2027 Stanford Advanced Airway Management Course (Non-CME)

This comprehensive, multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art course offers advanced airway training to a national and international audience. It provides participants with the essential evidence-based knowledge and technical skills to manage anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway in the operating room, emergency department, and intensive care unit as well as in diverse clinical settings. The conference will integrate various educational formats including didactic lectures, immersive simulation workshop, Lunch and Learn discussions, and small-group breakouts. The course is ideally suited for the anesthesiologists, critical care, emergency medicine, and ENT physicians.

Please note, this is a Non-CME activity.

Early Bird
Physician/CRNA: $1,995
Stanford Affiliated Physician/CRNA: $1,100
Stanford Resident/Fellow: $1,000 (verified with Stanford email)
Non-Stanford Resident/Fellow: $1,100
Industry Early: $1,995

After 03/03/2027
Physician/CRNA: $2,195
Stanford Affiliated Physician/CRNA: $1,100
Stanford Resident/Fellow: $1,000 (verified with Stanford email)
Non-Stanford Resident/Fellows: $1,100
Industry: $2,195

Special Rates
Returning Learners: $1,100

*Please contact Alyssa Elsey at [email protected] for more information on obtaining special rates.

If you need registration assistance, please email [email protected]. Be sure to register with an email address that you check frequently. Your email address is used for critical information, including registration confirmation, evaluation, and certificate.

STAP-eligible employees can use STAP funds towards the registration fees for this activity.  Complete the STAP Reimbursement Request Form and submit to your department administrator. 

1. Integrate into practice effective approaches and strategies for predicting and managing difficult airway, per latest evidence-based medicine data.
2. Determine proper patient selection and preparation for awake flexible scope intubation (FSI).
3. Apply advanced oxygenation techniques, such as Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE).
4. Develop skills for alternative ventilation strategies using supraglottic airway (SGA) devices, techniques for SGA-endotracheal tube exchange, and surgical techniques for rescue ventilation.
5. Enhance crisis resources management (CRM) skills for debriefing situations in practice.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received in writing no less than 20 days before the course will be refunded, less a 20% administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date. Please send cancellation requests to [email protected].

Stanford University School of Medicine reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency
The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: https://laneguides.stanford.edu/multicultural-health

For activity related questions, please contact
     Name: Alyssa Elsey
     Title: Education Events Specialist
     Email: [email protected]

For CME general questions, please contact 
     Email: [email protected]

Conference Location
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge
291 Campus Drive
2nd Floor Conference Center 
Stanford, CA

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Course Planning Team

Course Director
Vladimir Nekhendzy, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and, by courtesy, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Director, Stanford Advanced Airway Management Program
Past President, Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia

Course Co-Directors
Edward Damrose, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Laryngology and Laryngeal Surgery

Amit Saxena, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Edward J Damrose, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Laryngology and Laryngeal Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center

Co-Course Director, Faculty

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Amit Saxena, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Co-Course Director, Faculty

Vladimir Nekhendzy, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and, by courtesy, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Director, Stanford Advanced Airway Management Program
Past President, Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia
Stanford University School of Medicine

Course Director, Faculty

Olga Albert, MD
Private Practice Anesthesiology

Faculty

Naola Austin, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Hannah Bechtold, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
UC Davis Medical Center

Faculty

Elizabeth C Behringer, MD
Cardiac Surgical Intensivist-Anesthesiologist
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery & Critical Care
Past President, Society for Airway Management
Executive Director, World Alliance for Airway Management
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles

Faculty

Daenis Camire, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Queen's University
Canada

Faculty

Laura Cavallone, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and President, Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia
University of Washington School of Medicine

Faculty

Meihsi Chen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Lynn Cintron, MD
Affiliate, Department of Anesthesia
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Faculty

Matthew Dudley, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
University of California San Francisco

Faculty

Marc Austin Gautreau, MD
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Jeremy Goldfarb, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Sara Goldhaber-Fiebert, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

William Gostic II, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Narasimhan ('Sim') Jagannathan, MD
Anesthesiologist-in-Chief
Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Arizona School of Medicine
Phoenix Children's Hospital

Faculty

Daniel V Lazzareschi, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology
University of California San Diego

Faculty

James McAvoy, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Fred Mihm, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Co-Director, Intensive Care Units
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

William Mulkerin, MD
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Raphael E Paulino, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Rett Quattlebaum, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Radhamangalam Ramamurthi, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Todsaporn Rodbumrung, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Teresa Roman-Micek, BS CHSOS
InterCEPT Program Simulationist
SHC Interventional Platform Education

Faculty

Maxwell Scher, MD
Clinical Instructor & Fellow, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Stanford University

Faculty

Jewel Sheehan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Katie Speirs, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Patrick Sullivan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Faculty

Diego X Torres, MD
Fellow, Emergency Medicine
Stanford University

Faculty

Lei Xu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford Health Care/Stanford Children's Hospital

Faculty