2026 SOAP PEAK Speakers - February 5, 2026

Iaonnis (Yanni) Angelidis, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA 

Dr. Kristen L. Fardelmann is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine with a focus in obstetric anesthesiology. She completed medical school at the University of Connecticut followed by anesthesiology residency at the New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. She then pursued obstetric anesthesiology fellowship training at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill before returning to Connecticut as a faculty member at Yale University. Dr. Fardelmann is passionate about obstetric anesthesiology, education, and optimizing maternal and neonatal outcomes. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Residency Program and has served as Associate Director for the Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship and Director of Residency Education for the Obstetric Anesthesia Division. With her dedication for obstetric anesthesia, she is Co-editor in Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia Digest and serves on many national committees within ASA and SOAP. Since 2022, she has served as Editor for the SOAP Newsletter. 

Dr. Fedoruk, raised in rural Canada, completed her medical training at the University of Saskatchewan, followed by an Obstetrical Anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford. After working at the University of Toronto (2017-2020), she joined Stanford as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2020 and became Quality Improvement Lead for Obstetric Anesthesiology in 2021. In addition to her work in QI, she is passionate about POCUS and simulation in obstetric anesthesiology.

She enjoys treating trainees to take-out on call and, when not at work, spending time outdoors with her husband and two young daughters and going home to Canada to ski.

Matthew Hire, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Emily Sharpe, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Caitlin Sutton, MD 
Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX