Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD

      Assoc. Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut  

      Masroor Alam, MD

     Board certified in Anesthesiology and Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, Milford, OH

      Feroze-Ud-Din Mahmood, MD

  Director, Vascular Anesthesia/Perioperative Echocardiography at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University Medical School

  Moderator: Zulfiqar Ahmed, MD

  Co Chair, Anesthesiology MERITnet

  Children's Hospital of Michigan, Director of Research, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

  MERIT E-Conference Technology Co-Chair: Jamal Mubarak, MD

  All lectures are 45 minutes followed by a Live Q and A between Pakistan and US.

Date:     17 October 2009 (USA)/ 18 October 2009 (Pakistan)

Day/Time:    Saturday 9PM-Midnight USA Central Time

  Sunday 8AM-11AM Pakistan Time

USA Venue:  American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (Hilton Hotel New Orleans Riverside)

Pakistan Venue: Annual Conference of Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology/Pakistan Association of Cardio-Thoracic Anesthesia, Rawalpindi

  Additional Pakistan sites: Dow University of Health Sciences, Khyber Medical University

(For US attendees the program will start at 8pm with dinner)