20th Annual Safar Symposium
May 18 – 19, 2023
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Geoffrey T. Manley, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chairman, Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
TRACK-TBI: A 14 Year Journey to Transform
Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI
19th Annual Safar Symposium
May 26 to 27, 2022
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD
CEO, On Demand Pharmaceuticals
Say Yes to a Different Attitude to Help Advance Patient Care
18th Annual Safar Symposium
May 19 to 20, 2021
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Ed Boyden, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tools for analyzing and repairing the brain
17th Annual Safar Symposium
April 22 to 23, 2019
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
David G. Nichols, MD, MBA
President and CEO
American Board of Pediatrics
Complex Chronic Illness: Who will cure?
16th Annual Safar Symposium
May 31 to June 1, 2018
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Lewis S. Nelson, MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
The Newest Opium War: Insights into the Current Opioid Crisis
15th Annual Safar Symposium
May 22 to 23, 2017
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Donna M. Ferriero, MD, MSc
The Vulnerable Newborn Brain: Lessons from Neuroimaging
14th Annual Safar Symposium
May 16 to 17, 2016
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
J. Marc Simard, MD, PhD
The Sur1-Trpm4 Channel and Brain Edema
13th Annual Safar Symposium
May 21 to 22, 2015
Guest Speaker:
Hans Friberg, MD, PhD
Cardiac Arrest, Temperature Management and Return to a Good Life
12th Annual Safar Symposium
May 21 to 22, 2014
Guest Speaker:
Gerald F. Gebhart, PhD
Inside Information – Communications from the Interior
11th Annual Safar Symposium
May 16 to 17, 2013
Guest Speaker:
John T. Povlishock, PhD
Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Simple Clinical Concept with Unexpectedly Complex Implications for the Injured Brain and Its Circuitry
10th Annual Safar Symposium
June 27 to 28, 2012
Guest Speaker:
Gabriel G Haddad, MD
Tolerance and Susceptibility to Hypoxia: New Lessons from Vertebrate and Invertebrate Model Systems
9th Annual Safar Symposium
June 22 to 23, 2011
Guest Speaker:
Hugo Van Aken, PhD, FRCA
Update on Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia and the Stress Response – Are the Benefits Worth the Trouble and Risks?
8th Annual Safar Symposium
June 1 to 2, 2010
Guest Speaker:
Frank Shann, MB, BS, MD
Critically Ill Children in Developing Countries
7th Annual Safar Symposium
May 6, 2009
Guest Speaker:
Fritz Sterz, MD
Peter Safar and Clinical Cooling
6th Annual Safar Symposium
May 15, 2008
Guest Speaker:
John W. Olney, Md
Excitotoxic and Apoptotic Neurodegeneration – Causal Mechanisms and Preventive Strategies
5th Annual Safar Symposium
May 31, 2007
Guest Speaker:
David M Gaba, MD
Challenges in the Use of Simulation to Achieve High Reliability Healthcare
4th Annual Safar Symposium
June 28, 2006
Guest Speaker:
Anthony Atala, MD
Regenerative Medicine: New Advances in Health Care for the 21st Century
3rd Annual Safar Symposium
June 23, 2005
Guest Speaker:
James C Grotta, MD
The Top 10 Issues in Acute Stroke Treatment
2nd Annual Safar Symposium
October 30, 2003
Guest Speaker:
Edward Lowenstein, MD
Ethics, Physicians and Relief of Intolerable Suffering: Lessons from the Oregon Death with Dignity Act
1st Annual Safar Symposium
November 20, 2002
Guest Speaker:
Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD
Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation–Looking to the Future