Organizing Committee Members
Organizing Committee Members
Dr. M. Scott Vandiver MD,PhD
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Dr. Vandiver completed his M.D.,Ph.D. and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and his critical care fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a faculty member at UCLA for the past 5 years where his clinical work has centered on cardiothoracic intensive care and neuroanesthesiology. His research work focuses on perioperative neurocognitive disorders, specifically in high risk populations such as lung and heart transplant. He has multiple publications investigating the underpinning mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases with over 1700 citations in total and is focused on the use of advanced imaging techniques to investigate structural brain alterations found in heart and lung transplant patients
Prof. Vladimir Cerny
Professor, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimir Cerny is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained both his medical degree and PhD at Charles University, where he also completed his residency in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. His current positions include Chairman and Professor of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at J.E. Purkinje University, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Professor and Senior Researcher at University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Adjunct Professor of Anaesthesiology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Prof. Cerny’s clinical interests include airway management in perioperative medicine and critical care, coagulation management. Currently, the main field of his experimental/clinical research is related to microcirculation and glycocalyx. He serves in several professional bodies, both nationally (currently as a President of the Czech Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care) and internationally (e.g. member of the European Board of Anesthesiology, ESAIC Guidelines Committee and ESAIC Ethics committee). Prof. Cerny has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and several textbooks at a national level. He has also coauthored all European guidelines on major trauma bleeding since 2007. Recently, he also served as a chairman of scientific committee for the World Congress of Anesthesiology held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. During COVID-19 he has served as a deputy of Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and as a National Coordinator for Intensive Care.
Dr. Galdy Wafie
Lecturer, Anesthesiologist department, Medical Faculty Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Galdy Wafie has Completed his Anesthesiologist and intensive care title in 2022 from Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), Medan, Indonesia. He is now a non-permanent lecturer at Anesthesiologist department in Medical Faculty Universitas Sumatera Utara, also a secretary in Medan Indonesian Doctor Association (IDI). He also one of administrator in North Sumatra Anesthesiologist Association (PERDATIN). He interested in Regional Anesthesia and Critical Care.
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag
Chief Surgical Officer, Senior Consultant, and Head of the Department in Anesthesia at ADK Hospital, Male’, Maldives
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag, a leading force in the field of anesthesiology and critical care in the Maldives. Dr. Razzag currently holds several prestigious positions, including President of the Maldivian Anesthesiologists Association and Vice President of the Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine in the Maldives. She also serves as the Chief Surgical Officer, Senior Consultant, and Head of the Department in Anesthesia at ADK Hospital, Male’, Maldives.
A trailblazer in her field, Dr. Dusooma has been pioneering cardiac surgery anaesthesia in the Maldives since 2018. She underwent an observership in Labour Analgesia at North Middlesex University Hospital in London in March 2019.and initiated Labour Analgesia services at ADK Hospital the same year.
Dr. Dusooma is also a certified Diving Medical Officer, having trained at the Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine Centre at Singapore General Hospital. In July 2023, she completed an online fellowship in Pain Medicine from the Aesculap Academy Daradia.
In addition to her clinical roles, Dr. Dusooma is a dedicated educator, serving as a lecturer in Anesthesiology at the Maldives National University. She has contributed to academic research as a journal reviewer for the Journal of the Society of Anesthesiologists of Nepal from 2019 to 2021.
With her extensive experience and unwavering dedication, Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag continues to shape the future of anesthesiology and critical care in the Maldives.
Dr. Natasa Kovac
Senior Consultant, UHC Sestre Milosrdince, Zagreb
Natasa has completed her M.D. and PhD at School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is a Senior Consultant at UHC Sestre milosrdince, Zagreb. She is active member of European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and Secretary of Croatian Society of Anaesthesiology, Reanimathology and Intensive medicine. Natasa was ESAIC Council member for Croatia for past 5 years. She participated as a lecturer at international professional meetings. Dr Kovac participated in writing several types of textbooks and professional literature, with WOS H-index 5. She is a reviewer in the medical journal PLOS ONE, Medicine.
Dr. Ankur Khandelwal
Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Guwahati, India
Dr. Ankur Khandelwal is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Guwahati, India. He is a qualified Neuroanaesthesiologist, Neurointensivist and Pain Specialist. He has more than 100 indexed publications in various national and international journals and more than 10 chapters in various Anaesthesiology and Neuroscience textbooks. He is serving as editorial board member in indexed journals like Asian Spine Journal, Medical Journal Armed Forces India, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, etc. He also serves as a reviewer for many indexed journals. He is an active member in various societies of Anaesthesiology and Neuroscience in India. He has been honored with various prestigious awards at National level.
Dr. Simant Kumar Jha
Associate Director, Dept. Of Critical Care Medicine, PSRI Multispeciality Hospital, Delhi, India
Dr. Simant Kumar Jha, DA, DNB, PGDHM, PDCR, EPHM (IIM Indore), FIPM, CCMLE, FCCM (USA), FICCM is the Associate Director, Department of Critical Care Medicine at PSRI Multispeciality Hospital, Delhi. He is a certified FCCS Consultant, FCCS-OB Consultant, FCCS Surgical Course Director, and ATLS Instructor. Dr. Jha serves as a reviewer for the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, Cureus Journal, IJA, and sits on the editorial board of JSSRP. He has over 20 publications and regularly contributes as a speaker, panelist, and chairperson in national and international conferences. He was an abstract reviewer and RST moderator at the 2025 Critical Care Congress, Orlando, and Criticare 2023. He is the Chief Editor of the ISCCM Trauma Manual and a recipient of the ISCCM Presidential Citation (2019) and SNCC Appreciation Award (2023). He holds FCCM and FICCM fellowships and has been a DrNB Critical Care teacher for the past two years.
Dr. Terrance Khastgir, M.D.
Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, USA
Dr. Terrance Khastgir started his journey in medicine in India where he graduated from medical college with distinction and secured 3rd position in the University. He did his residency in Internal medicine from prestigious John’s Hopkins and Sinai Hospital program in Baltimore Maryland. As a resident he participated in research projects and worked under the supervision of Chief of Cardiology. He presented two papers in World Electrophysiology Conference held in Washington DC. He got the best resident award for his outstanding performance as resident. While he was working as a resident he was appointed as Clinical Instructor in Medicine at John’s Hopkins University. He got the YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD from American College of chest physicians for his research work. He joined University of Oklahoma to peruse his fellowship in cardiovascular medicine and Electrophysiology. During his training he continued to work under the supervision of faculty and published original papers and case reports. Upon graduation he joined Integris Baptist Medical Center which is a tertiary care center in Oklahoma City with robust cardiology services. He actively participated in research projects pertaining to device therapies including Leadless Pacemakers, ICDS, BIVICDS, Subcutaneous ICDS and Cardiac Contractility Modulation devices. He has been presenting his research work in various National and International Cardiology meetings. He has also worked as a consultant for several device companies. Over the years he has developed keen interest in device therapy for various cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Michael Sutherland
Senior Intensivist, Coffs Harbour Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
Michael Sutherland is a senior Intensivist at Coffs Harbour Hospital, New South Wales, Australia. He is a graduate of Adelaide University, and has worked for Britain’s NHS. He has more than 30 years of clinical experience in rural and regional Australian medical practice, including work in an indigenous community, work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and work in the Australian Antarctic Territory. He has multiple publication credits in the field of organ donation research. He has published a novel in the genre of historical fiction. He has finished in five marathons. He is currently completing university studies in French language and culture and also astrophysics. He has a long term partner, who is a Frenchwoman. He is a father of four, and grandfather of three. He currently divides his time between East Coast Australia and the south of France.
Dr. Siva Padmanabhan Sivakumar, MD, FCCP, FACP
Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Healthy Lungs Healthy Life, LLC, USA
Dr Sivakumar hails from a family of doctors, that steered him in pursuing a Medical career from his childhood days. After medical school training in Thanjavur, India he went to England for additional training prior to post graduate education in the USA. He did his Internal Medicine Residency in New York, then PULMONARY and CRITICAL CARE Fellowship in New York and Texas leading to triple American Board certifications. He has been a Pulmonologist- Intensivist for 24 years with wide experience in inpatient and outpatient services, multiple subspecialty high acuity ICUs , served in more than 50 hospitals spanning 13 states in the United States. He was an active frontline ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic traveling to various states to fill the physician void in needy hospitals. He has chaired and lectured in international conferences, published in prestigious journals and takes pride in teaching the budding generation of health care professionals.
He has special interests in ARDS, POCUS, and embraces New technology as they evolve. He is well versed in Palliative care medicine for those in need at their appropriate time. He holds Membership and Fellowship in several acclaimed national and international organisations.
His new interest now spans into LIFESTYLE MEDICINE to address the burden of chronic diseases impacting the patient, their family and the community at large and worsening the health care crisis in America
Dr. Usha Gurunathan
Senior anaesthesiologist, Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane ; Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Usha Gurunathan is a senior anaesthesiologist at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane and a senior lecturer at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She is also qualified in clinical epidemiology and certified in health informatics. Dr. Gurunathan leads research in her department with over 40 publications, an h-index of 17 and several research grants to her credit. During her PhD, she investigated the epidemiology, pharmacology and preventative strategies for thromboembolic complications after major lower limb orthopaedic surgery. In 2019, Dr. Gurunathan established a patient-centred multidisciplinary prehabilitation program called SurgiFIT at The Prince Charles Hospital in 2019, benefiting approximately 200 general and cardiac surgical patients so far.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Fouad
Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Senior Consultant, Ain Shams University University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Fouad is a Senior Consultant and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK, and a Fellow of Dalhousie University, Canada.
Currently serving as the Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Elaraby Hospital, Egypt, Prof. Dr. Fouad has made significant contributions to the field through his research and numerous publications in international journals. He is also an active reviewer for several esteemed medical journals.
In addition to his clinical and academic roles, he is a frequent speaker at international conferences, sharing his expertise with the global medical community. Committed to the advancement of cardiac surgery, Prof. Dr. Fouad is deeply engaged in mentoring and training the next generation of cardiac surgeons.
Dr Gulchehra Khamraeva
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics, Center for the development of professional skills of medical staff under the Ministry of Health of the RUz, Uzbekistan
Dr. Khamraeva – PhD, Associate Professor. Specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Chief of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics of Tashkent institute postgraduate medical education. National expert of the WHO Regional Office. Co-author of the national guidelines for intensive care and management of SARI and the national guidelines for COVID-19. Member of the COVID-19 Case Management Consultant Group.
Dr. Urszula Kościuczuk, MD, PhD
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
Urszula Kościuczuk is a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care. She has academic title of doctor of medical sciences , 2018, dissertation entitled Effect of general anesthesia with rocuronium on serum tryptase concentration. She is the independent coordinator of neuroanesthesiology and intensive care, University Clinical Hospital in Bialystok. Her professional interests are perioperative safety, interdisciplinary perioperative medicine, use of skeletal muscle relaxants, opioid-free anesthesia, chronic pain therapy, perioperative anaphylaxis.
Dr Rajeeb Kumar Deo
Department of Medicine MBBS, MD (Internal Medicine) Fellowship in Medical Oncology Aerospace Medicine Primary Shree Birendra Hospital, Chhauni Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr Rajeeb Kumar Deo completed MBBS from AFMC Pune, India and did MD (Internal Medicine from BPKIHS, Nepal. He is practicing Consultant Medical Oncologist for last 12 years after completing training in Medical Oncology from RGCI, New Delhi. He is currently Head of Emergency and Critical Care Department in a 635 bedded Shree Birendra Army Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal which is a teaching hospital of Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS).
He has more than 20 papers published in various journals which include original articles, case reports and review article in wide spread field of Medicine. He has done few oral and poster presentations in National and International conferences. He is also Head of Disaster Response Management Cell (DRMC) in a military hospital in Kathmandu.
2024 Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Terrance Khastgir, M.D.
Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, USA
Dr. Terrance Khastgir is a board-certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist who operates in a tertiary hospital setting involving organ transplantation, assist devices and radio-frequency ablation procedures. He obtained his medical degree from India and completed his residency and fellowship training at Sinai Hopkins Program and OU Health Sciences Center. He has been awarded the young investigator award from the American College of Chest Physicians. He participates in ongoing research projects involving cardiac-assistive devices. He has extensive experience in the fields of cardiology and electrophysiology.
Prof. Vladimir Cerny
Professor, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimir Cerny is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained both his medical degree and PhD at Charles University, where he also completed his residency in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. His current positions include Chairman and Professor of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at J.E. Purkinje University, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Professor and Senior Researcher at University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Adjunct Professor of Anaesthesiology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Prof. Cerny’s clinical interests include airway management in perioperative medicine and critical care, coagulation management. Currently, the main field of his experimental/clinical research is related to microcirculation and glycocalyx. He serves in several professional bodies, both nationally (currently as a President of the Czech Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care) and internationally (e.g. member of the European Board of Anesthesiology, ESAIC Guidelines Committee and ESAIC Ethics committee). Prof. Cerny has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and several textbooks at a national level. He has also coauthored all European guidelines on major trauma bleeding since 2007. Recently, he also served as a chairman of scientific committee for the World Congress of Anesthesiology held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. During COVID-19 he has served as a deputy of Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and as a National Coordinator for Intensive Care.
Dr. M. Scott Vandiver MD,PhD
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Dr. Vandiver completed his M.D.,Ph.D. and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and his critical care fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a faculty member at UCLA for the past 5 years where his clinical work has centered on cardiothoracic intensive care and neuroanesthesiology. His research work focuses on perioperative neurocognitive disorders, specifically in high risk populations such as lung and heart transplant. He has multiple publications investigating the underpinning mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases with over 1700 citations in total and is focused on the use of advanced imaging techniques to investigate structural brain alterations found in heart and lung transplant patients
Dr. Galdy Wafie
Lecturer, Anesthesiologist department, Medical Faculty Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Galdy Wafie has Completed his Anesthesiologist and intensive care title in 2022 from Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), Medan, Indonesia. He is now a non-permanent lecturer at Anesthesiologist department in Medical Faculty Universitas Sumatera Utara, also a secretary in Medan Indonesian Doctor Association (IDI). He also one of administrator in North Sumatra Anesthesiologist Association (PERDATIN). He interested in Regional Anesthesia and Critical Care.
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag
Chief Surgical Officer, Senior Consultant, and Head of the Department in Anesthesia at ADK Hospital, Male’, Maldives
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag, a leading force in the field of anesthesiology and critical care in the Maldives. Dr. Razzag currently holds several prestigious positions, including President of the Maldivian Anesthesiologists Association and Vice President of the Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine in the Maldives. She also serves as the Chief Surgical Officer, Senior Consultant, and Head of the Department in Anesthesia at ADK Hospital, Male’, Maldives.
A trailblazer in her field, Dr. Dusooma has been pioneering cardiac surgery anaesthesia in the Maldives since 2018. She underwent an observership in Labour Analgesia at North Middlesex University Hospital in London in March 2019.and initiated Labour Analgesia services at ADK Hospital the same year.
Dr. Dusooma is also a certified Diving Medical Officer, having trained at the Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine Centre at Singapore General Hospital. In July 2023, she completed an online fellowship in Pain Medicine from the Aesculap Academy Daradia.
In addition to her clinical roles, Dr. Dusooma is a dedicated educator, serving as a lecturer in Anesthesiology at the Maldives National University. She has contributed to academic research as a journal reviewer for the Journal of the Society of Anesthesiologists of Nepal from 2019 to 2021.
With her extensive experience and unwavering dedication, Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag continues to shape the future of anesthesiology and critical care in the Maldives.
Dr. Eman Ibrahim El-Desoki
Fellow & head of the Intensive Care Department, National Hepatology& Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI), GOTHI, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Eman Ibrahim El-Desoki Mahmoud Ghonimi, is working in the National Hepatology& Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI), GOTHI, Cairo; Egypt as a fellow & head of the intensive care department since 2017 till recent. She is the head of the clinical nutrition team in NHTMRI in 2022. She is a national coordinator of GOTHI-ICUs in Egypt since August 2023 till recent. She is SCOPE Certified by the World Obesity Federation in 2023. She is a Sonoschool instructor for point of care ultrasound (POCUS), an instructor in HMIMMS since 2023 and Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) since 2022, an Instructor in the American safety and health institute since 2022, an international trainer in the European Resuscitation Council & Egyptian Resuscitation council for basic, immediate, advanced life support, European Trauma course since 2015, and European Pediatric Advanced Life Support since 2022. She is a trainer & has had a membership in Emergency Neurological Life Support since 2018. She completed her Doctorate degree in Intensive Care Medicine in 2016 from Ain-Shams University, graduated of European Diploma of Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition in 2013, and was certified as a fitness nutrition specialist by the American council on exercise in 2020. She is an international reviewer in the European journal of medical research since 2020. Her clinical experience includes the fields of hepatology, Infectious diseases, Trauma, and Liver transplantation. She has interested in clinical research and has some publications. She has publications and ORCID-ID 0000-0002-0882-7016.
Dr Gunchan Paul
Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Dr Gunchan Paul is currently working as Professor in Department of Critical Care Medicine at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She worked in Cardiac Anesthesia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi for 3 years. Her area of interests in Critical Care Medicine are neuro critical care & mechanical ventilation. She has served as editorial board member of various journals like Journal of Acute Care (JAC). She is the regular reviewer of many journals like IJCCM (Indian journal of Critical Care Medicine), Indian Journal of Anesthesia (IJA), and Journal of Anesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology (JOACP). She has about 50 publications in indexed national and international journals and chapters in books with about 250 citations. She has organized many workshops on mechanical ventilation and ultrasound in ICU. She participated as a speaker at various National and International Conferences on topics like Neuro-Critical Care, Ventilation and Haemodynamics.
Dr. Natasa Kovac
Senior Consultant, UHC Sestre Milosrdince, Zagreb
Natasa has completed her M.D. and PhD at School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is a Senior Consultant at UHC Sestre milosrdince, Zagreb. She is active member of European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and Secretary of Croatian Society of Anaesthesiology, Reanimathology and Intensive medicine. Natasa was ESAIC Council member for Croatia for past 5 years. She participated as a lecturer at international professional meetings. Dr Kovac participated in writing several types of textbooks and professional literature, with WOS H-index 5. She is a reviewer in the medical journal PLOS ONE, Medicine.
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD
Deputy Director of ICU, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
President of WINFOCUS-CHINA, China
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD is the Deputy Director of ICU department of Zhejiang Hospital in Hangzhou, China. He is the Founder and the President of WINFOCUS-CHINA official interlocutor in China. He is also the Founder of Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound and the Vice Chairperson of Ultrasonic Medicine Branch of Asia-Pacific Health Association.
Prof Patrick Honore
Intensivist-Nephrologist, Director of ICU Dept and Prof of Medicine at the UCL University School of Medicine, Coordinator of Critical Care Research Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire UCL Namur Godinne, Louvain Medical School, Belgium
Patrick Honoré, graduated from Louvain Medical School as MD (1988), Specialist in Internal Medicine (1993), Intensive Care Specialist (1994) and Nephrologist (1995). During his internship, he completed more than 2 1/2 years specialisation in Nephrology and Dialysis. For almost 5 years, he received ICU training abroad (United Kingdom, Australia and USA). Pr Honoré is Board member of the Belgian Intensive Care Society and closely involved in the Nephrology section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He is also a distinguished member or consultant of many scientific committees and decision-making organizations dedicated to diagnosis, treatment, and research in the field of acute kidney injury in the critically ill. Pr Honoré authored or co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed papers ,more than 750 abstracts and more than 85 book chapters . He was also editor of three books dedicated to Critical Care Nephrology.He has been invited as a speaker at more than 750 national and international conferences in almost 100 different countries. He acts as reviewer for more than 45 international journals, including top-ranking journals in the field of critical care medicine and nephrology. He is a member of the editorial board of several 25 high-standard journals. He is also Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Translational Internal Medicine (open access) since 2013 (in pubmed since 2016), editor-in-chief of Journal of Translational Critical Care Medicine & Journal of Translational Kidney Research since 2015 (open access too). He is also appointed as section editor for Renal in Annals of Intensive Care starting from February 2016.Since 2009, he fulltime fulfils the position of Head of Clinics in the Intensive Care department of the University Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and became Clinical Tutor and Senior Lecturer at the VUB Faculty of Medicine.Since 2012, he fulfils the position of Full Professor at the VUB Faculty of Medicine. In the ICU department, he leads the Critical Care Nephrology Platform which incorporates intensivists, nephrologists and nurses dedicated to daily education, research and treatment of acute kidney injury. In particular, he directs and organizes continuous renal replacement therapy on a 24/24; 7/7 on-call basis. He has also start a CRRT program using citrate dedicated to small children (less than 10 kg) in the UZB -PICU since 2013. Since January 2018, he is holding the position of Co-Director of ICU Department and ICU Research Director, Prof of Medicine at the ULB University.Since the 01 Jan 2022, he is holding the position of Full Director of ICU Dept at CHU-Brugmann. Since November 2022, he is holding the position of Head of ICU, CHU UCL Namur Godinne and Prof at the UCL University sinds July 2022.
Dr. Michael Sutherland
Senior Intensivist, Coffs Harbour Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
Michael Sutherland is a senior Intensivist at Coffs Harbour Hospital, New South Wales, Australia. He is a graduate of Adelaide University, and has worked for Britain’s NHS. He has more than 30 years of clinical experience in rural and regional Australian medical practice, including work in an indigenous community, work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and work in the Australian Antarctic Territory. He has multiple publication credits in the field of organ donation research. He has published a novel in the genre of historical fiction. He has finished in five marathons. He is currently completing university studies in French language and culture and also astrophysics. He has a long term partner, who is a Frenchwoman. He is a father of four, and grandfather of three. He currently divides his time between East Coast Australia and the south of France.
Dr. Siva Padmanabhan Sivakumar, MD, FCCP, FACP
Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Healthy Lungs Healthy Life, LLC, USA
Dr Sivakumar hails from a family of doctors, that steered him in pursuing a Medical career from his childhood days. After medical school training in Thanjavur, India he went to England for additional training prior to post graduate education in the USA. He did his Internal Medicine Residency in New York, then PULMONARY and CRITICAL CARE Fellowship in New York and Texas leading to triple American Board certifications. He has been a Pulmonologist- Intensivist for 24 years with wide experience in inpatient and outpatient services, multiple subspecialty high acuity ICUs , served in more than 50 hospitals spanning 13 states in the United States. He was an active frontline ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic traveling to various states to fill the physician void in needy hospitals. He has chaired and lectured in international conferences, published in prestigious journals and takes pride in teaching the budding generation of health care professionals.
He has special interests in ARDS, POCUS, and embraces New technology as they evolve. He is well versed in Palliative care medicine for those in need at their appropriate time. He holds Membership and Fellowship in several acclaimed national and international organisations.
His new interest now spans into LIFESTYLE MEDICINE to address the burden of chronic diseases impacting the patient, their family and the community at large and worsening the health care crisis in America
Dr. Prateek Koolwal
HOD & Senior Consultant , Critical Care Medicine, ManglamPlus Medicity Hospital, India
Dr. Prateek Koolwal a medical professional, possesses an impressive educational background, including a post-graduation degree and various certifications in the field of medicine. With an MBBS and MD in Anaesthesia, alongside additional qualifications such as IDCCM, FNB and IFCCM in Critical Care Medicine. He has established a comprehensive foundation in the medical realm. Currently serving as Head of Department (HOD) & Senior Consultant, Critical Care Medicine, ManglamPlus Medicity Hospital, India. His expertise lies in a range of specialized areas. Notably, he is particularly inclined towards conducting USG-guided critical care procedures, performing basic 2D echocardiography, managing cases related to sepsis, ARDS, acute kidney injuries, and obstetrics emergencies etc.
Dr. Ahmed Fouad
Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Senior Consultant, Ain Shams University University, Egypt
Ahmed Fouad has completed his advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Canada. He is currently assistant professor and Senior Consultant at Ain Shams University University, Egypt. He has many publications and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals.
Dr Gulchehra Khamraeva
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics, Center for the development of professional skills of medical staff under the Ministry of Health of the RUz, Uzbekistan
Dr. Khamraeva – PhD, Associate Professor. Specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Chief of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics of Tashkent institute postgraduate medical education. National expert of the WHO Regional Office. Co-author of the national guidelines for intensive care and management of SARI and the national guidelines for COVID-19. Member of the COVID-19 Case Management Consultant Group.
Dr Balasaheb Bande
Senior Consultant, Critical care, Anaesthesiology, & Medicine, Noble Hospital, Pune, India
Dr. Bande has completed his M.D. in Anaesthesiology and General Medicine from University of Pune, India. He is a Senior Consultant of Critical care, Anaesthesiology, & Medicine at Noble Hospital, Pune. He is active member of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), ISCCM, IMA, API, ISSP, AOA, AORA, IAPA, ISPEN, CSI Pune. He was the Secretary of Indian College of Critical Care Medicine ( ICCM) 2014-2016. He participated as a speaker at various National and International Conferences on topics High Risk Anaesthesia, Transplant anaesthesia , Critical Care, ethical and legal issues. He is a reviewer in many medical journals like IJA, IJCCM, SQU Med J Oman.
Dr. Urszula Kościuczuk, MD, PhD
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
Urszula Kościuczuk is a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care. She has academic title of doctor of medical sciences , 2018, dissertation entitled Effect of general anesthesia with rocuronium on serum tryptase concentration. She is the independent coordinator of neuroanesthesiology and intensive care, University Clinical Hospital in Bialystok. Her professional interests are perioperative safety, interdisciplinary perioperative medicine, use of skeletal muscle relaxants, opioid-free anesthesia, chronic pain therapy, perioperative anaphylaxis.
Prof. Safaa Hilal
Founder and General Manager, Egyptian Society of Anesthesiology and Acute Care ESAAC
Safaa Hilal is a professor of anesthesia, ICU, pain management faculty of medicine in Menoufia University, Egypt. Se is the Founder and general manager of Egyptian society of anesthesiology and acute care (ESAAC). She participated as a speaker at various National and International Conferences on topics AI and machine learning, Anaesthesia, Critical Care, ethical and legal issues.
2023 Organizing Committee Members
2023 Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Lewis J Kaplan
Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, USA, Immediate Past-President of Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Dr. Kaplan is a critical care surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania in the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery and the Section Chief of Surgical Critical Care at PENN’s affiliated VA Medical Center since 2013. Education including a BA (Franklin and Marshall College; Biology; 1984) and an MD (Rutgers Medical School; 1988) was followed by Surgical residency (Medical College of PA, MCP; 1988-1995) and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship (CCF; University of Pittsburgh; 1996-1997). He has directed ICUs and CCFs in three systems (MCP, Yale, PENN). At Yale (2002-2013) he established the first Emergency General Surgery service, as well as Tactical Emergency Medical Services for a regional SWAT team with which he deployed. Dr. Kaplan serves in professional society leadership roles and is the current President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He sits on multiple editorial boards (Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infections).
Dr. Heatherlee Bailey
Emergency Medicine Intensivist, Durham VA Medical Center, USA
Dr. Bailey is an Emergency Medicine Intensivist. She attended Alfred University and completed medical school at the Rutgers University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. Dr Bailey completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania In Philadelphia and then joined the faculty. After a faculty fellowship in critical care, she served as her department’s Director of Critical Care Education and their Associate Residency Program Director. She is currently Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina.
Her career has been rooted in education, trainee development, and mentorship. Her dedication and expertise has also been nationally recognized. She was awarded the Dr. Joseph and Rae Brown award for her SCCM chapter contributions as well as the American Medical Association’s Women’s Mentoring Award in 2008. Given her prominence in the field, Dr. Bailey serves as an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Volunteering remains an important part of Dr. Bailey’s career and her interests in the management of injury and critical illness span the globe. She was an important contributor and an international instructor of the Comprehensive Trauma Life Course for India as part of her work for the International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society.
Dr. Bailey has been actively involved in the Society of Critical Care Medicine for more than 20 years serving in a wide variety of roles, including as the 48th SCCM President from 2019-2020. Dr. Bailey’s path of volunteerism, mentorship and leadership led her to be the first Emergency Medicine trained President of SCCM.
Prof. Vladimir Cerny
Professor, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimir Cerny is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained both his medical degree and PhD at Charles University, where he also completed his residency in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. His current positions include Chairman and Professor of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at J.E. Purkinje University, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Professor and Senior Researcher at University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Adjunct Professor of Anaesthesiology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Prof. Cerny’s clinical interests include airway management in perioperative medicine and critical care, coagulation management. Currently, the main field of his experimental/clinical research is related to microcirculation and glycocalyx. He serves in several professional bodies, both nationally (currently as a President of the Czech Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care) and internationally (e.g. member of the European Board of Anesthesiology, ESAIC Guidelines Committee and ESAIC Ethics committee). Prof. Cerny has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and several textbooks at a national level. He has also coauthored all European guidelines on major trauma bleeding since 2007. Recently, he also served as a chairman of scientific committee for the World Congress of Anesthesiology held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. During COVID-19 he has served as a deputy of Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and as a National Coordinator for Intensive Care.
Dr. Natasa Kovac
Senior Consultant, UHC Sestre Milosrdince, Zagreb
Natasa has completed her M.D. and PhD at School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is a Senior Consultant at UHC Sestre milosrdince, Zagreb. She is active member of European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and Secretary of Croatian Society of Anaesthesiology, Reanimathology and Intensive medicine. Natasa was ESAIC Council member for Croatia for past 5 years. She participated as a lecturer at international professional meetings. Dr Kovac participated in writing several types of textbooks and professional literature, with WOS H-index 5. She is a reviewer in the medical journal PLOS ONE, Medicine.
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD
Deputy Director of ICU, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
President of WINFOCUS-CHINA, China
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD is the Deputy Director of ICU department of Zhejiang Hospital in Hangzhou, China. He is the Founder and the President of WINFOCUS-CHINA official interlocutor in China. He is also the Founder of Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound and the Vice Chairperson of Ultrasonic Medicine Branch of Asia-Pacific Health Association.
Dr. Neeraj Kumar
Associate Professor, AIIMS Patna, India
Neeraj Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care. He worked as Assistant professor for more than 3 years at Trauma and Emergency, AIIMS Patna, India. His area of interests is in Critical Care Medicine, Neuro Critical Care & Trauma Critical Care.He is serving as editorial board member of various journals like Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (ECCM) , World Journal of Critical Care Medicine (WJCCM), Journal of Acute disease (JAD) and Critical Care Innovations (Poland).He is the regular reviewer of many journals like AJCR, TARD, WJCCM, IJA, WJEM, and Respiratory Care. He has more than 150 + Medline and PubMed indexed Publications with over 700+ citations with H index of 6. During COVID-19 he has served as a Clinical coordinator of COVID-19 at AIIMS Patna,Bihar,India. He worked as the Nodal Officer for USAID RISE, JHPIEGO, Critical Care Working Group (CCWG) to coordinate capacity building, teaching and training during COVID-19. He participated as a speaker at various National and International Conferences on topics like ARDS, Sepsis & Nanotechnology, Neuro-Critical Care, and infectious diseases.
Dr. Siva Vyasam
PICU, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
Siva Vyasam completed his MBBS at the age of 24 years. He finished his Post graduation in pediatrics from CMC-Vellore. He finished his fellowship in PICU from CMC-Vellore. He was working in PICU for last 5 years. Currently pursuing DM pediatric critical care from PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Dr Gulchehra Khamraeva
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics, Center for the development of professional skills of medical staff under the Ministry of Health of the RUz, Uzbekistan
Dr. Khamraeva – PhD, Associate Professor. Specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Chief of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics of Tashkent institute postgraduate medical education. National expert of the WHO Regional Office. Co-author of the national guidelines for intensive care and management of SARI and the national guidelines for COVID-19. Member of the COVID-19 Case Management Consultant Group.
Dr Balasaheb Bande
Senior Consultant, Critical care, Anaesthesiology, & Medicine, Noble Hospital, Pune, India
Dr. Bande has completed his M.D. in Anaesthesiology and General Medicine from University of Pune, India. He is a Senior Consultant of Critical care, Anaesthesiology, & Medicine at Noble Hospital, Pune. He is active member of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), ISCCM, IMA, API, ISSP, AOA, AORA, IAPA, ISPEN, CSI Pune. He was the Secretary of Indian College of Critical Care Medicine ( ICCM) 2014-2016. He participated as a speaker at various National and International Conferences on topics High Risk Anaesthesia, Transplant anaesthesia , Critical Care, ethical and legal issues. He is a reviewer in many medical journals like IJA, IJCCM, SQU Med J Oman.
Dr. Urszula Kościuczuk, MD, PhD
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medical University of Bialystok, PolandUrszula Kościuczuk is a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care. She has academic title of doctor of medical sciences , 2018, dissertation entitled Effect of general anesthesia with rocuronium on serum tryptase concentration. She is the independent coordinator of neuroanesthesiology and intensive care, University Clinical Hospital in Bialystok. Her professional interests are perioperative safety, interdisciplinary perioperative medicine, use of skeletal muscle relaxants, opioid-free anesthesia, chronic pain therapy, perioperative anaphylaxis.
Dr. Naresh Kumar Kaul
Senior Consultant and Head, Anesthesiology, Khoula, India
Naresh Kumar Kaul has completed his post-graduation from PGI Chandigarh, India and has worked at prestigious places thereafter at All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi India, SKIMS in J and K India, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New Delhi India and in National Trauma Centre at Khoula Hospital Muscat Oman, which is a National Trauma center, National Neurosurgical center and National Plastic surgery & Burns center besides other specialties. He has been the senior consultant and Head Anesthesiology at Khoula. He has around eighty publications to his credit and has been involved with organization of many conferences and difficult airway workshops. He has been the Director of BLS courses and is on the editorial & reviewer board of many journals.
Dr Radhakrishna Ramchandani
Professor, Surgery at AIIMS, Raipur
Dr Radhakrishna Ramchandani MS,FMAS,FICS,FAIS,FIAGES at AIIMS,Raipur India.Around 17 years of teaching,Clinical, research and Administrative Experience.He is Ex Pooedl Scientist of AIIMS,New Delhi India. He has Copyright course (Patent)named “ Basic Trauma Emergency Life Saving Skill Course.(BTELS).Around 25 Publications with over 125 citations with H index 7. Now working as Professor,Surgery at AIIMS, Raipur (CG).
Dr Mohamed Amin
Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Department, Kasr Al-Aini medical School, Cairo University, Egypt
Dr. Amin is a Assistant professor of critical care medicine, Critical Care Department, Kasr Al-Aini medical school, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. He is a critical care medicine Consultant at International medical center IMC accredited by the Joint Commission International and a Consultant in ICU at Suez canal authority hospital Ismailai Governate. Education including M.B. Bch from Kasr Al-Aini Medical School, Cairo University, Cairo (1998-2004), Master degree in Critical Care Medicine (2009), Doctoral degree in Critical Care Medicine (2014), health care quality management diploma kasralainy (2016), health care organizations and hospital management diploma AICPD(2018-2019). Recently, he also served as a chairman and speaker in Broncology scientific society conference in Egypt 2022. He sits on multiple editorial boards (Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infections). He has many publications.
Dr Prabhleen Kaur
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Government Medical College Thrissur, Kerala, India
Dr Prabhleen Kaur is an ECFMG Certified young physician from India. She is an all-arounder who graduated medical school with honours and was ranked among the best outgoing students. Being passionate about global and equitable health practices, she worked as the Medical Officer in the COVID Brigade under the National Health Mission during the peak of COVID-19. She has a curious mindset that kindles her interest in research and innovation, which is visible in her publications early in her professional career. She is also passionate about mentorship and has a social media following of over 500, operating with a motto of “Happy to Help”. Dr. Kaur is currently striving to realise her dream of pursuing Anaesthesiology in the United States of America.
Dr. Xiaopeng Zhang, MD
Second Military Medical University, China
Dr. Zhang has completed his MD in 1989 from the second military medical university, China, did residency and then joined the staff of neurosurgery of the teaching hospital affiliated to the SMMU. He did post doc research fellowship in neuro critical care in University of Pittsburgh, in 2004 he was recruited clinical fellow by Department of anesthesia and critical care, Massachusetts General Hospital, he completed training in 2008 and joined the staff of Geisinger Clinic, which for more than 10 years has been named the best hospital by US News. Dr. Zhang is board certified by American board of anesthesiologist and the national board of echocardiography, he has published more than thirty peer reviewed papers, book chapters and case reports. His major research interests are individualized management of anticoagulation in cardiopulmonary bypass, peripheral vascular disease and anesthesia, pain management for labor and delivery.
Dr. HK Venkatesh
Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Khoula Hospital,
Muscat, Oman
Dr. Venkatesh, a highly accomplished medical professional, has dedicated his career to the field of neuroanaesthesia and neurocritical care. Currently serving as a Consultant at Khoula Hospital, MOH, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, He holds the esteemed position of Senior Consultant and Chief of the Division of Neuroanaesthesia & Neurocritical Care at Apollo Hospitals in Bengaluru. He completed his MD in Anaesthesia from KMC, Manipal in 1991. He has held notable positions such as President of the Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care (ISNACC) in 2019-20, treasurer of ISNACC for 9 years, and secretary and President of the ISA Bengaluru city and Karnataka state branch.
Previous Edition Conference Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Lewis J Kaplan
Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, USA, Immediate Past-President of Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Dr. Kaplan is a critical care surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania in the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery and the Section Chief of Surgical Critical Care at PENN’s affiliated VA Medical Center since 2013. Education including a BA (Franklin and Marshall College; Biology; 1984) and an MD (Rutgers Medical School; 1988) was followed by Surgical residency (Medical College of PA, MCP; 1988-1995) and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship (CCF; University of Pittsburgh; 1996-1997). He has directed ICUs and CCFs in three systems (MCP, Yale, PENN). At Yale (2002-2013) he established the first Emergency General Surgery service, as well as Tactical Emergency Medical Services for a regional SWAT team with which he deployed. Dr. Kaplan serves in professional society leadership roles and is the current President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He sits on multiple editorial boards (Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infections).
Dr. Heatherlee Bailey
Emergency Medicine Intensivist, Durham VA Medical Center, USA
Dr. Bailey is an Emergency Medicine Intensivist. She attended Alfred University and completed medical school at the Rutgers University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. Dr Bailey completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania In Philadelphia and then joined the faculty. After a faculty fellowship in critical care, she served as her department’s Director of Critical Care Education and their Associate Residency Program Director. She is currently Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina.
Her career has been rooted in education, trainee development, and mentorship. Her dedication and expertise has also been nationally recognized. She was awarded the Dr. Joseph and Rae Brown award for her SCCM chapter contributions as well as the American Medical Association’s Women’s Mentoring Award in 2008. Given her prominence in the field, Dr. Bailey serves as an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Volunteering remains an important part of Dr. Bailey’s career and her interests in the management of injury and critical illness span the globe. She was an important contributor and an international instructor of the Comprehensive Trauma Life Course for India as part of her work for the International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society.
Dr. Bailey has been actively involved in the Society of Critical Care Medicine for more than 20 years serving in a wide variety of roles, including as the 48th SCCM President from 2019-2020. Dr. Bailey’s path of volunteerism, mentorship and leadership led her to be the first Emergency Medicine trained President of SCCM.
Prof. Vladimir Cerny
Professor, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimir Cerny is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained both his medical degree and PhD at Charles University, where he also completed his residency in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. His current positions include Chairman and Professor of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care at J.E. Purkinje University, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Professor and Senior Researcher at University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Adjunct Professor of Anaesthesiology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Prof. Cerny’s clinical interests include airway management in perioperative medicine and critical care, coagulation management. Currently, the main field of his experimental/clinical research is related to microcirculation and glycocalyx. He serves in several professional bodies, both nationally (currently as a President of the Czech Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care) and internationally (e.g. member of the European Board of Anesthesiology, ESAIC Guidelines Committee and ESAIC Ethics committee). Prof. Cerny has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and several textbooks at a national level. He has also coauthored all European guidelines on major trauma bleeding since 2007. Recently, he also served as a chairman of scientific committee for the World Congress of Anesthesiology held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. During COVID-19 he has served as a deputy of Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and as a National Coordinator for Intensive Care.
Dr. Cristiane Tavares
Neuroanesthesiologist and Clinical Research Physician, University of Sao Paul, Brazil
Dr. Cristiane Tavares is a neuroanesthesiologist and clinical researcher at Hospital das Clinicas of University of São Paulo Medical School since 2014. She did her graduation from University of São Paulo Medical School in the year 1998. Her Education includes Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology residencies at Hospital das Clinicas of University of São Paulo Medical School from 1998-2003. She worked with a neuroanesthesiology and neurosurgical team at Hospital Beneficiencia Portuguesa of São Paulo from 2003-2013. She did her Pain Medicine residency from Federal University of Sao Paulo in 2010. She works as a clinician specialized in pain since 2011. She is a Ph.D. student since 2017. She is a Member of D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) Committee of SNACC (Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care) since 2019. She is the Coordinator of the first neuroanesthesiology specialization in Brazil (began in 2021).
Dr. Nandkishor Agrawal
Professor, AIIMS, Raipur, India
Professor (Dr.) Nandkishore Agrawal, having more than 25 years of experience in the field with National and International exposure in research with copyrights and serving in Institute of pride ,AIIMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Special field of interest is alveolar gas exchange and per operative management of Diabetes Melliutus for which developed two equations and software and research is going on. He believes in self and of opinion that “ THE BEST SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR MONITORING AND ANESTHESIA IS IN THE BRAIN OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST”. Always be proud to be Anesthesiologist who helpfull in relieving pain not only in surgical procedure but also due to Cancer or Neuropathic, now a days with development of Palliative care also helpful for peaceful departure.
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD
Deputy Director of ICU, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, China
President of WINFOCUS-CHINA, China
Dr Prof. Caibao Hu, MD is the Deputy Director of ICU department of Zhejiang Hospital in Hangzhou, China. He is the Founder and the President of WINFOCUS-CHINA official interlocutor in China. He is also the Founder of Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound and the Vice Chairperson of Ultrasonic Medicine Branch of Asia-Pacific Health Association.
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar
Professor and Head, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, AIIMS Bhopal, India
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar did her MBBS, MD Anesthesiology and has more than 25 years of experience. She is the professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at AIIMS Bhopal. She has worked in Cardiac, Neuro-anaesthesia and critical care in both government and private sector. She has several publications in the areas of post operative pain, preoperative assessment, airway assessment, hemodynamic variations in laparoscopic surgeries etc. and many case reports. She has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. Reviewer of many National and International Journals. Presented oral papers and lectures in various national conferences. Working in pain and palliative care and started first palliative care dept in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Dr Gulchehra Khamraeva
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics, Center for the development of professional skills of medical staff under the Ministry of Health of the RUz, Uzbekistan
Dr. Khamraeva – PhD, Associate Professor. Specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Chief of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in Pediatrics of Tashkent institute postgraduate medical education. National expert of the WHO Regional Office. Co-author of the national guidelines for intensive care and management of SARI and the national guidelines for COVID-19. Member of the COVID-19 Case Management Consultant Group.
2021 Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Somchai Amornyotin
Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Somchai Amornyotin is a staff of Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. In 2020 he became the professor of Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. From 2005 until 2009 he was the chief of Anesthesiology Division of Siriraj GI Endoscopy Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital. His first scientific paper was published in Thailand in 1999. He has practiced anesthesia for gastrointestinal endoscopy since 2002. He was the committee of Siriraj Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in 2005. More than 90 of his articles have been published in Thai and international medical journals. Dr. Amornyotin is a member and committee of the Royal College of Anesthesiologists of Thailand, the Gastroenterological Association of Thailand and many scientific societies. He is the reviewer and editor of many international journals
Dr. Kathryn Rosenblatt, MD, MHS
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Rosenblatt is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves as director of the neurosurgical anesthesia fellowship. Following residency training in anesthesiology, Dr. Rosenblatt completed dual fellowships in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins. She also completed a research fellowship, earning a Master of Health Science in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Rosenblatt’s research interests include cerebral autoregulation monitoring to improve outcomes from sepsis. She is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Cerebral Autoregulation in Sepsis Research Group, a multi-disciplinary team of intensivists, anesthesiologists, and engineers with shared expertise in white matter disease, cerebrovascular autoregulation, delirium, immunopathology, and multimodality neuromonitoring whose mission is to personalize and improve care of sepsis patients through a better understand of the pathophysiology of brain disease in sepsis-associated encephalopathy.
Dr. Ruchi Dua
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Ruchi Dua completed her post-graduation from Department of Pulmonary Medicine, King George Medical University, India at age of 26 years. She is the Additional Professor in Department of Pulmonary Medicine at AIIMS Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. She has 30 publications with H index of 14 and 50 presentations and has been serving as member of respiratory societies nationally & internationally.
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar
Professor and Head, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, AIIMS Bhopal, India
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar did her MBBS, MD Anesthesiology and has more than 25 years of experience. She is the professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at AIIMS Bhopal. She has worked in Cardiac, Neuro-anaesthesia and critical care in both government and private sector. She has several publications in the areas of post operative pain, preoperative assessment, airway assessment, hemodynamic variations in laparoscopic surgeries etc. and many case reports. She has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. Reviewer of many National and International Journals. Presented oral papers and lectures in various national conferences. Working in pain and palliative care and started first palliative care dept in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag
Consultant Anaesthesiologist,
President MAA (Maldives Anaesthesia Association), Maldives
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzaq MBBS, MD is a Senior Anaesthesiologist, Maldives. . She has specialization in cardiac, neuroanaesthesia and critical care cases. She is the president of Maldives Anesthesia Association. She has started first labour analgesia services in Maldives. She is a reviewer for Journal of Society of anaesthesiologists of Nepal.
2020 Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Nandkishor Agrawal
Professor, AIIMS, Raipur, India
Professor (Dr.) Nandkishore Agrawal, having more than 25 years of experience in the field with National and International exposure in research with copyrights and serving in Institute of pride ,AIIMS, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Special field of interest is alveolar gas exchange and per operative management of Diabetes Melliutus for which developed two equations and software and research is going on. He believes in self and of opinion that “ THE BEST SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR MONITORING AND ANESTHESIA IS IN THE BRAIN OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST”. Always be proud to be Anesthesiologist who helpfull in relieving pain not only in surgical procedure but also due to Cancer or Neuropathic, now a days with development of Palliative care also helpful for peaceful departure.
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar
Professor and Head, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, AIIMS Bhopal, India
Dr Vaishali Waindeskar did her MBBS, MD Anesthesiology and has more than 25 years of experience. She is the professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at AIIMS Bhopal. She has worked in Cardiac, Neuro-anaesthesia and critical care in both government and private sector. She has several publications in the areas of post operative pain, preoperative assessment, airway assessment, hemodynamic variations in laparoscopic surgeries etc. and many case reports. She has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. Reviewer of many National and International Journals. Presented oral papers and lectures in various national conferences. Working in pain and palliative care and started first palliative care dept in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzag
Consultant Anaesthesiologist,
President MAA (Maldives Anaesthesia Association), Maldives
Dr. Dusooma Abdul Razzaq MBBS, MD is a Senior Anaesthesiologist, Maldives. . She has specialization in cardiac, neuroanaesthesia and critical care cases. She is the president of Maldives Anesthesia Association. She has started first labour analgesia services in Maldives. She is a reviewer for Journal of Society of anaesthesiologists of Nepal.
2019 Organizing Committee Members
Dr. Charu Sukhlecha
Specialist Doctor, Intensive Care Medicine, Queens Hospital, United Kingdom
Dr. Charu Sukhlecha has graduated with MBBS, MD(Anaesthesia), MRCP(United Kingdom), European Diplomat of Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC) and European Diplomat of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (EDA). He is currently working as a Specialist Doctor in Intensive Care Medicine at Queens Hospital, United Kingdom. He has several publications to his name and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. His special clinical interest is in Renal physiology, Acute Kidney injury, Renal failure in ICU and Renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Critical care. He is also the national convener for the updation of KDIGO guidelines in UK.
Dr. Dyah Kanya Wati
Pediatric Critical Care Consultant, Medical Faculty Udayana University, Indonesia
Dr Dyah Kanya Wati did her Ph.D from University of Indonesia Faculty of Medicine, Jakarta, Indonesia. Presently she is Pediatric Critical Care Consultant at Medical Faculty Udayana University, Bali-Indonesia. She has attended many national and international conferences and honoured with many awards. She has many publications.
Dr. Amarja Havaldar
Assistant Professor, St Johns Hospital Bangalore, India
Dr Amarja has completed her DM in critical care medicine from St Johns Medical college, India. She has presented several papers at National and International Conference. Her research interest in weaning and cardiac dysfunction in critically ill and simulator based training.. She has won the Hansraj Nayyar Award for the research paper. Presently she is working in St Johns Hospital Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Rano Mal Piryani
Professor, Internal & Chest Medicine and Medical Education, Nepal
Dr. Rano Mal Piryani is a professor of Internal & Chest Medicine and Medical Education. He has completed MBBS (1986), MCPS (1991), DTCD (1992), MD in Chest Medicine (2002) from Sindh Pakistan and Fellowship in Medical Education (2013) from PSG FAIMER Institute Coimbatore India. He has been serving Nepal since April 2003. He has over 120 publications cited over 348 times; his publication H-index is 10. He has been serving as an editorial board member for reputed journals and peer reviewer of more than 15 national and international scientific journals. He has produced clinical method titled “History Taking & Clinical Examination at a glance”; second edition is published by Jaypee Brothers in 2015 and third edition will be released in January 2019. He has produced tow dictionaries “Alike words in Nepali & Urdu” and “Alike words in Nepali & Sindhi”. He is a resource person for training in medical education and bioethics.