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Upcoming Meeting
Time:
8am-4pm (breakfast and lunch served)
Location:
The Kimpton Claret Hotel
6985 E Chenango Ave.
Denver, CO 80237
Cost:
$299
Schedule:
7:00am-8:00am: Registration/Breakfast
8:00am-9:00am: Avoiding Preoperative Anesthetic Evaluation Pitfalls - Arielle Freed DDS
9:00am-10:00am: Tailoring Your Patient Monitoring to Enhance Clinical Safety - Arielle Freed DDS
10am-10:15am: Break
10:15am-11:15am: Cognitive Dysfunction in the Postoperative Period - Kamal Busaidy DDS FDSRCS FACS
11:15am-11:45am: Colorado ADSA Component Meeting
11:45am-12:45pm: Lunch
12:45pm-1:45pm: Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) for the OMS Patient - Kamal Busaidy DDS FDSRCS FACS
1:45pm-2:45pm: From Chair to Airway, Optimizing the Evaluation of the Pediatric Patient - Julia Hickey MD
2:45pm-3:00pm: Break
3:00pm-4:00pm: Anesthetic Considerations for Syndromic Children - Julia Hickey MD
Lecturers & Topics:
Arielle Freed, DDS
- Pitfalls in Preoperative Assessment
- Tailoring your Patient Monitor to Enhance Patient Safety
Kamal Busaidy, DDS, FDSRCS (Eng), FACS
- Cognitive Dysfunction in the Postoperative Period
- Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) for the OMS patient
Julia Hickey, MD
- From Chair to Airway, Optimizing the Evaluation of the Pediatric Patient
- Anesthetic Considerations for Syndromic Children

Dr. Kamal Busaidy is Professor and Vice Chair of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency program at UTHealth Houston, where he also directs the Hinds Academy Clinical Simulation Center and oversees the OMS faculty practice. He earned his dental degree in the UK in 1992, completed his OMS residency at UTHealth in 2002, and has since served as faculty, including roles as Co-director of the Texas Shriners Cleft Lip and Palate team.

Dr. Arielle “Aree” Freed is a board-certified dental anesthesiologist and Diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology, where she also helps develop exam content. She earned her DDS from the University of Washington and completed anesthesiology residency at NYU Langone in 2022. Based in the Bay Area, she runs a mobile anesthesia practice serving over 100 offices and lectures widely on safe anesthetic care in dentistry.

Dr. Julia Hickey is an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She received her Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (MD, CM) degree from McGill University in 2016. She completed a combined residency in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2021 followed by an Academic Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2023.