Keira P. Mason, M.D., Co-Program Director

Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine

Dr. Mason was Director of Radiology Anesthesia and Sedation at Boston Children’s Hospital for almost 17 years. She has edited three textbooks on Pediatric Sedation and co-edited a textbook entitled Total Intravenous Anesthesia and Target Controlled Infusions. She has served on FDA advisories for sedation, chaired international sedation task forces, created Adverse Event Sedation Reporting Tools which are in widespread, on-line use, and has conducted FDA approved pediatric studies using Dexmedetomidine. As Co-Chair of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Taskforce for Sedation and Sedation Continuing Education Committee on Sedation and Anesthesia, she had a leadership role in restructuring the dental continuing education requirements in the United States. She is on the Editorial Board of British Journal of Anesthesia and has held committee positions and chair positions at the ESA, ASA. and SAMBA.