Professor Marc Van de Velde

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: Professor Van de Velde is currently or was in the last three years a consultant for Smiths Medical, Medtronic, MSD, Nordic Pharma, Amneal, Grunenthal, HeronTx, Vifor Pharma, Flatmedical, Janssens Pharmaceuticals and Aguettant. He has received lecture fees in the last three years from Sintetica, Aspen, HeronTx, Aguettant, Nordic Pharma, Amneal, Grunenthal and MSD. Sintetica has supported one of his research projects.

 

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: Professor Kehlet has no conflicts of interest to declare currently or in the previous 3 years.

Prof. Dr.med. Stephan M. Freys (Germany)

 

Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, DIAKO Bremen, Germany

Research Interests: Acute Pain Management, Patient Controlled Analgesia, Innovative Techniques

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Grünenthal

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

Professor Girish Joshi (USA)

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

Main interests:
Acute pain management, ambulatory anaesthesia, clinical pharmacology related to anaesthesiology, postoperative outcome and safety.

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Pacira Pharmaceuticals and Mallinkrodt Pharmaceuticals

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 conflict of interest: Professor Rawal serves on the advisory board of Sintetica.

Professor Patricia Lavand’homme (Belgium) 

Department of Anesthesiology and Acute Pain service
Cliniques Universitaires st Luc
University Catholic of Louvain
Av Hippocrate 10- 1821
B-1200 Brussels
Belgium

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

Professor Helene Beloeil (France) 

CHU Rennes, University Rennes 1
Inserm Numecan
CIC 1414, 35033 Rennes
France

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

Conflict of interest: BBRAUN

Professor Johan Raeder (Norway) 

Professor in Anaesthesiology and Consultant
Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo
Pb: 4950 Nydalen
N-0424 Oslo, Norway

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

Prof. Dr. Esther 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 after surgery, chronic pain (e.g. neuropathic), basic neuroscience (pain mechanisms),

Conflict of interest: Mundipharma GmbH; Gruenenthal, The Medicine Company, Fresenius Kabi; ArcelRX

Axel Sauter, MD PhD (Norway) 

Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
Norway

Main interests: Orthopaedic anaesthesia, acute pain therapy, regional anaesthesia, innovation technologies.

Potential conflict of interest: B.Braun, Philips Healthcare

PD 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 conflict of interest: B.Braun

Professor Marie-Pierre Bonnet, M.D. Ph.D. (France)

Professor in anesthesia, intensive care and perioperative medicine, Sorbonne University, Trousseau Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France

Associate Researcher in Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team, EPOPé, Center for Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris University, INSERM, INRA, Paris, France

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

Potential conflicts of interest: Vifor Pharma group

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: none

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: None

Prof. Thomas Volk (Ex Officio) (Germany) 

Klinik Für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin Und Schmerztherapie
Saarland University Hospital
Homburg
SAARLAND
Germany