Our Educators
Founders & Faculty
Keira P Mason MD*
Cofounder of SAGE
SAGE Conference Director
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School and
Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Keira Mason, MD, is a double-boarded anesthesiologist in anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology, an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and a longtime clinician and educator at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her clinical and academic work focuses on anesthesia and sedation outside the operating room, pediatric sedation, and adverse events in anesthesia and sedation.
Dr. Mason has edited five textbooks, including Mason’s Pediatric Sedation Outside the Operating Room and Total Intravenous Anesthesia and Target Controlled Infusions: A Comprehensive Global Anthology. 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.She has delivered more than 160 invited lectures in over 35 countries and authored or co-authored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.
Steve Yun, MD*
Cofounder of SAGE
SAGE Conference Director
Clinical Professor at the Western University of Health Sciences, California
Expert Consultant for the Dental Board of California
Founder, Premier Dental Sedation Specialists
Clinical Professor at Western University
Dr. Yun is a board-certified anesthesiologist who specializes in dental office anesthesia. He obtained his M.D. with honors from the University of Southern California and completed his post-graduate training at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences. He is a Clinical Professor at the Western University of Health Sciences, and an Expert Consultant and Examiner for the Dental Board of California. He is a member of the Board of Counselors at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
He is a Medical Advisory Board member for Healthfirst, the leading provider of emergency medical supplies for dental offices in North America, and a medical consultant for DOCS Education. He has also served as Co-Course Director for Boston Children’s Hospital’s annual conference, Pediatric Sedation Outside the O.R. and is currently Co-Program Director for Snow and Sedation, a conference held in Park City, Utah.
He has extensive clinical research experience and as a popular speaker, gives numerous lectures across the country and internationally on patient safety issues.
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SAGE Medical Conferences is an independent entity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any academic institution or healthcare organization. Any institutional affiliations listed for faculty are provided for identification purposes only and do not imply institutional endorsement of SAGE programs
*SAGE Medical Conferences and the Co-Founders and course Co-Directors are acting as independent entities and is/are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any academic institution or healthcare organization. Any institutional affiliations listed for faculty are provided for identification purposes only and do not imply institutional endorsement of SAGE programs
FACULTY
SAGE faculty are experienced clinicians, educators, and speakers with expertise in sedation, anesthesia, airway management, office-based anesthesia, emergency preparedness, perioperative care, patient safety, pediatric care, pain management, and related fields.
We welcome inquiries from dentists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, dental anesthesiologists, physician anesthesiologists, CRNAs, AAs, and other qualified clinicians interested in teaching with SAGE.
Ideal faculty are thoughtful educators who can deliver practical, clinically relevant education in a way that is engaging, clear, and useful to a multi-specialty audience.
SAGE Medical Conferences was founded by Keira Mason, MD and Steve Yun, MD, who serve as Conference Co-Directors and oversee and develop all educational programming.
To inquire about future faculty opportunities, please contact Keira Mason at keira.mason@yahoo.com or Steve Yun at dryun@premier sedation.com
FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES
SAGE Medical Conferences brings together a select group of clinicians and educators to deliver high-quality sedation and anesthesia education in exceptional global settings.
We may include dentists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, dental anesthesiologists, physician anesthesiologists, CRNAs, hospital medicine, emergency medicine, pediatricians and other clinicians with expertise in sedation, anesthesia, airway management, office-based anesthesia, perioperative care, and patient safety.
SAGE faculty are thoughtful educators who value clarity, practical relevance, and engagement across a multi-specialty audience
All programs are developed and overseen by SAGE Co-Directors to ensure consistency, academic quality, and clinical relevance.
Inquire About Faculty Opportunities
Faculty inquiries may also be directed to:
keira.mason@yahoo.com
dryun@premiersedation.com