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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Lee A. Fleisher, MD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
New Content ItemLee A. Fleisher, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and continues to practice clinically. He serves as a Senior Advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center and FasterCures of the Milken Institute, Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Visiting Fellow of the Duke-Margolis Center. From July 2020-July 2023, he was the Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  From 2004 through July 2020, he was the Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on measurement of quality of care including quality measures, decision making and decision support, implementation of cultural change and health policy.  In 2007, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served on Committees including the Board of Health Services of the NAM. 

Professor Mike Grocott, BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCA, FRCP, FFICM, University of Southampton, UK
Mike GrocottMike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton (UK) and Director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.  He is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Chair of the Board of the UK National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia. 
Mike is an elected council member and trustee of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and vice-chair of the UK Centre for Perioperative Care. He is an adjunct Professor at Duke University Medical School (USA), an honorary professor at UCL (UK), and vice-president of the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI). His research interests focus on perioperative and critical care medicine, the integrative physiology of human hypoxia and health services research.


Editors

Christella S. Alphonsus, MBChB, FCA (SA), MMED, PhD, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Selmy S Awad, MD, MRCS, Mansoura University, Egypt
Ianthe Boden, Phd, MSc, BAppSc, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia,
Birgitte Brandstrup, MD, PhD, Holbæk University Hospital and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Andrew Cumpstey MA (Cantab), BM BCh, PhD, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM, University of Southampton, UK
Caoimhe Duffy, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Michael Irwin, MB ChB, MD, DA, FRCA, FCAI, FANZCA, FHKAM, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ross Kerridge, MBBS, FRCA, FANZCA, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Australia
Amy Lu, MD, MPH, UC San Francisco, USA
William Manson, MD, MBA, UVA Health, USA
Andrew Shaw, MD, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Jonathan Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California, USA
Fantahun Tarekegn, MD, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Lize Xiong, MD, PhD, Tongji University School of Medicine, China
Joyce Yeung, MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM,Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK


Editorial Board

Solomon Aronson, MD, MBA, FACC, FACCP, FAHA, FASE, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Angela M Bader, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, MD, Stony Brook Medicine, USA
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, University of California, USA
Yoo Kuen Chan, MBBS, FFARCS, University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Tim M Cook, BA, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM, Royal United Hospital Bath, UK
Darin Correll, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Angela F. Edwards, MD, FASA, DFPM, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA
Michael Englesbe, MD, University of Michigan, USA
Tong J Gan, MD, MBA, MHS, FASA, FRCA, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Tony Gin, MD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Stuart Grant, MD, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Christopher Imray, MB BS, DiMM, Clin Med Sci, PhD, FRCS, FRCP, FRGS, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK
Sandy Jack, MSc, PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Amir Jaffer, MD, MBA, New York Presbyterian Queens Hosptial, USA
Michael James, MBChB, PhD, FRCS, FCA(SA), University of Cape Town, South Africa
John Laffey, MD, FCAI, MA, St Michael's Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada
Anna Lee, PhD(NSW), MPH(Syd), BPharm(Syd), FACE, SFHEA, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dileep Lobo, MB BS, MS, DM, FRCS, FACS, FRCPE, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK
Suzana Lobo, MD, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
Kay Mitchell, MSc, BSc, RGN, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Hugh Montgomery, MB BS, BSc, FRCP, MD, University College London, UK
John Myburgh, AO, DSc, University of New South Wales and St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Flavio Nacul, MD, MSc, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paul Older, MB BS, LRCP, MRCS, FRCA, FANZCA, FFICANZCA, FJFICM, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prakash Patel, MD, FASE, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Carol Peden, BSc(Med Sci), MB ChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FFMLM, MPH, University of Southern California, USA
Azriel Perel, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Lynn Reede, DNP, MBA, CRNA, FNAP, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, USA
Andrew Rhodes, MD, St George's Hospital, UK
Patricia Rocco, MD, PhD, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Didier Roulin, MD, Lausanne University Hospital and Lausanne University, Switzerland 
Scott Segal, MD, MHCM, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist , USA
Michael Scott, MB, ChB, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Anthony Senagore, MD, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
George Shorten, FRCA, FFARCS(I), DABA, MD, PhD, DSc, Cork University Hospital and University College Cork, SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland
Robert Sladen, MBChB, FCCM, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, USA
Chris Snowden, MD, Freeman Hospital, UK
David Story, MBBS, MD, BMedSci, FANZCA, University of Melbourne, Australia
Michael Swart, MB BS, FRCA, EDICM, FFICM, PGCertEd, Torbay Hospital, UK
Jonathan Thompson, BSc (hons), MB ChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM,University Hospitals of Leicester, UK
David Walker, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM, University College London Hospitals, UK


Founding Editors

Mark A Hamilton, MB BS, MRCP, FRCA, MD(Res), FFICM, St George's Hospital, London, UK 
Monty G Mythen, MBBS, MD, FRCA, FFICM, FCAI (hon), University College London, London, UK

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