Perioperative Medicine

Dr Mark A. Hamilton, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Hamilton is Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at St George's Hospital, London. He trained and has worked in London for the past 20 years, and is currently undertaking a postgraduate degree in preoperative physiological testing at University College London.

His research interests include haemodynamic optimisation, tissue oxygenation, nutrition and care of high risk surgical patients. His clinical interests include preoperative testing and anaesthesia.

Professor Lee. A Fleisher, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Fleisher is the Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  He is immediate Past-President of the Association of University Anesthesiologists, a member of the Consensus Standards Advisory Committee and co-chair of the Surgery Standing Committee of the National Quality Forum, and of the Administrative Board of the Council of Faculty and Academic Specialties of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

In 2007, he was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on perioperative cardiovascular risk assessment and reduction and measurement of quality of care and has received numerous federal, industry and foundation grants related to these subjects.

Professor Michael (Monty) G Mythen, Founding Editor

Prof Mythen is the Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at University College London (UCL). Director of The UCL Discovery Lab at The London 2012 Olympic legacy Institute of Sport Exercise and Health. Before returning to the UK, he was an assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Centre and acting Chief of Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology.

He is also an Elected Council Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Leads their Perioperative Medicine Programme; Chair of The Board of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia; A Director of Xtreme-Everest; Co-Chairman of Evidence Based Peri-operative Medicine (EBPOM). Board member and Chair of the advisory board of the American Society of Enhanced Recovery (ASER).

He was National Clinical Lead at the UK Department of Health for the Enhanced Recovery Partnership in the English NHS from May 09 - March 2013.