International Invited Speakers

• Professor Evan Kharasch, Washington University in St Louis

  

  Evan D. Kharasch, MD PhD is the Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology, and Director of the Division of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.

  Professor Kharasch is a practicing anesthesiologist, with interests ranging from outpatient to high-risk anesthesia. His research interests include clinical pharmacology of anesthetic and analgesic drugs. The overall goal of his research program is to understand the role of hepatic and extra-hepatic drug metabolism and drug transport in the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenetics, toxicity, and variability in patient response. These are directed towards optimizing drug disposition, drug safety, clinical effectiveness, and patient satisfaction. Major project areas include mechanisms of interindividual variability in opioid disposition and clinical response, role of transporters in drug response, influence of HIV/AIDS drug interactions on drug metabolism and transport, and the development of novel noninvasive methods for assessing hepatic and intestinal cytochrome P450 activity in humans.

• Professor Jay Brodsky, Stanford University

  

  Professor Jay Brodsky is the Medical Co-Director - Perioperative Services, Stanford University Medical Center (2006 - present). His research interests include clinical studies of anesthesia for thoracic surgery including provision and maintenance of safe one-lung ventilation and postthoracotomy analgesia. Professor Brodsky has also published widely on anesthesia management of the morbidly obese patient.

  
  

• Professor Robert Sneyd, Plymouth, UK

  

  Professor Robert Sneyd is Vice-Dean and Professor of Anaesthesia at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry based in Plymouth. After graduating from Cambridge University and completing his UK anaesthetic training, he worked in the States before returning to the south-west as a consultant anaesthetist. After a few years he moved to the university as Reader in Anaesthesia and then became Professor. He took over as Dean of the Plymouth Postgraduate Medical School and led the Plymouth team in the successful bid for a new medical school.

  As a lecturer, he is well-known nationally and internationally. His clinical work as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Derriford Hospital is mostly in neuro-anaesthesia, and he is very familiar with the interface between universities and the NHS. His research interests focus on drugs, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics with related projects based on signal processing. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry he has a special interest in drug development, especially in intravenous anaesthesia.

Australasian Invited Speaker

• Dr Nolan McDonnell, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in Perth

  

  Dr Nolan McDonnell is a staff specialist in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in Perth, Western Australia and holds adjunct titles with the School of Women's and Infants Health and the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia. He has a particular interest in the prevention of maternal morbidity and mortality and has positions on the Western Australia State Maternal Mortality Committee and the Education and Training Subcommittee of the Australian National Maternal Mortality Committee. He is heavily involved in clinical research, particularly in relation to Obstetric Anaesthesia and obtained a Master of Clinical Research in 2011.