Faculty Disclosures

Dr. Alrayashi is an associate in perioperative anesthesia and pain medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. He completed his medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago and then residency at NYU. He later went on to complete his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children's, and completed an additional year in regional anesthesiology at the same institution. He has a special interest in the use of ultrasound in the perioperative care of pediatric and young adult patients. This includes the use of ultrasound for the therapeutic treatment of acute pain as well as the diagnosis for acute pathologies. He has published on clinical outcomes in various regional anesthesia outcomes and reported on the use of ultrasound in clinical care. He has lectured at various national and international conferences and taught workshops in regional anesthesia and point of care ultrasonography. He founded the home analgesia program at Boston Children's Hospital, the only of its kind in the northeastern United States. At present he is developing a comprehensive POCUS training program for clinicians at his institution and is the director of Regional Anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital of the Harvard Medical School.

Laura Downey, MD is a Professor at Emory University in the Department of Anesthesiology and a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Her research focuses on understanding the role of fibrinogen and platelets in hemostasis in children after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. She was awarded the 2019 SPA Young Investigators Grant to complete a clinical trial comparing fibrinogen concentrate to cryoprecipitate in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery. In 2021, she was awarded the 2021 International Anesthesia Research Society Mentored Research Award to study platelet function in neonates. She is currently the Secretary for the CCAS, Chair of the CCAS Research Committee, a member of the CCAS Hemostasis Interest Group, and a member of the ASA Patient Blood Management Committee. She enjoys traveling, triathlons, and hiking with her dog and husband.

Kaitlin M. Flannery, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. She practices pediatric cardiac anesthesia at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She completed her medical degree at the University of Iowa, followed by anesthesiology residency at Stanford University, and pediatric anesthesia and pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. She is an active member of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS), for which she serves on the Communication Committee as a Question of the Week author.

Dr. Stephanie Grant is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. At Emory, she is the Program Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship and is committed to the education of trainees. She is currently on the CCAS Board of Directors and is the Chair of the Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Program Directors' Committee. Her research includes evaluating thrombin generation in patients with congenital heart disease.

I am a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Boston Children's Hospital. I attended the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in South Africa. I completed anesthesiology residency at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, followed by fellowships in pediatric anesthesia and cardiac anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital, respectively. I have an FFA(SA) from the College of Medicine of South Africa and am board certified in anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology. My research interests include neuromonitoring during pediatric cardiac surgery and measurement of pain in patients under general anesthesia.

Dr. Lynch is the Associate Chief of Research for the Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Perelman School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD in physics in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania and focused her doctoral dissertation in the field of biomedical optics. She then went on to medical school at NYU School of Medicine, followed by an internship in pediatrics at CHOP, anesthesiology residency at UPenn, and advanced fellowships in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric cardiac anesthesia at CHOP. Dr. Lynch leads a biomedical optics lab at the University of Pennsylvania and her research is in the field of diffuse optics with a specific focus on the development and use of noninvasive neuromonitoring devices to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with cardiac disease.

Prof. dr. Mona MOMENI is currently working as anesthesiologist in the Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc in Brussels. Dr. Momeni is specialized in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia and is particularly interested in congenital cardiac anesthesia. She is currently Director of Research and head of cardiac anesthesia at Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc in Brussels. She is since 2019 Full Professor of Anesthesia at University Catholique de Louvain in Brussels. Mona Momeni is member of the subcommittee Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia of ESAIC as well as Council Member of Belgium for ESAIC. She is also member of the Research Committee of the CCAS. Mona Momeni is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica. She is current president of the Belgian Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management.

Division chief Pediatric CV Anesthesia Texas Children's Hospital

Dr. Viviane Nasr is the Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She. Her work is mostly related to patients with congenital heart disease and the perioperative risk assessment of pediatric patients. She has written more than 140 publications, multiple textbook chapters and a handbook on pediatric cardiac anesthesia. In addition to her active academic career, she is the President of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society.

Asif Padiyath is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in the divisions of cardiothoracic anesthesiology and cardiology. His research interests are in the anesthetic care and monitoring of patients with Fontan physiology and the application of perioperative informatics in caring for patients with congenital heart diseases.

Board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist and pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist , completed training in both anesthesia and pediatric critical care, currently at Texas Children's Hospital, dual practice in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric cardiac critical care.

As a pediatric and congenital cardiac anesthesiologist, I am dedicated to delivering safe, high-quality anesthesia care for children with complex congenital heart conditions. I consider it a privilege to care for these patients and value the opportunity to build meaningful connections with children and their families. Since joining the cardiac anesthesia team at Cincinnati Children's in 2014, I have worked alongside an exceptional group committed to advancing excellence in care. Our team continually strives to improve outcomes and ensure the safest possible experience for every child. My research focuses on optimizing sedation practices for pediatric patients, particularly those with congenital heart disease. Recently, my work has expanded to include quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing safety and consistency within our department and across the institution. These efforts reflect my deep interest in advancing quality and safety standards in pediatric anesthesia.

Dr. Peggy Vogt, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine and a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed both advanced fellowships, pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric cardiac anesthesiology in Atlanta. Her academic work focuses on improving perioperative outcomes in congenital heart disease. She has authored peer-reviewed publications in Pediatric Anesthesia, Cardiology in the Young, and Children. Dr. Vogt is Co-Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Quality Improvement Course and serves on the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society Quality and Safety Committee.

Dr. Zaleski is an Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia in the Boston Children's Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine as well as an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Zaleski completed her residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital followed by fellowships in Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital. She is board-certified in both Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology and currently cares exclusively for patients with congenital heart disease.