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Sol Aronson

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Solomon Aronson is a tenured Professor at Duke University and Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Anaesthesiology.

Vicki Morton

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Vicki is currently the Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes at Providence Anesthesiology Associates in Charlotte, NC where she is responsible for the implementation, oversight, and expansion of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program to include 10 facilities within 3 hospital systems and 17 service lines.

She speaks nationally and internationally on various perioperative care topics and on the implementation of ERAS for sustainability.

Vicki’s areas of interest and research include multi-modal analgesia, opioid-related adverse events, reduction in opioid consumption of the surgical patient, and postoperative cognitive disorder.

Andy Cumpstey

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Andrew Cumpstey trained in general medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in
Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton, exploring the effect oxygen therapy has on oxidative stress in major surgery and critical illness.

His research interests include improving clinical outcomes from major surgery and intensive care, translational clinical studies in oxygen physiology and therapy, and physiological changes in extreme environments.

Guy Ludbrook

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Professor Ludbrook is Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Expertise:
Neuropharmacology; medical devices; anaesthesia; clinical trials; anaesthetic and analgesic drugs; drug delivery; health services

He has published widely in the scientific literature in pharmacology and is involved in the planning and management of many early phase pharmacological trials, including first-in-human trials of anaesthetic and analgesic drugs and, more recently, COVID therapies.

He is increasingly involved in health services analysis, and in the design and the study of new systems of care. The overall goal with this work is to enhance the delivery of high value healthcare, in order to improve healthcare sustainability and quality.

BobbieJean Sweitzer

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Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer is dual trained and boarded in anesthesiology and internal medicine. She is Systems Director, Preoperative Medicine, Inova Health, Falls Church, Virginia, and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia.

Dr. Sweitzer is an author and the editor of Preoperative Assessment and Management (currently 3rd edition). She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts and over 30 book chapters. She lectures nationally and internationally on preoperative medicine and ambulatory surgery topics. She is the Executive Editor of A&A Practice, and on the editorial boards of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia and Analgesia.

She hosts a monthly podcast for Anesthesiology, the premier journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Sweitzer is immediate past President of the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA). She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Anesthesiologists and SAMBA.

She is an elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists, and a founding member of the Governing Board and past President of the Society of Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement. She is a founding member of the Society for Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine.

Joff Lacey

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Joff (Jonathan) Lacey is a registrar in anaesthesia at St George’s Hospital in London, and is currently undertaking a fellowship in Perioperative medicine at UCLH