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 16 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 Eberhard F. KochsEberhard F. KochsEberhard F. Kochs, MD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Germany. Dr Kochs earned his medical degree from the University of Bonn, Germany and completed his residency at the University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. In addition, Dr Kochs holds a Masters degree (Dipl.-Phys.) in physics from the University of Bonn. After specializing in anaesthesia and intensive care, he became Professor of Anaesthesiology. In 1994, he was elected as Chair of the Department of Anaesthesiology of the Technical University Munich at the Klinikum rechts der Isar and retired in 2016. Dr Kochs was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Klinikum rechts der Isar and the Klinikum Freising, Germany. In the years 2012–2013, he was President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). He served as a member of various editorial boards and has published more than 350 peer-reviewed articles and edited several textbooks in the domain of anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine. Dr Kochs’ main areas of research are: neuroscience as applied to anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine using electrophysiology combined with neuroimaging, applying mathematical tools for assessment of changes in brain function during drug-induced unconsciousness and following brain pathophysiology (coma). Dr Kochs’ research also focuses on receptor studies including cellular signal transmission in single neurons and brain networks and clinical studies on the effects of sedatives, analgesics on long-term outcome after anaesthesia and intensive care. Richard D. UrmanRichard D. UrmanRichard D. Urman, MD, MBA, FASA is a staff anesthesiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, USA, where he also received his MD and MBA degrees. He serves as Associate Chair for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and as a Medical Director for Procedural Sedation Services at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In addition, he is the founding co-Director of the Center for Perioperative Research and the Director of the Perioperative Medicine Fellowship. He has edited a dozen textbooks, including the one on non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) entitled “Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room” (Cambridge Press, 2018) and has published papers on NORA safety, efficiency and outcomes. He is currently funded by the NIH, NSF, AHRQ and the industry. His research interests include pharmacology, acute pain management, patient safety and efficiency in the perioperative and periprocedural setting. He also serves as the scientific reviewer for the Department of Defense and sits on the FDA Analgesics panel. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. Dr Urman is active in the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, where he serves as Assistant Treasurer and member of the executive committee. He is also Treasurer of the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) and Treasurer of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (AACD). Andrea U. SteinbickerAndrea U. SteinbickerProf. Dr med. Andrea U. Steinbicker is the leading staff physician at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine at Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany. She has studied medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Alicante, Spain and at Muenster University, Germany. In addition, she studied Public Health and graduated with the master of Public Health. The master thesis was performed at World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She achieved her doctoral degree at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry at the University Duisburg-Essen in 2006. Prof. Steinbicker habilitated in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. During residency, she performed research as a DFG-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and established her research group “Iron signaling“ at Muenster University. She is a certified anaesthesiologist, intensivist and emergency physician. Besides clinical duties, she implemented and coordinates to date Patient Blood Management at Muenster University Hospital in Germany. Until 2021, she was the speaker of the Subcommittee Haemotherapy of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and is a member of the International Anesthesia Research Society. Her research focus on iron, blood management and inflammation is pursued in basic, translational and clinical research projects, as well as in education and teaching.