It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room weekend conference, Friday Fundamentals of Sedation: Reviewing the Basics, Bridging the Specialties Symposium, Friday Pediatric Sedation Simulation Workshop, and Saturday Pediatric  Dental Sedation Simulation Workshop. This year there will be presented again a unique, enriching, and exciting multidisciplinary conference.

The 11th annual conference will be hosted in San Francisco, CA.  As always, there are a diverse group of internationally and nationally recognized speakers and attendees from a variety of disciplines. The disciplines represented include anesthesiology, emergency medicine, dental medicine, hospital medicine, intensive care medicine, pediatrics, nursing, oncology, cardiology, radiology, hospital administration. Attendees travel from countries not limited to but including  Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Israel, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, and Singapore. The specialized tracks, roundtable luncheons, and open forums enable us to share our experiences, ideas, and challenges.