From 2006 until 2008 he was holding the position of Chair of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Bristol. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in both clinical and basic aspects of patient safety, Patient Blood Management and clotting, big data in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, innate immunity, cardiovascular and critical care medicine. Professor Zacharowski received his MD from the German University of Mainz and his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London (where he was working with the Nobel laureate Prof. Sir John Vane → discovered how aspirin works). Since 2016 he is one of the few members of the oldest academy of science in the world (Leopoldina).

His scientific contributions are published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Medicine, Lancet, NEJM and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (in PubMed are currently over 560 contributions listed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=zacharowski)) and were awarded with numerous awards for Innovative Clinical Research (e.g. in 2021 the Exzellenz-Award, in 2020 the Future Medicine Science Award, in 2018 the MSD Gesundheitspreis (3rd), in 2016 the German Price for Patient Safety, in 2015 the Humanitarian Award together with the US-Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, in 2014 the Lohfert Award for Patient Safety and in 2012 the United States Air Forces – Medal of Distinction…).

He is serving as Editor-in-Chief for Current Opinion of Anesthesiology and the Journal of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine as well as an Editorial Board member of numerous journals in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesia and is the CEO of the Lohfert Foundation and the Founder & CEO of the PBM Foundation.
From 2014 – 2018 Kai was serving as President of the Multiple Joint Committee Intensive Care Medicine (UEMS) (https://www.uems.eu/) and 2014 – 2018 as ESAIC Council Member for Germany (http://www.esahq.org/about-us/the-esa/council). 2013 – 2018 Kai was serving as a delegate for Germany UEMS Section & European Board of Anaesthesiology and from 2013 – 2020 as Deputy Medical Director of the University Hospital Frankfurt.
Kai is serving as the President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care (ESAIC) for the years 2020-2021, Honorary member of ESAIC, Ambassador for ESAIC for the years 2023-2027, and practicing Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in Frankfurt.

His research activities focus on optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients, with specific interest in PK/PD, therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics as well as antimicrobial stewardship. He is the past chairman of the ESICM Research Committee (2018-2021), and the 2022-2024 ESICM President-Elect.

His research lab is known as Intensive and Critical Care across the Lifespan with an internationally recognised and world-leading portfolio of studies in family-centred care and improving health outcomes of patients and families. Jos has published widely with international multi-disciplinary teams and is associate editor of several SCI journals.

She received her M.D. degree from Lausanne School of Medicine (Switzerland), and her medical Ph.D from the University of Umeå (Sweden). After a first specialty in Anesthesiology (Lausanne University), she became an intensive care specialist. She also trained as a nutritionist in Nancy (France) and acquired an MBA in health economics.

Prof. Berger has held positions as president and treasurer of the Swiss Society of Clinical Nutrition (SSNC), is member of the ESPEN-ICU guidelines group, Honorary member of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM and SSNC). She chairs the MN ESPEN guidelines and special interest group for micronutrients. Prof. Berger has authored over 290 publications on nutritional therapy for the critically ill, burn and trauma care, and micronutrients. She is also a teacher for the LLL-ESPEN training program and lecturing worldwide in 5 languages about individualized nutrition therapy, metabolism, and micronutrition.

She has contributed to developing the concept of monitoring nutrition therapy, promoting the use of indirect calorimetry. Committed to education, she has published multiple training documents.

He holds certifications in Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Chronic Pain Medicine. Eric is also board member of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA), and member of the PROSPECT working group.

His field of research includes meta-analyses and prospective trials on regional anesthesia, acute postoperative pain, opioid-free anesthesia and sleep apnea syndrome. He is the principal author of more than 120 peer-reviewed articles published in high profile journals and three French-language books. Prof. Albrecht also serves as associate editor for the journals Anaesthesia and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.

Until 2019, he worked as Clinical Professor in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in Belgium, and as President of the Belgian Pain Society.  

He is involved in clinical research, focussed on mainly perioperative epidemiology, pain and clinical pharmacology. For the last ten years, as principal investigator and/or national coordinator, he authored more than 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Conflict of interests: Board member of the European Pain Federation EFIC, Chair of the Societal Impact of Pain platform – SIP and of the Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) ESAIC Research Group, Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Senior/Academic/Associate Editor for the British Journal of Anaesthesia, BMC Anesthesiology and Anaesthesia, the Journal of Clinical Medicine, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, and expert for governments and scientific organisations, Cochrane and REDCap consortia member.

Patrice Forget received speaker/advisory board honoraria from Grunenthal, GE Healthcare and Oncomfort.

She is the Director of OxSTaR, the University of Oxford’s simulation and patient safety research centre, (www.oxstar.ox.ac.uk ). Helen has led and supported many safety incident investigations in the NHS and has delivered national training programmes in systems-based incident investigation. She was a founding executive member and a past president of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare in the UK and provides expert input for national committees in patient safety and human factors training, the Foundation Curriculum and the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group.

Her research interests include human factors applied to healthcare and clinical education using simulation and technology enhanced learning.

His specialist interest is difficult airway management and he is the clinical lead for airway management at the Trust and was the education lead for the Guy’s advanced airway fellowship for over 10 years, training 43 fellows during that time. Imran is the President of the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) UK, having been the Honorary Secretary for the preceding three years and have been a DAS committee member for over 11 years. Imran is also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London and Course Director for the Guy’s Airway Management Course. Has over 3000 citations and 100 peer reviewed publications which include three DAS guidelines (2015 DAS intubation guidelines, 2020 DAS ATI guidelines and 2021 DAS post thyroidectomy haematoma guidelines).
Imran has also been an invited contributing author to numerous airway management books, including Hagberg & Benumhof’s Airway Management book, Core Topics in Airway management and Virtual Endoscopy and 3D reconstructions in the airways.
Last year, Imran has had a number of innovative projects shortlisted for the finals of the national BMJ Awards 2021 and Nursing Times Awards 2021 for work on developing and delivering the High Intensity Theatre (HIT) lists to help reduce the surgical backlog and improve theatre efficiency. He also run many multidisciplinary international courses across various platforms, including the Guy’s Airway Management Course, one of which had over 20,000 delegates register.

She is member of WFSA Obstetric Anesthesia Committee and Council and Board member. She serves as EBA-UEMS Vice-President (European Board of Anesthesia of the European Union of Medical Specialists), and she’s been recently elected as ESAIC (European Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Board Member. She has served as ESAIC obstetric anesthesia committee for several years. She is author of nearly 100 papers in peer reviewed journals, and author of several book chapters in national and international books. She is the first author of the European minimum standards in Obstetric Anesthesia and analgesia, published in 2020. Dr. Guasch, has been awarded with several prizes, including the best National publication in Spain and the Gold medal of the German Society of Anesthesia 2022.

Moved to the UK where had additional specialist training in Anaesthesia at the University of Southampton. He also worked as Visiting Instructor in The University of Michigan in USA. His special interests are vascular anaesthesia and anaesthesia for robotic surgery. He runs a training programme on Conscious Sedation at Frimley Park Hospital.

Before moving to the USA for further clinical and basic sciences research, he served as an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Bozok University in Yozgat, Türkiye. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Research Scholar-Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine in Wisconsin, USA, and the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, USA.

Dr. OCAK’s areas of expertise include emergency medicine, critical care, neurological sciences, and translational medicine. As a member of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) for over a decade, he has contributed to its sections on pre-hospital medicine, toxicology, and ultrasound. Collaborating with researchers from China, Europe, Turkey, and the USA, he has authored, edited, and reviewed numerous scientific articles for prestigious academic journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6549-4246).

Beyond academia, Dr. OCAK actively participates in humanitarian efforts, especially in search and rescue operations during disasters. Based on his USG experience in emergency settings and as an international faculty member of the EuSEM Ultrasound section, he will lecture on ultrasound imaging at our congress.

He was amongst the first ED Physicians in the UK to adopt Point of Care Ultrasound running his first course in 2001 and has directed and taught on over 50 International Courses and currently directs EuSEM and UK RCEM US Courses.
He has co-authored 2 books on Ultrasound including Ultrasound in Emergency Care “ I believe Point of Care US is a major disruptive technology which will fundamentally change how we practice medicine over the next 20 years. To those who consider me a little obsessed by Ultrasound I would like to point out that I don’t just do Ultrasound……I do echo as well!!”

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