22nd Annual Safar Symposium
May 15 – 16, 2025
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, MCCM
Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Medicine
Ake N. Grenvik Professor of Critical Care Medicine
Vice Chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science
Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Mentoring the Mentors in Neurocritical Care
21st Annual Safar Symposium
April 25-26, 2024
Peter & Eva Safar Lecturer:
Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD
Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Impact of Withdrawal of Life Support on Resuscitation Science
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