Speakers

Internacional Speakers:

Albert Cheung
USA
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University

Alberto Guillermo Dorsa
Argentina
Head of Transesophagic Echocardiography subject of the Anesthesia Residency Program from UBA, AAARBA, Asociación de Anestésia, Analgésia y Reanimación de Buenos Aires.

Alexander Mittnacht
USA
Professor of Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY

Alexandru Gottlieb
USA
Staff Anesthesiologist Department of General Anesthesiology – Cleveland Clinic Hospital – Cleveland Ohio, USA

Andrew Klein
UK
Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia.

Andrew Shaw
USA

Annette Vegas
USA
Dr Vegas is a professor of anaesthesiology at the University of Toronto and an elected fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE).

Anoushka Afonso
USA
Board-certified physician in both Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine. Director of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Burkhard Mackensen
USA
MD, PhD, FASE, Dr. G. Burkhard Mackensen is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA.

Chirojit Mukherjee
Germany
MD.PhD.FASE,MBA Chairman,Department of Anesthesia & Intensive care / Chairman,EACTA echo committee for perioperative echocardiography.

Christopher Troianos
USA
MD, FASE Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute of the Cleveland Clinic – USA

Daniel BainbridgeCanada

Daniel Bainbridge
Canada
Vice President of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society.

Daniel Bolliger
Switzerland
Responsible for the patient blood management at the Department of Anesthesiology, Basel University Hospital

David Mazer
Canada
Professor in the Departments of Anesthesia and Physiology at the University of Toronto.

Davy Cheng
Canada
Distinguished University Professor & Chair-Chief in the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine; and consultant in Critical Care Medicine at Western University, London, Canada.

Donna Greenhalgh
UK
Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaestheist and Intensivist at the University Hospital of South Manchester.

Douglas C. Shook
USA
Currently the Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship Program Director and the Director for Interventional Cardiac Anesthesia Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Eric W. Nelson
USA
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston

Fabio Guarracino
Italy
He was appointed Director of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 2002 and Head of the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in 2011 at Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana in Pisa, Italy. In 2016, he was elected President-elect of European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology (EACTA).

Fani Nhuch
Canada
Instructor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto and staff anesthesiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto

Florian Rivera Nuevo
Philippines
Consultant for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia – University of Santo Tomas Hospital

George Djaiani
Canada
Currently working as a Consultant Anesthetist and Intensivist at Toronto General Hospital, and he is also a Professor of Anesthesia at University of Toronto.

Henrique Vale
USA
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; Transplant Anesthesia Director (8/2016-Present); Simulation Director for the Department of Anesthesiology(9/2015-Present); Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia (9/2014-Present)
 
 

Hilary Grocott
Canada
Professor in the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Hushan Ao
China
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology – Chair of Department of Health Insurance – China.

Jae-Hyon Bahk
Korea
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at SNU College of Medicine and a Director of the Perioperative Services at SNU Hospital.

James DiNardo
USA
Professor of Anaesthesia – Harvard Medical School – Chief, Division of Cardiac Anesthesia.

Janet Martin
Canada
Director of the Centre for Medical Evidence, Decision Integrity & Clinical Impact (MEDICI), Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Surgery & Anesthesia – Canada

Jean Francois Pittet
USA
Dr. Pittet worked in Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he holds the title of David H. Chestnut Professor of Anesthesiology.

Joerg Ender
Germany
Director of Department for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Heart Center, University Leipzig

Joseph Szokol
USA
Harris Family Foundation Chairman – Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine – Evanston, Illinois

Joseph Mathew
USA
Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairman of the Department Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine

Juan Carlos Bianco
Argentina
Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires

Justiaan Swanevelder
South Africa
Professor and Head of Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine University of Cape Town Health Sciences Faculty

Karel Cvachovec
Czech
Acquired medical education at Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. He remained at Motol University Hospital as Assistent, later Associate Professor, acquiring full Professorship in 2005. Many times reelected President of the Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, member of the Board of the Czech Medical Society.

Kathryn Glas
USA
Professor, Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine

Kenichi Tanaka
USA
Dr. Tanaka holds a professorship in Anesthesiology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, and is currently a director of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology at University of Maryland Medical Center.

Linda Shore-Lesserson
USA
Professor of Anesthesiology Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine and director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology in the Northwell Health System in New York

Hong Liu
USA
Vice President International Chinese Academy of Anesthesiology (ICAA) (www.icaahq.org) – Director, International Collaborations, The Society of Chinese Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology (CSCTVA)

Luiz Maracaja
USA

Manfred Seeberger
Switzerland
Manfred Seeberger is Swiss board certified in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He is the head of anaesthesia at the Klinik Hirslanden in Zürich, and a professor of anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Maria Carolina Schulmeyer
Chile
Anaesthesiologist at Universidad de Valparaiso, CHILE

Marcelo Gama de Abreu
Germany
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Michael Sander
Germany
Head of the department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Giessen, Germany in 2015.

Nian Chih HWANG
Singapore
Executive member of the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists; Member of the Advisory Group for World Federation of Society of Anaesthesiologists. Director, PostGraduate Medical Institute, Singapore General Hospital

Pablo Motta
USA
Dr. Motta´s practice currently is restricted to pediatric cardiac anesthesia. He is currently board certified in Anesthesia and Pediatric Anesthesia through ABA system.

Prakash Patel
USA
Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Peter Juhl-Olsen
Dinamarca
Specialist at the Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, and specializes in cardiothoracic and vascular anaesthesia

Peter Slinger
Canada
Professor of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, member of the Anesthesia Staff Toronto General Hospital

Peter RosseelNetherlands

Peter Rosseel
Netherlands

Philip Devereaux
Canada
Full Professor and University Scholar in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and Medicine at McMaster University

Rodrigo Diaz
Chile
Anesthesiologist at Clinica las Condes – Chile – ECMO Unit Director

Roman M Sniecinski
USA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology / Director of Clinical and Translational Research Department of Anesthesiology – Emory University School of Medicine – Atlanta, GA

Scott Reeves
USA
Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

Stanton Shernan
Canada
Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and the Executive Vice-Chair and the Chief of the Cardiac Anesthesia Division in the Department of Anesthesiology

Sophia Ang
Singapore
Senior Consultant Anaesthesia in National University Hospital (Singapore).

Stephane Lambert
Canada
Associate Professor and Head / Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Steven Konstadt
USA
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Maimonides Medical Center and a Managing Partner of AABP

Tirone David
Canada
Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre

Vladimir CernyCzech Republic

Vladimir Cerny
Czech Republic
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care J.E. Purkinje University, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic – Staff Category: Chairman, Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

Wanda Popescu
USA
Director of the Thoracic and Vascular Anesthesia Section in the Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Weipeng Wang
China
Professor and Chairman / Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine / Shanghai DeltaHealth Hospital – China

Yatin Mehta
India
He is President Elect – Research Society of Anaesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology 2016 and President – The Simulation Society (India).

Yunseok Jean
Korea
Associate Professor in Anesthesiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

National Speakers:

Carlos Galhardo
Brazil
Director of Anesthesia for Heart Transplant, National Institute of Cardiology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Currently the president of cardiovascular and thoracic committee at the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology.

Carolina Baeta
Brazil
Preceptora do programa de residência médica em Anestesiologia, Dor e Terapia Intensiva da Universidade Federal de São Paulo.

Chiara Gatto
Brazil
Instrutora Co-responsável Residência Médica Anestesiologia – HCFMUSP

Claudia Simões
Brazil
Diretor of the anestesia residence program at the Sirio Libanese Hospital and Supervisor of Anesthesia Service at ICESP – São Paulo State Cancer Institute from São Paulo University.

Eric Benedet Lineburger
Brazil
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, UNESC and Coordinator of the Anesthesiology Residency Program

Fabiano Gouvea
Brazil
He chaired the Department of Anesthesiology at Hospital dos Servidores do Estado in Rio. stepping down after 22 years of chairmanship.

Fabio Papa
Brazil
Anestesiologista do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein e do Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia – SP

João Henrique Silva
Brazil
Anestesista Instituto de Cardiologia ICFUC – Porto Alegre

Luiz Fernando R. Falcão
Brazil
Professor and Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at Discipline of Anesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care Medicine, Paulista Medical School – Federal University of Sao Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP).

Marcello Salgado
Brazil
Director of the Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Course of the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (ETTI/SBA) – MG, Brasil.

Mauricio Daher
Brazil
Anesthesiologist and Researcher at Cardiology Institute of the Federal District – Brazil

Marcelo Ramalho
Brazil
Cardiovascular anesthesiologist (Hospital Copastar e Hospital Procardíaco)

Maria J.C.Carmona
Brazil
Director of Anesthesia Division – Central Institute of University of São Paulo Medical School

Rafael Linhares
Brazil
Chief of Anesthesiology of Miguel Couto Trauma Hospital, Rio de Janeiro; Chair of the Anesthesia Residency Program of Miguel Couto Trauma Hospital, Rio de Janeiro

Raffael Zamper
Brazil
Responsável SBA pelo CET do Hospital Israelita Albert Eintein Anestesista do programa de transplantes do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.