Day 1
October 9th, 2026
Friday
08:30 AM – 09:30 AM | Session 1: Airway Assessment
08:30 AM – 08:35 AM | Introduction and calling chair persons
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08:35 AM – 08:50 AM | The Evolution of Airway Assessment: From Bedside Tests to Precision Airway Medicine
Tanmay Tiwari
08:50 AM – 09:05 AM | Ultrasound in Airway Assessment: The New Stethoscope?
Anilkumar M R
09:05 AM – 09:20 AM | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Difficult Airway Prediction
Govindraj Bhat
09:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Session 2: Videolaryngoscopy
09:30 AM – 09:50 AM | Beyond the View: Why Good Glottic Visualization Does Not Always Mean Easy
Intubation
Apeksh Patwa
09:50 AM – 10:10 AM | Videolaryngoscopy Across the Spectrum of the Difficult Airway
Pankaj Kundra
10:10 AM – 10:15 AM | Discussion and session change time
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10:15 AM – 11:10 AM | Session 3: Oxygenation
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Oxygenation: The Neglected Pillar of Airway Management
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10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | THRIVE and High-Flow Nasal Oxygen in Airway Management
Sheila Myatra
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Optimizing Preoxygenation in High-Risk Patients
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11:10 AM – 12:15 PM | Session 4: Oration
11:10 AM – 12:00 PM | Oration
Dr Sumalatha Shetty
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM | Fellowship Awards
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12:00 PM – 01:20 PM | Session 5: Guidelines session
Chairpersons:
Dr Syed Moied
Dr Rakesh Garg
Dr Apeksh Patwa
Dr Amit Shah
All guideline members
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM | Guideline Introduction (Introduction / Methodology/Delphi), Adult Airway Guidelines
Dr Sheila
12:20 PM – 12:30 PM | Obstetric Airway Guidelines
Dr Ramkumar
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM | Paediatric Airway Guidelines
Dr Jeson
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM | Extubation Guidelines
Dr Pankaj Kundra
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM | ICU Guideline
Dr Divatia
01:20 PM – 02:10 PM | Session 6: Speciality Airway
01:20 PM – 01:35 PM | Modern Strategies in Obstetric Airway Management
Amit Shah
01:35 PM – 01:50 PM | Protecting the Brain While Securing the Airway
Zulfiqar Ali
01:55 PM – 02:10 PM | Safe Extubation in 2026: From Risk Assessment to Rescue
Syed Moied
02:40 PM – 03:35 PM | Session 7: Supraglottic Airway
02:40 PM – 02:55 PM | Update on newer SGAs
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02:55 PM – 03:10 PM | Intubation Through SGAs: Bridging Rescue Oxygenation to Definitive Airway
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03:10 PM – 03:25 PM | Mastering the Supraglottic Airway: Practical Strategies for Effective SGA Use
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03:35 PM – 04:30 PM | Session 8: Mixed Bag
03:35 PM – 03:50 PM | Complete ventilation failure: Applying AIDAA Guidelines in Adults, Children, Obstetrics and Extubation
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03:50 PM – 04:05 PM | The Awake Airway: From Fear to Confidence
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04:05 PM – 04:20 PM | Human Factors: The 4th Dimension
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04:30 PM – 05:15 PM | Session 9
04:30 PM – 04:45 PM | The Physiologically Difficult Airway
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04:45 PM – 05:00 PM | Research in Airway
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05:00 PM – 05:15 PM | Mentorship in Airway Management
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Day 2
October 10th, 2026
Saturday
08:30 AM – 09:30 AM | Session 1: Paediatric
08:30 AM – 08:35 AM | Introduction
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08:35 AM – 08:50 AM | The "Wet" Airway: Managing Secretions
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08:50 AM – 09:05 AM | Airway in Syndromic Children
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09:05 AM – 09:20 AM | Foreign Body Aspiration: Tips & Tricks
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09:30 AM – 10:25 AM | Session 2: Trauma
09:30 AM – 09:45 AM | Videolaryngoscopy in Trauma Airway Management
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09:45 AM – 10:00 AM | Maxillofacial Trauma & "The Bloody Pipe"
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10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | The Unstable C-Spine in Neurosurgery
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10:25 AM – 11:10 AM | Session 3: Practical Pearls
10:25 AM – 10:40 AM | Ten Practical Pearls Airway Management Outside the Operating Room
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10:40 AM – 10:55 AM | Ten Practical Pearls for Managing the Obese Airway
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10:55 AM – 11:00 AM | Ten Practical Pearls in Head & Neck Cancer Airway Management
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11:15 AM – 12:20 PM | Session 4: Balance View
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM | VL for Every Patient: Yes vs. No
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11:30 AM – 11:50 AM | Awake VL vs. Awake Fibreoptic
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11:50 AM – 12:10 PM | Sugammadex for All Difficult Airways?
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12:20 PM – 01:20 PM | Session 5: Panel Discussion
12:20 PM – 12:35 PM | Topic TBA
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12:35 PM – 12:50 PM | Topic TBA
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12:50 PM – 01:05 PM | Topic TBA
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01:20 PM – 02:10 PM | Session 6
01:20 PM – 01:35 PM | LASER Safety & Airway Protection
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01:35 PM – 01:50 PM | Troubleshooting the Malpositioned DLT
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02:40 PM – 03:35 PM | Session 7
02:40 PM – 02:55 PM | The Head & Neck Cancer Airway: Anticipation, Preparation, and Rescue
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02:55 PM – 03:10 PM | Topic TBA
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03:10 PM – 03:25 PM | Topic TBA
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03:35 PM – 04:30 PM | Session 8: Panel Discussion
03:35 PM – 03:50 PM | Topic TBA
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03:50 PM – 04:05 PM | Topic TBA
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04:05 PM – 04:20 PM | Topic TBA
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04:30 PM – 05:15 PM | Session 9: Emergency
04:30 PM – 04:45 PM | Topic TBA
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04:45 PM – 05:00 PM | Topic TBA
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05:00 PM – 05:15 PM | Topic TBA
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08:30 AM – 09:30 AM | Session 1: Case Scenarios
08:30 AM – 08:35 AM | TBA
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08:35 AM – 08:50 AM | Airway Management in Huge Goiter
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08:50 AM – 09:05 AM | Airway Management in TMJ Ankylosis
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09:05 AM – 09:20 AM | Airway Management in Ludwig’s Angina
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09:30 AM – 10:25 AM | Session 2: Case Scenarios
09:30 AM – 09:45 AM | Airway Management in Maxillofacial Trauma
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09:45 AM – 10:00 AM | Airway Management in Post-Radiotherapy Patients
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10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Airway management for EBUS
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10:25 AM – 11:00 AM | Session 3: Panel Discussion Paediatric
10:25 AM – 10:40 AM | Airway Management in Pierre Robin Sequence
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10:40 AM – 10:55 AM | Airway Management in Laser Surgery
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10:55 AM – 11:00 AM | Airway Management in Foreign Body Aspiration
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01:20 PM – 02:10 PM | Session 4: Panel Discussion
01:20 PM – 01:32 PM | Topic TBA
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01:32 PM – 01:44 PM | Topic TBA
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01:44 PM – 01:56 PM | Topic TBA
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02:10 PM – 04:05 PM | Session 5: Video Based Presentation
02:10 PM – 02:25 PM | Blocks and topical techniques for awake airway management
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02:25 PM – 02:40 PM | Awake videolaryngoscopy guided intubation
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02:40 PM – 02:55 PM | Submental approach for Intubation
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02:55 PM – 03:10 PM | Intubation with videostylet
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03:10 PM – 03:25 PM | Staged Extubation of “at risk” airway
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03:25 PM – 03:40 PM | “stab-twist-bougie-tube” on manikin/cadaver
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03:40 PM – 03:55 PM | Percutaneous Tracheostomy
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04:05 PM – 05:05 PM | Session 6: Video Based Presentation
04:05 PM – 04:20 PM | Confirmation of proper SGA Placement
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04:20 PM – 04:35 PM | Troubleshooting of SGA malpositions
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04:35 PM – 04:50 PM | Intubation through SGA
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Day 1
October 11th, 2026
Sunday
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM | Opening Ceremony
Chairpersons
Dr. Rakesh Garg
India
Dr. Ravi Bhagrath
UK
Dr. Dziuba Dmytro
Ukraine
Opening Ceremony
Dr. Rakesh Garg
IAMM 2026 Chair | India
Dr. Ravi Bhagrath
IAMM 2026 Co-Chair | UK
Dr. Dziuba Dmytro
IAMM 2026 Co-Chair | Ukraine
Dr. Ellen O'Sullivan
WAMM Executive Director | Ireland
Dr. Alistair F. McNarry
Difficult Airway Society (DAS) President | UK
Dr. Daniel Perin
Society for Airway Management (SAM) President | Brazil
Dr. Vicente F. Faraon
Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (SBA) President | Brazil
Dr. Oraluxana Rodanant
Thai Airway Management Society (TAMS) President & RCAT President-Elect | Thailand
Dr. Kemal Tolga Saracoglu
European Airway Management Society (EAMS) President | USA
Dr. Louise Ellard
Safe Airway Society (SAS) President | Australia
Dr. Ross Hofmeyr
African Airway Society (AA) President | South Africa
Dr. Wenxian Li
Chinese Alliance of Airway Management (CAAM) President | China
Dr. Nabil Shallik
Difficult Airway Management Society (DAM) President | Qatar
Dr. Hans Huitink
Airway Management Academy (AMA) President | Netherlands
Dr. Syed M. Ahmed
All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA) President | India
Dr. Huafeng Wei
International Airway Management Society (IAMS) President | USA
08:30 AM – 08:50 AM | Keynote Lecture 1
Chairpersons:
Dr. Syed Moied
India
Dr. Ramkumar
India
Dr. Wong
Canada
08:30 AM – 08:50 AM | Innovation in Anesthesia and a review of trends in AI Anesthesia research
Dr. John A. Pacey
Inventor of video laryngoscope, Canada
08:50 AM – 09:55 AM | Session 1: Quality Improvement and Safety in Airway Practice
Chairpersons:
Dr. He Ma
China
Dr. Sumalatha
India
Dr. Manjuladevi
India
08:50 AM – 09:05 AM | ABS Algorithm for Difficult-Airway Management and Practice
Dr. Wuhua Ma
China
09:05 AM – 09:20 AM | ATI: Just for the Braves or Routine Airway Management Technique?
Dr. Gerardo Cortese
Italy
09:20 AM – 09:35 AM | Strategies to reduce risk associated with extubation
Dr. Louise Ellard
Australia
09:35 AM – 09:50 AM | Application of intubating SAD in airway management of morbidly obese patients
Dr. Ming Tian
China
10:15 AM – 11:05 AM | Session 2: Complex & Innovative Airway Management in Practice
Chairpersons:
Dr. Koji Nishikawa
Japan
Dr. Anilkumar MR
India
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
India
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Management of Difficult Thoracic Airways / One Lung Ventilation with Pre-existing Tracheostomies
Dr. Gurmukh Sahota
USA
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Innovative LMA-assisted intubation: Four evidence-based and practical approaches
Dr. Mohamed ElKhatib
Qatar
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Airway Devices for GI endoscopy sedation
Dr. Basavana Goudra
USA
11:05 AM – 11:55 AM | Session 3: Jet Ventilation & Trauma Airway Management
Chairpersons:
Dr. Amit Shah
India
Dr. Pankaj Kundra
India
Dr. Ranjan R V
India
11:05 AM – 11:20 AM | Supraglottic Jet Oxygenation and Ventilation (SJOV) in Difficult Airway Management
Dr. Huafeng Wei
USA
11:20 AM – 11:35 AM | Airway Management for Trauma in Battlefield
Dr. Dziuba Dmytro
Ukraine
Sukhomovskyi Dmytro
Ukraine
11:35 AM – 11:50 AM | Jet ventilation and anesthesia strategies for interventional bronchoscopy
Dr. Qinghao Cheng
China
11:55 AM – 12:13 PM | Session 4: Top 3 Awarded Abstracts (5 min Oral Presentation, 1 min Q&A)
Chairpersons:
Dr. Sohan Solanki
India
Dr. Zulfiqar
India
Dr. Sarbari
India
11:55 AM – 12:01 PM | 1st Place
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12:01 PM – 12:07 PM | 2nd Place
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12:07 PM – 12:13 PM | 3rd Place
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12:13 PM – 01:03 PM | Session 5: Airway Management Education
Chairpersons:
Dr. Sujata Ghosh
India
Dr. Jyotsna Goswami
India
Dr. Lalit Raiger
India
12:13 PM – 12:28 PM | Building an Online Community for Airway Skills Training in China
Dr. Wenxian Li
China
12:28 PM – 12:43 PM | Training in Awake Tracheal Intubation Techniques
Dr. Patrick A. Ward
UK
12:43 PM – 12:58 PM | Virtual Reality Airway Management Training
Dr. Caoimhe C. Duffy
02:20 PM – 03:10 PM | Session 6: Obstetric & Pediatric Airway Management
Chairpersons:
Dr. Jeson R Doctor
India
Dr. Apeksh Patwa
India
Dr. Ravindra US
India
02:20 PM – 02:35 PM | Difficult Pediatric Airway: Lessons Learned from Challenging Cases
Dr. Kemal Tolga Saracoglu
USA
02:35 PM – 02:50 PM | Key Points in the Optimal Airway Management of the Obese Parturient
Dr. Ayten Saracoglu
USA
02:50 PM – 03:05 PM | Pediatric Difficult Airway
Dr. Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz
USA
03:10 PM – 04:00 PM | Session 7: Pro - Con Debate
Session Moderators
Dr. Namratha Ranganath
India
Dr. Jyoti Sharma
India
03:10 PM – 03:20 PM | DEBATE: Should video laryngoscope be universal for tracheal intubation? (PRO)
Dr. Alistair F. McNarry
UK
03:20 PM – 03:30 PM | DEBATE: Should video laryngoscope be universal for tracheal intubation? (CON)
Dr. Rakesh Garg
India
03:35 PM – 03:45 PM | DEBATE: Management of the emergency front-of-neck airway: single technique or multiple approaches? (PRO)
Dr. Nabil Shallik
Qatar
03:45 PM – 03:55 PM | DEBATE: Management of the emergency front-of-neck airway: single technique or multiple approaches? (CON)
Dr. Sohel Ahmed
Qatar
04:20 PM – 04:55 PM | Session 8: Strategies for Oxygenation and Crisis Airway Management
Chairpersons:
Dr. Anup N R
India
Dr. Tanmay Tiwari
India
04:20 PM – 04:35 PM | Leadership in Airway Crises
Dr. Gary A. Bass
USA
04:35 PM – 04:50 PM | Nasopharyngeal oxygenation – the way to safe teaching of Video laryngoscopy in developing countries
Dr. Maksym Pylypenko
Ukraine
04:55 PM – 05:40 PM | Session 9: International Airway Cases & Grand Panel Presentation
Session Moderators
Dr. Daniel Perin
Brazil
Dr. Ravi Bhagrath
UK
Dr. Huafeng Wei
USA
04:55 PM – 05:40 PM | Interactive Case Lineup & Global Panel Review
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Sugammadex-induced cardiac arrest
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Hypoxia in morbidly obese patient under sedation
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Esophageal Intubation
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Cannot intubate and cannot ventilate emergent airway
Panel Discussion:
Dr. Louise Ellard
Australia
Dr. Yong Wang
China
Dr. Amit Shah
India
Dr. Syed M. Ahmed
India
Dr. Dziuba Dmytro
Ukraine
Dr. Kemal Tolga Saracoglu
USA
Dr. Xiaoyan Zhang
USA
Dr. Faisal Shamim
Pakistan
05:40 PM – 06:00 PM | Keynote Lecture 2
Chairpersons:
Dr. Pankaj Kundra
India
Dr. Jigi Divatia
India
Dr. Sheila N Myatra
India
05:40 PM – 06:00 PM | New Difficult Airway Management Guideline by Difficult Airway Society
Dr. Ellen O’Sullivan
Ireland
06:00 PM – 06:10 PM | Prize Giving & Closing Ceremony
Advisory Chairs
Dr. Pankaj KundraIndia
Dr. Jigi DivatiaIndia
Dr. Sheila N MyatraIndia
IAMM & IAMS Grand Organizing Secretariat Valedictory Board
Dr. Rakesh GargIAMM 2026 Chair | India
Dr. Ravi BhagrathIAMM 2026 Co-Chair | UK
Dr. Dziuba DmytroIAMM 2026 Co-Chair | Ukraine
Dr. Syed M. AhmedAIDAA President | India
Dr. Ming TianIAMS Award Committee Chair | China
Dr. Wuhua MaIAMS New President | China
Dr. Huafeng WeiIAMS Resigning President & Board Chair | USA