldermans, MD, PhD, FESC

Perioperative Management of Warfarin
Amir K. Jaffer, MD

Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism After Surgery
Franklin A. Michota, Jr., MD

Perioperative Management of Diabetes: Translating Evidence into Practice
Byron Hoogwerf, MD

Pulmonary Risk Stratification and Risk Reduction for Non-cardiac Surgery
Gerald Smetana, MD

Perioperative Care of the Elderly
Robert M. Palmer, MD

Click here for webcast description.

Updated: 09/18/2008