The Prospect Working Group

Anaesthetic and Intensive Care Department Hôpital Tenon Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris France

Area of interests: Postoperative pain ; Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS); Regional Anaesthesia; Evidence based medicine

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Consultant for Nordik Pharma; The Medicines Company; Ambu

Professor of Surgery, Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research Interests: Acute pain physiology and treatment, surgical pathophysiology and pathogenesis of peri-operative morbidity, aiming at accelerated postoperative recovery.

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Professor Kehlet has no conflicts of interest to declare currently or in the previous 3 years.

Professor and Chair of Anaesthesia
University of Western Australia

Director of Pain Medicine
Royal Perth Hospital
Perth
Australia

Main interests: Management of acute, cancer and chronic pain, regional anaesthesia, pharmacology of anaesthetics and analgesics, and quality of healthcare.

Potential Conflicts of Interest: The Anaesthesiology Unit of the University of Western Australia, but not Professor Schug personally, has received research and travel funding and speaking and consulting honoraria from Gruenenthal, CSL, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Mundipharma, Pfizer, Phosphagenics and ix Biopharma within the last 5 years.

Professor of Anaesthesiology and Pain Management University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas
Texas
USA

Main interests:
Acute pain management, ambulatory anaesthesia, clinical pharmacology related to anaesthesiology, postoperative outcome and safety.

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Pacira Pharmaceuticals and Mallinkrodt Pharmaceuticals

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium.

Research Interests: Obstetric anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, acute pain management.

Potential Conflicts of Interest: Professor Van de Velde is a consultant for Smiths Medical and MSD and has received lecture fees for AstraZeneca, Baxter, Smiths Medical, BBraun, Abbvie, Kimberley Clarck and Fresenius, and a research grant from Airliquide.

Clinique Médipôle Garonne, Toulouse, France
Hôpital Tenon Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
France

Area of interests: Regional anaesthesia / peripheral nerve blocks, Postoperative pain, Simulation for training, Robotic in US-guided peripheral nerve blocks, Humanitarian medicine.

Department of Anaesthesiology
Örebro University
Örebro
Sweden

Main interests: Acute pain management, regional anaesthesia, organisational issues related to postoperative pain

Potential conflict of interest: Professor Rawal serves on the advisory board of Sintetica.

Department of Anesthesiology and Acute Pain service
Cliniques Universitaires st Luc
University Catholic of Louvain
Av Hippocrate 10- 1821
B-1200 Brussels
Belgium

Research interests: postoperative pain (acute and chronic), pharmacology, orthopaedic anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia

Head of the anesthesiology, intensive care and pain clinic department 2. President of the pain and regional anesthesia committee of the french society of anesthesiology and intensive care. CHU Rennes, University Rennes 1
Inserm Numecan
CIC 1414, 35033 Rennes
France

Research Interests: postoperative pain, non opioid analgesics, opioid free anesthesia/analgesia, regional analgesia

Conflict of interest: BBRAUN

Professor in Anaesthesiology and Consultant
Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo
Pb: 4950 Nydalen
N-0424 Oslo, Norway

Areas of interest: Postoperative pain; pharmacology of analgesics and anaesthtics; regional analgesia/anaesthesia, depht of anaesthesia monitoring, recovery function,PONV.

Anesthesiologist; Pain Specialist
Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
University Hospital Muenster, Germany

Research interests: Postoperative pain (acute and chronic), pharmacology of analgesics, regional analgesia, chronic pain after surgery, chronic pain (e.g. neuropathic), basic neuroscience (pain mechanisms),

Conflict of interest: Mundipharma GmbH; Gruenenthal, The Medicine Company, Fresenius Kabi; ArcelRX

Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
Norway

Main interests: Orthopaedic anaesthesia, acute pain therapy, regional anaesthesia, innovation technologies.

Potential conflict of interest: B.Braun, Philips Healthcare

Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV
Switzerland

Research interests: Meta-analyses and prospective trials on acute postoperative pain, regional procedures, complications after peripheral nerve blocks, and sleep apnea syndrome.

Potential conflict of interest: B.Braun

Philipp Lirk, M.D., Ph.D.
United States of America

Attending Anesthesiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
75 Francis Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
United States of America

Main Interests: Pharmacology and Toxicology of Local Anesthetics, Anatomy and Clinical application of Peripheral Nerve Blocks, and Safety in Regional Anesthesia. Associate Editor of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology.

Conflicts of Interest: None.

Head: Department of Surgery, DIAKO Bremen, Germany Research Interests: Acute Pain Management, Patient Controlled Analgesia, Innovative Techniques Conflict of Interest: Grünenthal