Partners
The Australian Society of Anaesthetists would like to thank our valued partners for their support of this congress.
Partners
The Australian Society of Anaesthetists would like to thank our valued partners for their support of this congress.
Professor Andrew Klein
Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist
Royal Papworth Hospital, UK
Professor Sheila Myatra
Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.
Past President, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)
Board Member, Global Sepsis Alliance
Past President, All India Difficult Airway Society (AIDAA)
Professor Alwin Chuan
PhD, MBBS (Hons), PGCertCU, FANZCA
Associate Professor Lachlan Miles
Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia at Austin Health
Honorary Principal Fellow of the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne
Honorary Principal Research Fellow and Perioperative Clinical Lead in the Preclinical Critical Care Unit of The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, VIC, AU
Associate Professor Lachlan Miles is a Staff Specialist and Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia at Austin Health, a Principal Research Fellow of the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne, an Honorary Principal Research Fellow and Perioperative Clinical Lead in the Preclinical Critical Care Unit of The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow. His subspecialty clinical practice involves cardiothoracic and major hepatobiliary anaesthesia (including liver transplant) and peri-operative medicine.
Lachlan’s academic work spans both clinical and translational research in collaboration with his colleagues at The Florey locally, and with multiple international groups. He is an experienced clinical triallist and member of the Executive of the ANZCA Clinical Trials Network. His major interests concern prevention of postoperative complications, right ventricular dysfunction and monitoring, and Patient Blood Management. He has published > 100 manuscripts in high-impact anaesthesia and general medicine journals in the last 10 years and has received > $10M in career research funding. He is an Editor of the journal Anaesthesia.
Dr Alicia Tucker
Senior Lecturer in Space Medicine, Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania
Emergency Medicine Physician, Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine Physician
Royal Hobart Hospital Emergency Department, Hobart, Tasmania
Dr Alicia Tucker is an Australian Emergency Medicine Physician with additional Specialist qualifications in Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine and Aerospace Medicine. Alicia also holds Fellowships with the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and the Academy of Extreme Environment Medicine. A native of Tasmania, Australia, the gateway to Antarctica, it was a natural progression for Alicia to become involved in Extreme Environment Medicine.
Alicia has worked as a Retrieval doctor with the Royal Australian Flying Doctors Service, and has ongoing roles as a Ship’s Physician to polar regions, an Event and Expedition Medical Officer and in International Medical Repatriation.
Alicia is currently working as a Staff Specialist in the Royal Hobart Hospital’s Emergency Department and in the Hospital’s Department of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. The facility’s chamber is unique in the Southern Hemisphere in that it is dual capable, Hyperbaric to 6ATA and Hypobaric up 100K ft. Alicia completes ‘fitness to fly’ and ‘fitness to dive’ medicals and is the lead facilitator for the facility’s Altitude Physiology Training Program.
A Senior Lecturer in Space Medicine at the University of Tasmania, Alicia has a particular interest in Space Medicine and in finding solutions to managing acute illness and injury beyond Low Earth Orbit and in the assessment and optimization of ‘fitness to fly’ for Commercial Spaceflight Participants. Alicia is an Associate Member of the ESA Topical Team on Spaceflight Decompression Sickness for Exploration Missions, a field she is particularly passionate about.
To gain a personal understanding of the challenges faced by Astronauts, Alicia has participated in two analogue space missions as an Analogue Astronaut on ‘Mars’ at the Mars Desert Research Station, USA, and more recently on the ‘Moon’ at LunAres, Poland. During the latter, she had roles as the Mission Commander and EVA Procedures Specialist.
Dr Dolores Taboada
Consultant Cardiologist
Royal Papworth Hospital, UK
Dr Dolores Taboada graduated with honours at Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Corrientes, Argentina in 1999 and completed her Internal Medicine specialty training in Buenos Aires in 2002. She qualified as a Cardiologist in 2009 after completing her cardiology specialty training in Madrid, Spain. She undertook a fellowship in Pulmonary Vascular Diseases at Papworth Hospital in September 2010 and has been working as a Consultant since July 2012.
Her research interests include chronic thromboembolic disease and the role of platelets in pulmonary arterial hypertension. With her work on platelet phenotype in pulmonary arterial hypertension, she has obtained an MPhil in Medical Science degree from the University of Cambridge in 2016.
Dr Taboada is experienced in the management of patients with all types of pulmonary hypertension and performs right heart catheterisation in complex pulmonary hypertension patients.
Dr Taboada is a member of the Royal College of Physicians in England, British Cardiovascular Society, European Society of Cardiology, ESC Heart Failure Association and International CTEPH Association.
Dr Guillermo Martinez
Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia & Intensive Care and Clinical Lead for Theatres
Royal Papworth Hospital, UK
Dr Guillermo Martinez completed his training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Madrid, Spain, before undertaking a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK.
He is a Consultant Anaesthetist specialising in cardiothoracic anaesthesia, with expertise in heart and lung transplantation, pulmonary endarterectomy, complex aortic surgery and ECMO.
Dr Martinez has a particular interest in the perioperative management of high-risk patients with pulmonary hypertension, including those undergoing non-cardiac surgery, balloon pulmonary angioplasty and pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He is also the Anaesthetic Lead for the Aortic Working Group at Royal Papworth Hospital.
Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg AM
Chair of Paediatric Anaesthesia, University of Western Australia
Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Perth Children’s Hospital
Head, Perioperative Medicine
Prof Britta von Ungern-Sternberg AM FAHMS is the Chair of Paediatric Anaesthesia at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and a Consultant Anaesthetist at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH). She is also the Director of the Institute for Paediatric Perioperative Excellence at UWA and Team Lead Perioperative Medicine at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
Britta is a highly experienced clinical trialist with an outstanding track record of impactful research and has led many clinical trials both nationally and internationally involving tens of thousands of children. She is a pioneer in the area of respiratory complications, the most common paediatric perioperative problem, and her patient-centred research has led to significant global practice changes and a reduction in complications around the world. Her entire research program is co-designed with consumers of all ages, ensuring that the children and their families are at the heart and centre of every research project, no matter how large or small.
Britta has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles. Her innovative research, challenging accepted knowledge, has influenced international guidelines e.g., the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway guidelines, global neonatal airway guidelines, and led to practice changes that optimise perioperative management in paediatric anaesthesia. It is well-known that there is a time lag of up to 17 years between research and implementation (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine PMID:22179294). However, Britta has an impressive record of rapid translation and implementation of her research findings. For example, research results of the RCTs VISI (Lancet 2020, PMID: 33308472) and OPTIMISE (Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 2023, PMID: 36436541) have rapidly incorporated into the Difficult Airway Guidelines of the American Society of Anesthesiology (01/2022, PMID:34762729, VISI only) and in Guidelines of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and British Journal of Anaesthesia (01/2024, PMID:38065762/P38018248).
Dr Jan Hansel
NIHR Doctoral Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine
Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine
Wythenshawe Hospital | University of Manchester | Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester
Dr Jan Hansel is an anaesthetist and intensivist in training in Manchester, UK, currently undertaking a PhD funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research at the University of Manchester.
In anaesthesia, his research involves applying evidence synthesis methods to improving airway management safety, whereas in the ICU, he is interested in precision approaches to antimicrobial pharmacology. His systematic reviews related to airway management have looked at a range of topics from airway management devices to diagnostic accuracy of clinical signs for excluding oesophageal intubation.
Professor Bernhard Riedel
Director, Department of Anaesthetics, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Medicine
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia
Professor Bernhard Riedel is the Director of Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Medicine at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior senior posts include Vice Chair at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Texas, USA), Professor of Cardiac Anaesthesia at Vanderbilt University (USA), and Consultant Anaesthetist at Royal Brompton-Harefield NHS Trust (London, UK).
His research focuses on the “hidden pandemic” of postoperative complications and death—now the third leading cause of mortality globally – which often impedes timely cancer treatment (adjuvant therapy) and cure. His research aims to reduce these adverse outcomes through innovative risk stratification and prehabilitation to reduced modifiable patient risk, and enhanced perioperative care optimisation to reduced variability in care delivery.
Professor Amit Pawa
Consultant Anaesthetist
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Amit Pawa is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead for Regional Anaesthesia at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and at Cleveland Clinic London. He is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA.
Amit is a Past President of RA-UK and the London Society of Regional Anaesthesia.
He has numerous publications in regional anaesthesia with over 4500 citations and teaches and lectures internationally.
Amit has created a series of Ultrasound Regional Anaesthesia Video tutorials on YouTube and co-hosts a Regional Anaesthesia Podcast called “Block It Like It’s Hot.
Associate Professor Lis Evered
Clinical Trials Unit Manager, Pathology, SVHM, Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Australia
Scientific Head of Research, Department of Anaesthesia, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor Lis Evered, Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Australia, and Scientific Head of Research, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. A/Prof Evered is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA).
A/Prof Evered has published extensively and holds many leadership appointments on scientific advisory panels, guideline development committees and relevant medical societies. A/Prof Evered is Geriatric Section Editor for Anesthesia & Analgesia and reviews for several high impact journals.
Her main area of research interest is untangling perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND), with a focus on postoperative delirium (POD) and progression to dementia, including biomarker and intervention strategies, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, to reduce or prevent these poor outcomes in older individuals.
A/Prof Evered was named Top Australian Researcher in Anesthesiology for 2023 and 2024 in the annual research report from our national newspaper, The Australian. She is currently working on the establishment of a Brain Health Biomarker Centre at Pathology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, for research and routine diagnostic assays for neurodegenerative diseases.