Faculty List
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ISURA 2009 Faculty List
Urs Eichenberger, MD, PhD, is a consultant and staff member in pain therapy and anaesthesiology at the Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Eichenberger works on post-operative pain and chronic pain treatment with ultrasound-guided blocks in daily clinical practice.
Yanick Beaulieu, MD, is a consultant and staff member in intensive-care medicine at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is working on teaching programmes for the use of focussed ultrasound examinations in intensive care and anaesthesia.
Vincent Chan, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist, staff member and professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Chan has conducted numerous studies on ultrasound imaging in peripheral anaesthesia. He is a cooperating partner representing the conference and symposium.
Richard Brull, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist and professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Brull has published many studies on the use of ultrasound-guided procedures. He has special expertise in education and training of ultrasound techniques for regional anaesthesia.
Peter Cheng, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California, USA. Dr. Cheng’s special interest is in pain therapy. He has a profound knowledge of the use of ultrasound-guided procedures in anaesthesia and pain treatment.
Andrew T. Gray, MD, PhD, is a staff member and professor at the University of San Francisco, California, USA. Dr. Gray has conducted several studies in ultrasound imaging and peripheral blocks for pain therapy and has special experience in education and training.
Van Geffen Geert Jan, MD, PhD, is a staff member and consultant at the University Medical Centre St. Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Dr. Van Geffen has worked on several studies to implement ultrasound-guided procedures in daily clinical practice. He completed his doctoral work on peripheral nerve blocks with ultrasound.
Karmakar Manoj, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist, staff member and director for paediatric anaesthesia at Prince of Wales Hospital at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Manoj has conducted several studies and teaching programmes. Furthermore, he has special expertise in neuroaxial blocks with ultrasound.
Ban Tsui, MD, PhD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist and director of anaesthesia research in the department of anaesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Tsui has developed a quality test for epidural anaesthesia and conducted several studies on ultrasound-guided techniques.
Daniel Lichtenstein, MD, works as a physician in the intensive-care unit at the University of Paris, France. He has conducted multiple valuable studies on the use of ultrasound for lung imaging and in the intensive-care unit.
Brian Sites, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist, staff member and director of the regional anaesthesia programme at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. He has developed studies and training programmes and was responsible for the implementation of the ASRA/ESRA guidelines recently published in RAPM.
Susanne Krone, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist at Queen Victoria Hospital in West Sussex, United Kingdom. Dr. Krone is well known for her educational work on ultrasound-guided blocks. In partnership with Barry Nicholls, she has produced DVDs and additional teaching materials on the subject.
Barry Nicholls, MD, is a consultant at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, United Kingdom. He has developed several ultrasound-guided blocks and is a practicing user of ultrasound techniques in anaesthesia.
Hans-Juergen Rapp, MD, MA (HCM), is chief and consultant for anaesthesia and intensive-care medicine in the Bürgerspital Frankfurt, Germany. He is responsible for paediatric anaesthesia within ISURA and was able to integrate regional anaesthesia for pain therapy for the perioperative pain management of children. Dr. Rapp is vice chairman for anaesthesiology of the DEGUM.
Jens Kessler, MD, is consultant in the department of anaesthesiology at the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany. He has worked on several studies on ultrasound imaging. Dr. Kessler contributes to several scientific and teaching projects regarding regional anaesthesia imaging techniques.
Peter Hebbard, MD, is a consultant and staff member at the Associate Wangaratta Anaesthetics Group, Australia. He has a special expertise in using TAP blocks and is the winner of the ISURA prize for 2008. Dr. Hebbard has excellent expertise in education and training for ultrasound-guided techniques.
Bernhard Moriggl, MD, FIACA, is a staff member and professor of anatomy at the Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. He has worked out several cooperations for improvements in teaching and improving regional anaesthesia techniques. He has special knowledge of small-parts sonography and sonomorphology. Moreover, he is one of the founding fathers of the SIG USPM (ultrasonography in pain medicine) within the ASRA and is its educational officer.
Manfred Greher, MD, is a consultant and chief of the department of anaesthesia in the Herz-Jesu-Hospital in Vienna, Austria. He has performed many studies in pain therapy and conducts educational courses together with Stefan Kapral and Peter Marhofer.
Marco A. Fondi, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist at the AOSTA Hospital in northern Italy. He has performed several studies on the use of ultrasound for blocks of the lower limbs. Dr. Fondi has also developed procedural concepts to improve hip surgery.
Sugantha Ganapathy, MD, is a consultant and staff member at London Health Sciences Centre at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ganapathy has special expertise in training and education techniques for regional anaesthesia and has developed several related studies.
Rainer Litz, MD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist at the University Hospital of Dresden, Germany. Dr. Litz has conducted a bundle of studies on cervical blocks and on the psoas compartment block. He has special expertise in the use of regional anaesthesia techniques for carotic surgery.
Steven Clendenen, MD, PhD, is a consultant anaesthesiologist and staff member at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, USA. Dr. Clendenen has special knowledge in the use of 3-D and 4-D ultrasound techniques for regional anaesthesia.
Tim Mäcken, MD, is a consultant in the anaesthesiology clinic at BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Germany. He has conducted several studies and works on projects dealing with ultrasound imaging for nerve blocks and the use of ultrasound in the perioperative setting.
Christoph Maier, MD, PhD, is chairman of the pain department at the BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Germany. Dr. Maier has performed multiple clinical studies in the field of chronic pain management. He has also developed special procedures for the treatment of chronic sympathetic maintained pain.
Thomas Grau, MD, PhD, MA (HCM), is a consultant and staff member in the anaesthesiology clinic at the BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Germany. He has conducted several studies on imaging and visualization. He is the scientific leader of the Bochum Ultrasound Imaging Group and is responsible for the European Part of the ISURA. Furthermore, he is chairman of the anaesthesiology section of the DEGUM.
