The Brienza Memorial Lecture

ADSA friend and long-time member Dr. Michael John Brienza of Brooklyn and Shelter Island, NY, passed away on April 10, 2009. To honor Dr. Brienza, his family and friends have created and endowed the Michael Brienza Memorial Lecture with ADSA's Anesthesia Research Foundation. The Brienza Memorial Lecture will henceforward be the keynote speaker at the ADSA Annual Session each year. Michael touched many lives in our Society, and he is greatly missed.

Memorial Lecturers

2025 - Travis Rieder, PhD - In Pain: A Personal Story of Survival 

2024 - Daniel Haas, DDS, PhD, FRCD(C) - Bridging Anesthesia and Academia

2023 - Deepak Krishnan, DDS, FACS - Innovations in OBA

2022 - Todd Conklin, PhD - A New View on Safety

2020 & 2021 - No Award Due to Covid-19

2019 - Ivan Pupulidy, PhD - Analysis of Human Errors

2018 - Emery Brown, MD, PhD - Anesthesia & the Dynamics of the Unconscious Mind

2017 - Karen C. Nanji, MD, MPH - Evaluating Perioperative Medication Errors

2016 - Howard Israel, DDS - The Origins of Pernkopf’s Anatomy Atlas

2015 - Robert K. Stoelting, MD - Anesthesia Patient Safety 

2014 - John J. Schaefer, III, MD - Airway Rescue

2013 - Captain Al Haynes - Teamwork in Crisis - The Story of Flight UA 232    

2012 - Richard Cook, MD - How Complex Systems Fail

2011 - George Newton DO, MPH - Anesthesia for Military Trauma in Afghanistan

2010 - Rhea Seddon, Astronaut - Keeping Our Patients Safe-Lessons Learned From NASA