ANZCA ASM 2008

	Foundation Visitor, ANZCA Steven Shafer Steven L. Shafer, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University and Adjunct Professor of Biopharmaceutical Science at the University of California, San Francisco. His professional interest is the clinical pharmacology of intravenous anesthetic drugs. Dr. Shafer has published numerous clinical studies of many of the intravenous opioids and hypnotics used in anesthetic practice. His passion is for the mathematical models that characterize drug behavior. These include conventional pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, inverse models (used to drive target controlled infusion systems), Bayesian models (used to handle model uncertainty), pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of drug interaction, and models that relate drug behavior to "in silico" pharmacogenetics. In addition to his role as a clinician and scientist, Dr. Shafer is currently the Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia.

	Foundation Visitor, FPM Quinn Hogan Professor Hogan is Professor of Anesthesiology and Director, Anesthesia Pain Research, Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA. His research interests include the cellular pathophysiology of neuropathic pain, and the anatomy, physiology, and clinical application of regional anesthesia. He is on the editorial board of Anesthesia and Analgesia, serves on study sections evaluating research grants for the National Institutes of Health and for the Veterans Association research programs, and is a member of the Pain Examination Committee of the American Board of Anaesthesiology. He has given well over one hundred international and national invited presentations and published over 200 publications including original research, book chapters and reviews.

	Australasian Visitor Professor Michael Paech MBBS, DRCOG, FRCA, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, FRANZCOG (Hon), DM Professor Mike Paech has a Chair of Obstetric Anaesthesia in the Pharmacology and Anaesthesiology Unit of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, the University of Western Australia. He trained in South Australia and the UK and has longstanding interests in obstetric anaesthesia, teaching and clinical research, directing departmental research at Royal Perth and King Edward Memorial Hospitals. He is an editor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and on the editorial boards of two international obstetric anaesthesia journals. He is a member of the Research, Examinations and WA Regional Committees of ANZCA; the ASA National Scientific Congress sub-committee, the WFSA Obstetric Committee and is President-elect of the Asian and Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine.

	New South Wales Visitor (Anaesthesia) Professor David Bogod David Bogod is a Consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetrics, working at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the heart of the East Midlands of England. In 2004-05, he instigated and led the Epidural Practitioner Project, in which two non-physicians were trained in Nottingham to administer epidurals in labour. David has an extensive medicolegal practice, and was recently awarded a distinction for his dissertation on ‘Consent in Labour’ for a Masters in Health Law. He chaired the working party which produced the 2006 national guidance on consent for the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), and advises both locally and nationally on consent-related issues. He was also the AAGBI’s lead on the joint working party with the Obstetric Anaesthetists Association, responsible for the recent revision of the national standards for provision of obstetric anaesthesia. David is the Editor-in-Chief of Anaesthesia, and serves as an Officer of the AAGBI. He is a past Chair of the Obstetric Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology. David is married to Natalie, and has two children, Daniel and Adam, neither of whom has been foolish enough to pursue a career in medicine. His hobbies include photography, origami and collecting watches.

	New South Wales Visitor (FPM) Linda Watkins Dr Linda Watkins is an expert on the immune and glial regulation of pain. In 2006 she was selected as a “University of Colorado Distinguished Professor “ which is the highest honour awarded by the University in recognition of research, teaching and service. Her CV reflects this, being on the editorial board for several prominent journals including ‘Pain’. Some of her recent research grants give an impression of the exciting work she is leading. For example “Development of opioid therapeutic approaches that fail to activate glia”, “Development of rat models to assess glial involvement in migraine” and “Impact of neuropathic pain on opioid dependence: mechanisms & drug modulation, Glial modulation of opioid tolerance and withdrawal".

	Dr David Wilkinson David Wilkinson is a consultant anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He is President of the History of Anaesthesia Society, and a member of the Executive Committee and Deputy Secretary of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). He has published widely on a range of historical topics in anaesthesia.

	Dr Gary Hartstein Gary Hartstein is Associate Professor of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine at University Hospital in Leige, Belgium and F1A Medical Delegate for the Formula 1 World Championship. His main area of interest is motor sport safety and he is chair of the F1A Institute’s Medical Training Working Group, which aims to standardise training and practices of motor sport doctors. He will be orator for the College Ceremony at the ANZCA 2008 ASM.

	Professor Friedrich Karl Puhringer Friedrich Puhringer is the Chairman of the Department of“Anäesthesiologie und Operartive Intensivmedizin” at Klinikum am Steinenberg in Reutlingen, an academic hospital of the University of Tubingen, Germany. His main research interests are within pharmacology of muscle relaxants, neuromuscular monitoring, post operative pain therapy, and regional anaesthesia in paediatrics.