Speakers
Prof. Gregory HAMMER
USA
Greg Hammer, MD, is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and of Pediatrics in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology. He has published more than 200 scientific articles, over 40 chapters in core pediatric anesthesiology and pharmacology textbooks, and has been a Visiting Professor at over 40 institutions world-wide.
Dr. Hammer has had a long-standing interest in Wellness, including nutrition, physical fitness, meditation, and mindfulness practice. In 2020 he published an award-winning, best-selling book entitled, “GAIN Without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals.” He has been a member of the WellMD directive at Stanford and Chair of the Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He is currently writing his 3rd book on Wellness, focused on teenagers. More info is available at greghammermd.com.
There have been relatively few new anesthetic agents developed in the past decade. We are left with drugs that have less than ideal pharmacologic properties, including both pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. We will review the basics of pharmacology pursuant to our practice and then discuss new agents with novel pharmacologic properties. In so doing we will hint at future developments in anesthetic agents that have greater specificity, less toxicity, and more favorable pharmacokinetic properties than the drugs that are currently available.
