The strength of our vision lives in it’s collaborative and design forward approach: one that brings together clinicians, educators, and artists to create a different kind of learning. One that draws on the power of the creative arts to inspire and tell stories, on the sciences to improve our clinical practice, and on the diverse perspectives of our combined experience to deepen our knowledge. To successfully meet the challenges of lifelong learning in our current environment requires that we transform the learning space in medical education into one that is focused not just on what we learn, but on how we learn. We believe that the learning we consume as clinicians should inspire us; that it should be a source of resilience and well-being, and that by making it so, we will be more compassionate and consummate clinicians who are more prepared to use that knowledge at the bedside.

Ralph Slepian MD

Dr. Ralph Slepian is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Attending Anesthesiologist with the Department of Anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is a dedicated educator and long-time faculty of the course.

Ralph Slepian MD

Rohan Panchamia MD – director of the anatomically difficult learning space

Dr. Rohan Panchamia is a board-certified Anesthesiologist specializing in critical care medicine and transplant anesthesiology. He graduated from the Seven-Year Dual B.A./M.D. program at The George Washington University. Dr. Panchamia completed his anesthesia residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. He then pursued a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His clinical interests include critical care ultrasound, liver anesthesia, trauma anesthesia, advanced airway education, and resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography.  

PAC Program Director of the Anatomically Difficult Airway

Sean T Runnels M.D.

Dr. Runnels is the founder, inventor, and driving force behind Through The Cords. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah. He was fellowship trained as a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist at Cambridge University in the UK and has extensive experience in difficult airway management in both high resource and low resource settings. In 2015, he returned to his practice at the University of Utah after a three-year sabbatical teaching in Africa. He spent one year in Guinea on the surgical hospital ship Africa Mercy, and two years as faculty at the National University of Rwanda. He is focused on decreasing the costs of and simplifying difficult airway management with the long term goal of increasing access to surgical care in developing countries. 

PAC Faculty & Collaborator – Evolution of the Tube Introducer, Dynamic Tracheal Access

Miya Osaki

Miya Osaki is the chair of the Design For Social Innovation MFA program at School of Visual Arts.

Chair, MFA Design for Social Innovation

Sara Murphy DO – director of the PHYSIOLOGICALLY difficult airway learning space

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Sara Murphy DO – Director of the Physiologically Difficult Airway

Maria Lame md – director of the pediatric airway learning space

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Maria Lame MD – Director of the Pediatric Airway Installation

Wojciech “voy” piechowski

Wojciech Piechowski is a Physician Assistant for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he also serves as the Program Director of the Physician Assistant Residency. Passionate about education, Wojciech has been core faculty at the Protected Airway Collaborative (PAC) since its inception. He plays a crucial role in developing, planning, and producing educational content for the Airway Course and is in charge of audio production. Wojciech co-created the AIR-BOX, a simplified equipment storage unit for emergency airways, and authored a randomized simulation trial proving its effectiveness. He has recently led the incorporation of the PAC teaching style at the Transition to Residency course for Weill Cornell’s graduating medical students and at the national Clinical Updates in Emergency Medicine Conference for PAs and NPs. His professional interests include airway management, human factors in resuscitation, and equipment readiness for emergencies. He also enjoys playing guitar as well as recording and mixing sound, including a lot of the audio content you will hear during PAC.

Wojciech Piechowski PA – Director of the “Own the Head of the Bed” installation, Immersive Audio Director & AIR-BOX co-creator

Manager of Special Projects and Education at Weill Cornell Medicine