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2006
NEW FRONTIERS IN ANAESTHETIC PHARMACOLOGY
PROFESSOR STEVEN SHAFER
(United States)
My professional interests are the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs. This has led me to clinical studies of many of the intravenous opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. However, my passion is not the drugs themselves, but rather the mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These include conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of drug interaction, models of receptor function that help elucidate mechanisms of drug action, and models that relate drug response to "in silico" pharmacogenetics.
Total Intravenous Anesthesia
Anesthesia
Regional Anesthesia
2007
ANAESTHESIA & THE BRAIN
DR. ANTHONY ABSALOM
(United Kingdom)
Editor, British Journal of Anaesthesia Honorary Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge University Editorial board member, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care President, Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia Consultant, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
2008
CLOSED CLAIMS & MEDICO-LEGAL ISSUES IN ANAESTHESIA
PROFESSOR FREDERICK CHENEY
University Of Washington SEATTLE
(United States)
Professor Emeritus (clinically active) &
Former Chairman, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana 46217
United States
Description
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) is the pioneer organization dedicated to assuring patient safety. Formed in 1985 with the mission that "no patient shall be harmed from anesthesia," APSF has been the leader in the proactive, successful efforts to dramatically improve the safety of anesthesia administration and reduce adverse events
2009
REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA
RECENT DEVOLMENTS & OUTCOMES
PROFESSOR VINCENT CHAN BSc, MDCM, LMCC, FRCPC
(Canada)
Dr. Vincent Chan received a Bachelor of Science degree (Biochemistry, Honors) in 1976 and his MD degree in 1980 from McGill University, Montreal. He obtained postgraduate training in Anesthesiology at University of Toronto, Toronto and board certification (FRCPC, Anesthesia) in 1986. Dr. Chan is acknowledged by his colleagues as an international leader in the fields of regional anesthesia and pain medicine. In 2009, he was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the highest personal award in recognition of his contribution to anesthesia in Canada through excellence in teaching, research, professional practice in the field of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia. He was President of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, he was conferred with the award of the FRCA Fellowship by Election by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK). In May 2013, he received the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Teaching Recognition Award for Achievement in Education. In October 2013, he received the Distinguished Service Award from European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy (Spain) for outstanding clinical, educational and scientific achievements in anesthesiology, and for contributions to the increased knowledge and practice of regional anesthesia.
Dr. Chan also serves on the editorial board of the Anesthesia Analgesia Journal and Regional Anesthesia Pain Medicine Journal. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 14 book chapters and over 80 scientific abstracts. Dr. Chan has performed 46 visiting professorships in North America and abroad and given over 120 international and 90 domestic lectures. He has trained more than 40 postgraduate clinical and research fellows during his academic career. Other significant hospital and university contributions he has made are: Chair of Research Committee (1997-2001, University of Toronto), Head of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Program, Department of Anesthesia (2001-present, University Health Network), Chair of the Academic Committee, Department of Anesthesia (2006-present, Toronto Western Hospital).
2010
TRAUMA & THE ANAESTHETIST
PROFESSOR ARTHUR LAM
(United States)
2011
THE HIGH RISK SURGICAL PATIENT - MYTHS & FACTS
DR. NEIL SONI
(United Kingdom)
Neil Soni, MBChB, FANZCA, FRCA, FJFICM, MD is Consultant in Intensive Care and Anesthesia at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. He is a co-author of Oh’s Intensive Care Manual, 6th Edition and Anesthesia and Critical Care: An Exam Revision Companion.
Dr. Soni performed his undergraduate work at the University of Bristol, after which he received his training in medicine, anesthesia, and intensive care at Westmead in Sydney, Australia, at the then newly opened Level 1 Trauma Centre. He returned to the UK in 1985, becoming a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at The Magill Department of Anaesthetics at The Westminster Hospital in London, with responsibility for the ICU.
Dr. Soni has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, nine textbooks, and several highly influential editorials. He has also taken action throughout his career to support and improve medical education objectives, content, delivery, and assessment. Dr. Soni was one of the earliest UK examiners for the European Diploma in Intensive Care, and was a driving force in the development of the UK Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine, becoming an examiner in 1998 and chairman of examiners between 2005 and 2009.
2012
METABOLISM & ANAESTHESIA
PROFESSOR GEORGE M. HALL
(United Kingdom)
Professor George M Hall is Professor of Anaesthesia at St George's, University of London.
His main research interests are in the area of endocrine and metabolic problems associated with anaesthesia. He has built a career around investigating the stress response to surgery. He prefers working with non-clinicians and has enjoyed fruitful research collaborations with a variety of disciplines: agricultural physiology, veterinary anaesthesia, basic endocrinology, exercise physiology and psychology.
Professor George M Hall is a distinguished scientist, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of London and the Chairman of the Editorial board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, at the time book was written, and has been involvedin the complex process of publishing scientific papers for many years. His book How to write a paper is must-have reading for anyone who wishes to become skilled in scientific writing. The book is comprehensive, easily readable and full of practical issues and advices coming from the editor’s own experience.
Although in the twilight of his career he is still passionate about research and intends to bother PubMed with Hall GM for the next five years. The physiological response to exercise is dependent on the intensity, duration and frequency of the exercise as well as the environmental conditions. During physical exercise, requirements for oxygen and substrate in skeletal muscle are increased, as are the removal of metabolites and carbon dioxide. Chemical, mechanical and thermal stimuli affect alterations in metabolic, cardiovascular and ventilatory function in order to meet these increased demands.
Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 4 Number 6 2004 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004
2013
OBSTETRIC ANAESTHESIA & ANALGESIA: FACTS & FALACIES
DR. STEVEN YENTIS
(United Kingdom)
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer Editor-in-Chief,
Anaesthesia Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
Dr Steve Yentis is research lead for the obstetric anaesthetic service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and supervisor of the Obstetric Anaesthesia Fellowship programme which he set up in 2005. He is co-lead anaesthetic assessor of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and a past Hon. Secretary of the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association.
He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia and an Officer of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and past Chairman of the Riverside Research Ethics Committee and ex-Council member of the Comittee on Publication Ethics. Dr Yentis's interests include all aspects of obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia, airway management, and research methods/use of evidence. He lectures widely on these and other topics.
2014
AIRWAY ISSUES IN ANAESTHETSIA
DR. ELLEN O'SULLIVAN MB,BCh,BAO ; FRCA ; FCARCSI
(Ireland)
President, College of Anaesthetists, Dublin MB, BCh, BAO ; FRCA; FCAI; FCPSP(Hon)
Dr. Ellen O’Sullivan is currently a Consultant Anaesthetist at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and honorary lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. She trained in anaesthesia in the UK and spent 10 years as a Consultant at the University Hospital Aintree, Merseyside. Dr O’Sullivan is Chairman of the Education Committee of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland. She is also Project Director of the Irish College’s Overseas Aid programme in Malawi. Dr. O’Sullivan was first elected onto the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) in 2001. She is presently Vice-President of the AAGBI. With an active interest in European anaesthesia she is Hon Secretary of the European Board Anaesthesiology of the UEMS (Union of European Medical Specialists)) Her main clinical/ research interests include airway management. She has been involved in the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) since it’s foundation and was elected President of DAS in November 2009.
Dr. Ellen O‟Sullivan is a Consultant Anaesthetist at St. James‟s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and honorary lecturer at Trinity College Dublin since 1999. She trained in anaesthesia in the UK and USA and spent 10 years as a Consultant at the University Hospital Aintree, Merseyside. UK. Dr O‟Sullivan is President of the College of Anaesthetist of Ireland since May 2012 having held many posts in the College including Chair of Education and Chair of Examinations. She is a member of the Executive of the postgraduate forum of training bodies in Ireland. She is also Project Director of the Irish College‟s Overseas Aid programme in Malawi. Dr O‟Sullivan was first elected onto the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) in 2001 and is immediate past Vice-President of the AAGBI . She received the John Snow Silver Medal for her contributions to the AAGBI. Ellen‟s main clinical/ research interests include airway management. She has been involved in the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) since it‟s foundation and was elected President of DAS in November 2009. This is the largest Airway Management Society in the world, she has presented and published widely in this area. Ellen is also a member of the Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. Another of Ellen‟s interests is Audit and she sits on the Advisory Board of NOCA - the National Office of Clinical Audit in Ireland and is presently the Irish Lead on a joint national audit project of the AAGBI and the RCoA on accidental awareness under anaesthesia.
Dr Ellen O'Sullivan (2012, 2014, 2015)
Dr Ellen O’ Sullivan FCAI, FRCA is President of the Irish College of Anaesthetists. Trained in Liverpool and the USA ,and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists as well as the Irish College, she has recently been appointed Deputy Chair of the Forum of Irish Postgraduate Training Bodies. Ellen was President of the Difficult Airways Society and her clinical practice at St James hospital, Dublin, involves all aspects of complex airway management . She is Co-Chair of World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM) 2015. Dr. O’Sullivan was first elected onto the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) in 2001 and is immediate past Vice-President of the AAGBI. International and third world work form an important part of her CV with early contributions to validating what later became the Life Box Pulse-Oximetry project which has now been rolled out worldwide. She has made many visits to Africa especially to Uganda and Malawi on behalf of her College and AAGBI.
On a European platform Ellen has served as Secretary and Treasurer of the European Board of Anaesthesiology of the Union of European Medical Specialists. UEMS is the official EU presence of specialist medical practice within the European Union and is responsible for standards and patient safety as well as CPD. Her work with the RCOA and the British Journal of Anaesthesia led to the adoption by the Irish College of the BJA as their official Journal. Ellen now serves on the journal’s editorial board. Working with the RCOA and with the AAGBI she brought the Irish College and Irish hospitals into the National Audit Project, NAP5 and served as the Irish Lead.
2015
FLUID THERAPY - LIBERAL, RESTRICTIVE OR GOAL DIRIECTED
PROFESSOR MICHAEL 'MONTY' MYTHEN
MB BS MD FRCA FFICM FCAI (Hon)
(United Kingdom)
Monty is the Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at University College London. Director of The UCL Discovery Lab at The London 2012 Olympic legacy Institute of Sport Exercise and Health. Before returning to the UK, Monty was an assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Centre and acting Chief of Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology.
Monty is also an Elected Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Leads their Perioperative Medicine Programme; Chair of The Board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia; A Director of Xtreme-Everest; Co-Chairman of Evidence Based Peri-operative Medicine (EBPOM). Board member and Chair of the advisory board of the American Society of Enhanced Recovery (ASER). Monty was National Clinical Lead at the UK Department of Health for the Enhanced Recovery Partnership in the English NHS from May 09 - March 2013.
Monty is the Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care University College London, UK. Director of The UCL Discovery Lab at The Institute of Sport Exercise and Health and a National Clinical Advisor UK Department of Health on Enhanced Recovery after Surgery.
Monty is also an Elected Council Member Royal College of Anaesthetists. Chair of The Board and Council Member of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia. Editor-in-Chief Perioperative Medicine. Editorial board member: British Journal of Anaesthesia; Critical Care and Co-Chairman of Evidence Based Peri-operative Medicine (EBPOM).
Prof Michael (Monty) Mythen completed his UK anaesthesia fellowship (FRCA) in 1990, and then went on to gain an MD in 1995 and was appointed assistant professor at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA before returning to the UK. He has a wide range of research interests including; peri-operative fluid management and trans-oesophageal Doppler, haemostasis in the critically ill, endotoxin and endotoxin immunity and the determinants of post-operative morbidity and mortality. He is a prolific author and has extensive editorial involvement with a number of anaesthetic and critical care journals. He recently took part in the 'Caudwell Xtreme Everest' project and as project leader spent three months as the laboratory manager at The Smiths Medical High altitude laboratory, Namche, Nepal (3,500m).
2016
VASCULAR ANAESTHESIA - TRENDS & CONTROVERSIES
DR. ALASTAIR F. NIMMO
(United Kingdom)
Alastair F. Nimmo is a Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK. He has been a consultant anaesthetist specialising in vascular anaesthesia at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for 15 years. His clinical and research interests include anaesthesia for TAAA surgery, the diagnosis and management of coagulopathy during surgery and the management of patients with cardiac disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery. He helped establish a national service for Scottish patients undergoing TAAA surgery and works for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service as a Lead Clinician for Better Blood Transfusion. He is currently President of the UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia.
2017
FOUR SEASONS IN ONE DAY
PROFESSOR JAIDEEP PANDIT
(United Kingdom)
I am a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals. I trained in Medicine at Oxford (Corpus Christi College) and obtained a First in Physiology along with University prizes in Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology. After a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to support a DPhil in Respiratory Physiology, I undertook anaesthetic training in the Oxford region. I was Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (1998-9), appointed to my NHS Consultant post at the John Radcliffe in 1999 and elected to St John’s 2000.
National and Specialty Roles
I was the Academic Strategy Officer of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2005-7), publishing the National Strategy for Academic Anaesthesia – a policy document commissioned to help prepare the specialty nationally for changes in academic medical training. Formerly I have been a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (until 2010), examining the MRCS exams. During 2015-16 I served as external Examiner to the University of Kent. I'm an Editor of Anaesthesia and sit on the Research Council of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia and is Scientific Officer of the national Difficult Airway Society (the largest specialist society in anaesthetics in the UK). In 2010 I was elected Chairman of the John Radcliffe Medical Staff Committee (chairman of consultants) for a 4-year term and the first consultant re-elected to a second term 2014. In 2014 I published the international report (NAP5, UK and Ireland) on ‘Accidental Awareness during General Anaesthesia’, culmination of a 4-year Royal College project making over 60 recommendations for clinical practice. In 2016, I was appointed by NHS England to be a Clinical Associate, to advise on its New Care Models program.
At the University I have been Chairman of Examiners, Graduate-Entry Medical Exams and have served as examiner for Final Honour School. I am Training Program Director for over 400 NHS consultants in Oxford, supervising their specialist registration as trainers with the General Medical Council, and through NHS England is seconded part-time to advise as Associate Director of Education to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals, where he sits on the development board of the new Aston Medical School.
National and international awards include the Royal College Gold (Jubilee) Medal (2000), Humphry Davy Medal (2006), Macintosh Professorship (2012), and the Spring Silver Medal (2012) of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland. In 2013 I was Visiting Professor of the US Society of Anesthesiologists’ Foundation for Education & Research and have been Visiting Professor 2015 to several US centres (Anesthesia at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida and Harvard Universities; Neurology at University of Texas Southwestern) and appointed Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. I delivered the Victor Horsley Lecture of the British Medical Association 2015 and in 2017 will be Jobson Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Research Interests
As a Fellow of St John’s College, I teach Systems Physiology and Pharmacology. My research interests include: respiratory physiology, anaesthesia and critical care, health economics and operating room management and mechanisms of anaesthetic drug action.
My research interests span several broad themes.
Oxygen sensing, respiratory control and anaesthetics
I study how anaesthetic agents suppress the hypoxic ventilatory response, to try and understand how better to preserve this important protective reflex in anaesthesia and post-surgery. I use a range of techniques, from studies in human volunteers to experiments in isolated carotid body cells (using intracellular calcium imaging and patch clamping electrophysiology). I have also studied the problem using transgenic (knockout) mice using plethysmography.
Management of the difficult airway and difficult tracheal intubation
Clinically connected to the theme of oxygen sensing and hypoxia, I undertake clinical investigations into the problem presented by patients (often with anatomical abnormalities) who are difficult to intubate using conventional techniques. I have helped develop a range of methods and application of equipment better to manage this problem: hypoxia during tracheal intubation remains the most important cause of anaesthetic-related mortalilty and morbidity.
Mechanisms of anaesthesia and depth of anaesthesia monitoring
I led the largest ever study into the problem of 'accidental awareness during general anaesthesia' and arising from that is a workstream that broadly addresses the question of 'mechanisms' of anaesthesia (including its monitoring). I am using a range of methods, from observations in patients to (with collaborators) studies of electrical activity in rodent brain slices. Other aspects of this work involve better understanding issues of consent, medicolegal analysis of cases, and improving the psychological support for affected patients.
Operating Theatre Management
I have published widely on the topic of 'surgical operating theatre efficiency', defining quantitative measures that are now adopted by several NHS Trusts across the UK, and by companies that produce software to monitor theatre performance. I am myself supplicating for a doctoral degree (DM) based on this work.
Regional anaesthesia for carotid endarterectomy surgery
I am interested in clinical studies assessing the utility of various regional techniques used during this type of surgery, to make it safer. This has resulted in definition of a new block (the intermediate) and anatomical discoveries that have led to a co-written chapter in the iconic Gray's Anatomy.
2019
"A BREATH OF FRESH AIR"
ADVANCES IN PERIOPERATIVE RESPIRATORY MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANDREW LUMB
[United Kingdom]
Andy Lumb trained in anaesthesia in various London hospitals, including a two year research fellowship with Dr John Nunn on the effects of general anaesthesia on respiratory mechanics. On completing training in 1994Andy returned to his native Yorkshire for a consultant post, and now specialises in anaesthesia for thoracic and acute surgery. Recent committee memberships include being thoracic anaesthesia representative for the Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care, and for the cardiothoracic chapter of the Royal College of Anaesthetists [RCoA] Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthetic Services document.
His research interest include multiple aspects of respiratory physiology and their application in anaesthetised patients, including mathematical modelling of airway gas flows and clinical projects on lung function during anaesthesia. He was selected to serve as an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) from 2018.
Andy is involved in medical education at all levels from 1st year medical student to senior trainees. This includes medical school admissions, developing and delivering student projects, and managing the Research, Evaluation and Special Studies (RESS) strand of the MB ChB course in Leeds. In post-graduate training he teaches at many local, nation and international courses and conferences and has recently completed an extended term as an examiner and Vice Chair of the Final FRCA. He continues to work with the RCoA investigation differential attainment in the FRCA.
He is autor of numerous book chapters and reviews, including being sole author of four editions of Nunn's Applied Respiratory Physiology: this 'standard text' of respiratory physiology remains popular throughout the world, including in non-english speaking regions with both Italian and Spanish translations currently available. Andy is also a member of the editorial board of the BJA Education (formerly Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain) which provides a range of CPD articles, with more than 200 000 downloads per year worldwide.
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2023
'THE VULNERABLE BRAIN & PLANET'
Due to unforseen complications due to the Covid-19 pandemic & the international travel restrictions, in March 2023 no specific Jobson Visiting Professor has been extended an official invitation. Instead we have sourced renowned speakers from both Australia & New Zealand.