Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Stephan K. W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC, The University of British Columbia,  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada






Professor and Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Chair in Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics The University of British Columbia
Areas of expertise/interest: Neuropharmacology (in particular, local anesthetic, analgesic, and general anesthetic neuropharmacology); whole-cell patch clamp brain slice electrophysiology; acute pain; regional anesthesia; general adult anesthesia; perioperative medicine; RCTs; experimental design/analysis.
Competing interests: Dr. Schwarz is a past recipient of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) Research Award, the CAS/Abbott Laboratories Ltd. Career Scientist Award in Anesthesia, and the CAS Research Award Neuroanesthesia in Memory of Adrienne Cheng. He has received research funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Endowment for Anesthesia Memorial Fund (The University of British Columbia), and the St. Paul's Hospital Department of Anesthesia (Vancouver, B.C.). In 2007, he won a Pfizer Neuropathic Pain Research Award (independently peer-reviewed public operating grant competition sponsored by Pfizer Canada Inc.). For another investigator-initiated curiosity-driven study, he received in 2013 an aliquot of pregabalin free of charge through a Pfizer Canada Compound Transfer Program application (Kirkland, Quebec, Canada). Dr. Schwarz has never been employed by any medical/biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies nor has he received personal honoraria, consulting fees, or other personal benefits from such commercial entities. On rare occasions, he has received a small honorarium for participation in online surveys solicited by market research firms. Dr. Schwarz has been advised by his investment manager that his discretionary portfolio may variably include holdings from the medical/biotechnology sectors; Dr. Schwarz similarly assumes that his university pension plan holdings may include variable positions from such sectors over time; none such holdings relate to his professional activities.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Philip M. Jones, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Mayo Clinic,  Jacksonville, Florida, USA






Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Florida
Chair, Research Advisory Committee, Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
Areas of expertise/interest: Dr Jones has a clinical practice which is largely focused on cardiac care. His research interests include pragmatic randomized clinical trials, cardiac anesthesia, clinical trial methodology & biostatistics, and perioperative medicine.
Competing interests: None.

Associate Editors

Patricia S. Fontela (Critical Care), MD, PhD (Epid), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada






Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, McGill University
Clinician Scientist
Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)
Child Health and Human Development Program (CHHD) 
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (RI-MUHC)
Chair, Canadian Critical Care Pediatric Subgroup - Canadian Critical Care Trials 
Chair, Sepsis Canada Research Training Program
Co-Chair, Life-Threatening Illness National Group (LifTING) Health Research Training Program
Areas of expertise/interest: epidemiology; pediatric critical care; infectious diseases; sepsis
Competing interests: None.

Ronald B. George (Social Media), MD, FRCPC, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada






Director of Obstetric Anesthesia, Mount Sinai Hospital 
Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Areas of expertise/interest: Obstetrical Anesthesia, including labour analgesia, postoperative analgesia, acute pain, epidural anesthesia and analgesia, cesarean delivery, maternal health, global health, women’s rights to analgesia.
Competing interests: None.

Philippe Richebé (French Language), MD, PhD, DESAR, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada






Professor and Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Montreal, Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital Research Center, CIUSSS de l’Est de l’Ile de Montréal
Areas of expertise/interest: Since his specialization in anesthesiology and his PhD in neurosciences and neuropharmacology, Dr Richebé has been interested in the mechanisms of peripheral and central pain sensitization which could lead to higher incidence and levels of postoperative chronic pain, and in all the strategies available in the perioperative period to reduce this sensitization (use of adjuvants, reduce opioids doses…). More recently (last 7 years), with the aim to reduce intraoperative doses of opioids and their consequences, Dr Richebé conducted research projects on new intraoperative nociception monitors which led to several international level collaborations and publications. Also, his interests include personnalized anesthesia with high-quality monitoring to improve postoperative early and long-term outcomes and recovery.
Competing interests: Dr. Richebé is a past recipient of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) Research Award Neuroanesthesia in Memory of Adrienne Cheng. He has received research funding from the Quebec Foundation of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, the Departments of Anesthesiology of University of Montreal, of Seattle (UWMC, Seattle, WA, USA), The National Institute of Health research (NIH), The Canadian Institute for Health Reasearch (CIHR), The French institute for medical research, The French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, The French Society of pain management (SFETD) etc. Also, he got as PI many fundings for conducting Independent Investigator Initiated Trials from companies such as Medasense Ltd, Medtronic, Merck, Ferring, CHS, Pfizer etc.
Dr Richebé received honoraria for giving lectures from several companies: Merck, Medtronic, Medasense Ltd, Abbvie, Biosyent etc. He also received consulting fees for advising several companies: Merck, Edwards, medasense Ltd etc.

Alexis F. Turgeon (Critical Care), MD, MSc, FRCPC, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada






Professor and the Director of Research in the 
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Université Laval
Scientist, Population Health and Optimal Health Practice Research Unit at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval Research Centre
Chairholder, Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Neurology and Trauma
Co-Chair, Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium (CTRC)
Director, Cochrane Canada Francophone
Areas of expertise/interest: Dr. Alexis Turgeon practices critical care medicine and anesthesiology at CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus. He leads a comprehensive research program in neurocritical care including multicenter international trials. He is involved in REMAP-CAP, an international adaptive platform trial that played an important role for generating evidence in caring for COVID-19 patients.
Competing interests: None.

Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA, MSc , Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada






Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University
Member, Research Advisory Committee, Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
Vice-Chair, Regional Anesthesia Section, Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
Areas of expertise/interest: Dr. Uppal’s areas of clinical interest are regional anesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, and acute pain medicine. His research interests include observational studies, clinical trials, evidence synthesis, and network meta-analysis.
Competing interests: None.

CPD Editor

Kathryn Sparrow, MD, MScHQ, FRCPC, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada






Assistant Professor
Discipline of Anesthesia
Memorial University of Newfoundland 
Chair, Canadian Anesthetic Incident Reporting System Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
Member, Standards Committee
Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
Areas of interest/expertise: Healthcare and quality improvement, patient safety, airway management
Competing interests: Dr. Sparrow has received one prior honorarium for attending an expert input forum from Merck Canada Inc. As an instructor and course faculty member, she has received honoraria from Airway Interventions and Management in Emergencies (AIME), The Difficult Airway Course, and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Editorial Board Members

Virendra K. Arya, MBBS, MD, FRCPC, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada






The ‘POPE’ Family Professor in Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Preoperative and Pain Medicine,
Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba,
Saint Boniface Hospital
Areas of expertise/interest: Dr Arya’s area of clinical work and research include cardiothoracic anesthesiology, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. He has developed University of Manitoba Perioperative TTE course (UoM PTTE course) that is accredited by Royal College of Physicians of Canada for 20 hours MOC section 3 credits. He has special interest in cardiovascular physiology, perioperative hemodynamics in congenital heart disease and in study of central neuraxial blocks associated hemodynamic alterations in congenital and acquired cardiac pathologies. In addition his research interest includes human behavior, non-technical skills and emotional intelligence in research and perioperative medicine.
Competing interests: None.

Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA






Professor of Anesthesiology & Vice Chair for Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Dr. Bartels is a practicing anesthesiologist with fellowship training in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and pain medicine.
Areas of expertise/interest: include novel IT and electronic health record-based interventions, clinical outcomes, and patient safety in perioperative medicine. Methodological expertise entails the design and execution of conventional observational studies, quasi-experimental studies, RCTs, and large pragmatic clinical trials.
Competing interests: Dr. Bartels research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (USA).

Justyna Bartoszko, MD MSc FRCPC , University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada






Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management; University Health Network, Sinai Health System, Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada 
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Areas of expertise/interest: Cardiac Anesthesia, Blood Management, Coagulopathy, Hemostasis, Transfusion, Transplant Anesthesia 
Competing interests: I am supported in part by a Merit Award from the University of Toronto Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. I have received grants from the Society for the Advancement for Blood Management and CIHR. I have received a small travel honorarium from Octapharma AG.

Matthew T.V. Chan, MB BS, PhD, FANZCA, FHKCA, FHKAM, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong






Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Areas of expertise/interest: Neuroanesthesia, perioperative monitoring of the brain and spine, clinical trials, clinical epidemiology and mechanisms of chronic postsurgical pain
Competing interests: None.

Catherine L. Chen, MD, MPH,  San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco, USA






Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
Areas of expertise/interest: Health services research, perioperative resource utilization, routine preoperative testing, opioid epidemic, cataract surgery care, Medicare, OptumLabs.
Competing interests: None.

André Coetzee, MB ChB M Med(Anest) FFA (SA) FFARCS (I) PhD MD PhD DSc,  University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa






Professor Emeritus, Past Executive Head, Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Stellenbosch
Past Head, Respiratory Intensive Care Unit 
Past Senior Consultant, Surgical Intensive Care, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa
Areas of expertise/interest: Cardiac mechanics, circulatory function, acute respiratory care, anesthesia for cardiac and pulmonary procedures, adult intensive care. The doctorates reflect this interest.
During his career, Dr. Coetzee  was a Nuffield Dominion Trust Scholar at Oxford (Prof. P Foex and Sir K Sykes) and visiting Professor at the University of Arizona (Prof. Burnel Brown).
Dr. Coetzee serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.
Competing interests: None.

Sina M. Coldewey, MD, PhD, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany






Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology and Translational Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
Head, Division of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
Head, Translational Septomics Research Group, Septomics Research Centre, Jena, Germany
Areas of expertise/interest: Prof. Coldewey is anesthesiologist and intensivist and heads the Division of Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Jena University Hospital, Germany. She has a strong research focus on translational medicine and therapeutics. In her research group scientists and clinicians work closely together to further elucidate the molecular mechanisms and pathophysiology of life-threatening syndromes induced by infections, such as sepsis or hemolytic-uremic syndrome. The main objective of her work is - by conducting preclinical studies as well as clinical trials – to identify promising biomarkers and target molecules to improve the diagnostic and treatment of pathogen-induced organ failure and, consequently attenuate disease outcome and minimize long-term sequelae of survivors.
Competing interests: Dr. Coldewey has received research funding from the German Research Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, and the SensLab GmbH, Germany. Prof. Coldewey is member of the editorial boards of the scientific journals Shock and Frontiers in Immunology and member of the Scientific Advisory Board William Harvey Research Limited. London, UK.

Derek Dillane, MB BCh, BAO, MMedSci, FCARCSI, University of Alberta,  Edmonton, Canada






Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Areas of expertise/interest: Regional anesthesia, acute pain medicine, perioperative medicine
Competing interests: Dr. Dillane receives funding on a per patient basis for enrolling patients to the Regain Trial for hip fracture surgery (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania). He is paid honoraria from ASRA, on average once or twice per year, for teaching at workshops and conferences. Apart from these, he has no personal or financial involvement which may inappropriately affect his scientific judgement or interpretation of data.

Alana M. Flexman, MD, FRCPC, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada






Clinical Associate Professor
Vice Chair, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia
Director of Research. Department of Anesthesia, St. Paul’s Hospital/Providence Health Care
President-elect, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC)
Past Chair, Neuroanesthesia Section, Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society
Areas of expertise/interest: Perioperative brain health, clinical outcomes after neurosurgery and spine surgery, mentorship and diversity in anesthesiology.
Competing Interests: Dr. Flexman has received research funding from the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, Hospira, Inc., Vancouver Acute Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care and one prior honorarium from Hospira, Inc.

M. Ruth Graham, MD, FRCPC, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada