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 Gernot MarxGernot MarxDr Gernot Marx, MD, FRCA, is full Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Chair at the University RWTH Aachen, Germany. He is Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Intermediate Care at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen. He is Chairman of the Board of the German Society of Telemedicine. He is full Board Member of the German Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and full Board Member of the German Interdisciplinary Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. He graduated and took his residency at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany. He was Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Liverpool, UK, and full Professor for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. He received the Fellowship by election of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. His research interest is focused on sepsis, fluid therapy and telemedicine. He is Editor of two books, Checklist Intensive Care Medicine and The Intensive Care Medicine. He is Editor in Chief of intensivup2date, Editor of AINS (Anaesthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie) and Associate Editor of British Journal of Anaesthesia. Stanley H. RosenbaumStanley H. RosenbaumStanley H. Rosenbaum, MA, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine and Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine, USA. He is the Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs and the Director of the Division of Perioperative and Adult Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr Rosenbaum has had a long career doing research and publishing numerous papers, monographs and textbooks on various aspects of anesthesiology, critical care medicine and medical ethics. In 2011 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists. Kai ZacharowskiKai ZacharowskiProfessor Kai Zacharowski, MD, PhD, ML, FRCA, holds the position of the Ordinarius and is the Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, since 2009. From 2006 until 2008 he was the Chair of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Bristol, UK. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in both clinical and basic aspects of patient safety, transfusion and clotting, innate immunity, cardiovascular and critical care medicine. Professor Zacharowski received his MD from the German University of Mainz, Germany, and his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, UK, where he was working with the Nobel laureate Prof Sir John Vane who discovered how aspirin works. His scientific contributions have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Medicine, Lancet, NEJM and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and were awarded with numerous awards for Innovative Clinical Research. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine as well as an Editorial Board member of numerous journals in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia and is the CEO of the Lohfert Foundation. He is practicing Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in Frankfurt.