Our faculty and trainees will participate in the following activities at the 2025 meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP), “Leveraging Technology for Better Outcomes: Improving Lives of Patients & Clinicians” to be held Wednesday, April 30 – Sunday, May 4, 2025, in Portland, Oregon.
| Ioannis (Yanni) Angelidis, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor, is participating as a 2025 SOAP Annual Meeting Abstract Reviewer. Dr. Angelidis will also moderate the SOAP/SOCCA Panel, “Extending Knowledge Beyond the OR: What Happens to My Patients in the ICU?” on Thursday, May 1, Ballroom (Ballroom level) | SOCCA, 2:00 - 3:45 PM. He will also moderate Case Report Session #1, Abstract Breakout Room 2: High Acuity/ Intensive Care on Thursday, May 1, Directors Suite (3rd Floor Conference level), 5:00 - 7:00 PM. |
 | Ezeldeen Abuelkasem, MBBCh, MSc, FASE, Assistant Professor and Director of Perioperative Echocardiography Education, is a faculty instructor for the TTE-refresher (advanced-FATE) Half-Day Workshop on Wednesday, April 30, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM.
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 | Maxine Qiu, MD, Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellow, will present abstract #2042153, “Anesthetic Management for Cesarean Delivery in a Patient with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia” (authors: Yue Qiu, MD; Lucas Baldo, MD; Grace Lim, MD, MS; Ryan C. Romeo, MD; Ivan V. Colaizzi, MD; C Tyler Smith, MD; Patricia Dalby, MD) as part of Case Reports Session #4 on Sunday, May 4, Director’s Suite Cabinet Suite (Level 3), Breakout Room 2: Cancer, 11:25 AM - 1:25 PM.
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 | Patricia Dalby, MD, Associate Professor and Program Director of our Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship, will participate in the Fellowship Directors Meeting on Thursday, May 1, Director’s Suite Cabinet Suite (Level 3), 12:30 -1:30 PM.
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 | Zachary Ligus, MD, Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellow, will present “Multidisciplinary Management for Cesarean Delivery in a Patient with Fulminant Hepatic Failure" (authors: Zachary E. Ligus, MD; Yue Qiu, MD; Christopher T. Smith, MD) as part of Case Reports Session #1 on Thursday, May 1, 5:00 – 7:00 PM.
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 | Grace Lim, MD, MS, Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Obstetric & Women's Anesthesiology, will present “ELEVATE Project: Advancing Patient-Centered Anesthesia Choices During Cesarean Delivery” as part of the SOAP Research Network Symposium on Saturday, May 3, Galleria North & South (Ballroom Level), 8:25 - 9:05 AM. Dr. Lim was nominated for President-Elect/President of SOAP. The presidential election results will be announced at the meeting. |
 | Alexandra Nicholas, MD, Assistant Professor and Medical Director, Obstetric-Cardiac Anesthesiology, is a faculty instructor for the TTE-refresher (advanced-FATE) Half-Day Workshop on Wednesday, April 30, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM.
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