Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Anesthesiology was launched in 1988. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of anesthesiology is divided into 15 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Thomas K. HenthornThomas K. HenthornDr Henthorn is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. He earned his medical degree and completed his residency training at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, USA. He also completed postdoctoral research fellowships in clinical pharmacology at Northwestern and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. His areas of research interest are in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism. Dr Henthorn has served on the editorial board of the journals Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Anesthesiology and reviews manuscripts for several anesthesiology and pharmacology journals in addition to having served on research review committees for the NIH and VA Merit Review. Dr Henthorn also chairs the Subcommittee on Anesthetic Action & Biochemistry for American Society of Anesthesiologists and serves on the Committee on Research and Subcommittee on Drug Disposition. In addition, he is President of the International Society for Anaesthetic Pharmacology and has recently served on the FDA's Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee. Karen J. SouterKaren J. SouterKaren J. Souter MB BS FRCA, is the Vice-chair for Education and Residency Program Director in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. Dr Souter received her medical degree from St Bartholomew's Hospital at the University of London, UK in 1985; and completed her anesthesiology subspecialty training with the British Army and latterly at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK. She undertook a fellowship in neuroanesthesiology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada in 1997 and 1998 and then practiced as a consultant neuroanesthesiologist at the University of Southampton until 2001. In 2002 Dr Souter moved to the University of Washington in Seattle where she has developed her career as a medical educator with a particular interest in graduate medical education. In 2011 she received the ACGME ‘Parker J Palmer Courage to Teach’ award in recognition of her work related to resident education. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters related to neuroanesthesia and anesthesiology in remote locations. Dr Souter is an active member of many professional societies, including the Society for Education for Anesthesia, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Association of University Anesthesiologists and she serves as a council member for the Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors.