Consultant Anaesthetist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), MRCP, FRCA, EDRA

Training
Graduated University of Glasgow (1999)
Anaesthetic training in West of Scotland (2002-2009)
Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship Toronto Western Hospital (2008)

Current Appointment
Consultant Anaesthetist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary (2009-Present)
Lead Acute Pain Consultant for Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit (2009-Present)
Clinical Governance Lead (2015-Present)

Academic
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow (2018-Present)
Editorial board BJA Education (2017-Present)
National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia Co-opted board member (2018-Present)
RA Scientific Subcommittee European Society of Anaesthesiology (2018-Present)
Actively involved in ongoing research
Multiple peer reviewed RA publications and book chapters
Invited lecturer/faculty at variety of local/national/international USGRA meetings including ESRA/ASRA/Portugal/Qatar/Switzerland/Canada

Anthony (Tony) Absalom studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and underwent specialist training in East Anglia and Scotland in the UK.

He is currently Professor of Anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen University, Netherlands. For several years, his clinical interests have been procedural sedation, anaesthesia for neurosurgery, and intravenous anaesthesia techniques. His research interests are mostly in the domains of pharmacology and neuroscience. He is an editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, past President of the Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia, Chairman of the Neuroanaesthesia Section of the Dutch Association of Anaesthetists, and is currently Chair of the General Anaesthesia Scientific Sub-committee of the ESA.

Date of birth: October 4, 1955
Place of Birth: Baden-Baden, Germany
Citizenship: French

Service d'Anesthésie Réanimation Chirurgicale
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes

Faculty Positions Held
2016-Present
Research Center for Environmental and Occupational Health: IRSET-INSERM UMR 1085 Team:
Environmental Contaminants and Pulmonary Barrier (Fardel 0)

Hospital Positions Held
Medical Doctor (M.D.); Philosophical Degree (Ph.D.)

Honors
2001 - Third Prize (bronze laryngoscope) in SFAR (French Convention of Anesthesia and Intensive Care) meeting. Multistimulation during the infraclavicular block with neurostimulation. Ann Fr Anesth Réanim 20: R191

2003 - Abbott award winner Grant for: Research on iliac crest infiltration with local anesthetics. SFAR (French Convention of Anesthesia and Intensive Care) meeting

2004 - First Award (gold laryngoscope) in SFAR (French Convention of Anesthesia and Intensive Care) meeting. Neurotoxicity of amitriptyline. Ann Fr Anesth Réanim 23: R111

2006 - First Award in SFETD (Société Française d’Évaluation et Traitement de la Douleur; French IAPS Chapter) Meeting. Intra and inter-variations of intestinal obsorption of amitriptyline. Douleur 7: T049

2010 - First Prize of Board meeting organization for teaching and methodology: for the board of AFARCOT. DA3P meeting, Lyon

2011 - Nominated for the 2011 John J. Bonica Award. ASRA meeting 2011 New Orleans

Joaquim Mendes, born on November 2^nd 1965, PhD in Industrial Electronics, MSc in Computer & Industrial Engineering, Post-graduation in Automation and Management of Industrial Processes, and Graduation in Mechanical Engineering – Machine Design.

He is currently associated professor of the Automation, Instrumentation and Control group, of the Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; collaborating in the courses of Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Industrial Management. He is FCT – (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) integrated researcher of LAETA; and external researcher of UnIC - Cardiovascular Research and Development Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto.

He is senior member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros, and IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society of the IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

He was fellow of JNICT- Junta Nacional de Investigacao Científica (1989), and Science Technology Agency at Kanagawa Science Park, Tokyo, Japan (1995-99).

His main Interests are instrumentation, automation, medical devices, thermography.

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Professor Gerard Danjoux (MBBS, FRCA)
Graduated: Newcastle University (1989)
Anaesthetic training: Northern Deanery (1992–2002)
Fellowship training: Australia (1998/9) and Canada (2000/1)
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust (2002 to date)

Clinical interests
Preparation and perioperative care of patients for high-risk surgery
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and risk evaluation
Sleep Medicine

Quality Improvement
PREP - developed prehabilitation toolkit for primary care clinicians
PREPWELL – leading a regional programme with Public Health specialists to develop, implement and sustain a community-based health and wellbeing programme for patients before surgery

Research interests
Improving patient fitness for surgery through aerobic exercise training
Patient behaviour change preoperatively
Evaluating the effect of pharmacological interventions in simulated haemorrhage and tissue trauma – run volunteer programme with MOD
Preoperative screening for OSA

Other Roles
Visiting Professor at Teesside University and Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University
Research Lead Preoperative Association
Member of Perioperative Medicine Leadership Committee at RCoA
Faculty for European and National Perioperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Courses
Faculty for International Prehabilitation Society
Lead organiser 3rd World Congress in Prehabilitation (London 2019)
UK lead organiser of 2nd World Congress in Prehabilitation (Holland 2018)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Hospital Virgen De La Salud, 1997-2014
Anesthesiology Specialist in Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo
Pain Clinic, 1998-2014
Clinica Del Dolor De Toledo since 2005
Head Of Pain Unit Hospital Universitario La Paz Madrid (2014-Present)

EDUCATION BOARD CERTIFICATION
Medical Training, 1984/1990
Facultad De Medicina - Universidad Complutense De Madrid
Anesthesiology Board
Hospital Virgen De La Salud Toledo, 1993/1996
Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice, 2008
World Institute Of Pain, Budapest 2008
Part II Of Abipp (American Board Of Interventional Pain Practice), 2008

HONORS
World Institute Of Pain Hassenbusch Award 2008 Best Fipp Exam
Spanish Pain Society Best Communication In Spanish National Congress 2005,“Estimulación Magnética Transcraneal Repetitiva
En El Tratamiento Del Dolor Neuropático. Estudio Piloto”.
Sociedad Española De Anestesiología Y Reanimación Since 1996
Sociedad Española Del Dolor Since 1998
Sociedad Madrileña Del Dolor Since 2001
Geda (Grupo De Estudio Del Dolor Agudo) Since 2000
World Institute Of Pain (Wip) Since 2008
International Association For The Study Of Pain (Iasp) Since 2010
Sociedad De Castellano Manchega Del Dolor Since 2011
International Spine Intervention Society(Isis) Now Sis Since 2009

Ph.D. of Medicine and Surgery for the University Complutense of Madrid, December 10^th, 1996, with the unanimous CUM LAUDE AWARD.

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, critical care and pain therapy. Odontology School. Pharmacology Department. U.C.M. during the University Academic Courses in 1994-1995 and 1995-1996.

Associate Professor, Anesthesia and Critical Care. Pathology Department and Animal Surgery II. Veterinary School. Complutense University of Madrid. From academic year 2002-2003 to the present.

Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Surgery Department, for the Autonomous University of Madrid.  From the academic year 2003-2004 to the present.

Associate Editor, “Ibero-american Journal of non-invasive ventilation”. From May 2004 to the present.

Associate Editor,”Current Anesthesiology and Resuscitation”. From September 2005 to the present.

Associate Editor “Revista española de Anestesiología y Reaanimación” from january 2005 to the the present.

MBA in Healthcare Administration and Hospital Management. Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. Years 2008-2009.

President of the research and ethics committee (REC) of Puerta de Hierro Hospital. Madrid, from June 2011 to the present.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

AS A SPECIALIST IN PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA and CRITICAL CARE IN THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL “”LA PAZ” OF MADRID: From May 5 1997 until March 2011

Chairman of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Department. Puerta de Hierro University Hospital. Madrid. Spain. From April 2011 up to now.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

Patents: 1
Abstract oral presentations:135
Lectures: 192
Book Editor: 4
Book Chapters: 38
Director of Ph.D.: 6
Grants and Prizes: 12
Director of training courses: 34
Journal associated editor: 4
Journals Referee: 5
Indexed publications (Medline): 35; F.I. 49,51

Lars I Eriksson, MD, PhD, FRCA is Professor and Academic Chair of Anesthesiology and Intensive
Care Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet. He is Head of Research and Education and Staff
Anesthesiologist at Function Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at the Karolinska
University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden and since 2017 Senior Advisor to the Karolinska
Institutet Vice Chancellor.

Lars I Eriksson is heading a translational research program focusing on longterm impact by
anesthesia and surgery on higher brain functions and in particular the role of the brain immune
system. Funded by major national and international bodies, his research project includes
national and international collaborations within experimental, clinical and outcomes research.

Apart from his own research program, he has systematically built a broad translational research
platform for perioperative medicine and intensive care including experimental, clinical and
outcomes research facilities upon which an array of research and educational programs in
perioperative medicine and intensive care has been established. Since 2007, he serves as coeditor
for the Miller´s Textbook of Anesthesia and has been awarded the 2013 T. Cecil.Gray
Honorary Gold Medal from Liverpool University, UK, the 2019 James E Eckenhoff Lectureship at
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and he holds a Honorary Fellowship at the Royal
College of Anaesthetists, London, UK.

Active Member of the British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) (daysurgeryuk.net). I attended the national conferences in 2016 & 2018. I am a keen advocate of the benefits of day surgery, and strongly believe the Scottish NHS could do much more than it currently is. An interesting new area is the developing field of true day surgery hip and knee replacement which could be offered in up to 20% of arthroplasty patients. I would like to explore the development of this niche service to carefully selected patients.

Promoting Leadership Programme – I completed this enjoyable NHS Tayside organised and funded medical leadership educational course. This course consisted of is 5 whole day master classes and 6 half day business sessions.

British Medical Association member.

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (aagbi.org). It is not a coincidence that many high profile and successful medical leaders and managers in the UK are Anaesthetists. We are in a unique position to understand the complex relationships that exist in the modern NHS. We can be objective about re-configuration and development of particular areas of practice or NHS real estate and resources. The Learn@AAGBI website (which I helped to develop when I chaired the AAGBI e-Education Committee) has many video resources on aspects of medical leadership.

Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

I am a Medical Appraiser. I am the appraiser of 7 peers who come a wide range of specialties (only one is a fellow anaesthetist). The multi disciplinary spectrum of my appraisees gives me additional insight into areas of the organsiation that I’m less familiar with. I enjoy being an appraiser and believe in the value of the process to both the individual appraisees and the NHS.

Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz Małgorzata Anna MD PhD DEAA

Specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care

Diplomate of European Academy of Anaesthesiology

EDUCATION

1982-1987 Medical Faculty of The Medical University of Gdańsk

1987-1989 Clinical training Practical in the Clinics of the Medical University of Gdańsk (Oncological Surgery, Pediatrics, Gynecology, Cardiology)

1990 Heart Lung Institute of the University of Utrecht, Netherlands Personal invitation from Prof. F. Hitchkock Pediatric Cardiac Surgery ( Polish Programme) and Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery.

1990 (12) - 1995 Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care University of Warsaw

1992 Part I Specialty Examination in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

1992 (10-11) Hospital in Warms Germany – Teaching Hospital of the University in Mainz . Care Deutschland Scholarship ( Prof. W. Jellinghaus).

1993 Deppatment of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Univerity Hospital Ausgburg Germany

1993 (9) Rudolf Virchof Institute, Charite, The Medical University of Berlin Personal Invitation By Prof K. Falke ( Nitric Oxide, ECMO and ECCOR in ARDS )

1994- 1995 The Horton General Hospital- Teaching Hospital Of the University of Oxford ( SHO Dr. Barbara Thornley) , United Kingdom

1994 USMLE I

1994 (11) Nuffild Medical Centre of John Radclift Hospital Oxford ( training in anaesthesia in neurosurgery)

1994 (12) Guy`s StThomas` Hospital, London, United Kingdom ( training in anaesthesia in cardiac surgery Dr. C. Apt, and Dr.T Hunt).

1995 Part II Specialty Examination in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

2000 Part I European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

2001 PhD Thesis : Blunt cardiac trauma in population of Mazovian Region . Supervisor ; Prof E. Mayzner –Zawadzka

2002 Part II European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

CLINICAL EXPERENCE

1990- to date 1st Clinic in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care The Medical University of Warsaw. Poland ( full time assignment)

2001- to date Sfera -Clinic for plastic surgery. Warsaw , Poland ( part time assignment)

2001 POLIMED –pain clinic ( part time assignment)

2002- to date INIMED- European Centre for Matherhood ( part time assignment)

1995 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Regional Hospital Stadskanaal, Netherlands ( part time assignment)

1995-1998 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Regional Hospital Dirksland, Netherlands 1991- 1996 Department of Pediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care . Childrens Hospital of The Medical University of Warsaw

1992-1994 Department of Obstertic Anaesthesia. Maternity Hospital of The Medical University of Warsaw

2013-to date UCZKIN- University Center for Mother and Neonate

Peter Szolovits is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT.
His research centers on the application of AI methods to problems of medical decision making, natural language processing to extract meaningful data from clinical narratives, and the design of information systems for health care institutions and patients.
He has worked on problems of diagnosis, therapy planning, execution and monitoring for various medical conditions, computational aspects of genetic counseling, controlled sharing of health information, privacy and confidentiality issues in medical record systems, and integration of clinical and genomic data for translational medicine.
He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and was the 2013 recipient of the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence from the American College of Medical Informatics.

Roman Zuercher is an alumnus of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
As the former medical head of the orthopedic, obstetric and gynecological operating theatres, he has established ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia more than a decade ago as a standard practice at the University of Basel. He is particularly interested in the advancement of continuous nerve block techniques for pre- and postoperative pain control, regional anesthesia procedures to reduce chronic pain following surgical interventions as well as new concepts in anesthesia for cancer surgery. At the moment he is the Director of the Regional Anesthesia Program and Head of the Ambulatory Center at the Bethesda Hospital in Basel, Switzerland.

Roman is a dedicated clinical anesthesiologist with a keen interest in promoting and teaching regional anesthesia. His extracurricular interests include family outings with his wife Corinne and his three children in the mountains of his Swiss homeland.

Prof. Sharon Einav, MSc, MD

Affiliations:
Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem Israel  

Roles:
Chair, Systematic Review Group, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Associate Editor, Intensive Care Medicine
Past Chair, Intensive Care subcommittee, European Society of Anaesthesiology
Member, Data Use Committee, American Society of Anesthesiologists
Member, Disaster Response Steering Committee, American College of Chest Physicians
Director, Surgical Intensive Care, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem
President, Israel Society of Resuscitation (ISR)

Date of birth December 30th, 1961
Place of birth Meschede, Germany

Education (University, degree, doctorate and further graduations)
1982-1988 Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
June 1988 Final State Examination
July 1988 Approbation as Medical Doctor (MD)
1989 Promotion (Doctoral Thesis)
1995 Speciality in Anaesthesiology
1999 Habilitation, Associate Professor (Privat-Dozent)
2002 Speciality in Emergency Medicine
2003 Speciality in Intensive Care Medicine
2004 Full Professor

Previous employment

1988-1996
Department of Clinical Anaesthesiology, Heinrich-Heine-
University Düsseldorf, Germany

1996-1999
Institute of Experimental Anaesthesiology, Heinrich-Heine-
University Düsseldorf, Germany

2004-2009
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University
Hospital Rostock, Germany

1.1.2010-present
Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Center
Groningen, University of Groningen
Professor in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia

Fields of study
Hemodynamic Monitoring, Echocardiography,
Microcirculation and tissue oxygenation

Membership of scientific societies
European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA)
German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)
Dutch Society of Anesthesiology (NVA)
American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA)
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
German Sepsis Society (DSG)
International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA)