Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 10:00 am – 10:20 am

CONCURRENT SESSION – PART 1 (A)

Advances and Challenges in Obesity Management

Optimizing Surgical Outcomes:  The Role of Prehabilitation in General Surgery

Speaker: 

Dr. Franco Carli, MD, MPhil, FRCA, FRCPC

Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University

Academic Profile

• Master Philosophy (Surgical metabolism, University of London): Stable isotope studies of protein metabolism in surgical patient (1993)
• Wesley Bourne Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesia, McGill University (1994-2004)
• Associate Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University (1994-present)
• Professor Emeritus, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicne, McGill University ( 2025--)

Administrative Profile

• Member elect, American Academy of Anesthesiology
• Founding Member of the International Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society, 
• President of the Canadian Anesthesiologist Society International Education Foundation
• President of the Peri-Operative Program (POP) Charitable Foundation  
• Board member of the International Prehabilitation Society 

Award

• Gold Medal, Canadian Anesthesiologists Society, 2012

Research 

• Metabolic response to surgery. 
• Mechanisms of ERAS, prehabilitation, postoperative recovery  
• Author of over 390 peer-review scientific articles  (H-index = 78)
• Recipient of over 60 peer and non peer-review grants.