INVITED SPEAKERS
Benoit Vallet, MD, PhD
- Full Professor in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care in France
- Chair for the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Lille , 2005 – 2011
- Participated to the Board of Directors at his Institution since 2006
- Medical Director of the University Hospital.
- Member of the European Board of Anaesthesiology.
- President of the UEMS Multidisciplinary Joint Committee of Intensive Care Medicine Secretary of the Board of Intensive Care Medicine.
Evert Christiaan Boerma, MD, PhD
- Graduation Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands,1997
- Graduation Intensive Care Medicine, O.L.V.G. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1999
- European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine
- Senior Consultant, Medical Center Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
- Principal investigator clinical studies, Department of Translational Physiology, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ian Smith, BSc, MB BS, MD, FRCA
- Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia, Keele University
- Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent
- Immediate Past-President of the British Association of Day Surgery
- Editor of the Journal of One-day Surgery from 2004 to 2009
- Advisor to the Ambulatory Anaesthesia subcommittee of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists
- Examiner for the Final Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
JOHANNES WACKER , MD
- Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the Hirslanden Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland
- Lecturer, patient safety course for medical students, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- Member of the task group on quality documentation of the Swiss Society for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation SGAR.
- Member of the Subcommittee “Patient Safety” of the European Society of Anaesthesiology ESA
- Lecturer in the European Patient Safety Course of the ESA.
Lauren Berkow, MD
- Associate Professor, Division of Neuroanesthesia, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine,
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
- Associate Chief, Division of Neuroanesthesia
- Assistant Residency Director, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine,
- Director of Airway Services, Difficult Airway Education
- Director of Anesthesia Supplies and Equipment, At The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Society for Airway Management Board of Directors, Secretary, 2012-2015
Marc Van de Velde, MD, PhD
- Full Professor at the Leuven University Hospitals
- Clinical Director of Obstetric Anesthesia and Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room, until 2010
- Head of the Department Anesthesiology at the Catholic University Leuven, since 2010
- President of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy
- Chair of the Scientific Subcommittee on Obstetric Anesthesia of the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA)
Marcus Josephus Schultz, MD, PhD FCCP
- Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
- Internist – Critical Care Physician
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine
- Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology
- Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam
Margarida Pedrosa
- Degree in Psychology, University of Porto, Portugal
- Post-Graduation Diploma in Work Psychology, University of Porto, Portugal
- MBA in Business Administration, at PBS – Porto Business School, University of Porto
- Senior Lecturer at PBS – Porto Business School, University of Porto
- Specialization in Leadership Training, Communication, Organisational Development, Coaching, Talent Development and Change Management.
Oliver Kimberger, MD
- Associate professor for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Medical University of Vienna, Department of General Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
- Postgraduate study of statistics and biometry at the University of Heidelberg
Pedro de Pinho e Costa Amorim, MD
- Chief of Staff, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Portugal
- Attending Neuroanesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Portugal
- Associate Professor, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto
- Co-leader of a multidisciplinary research team named PharMaERIA
Peter John Dawson Andrews MD, MB ChB, FRCA
- Professor, Anaesthetics & Critical Care, University of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, RIE, Edinburgh
- Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland.