The Earl Wynands Lecture at the SCA Annual Meeting was the brainchild of Drs Judith Fabian and Joyce Wahr. At the first Board meeting of the SCA Foundation (SCAF) in 2007 it was decided to create a named lecture at the Annual Meeting with the goal of attracting donations to support SCA-funded research. The unanimous consensus was to recognize the lifetime contributions of Dr Earl Wynands to cardiac anesthesiology. Dr Wynands was the first recipient of the SCA Distinguished Service Award in 2002. His 2023 interview by Dr James Ramsay appears in the Oral History section.
The first Earl Wynands Lecture took place at the 2010 SCA Annual Meeting in New Orleans LA, the site of the first SCA Annual Meeting in 1979. It was given by Dr Michael Grocott of the University of Southampton in the UK and entitled “Research on Everest: From Concept to Completion”. Dr Grocott described the intense physiologic studies of acclimation to high altitude by his group of intensivists at the Mount Everest base camp.
Michael Grocott, MBBS MD
Professor of Anaesthesia & Critical Care, University of Southampton, UK
First Earl Wynands Lecturer, 2010 SCA Annual Meeting
In 2011 the Cardiovascular and Thoracic (CVT) section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS) decided to use their Earl Wynands Fund to support the lecture. Their financial support continued for a few years only, but the CVT section provides an annual speaker and topic recommendation that is coordinated with the Chair of the SCA Scientific Program Committee.
A full list of Earl Wynands Lectures from 2010 to the present is attached.
Year | Lecturer | Institution | Lecture Title | |
2010 | Michael Grocott MBBS, MD, FRCA, FRCP, FFICM | University of Southampton, UK | Research on Everest: From Concept to Completion | |
2011 | Doris Taylor PhD | University of Minnesota | Is it Possible to Create a New Heart? | |
2012 | Charles Vacanti MD | University of Massachusetts | Tissue Engineering in the 21st Century: From the Bench to the Bedside | |
2013 | James Ramsay MD, FRCPC | University of California San Francisco | Cardiac and Critical Care Anesthesiology Moving Forward: Why Dual Training is Beneficial | |
2014 | John Freedman MD, FRCPC | University of Toronto | Transfusion Medicine – Time for a Shift | |
2015 | Keyvan Karkouti MD, FRCPC, MSc | University of Toronto | Which Is Worse for the Kidneys: Anemia or Blood Transfusion? | |
Lakhmir Chawla MD | George Washington University | The Importance of the AKI to CKD Transition in Cardiac Surgery | ||
2016 | Tirone E. David MD, FRCS | University of Toronto | Valve Sparing Aortic Surgical Procedures | |
2017 | P. J. Devereaux MD, PhD | McMaster University | Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery: What Will It Take to Improve? | |
2018 | David Mazer MD, FRCPC | University of Toronto | Clinical Trials and Cardiac Surgery | |
2019 | Annette Vegas MD, FRCPC | University of Toronto | Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Past, Present, and Future | |
2020 | Peter G. Brindley MD, FRCPC, FRCP (Edin) | University of Alberta | Resuscitation Ethics: Why Do We Bother!? | |
2021 | Hilary Grocott MD, FRCPC, FASE | University of Manitoba | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: and other Implications for Research and Progress in Cardiac Anesthesia | |
2022 | Eric Jacobsohn MBChB, MPHE, FRCPC | University of Manitoba | (Un) Professional Behavior in the Cardiac Theatre: Surely Not Problematic in 2022? | |
2023 | Philip Jones MD, MSc, FRCPC | University of Western Ontario | False Discoveries — How Research Design and Analysis Influences Anesthesia Knowledge | |
2024 | Louise Sun MD, FRCPC | Stanford University | My Journey with Big Data and Bioengineering | |
2025 | Andre Y. Denault MD, PhD, FRCPC, FASE, ABM-CCM, FCCS | Montreal Heart Institute | Hemodynamics | |
2026 | Alain Deschamps MD, PhD, FRCPC | Montreal Heart Institute | Neuromonitoring for Personalized Cardiac Anesthesia | |