Professor Marc Van de Velde
(Interim ESRA President)

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Leuven, and Full professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KULeuven, Belgium

Research Interests: Obstetric anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, acute pain management

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): Honoraria for lectures and consultancy from CSL Behring, CSL Vifor, Viatris, Aquettant, BBraun and Werfen

Professor Henrik Kehlet (Denmark)

Professor of Surgery, Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Research Interests: Acute pain physiology and treatment, surgical pathophysiology and pathogenesis of peri-operative morbidity, aiming at accelerated postoperative recovery

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare currently or in the previous 3 years

 

Professor Dileep N. Lobo (UK)

Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Consultant Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgeon and Deputy Head of Division of the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals, UK

Clinical and research interests: Clinical interests focus on surgery of the pancreas and biliary tree. Research interests include surgical nutrition and metabolism, fluid and electrolyte balance and pancreatic cancer

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): An unrestricted educational grant from B Braun and speaker’s honoraria from Nestlé, Abbott and Corza for unrelated work

Professor Girish P. Joshi (USA)

Professor of Anaesthesiology and Pain Management University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA

Main interests: Perioperative pain management, ambulatory anaesthesia, Perioperative medicine

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): None

 

 

Professor Narinder Rawal (Sweden)

Department of Anaesthesiology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Main interests: Acute pain management, regional anaesthesia, organisational issues related to postoperative pain

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

 

Professor Patricia Lavand’homme (Belgium) 

Department of Anesthesiology and Acute Pain service, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, University Catholic of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Research interests: Postoperative pain (acute and chronic), pharmacology, orthopaedic anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): Grünenthal symposium

 

Professor Helene Beloeil (France) 

 

CHU Rennes, University Rennes, Inserm OSS1212, Rennes, France

Research Interests: Postoperative pain, non opioid analgesics, opioid free anesthesia/analgesia, regional analgesia

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26):  No conflicts of interest to declare

 

Professor Johan Raeder (Norway) 

Professor in Anaesthesiology and Consultant, Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Areas of interest: Postoperative pain; pharmacology of analgesics and anaesthtics; regional analgesia/anaesthesia, depht of anaesthesia monitoring, recovery function, PONV

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

 

Prof. Dr. Esther M. Pogatzki-Zahn (Germany) 

Anesthesiologist; Pain Specialist, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Germany

Research interests: Postoperative pain (acute and chronic), pharmacology of analgesics, regional analgesia, chronic pain (e.g. neuropathic), endometriosis-related pain, clinical trial design/methodology and health outcome research (including Core Outcome Sets), evidence-based medicine, proteomics, fMRI, basic neuroscience (pain mechanisms)

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): She received financial support from Merz Pharma, Germany

 

Axel R Sauter, MD PhD (Norway) 

Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway

Main interests: Anaesthesia for orthopaedic and reconstructive surgery, paediatric anaesthesia, acute pain therapy, regional anaesthesia, innovation technologies

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): Honoraria from B.Braun

 

Prof Dr Eric Albrecht, MD, DESA (Switzerland)

Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, Switzerland

Research interests: Meta-analyses and prospective trials on acute postoperative pain, regional procedures, complications after peripheral nerve blocks, and sleep apnea syndrome

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

 

Professor Marie-Pierre Bonnet, MD, PhD (France)

 

Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Perioperative Medicine
Sorbonne University
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Armand Trousseau Hospital, DMU DREAM, APHP, GRC 29, Paris, France

Obstetric, Perinatal, and Paediatric Life course Epidemiology (OPPaLE)
CRESS, Inserm UMR1153, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

Clinical and research interests: obstetric anesthesia, perinatal epidemiology, labor analgesia and severe maternal morbidity, postoperative analgesia overall

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): Honoraria for lectures from Ferring, 3M, Organon, Novo Nordisk, and Edwards Lifesciences

 

Professor Geertrui Dewinter, MD, PhD (Belgium)

Head of Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Clinical and research interests: acute pain management, enhanced recovery after surgery, PONV, abdominal transplantation anesthesia

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

 

Professor Christopher L. Wu (USA)

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology; Hospital for Special Surgery-Weill Cornell Medicine

Clinical and research interests: Postoperative and acute pain; Enhanced Recovery After Surgery; regional anaesthesia; opioid stewardship

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

Dr Neel Desai (UK) – ESRA representative

Roles and affiliation: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Clinical and research interests: obstetric, orthopaedic, plastics, regional and vascular anaesthesia

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): No conflicts of interest to declare

Dario Bugada, MD, PhD, EDRA (Italy) – ESRA representative

 

Roles and affiliation: CONSULTANT ANESTHESIOLOGIST – ASST Papa Giovanni XXXIII, Bergamo – Italy

Clinical and research interests: Acute pain medicine and perioperative care, regional anesthesia, translational medicine, education in regional anesthesia and pain medicine

Potential conflicts of interest (2025/26): Dario received Honoraria for Lectures by Aguettant and is currently part of the Editorial Board of Anaesthesia