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2017; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/aco.0000000000000437

1473-6500

Hugo Van Aken, Paul M. Heerdt, Alexander Zarbock, Frances Chung,

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

Current Opinion in Anesthesiology was launched in 1988. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of anesthesiology is divided into 15 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Editors of the journal and the Section Editors for this issue. EDITORS Paul G. BarashPaul G. BarashPaul G. Barash, MD is currently Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology at Yale Medical School and has served as Chair of the Department, as well as Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs. In 2010 he was given the Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) in recognition of his contributions to the specialty of cardiac anesthesiology and the SCA. In addition to more than three hundred contributions to literature in the form of original scientific publications, reviews book chapters and abstracts, he is senior Editor of the Clinical Anesthesia series of textbooks and electronic media. The Lippincott-Raven Interactive Anesthesia CD, of which he is Senior Editor, has received the international Folio Award as the best teaching CD in Medicine, Science and Technology. He is also senior editor of the first anesthesia software designed specifically for personal digital assistants (PDA), Clinical Anesthesia for the PDA. The newest edition of Clinical Anesthesia (7 E) is the first truly electronic textbook of the 21st Century. Powered by the Inkling search engine the textbook is available on I Pad, Smartphone, the Web and Kindle. He is also senior editor of Clinical Anesthesia:Fundamentals, textbook aimed entry-level residents that emphasizes multimodal teaching formats. As a cardiac anesthesiologist, he has been repeatedly named in the Best Doctors in America publication. Paul served Chair of Multicenter Study for Perioperative Ischemia (McSPI), which is the largest group of investigators in the world studying perioperative cardiovascular complications; their publications have appeared in leading medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. He was selected by the Yale residents (2004) as Teacher of the Year. He has also been recognized for his teaching and achievements in education with awards from the International Anesthesia Research Society Teaching Recognition Award for Achievement (2014) and the Society of Education /Duke Award for Excellence and Innovation in Anesthesia Education (2015). At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the ASA, Paul was awarded The Excellence in Education Award; this is the first time this honor is being bestowed. His department at Yale established Annual Paul G. Barash Faculty Award for Excellence in Education and Leadership. He has served as President of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, the major professional group for his sub-specialty. In addition, he also served as a Senior Examiner for the certification process of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Finally, he was a consultant to NASA on Perioperative Medicine for Manned Space Flight (Anesthesia Pre and Post Flight Working Group). Hugo Van AkenHugo Van AkenDr Hugo Van Aken was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital WestfälischeWilhelms-UniversitätMünster, Germany from August 1995 onwards and became professor emeritus in August 2016. From 1986 until 1995 he was Professor and Chair at the Department of Anaesthesiology of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Since April 2015 he has been chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university hospital Bonn (Germany). He is currently Editor-in-Chief for Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology and Editor for Best Practice & Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology as well as a member of several anaesthetic international editorial boards and scientific societies. From 1999 to 2011 he has served as member of the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). From 2001 until the end of 2006, he was President of the DAAF (German Academy of Education in Anaesthesiology). From 2000 to 2004, he was President of the European Academy of Anaesthesiology (EAA). Following the amalgamation of the three major European anaesthesia organizations, he served as Secretary of the new European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) from 2005 to 2006. From 2008 to 2011 he has been Chairman of the National Anaesthesia Societies Committee (NASC) of the ESA. From 2007 to 2008 he was president of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive-Care Medicine (DGAI). Since 2009, he is Secretary General of the DGAI. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology (WFSA) and Liaison Officer for the World Health Organization (WHO) as member of the Executive Committee of the WFSA. Since 2013 he is founding chairman of European Patient Safety Foundation (EUPSF). Dr Van Aken has been an honorary member of the American Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA) since 1990. In 1992, he became an honorary member of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive-Care Therapy, and in 2000 he was made an honorary member of the Belgian Society of Anaesthesia and Resuscitation. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) and a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA). In 2003, he was elected as an honorary member of the Association of Anaesthesiologists of Georgia and as an honorary member of the American Society of Anesthesiology. In 2007, he was awarded honorary membership of the Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive-Care Medicine and in 2009 honorary membership of the German Society of Internal Medicine as well as honorary membership of the Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology. In 2009 he was appointed as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). In 2012 he became an honorary member of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology. In July 2015 he received for his outstanding activities in the Medical Field the Cross of Merit (First class) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Dr Van Aken is author of more than 587 articles in current content listed journals, and many chapters in national and international textbooks, and has a variety of major research interests including regional anesthesia, fluid management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, intestinal microcirculation and sepsis. SECTION EDITORS Paul M. HeerdtPaul M. HeerdtPaul M. Heerdt, MD, PhD is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr Heerdt earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in 1982 followed by a PhD in cardiovascular pharmacology in 1985. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and then a fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesia at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Following clinical training, Dr Heerdt remained on the faculty at Washington University for several years before moving to Cornell University in 1992. At Cornell, he was a faculty member in the departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology until 2015. During this time, Dr Heerdt directed the Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory as well as the Thoracic Anesthesia clinical service. Alexander ZarbockAlexander ZarbockUniv.-Prof. Dr med. Alexander Zarbock is the Director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany. He studied medicine at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and graduated in 2003. In May 2003 he began his clinical training in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Germany. In 2004 he finished his doctoral thesis. He graduated as a specialist in anesthesiology in 2010. In 2011 the graduation in intensive care medicine followed. In the context of a post-doctoral fellow stipend awarded by the German Research Foundation, he worked in the Cardiovascular Research Center of the University of Virginia and in the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (San Diego, CA, USA) from September 2005 to August 2008. Since September 2008 he works in Münster and became a senior staff anesthesiologist in December 2010. In the context of an Emmy-Noether stipend awarded by the German Research Foundation, he established his laboratory – in cooperation with the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (Director: Prof.Vestweber) – at the MPI. In 2010 he got the venialegendi for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. In 2012, Dr Zarbock was awarded with a Heisenberg-Professorship from the German-Research Foundation. He was appointed as Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in 2016. His basic scientific work focuses on the molecular mechanisms of leukocyte activation and recruitment in the context of systemic inflammatory diseases and acute kidney injury. His clinical research interests span various aspects of Critical Care Medicine, but center in critical care nephrology (renal replacement therapy), sepsis and organ protection. His current projects include measures to avoid acute kidney injury after surgery and the timing of renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. He is also author and co-author of over 120 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr Zarbock received several national and international awards. Frances ChungFrances ChungDr Frances Chung is a Professor of the Department of Anesthesia, University Health Network, and University of Toronto. She is a Past President for the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia and the Immediate President of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine. The multi-disciplinary research team that Dr Frances Chung leads is recognized nationally and internationally for contributing to several key areas of research in anesthesia. The research interests are: sleep apnea, patient safety, pain management, monitoring, perioperative medicine, and ambulatory anesthesia. She developed the Postanesthesia Discharge Score for the safe discharge of patients from ambulatory surgical unit to home. This score has been adopted worldwide. She developed the STOP-Bang questionnaire (www.stopbang.ca), a property of University Health Network. STOP-Bang is widely adopted by anesthesiologists, sleep physicians, ENT surgeons, dentists, and family physicians as a screening tool for patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea. In total, she has nearly 300 publications and was cited 14,080 times with an h-index of 48. Her research work has been recognized through multiple awards including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's McLaughlin-Gallie Visiting Professorship; the Research Recognition Award from the Canadian Anesthesiologist's Society; Research Award from the Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto; Fellow Teaching Award, University Health Network and the Distinguished Services Award from the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia. Due to her expertise, she was instrumental in developing twelve Guidelines for American Society of Anesthesiologists, Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine in ambulatory anesthesia, obstructive sleep apnea, morbid obesity, postoperative nausea and vomiting, and post-anesthesia care.