200+
Executive-Level Attendees
30+
Total Speakers
2 Days
of Sessions
Attending Becker's Perioperative Summit
Drive surgical excellence — join the leaders shaping what works next.
Perioperative performance shapes patient flow, experience, and financial health. This summit brings together C-suite and perioperative leaders to pressure-test strategies for OR efficiency, workforce models, case mix and scheduling, and technology that reduces waste while protecting quality, so you leave with clear next steps, not theory.
Top reasons to join us
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Improve OR throughput, raise on-time starts, reduce cancellations with proven scheduling and flow tactics
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Strengthen workforce performance with pragmatic models for nursing, anesthesia, and techs, built for retention and coverage
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Drive cost discipline across implants, supplies, and preference cards, protect quality while improving margin
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Optimize block time and access, align case mix, surgeon utilization, and downstream capacity
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Apply peer benchmarks and practical playbooks, learn what moved results at leading systems
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Leverage analytics and automation for scheduling, turnover, sterilization, and supply management, focus on measurable impact
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Leave with actionable next steps and governance guardrails, ready for 30, 60, and 90 days
Speakers
Join 30+ executive and perioperative leaders from leading health systems, sharing what works in surgical performance. Join peers driving measurable improvement.
Celebrity Keynotes To Be Announced
Featured Speakers

Mark-Alan Pizzini
MD, FACHE
Vice President, Perioperative Services and Chief, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Division
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Daphny Peneza
DNP, RN, CNOR, CSSM, FSIEN, FAORN
Perioperative Services Manager
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Mike Guertin
MD, MBA, CPE, FASA
Chief Perioperative Medical Director & Professor of Anesthesiology
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Kimberly Cantees
MD, MBA
Vice Chair, Community Engagement and Inclusion and Chief Anesthesiologist, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Department
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital

Neil Tanna
MD, MBA, FACS
Senior Vice President, System Perioperative Services and Strategy
Northwell Health
Sandeep S. Kashyap
MD, FICS
Surgical Director, Lung Cancer Screening and Thoracic and Esophageal Surgeon, CAMC Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery
Vandalia Health

Michael C. Lewis
MD, FASA
Chair, Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine Department, Henry Ford Health System; Professor and Chair, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Anesthesiology Professor, Wayne State University
Jeffrey B. Matthews
MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Dallas B. Phemister Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago Health System

Aaron Kalin
DO, MBA, CPE, D.ABA
Vice Chair, Surgery Department, Medical Director and Chief, Anesthesiology, and Hospital Board Member
Adventist Health and Rideout

Scott James
MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Growth Markets Provider Network
Parkview Health
Agenda
Keynote Highlights
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
2 Thursday
3 Friday
Specialized Forums
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