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Dr. Nuala Lucas is a Consultant Anaesthetist at London North West University Healthcare Trust. Her major interest is obstetric anaesthesia. She is the President-elect of the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association and chairs the Education Subcommittee. Nuala is the anaesthetic co-lead for the UK Confidential Maternal Death Enquiries (MBRRACE-UK). She is a senior editor for the International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. Her research interests include airway management in obstetric anaesthesia and complications of obstetric anaesthesia. In 2020 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to anaesthesia during the COVID19 pandemic. In 2021 she was awarded the Featherstone Professorship by the Association of Anaesthetists.

Director, Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery, Director and QIO, Center for Sedation, | Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, USA Basem B. Abdelmalak, MD, FASA is a professor of anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He has served in the Department of General Anesthesiology as a Staff Anesthesiologist since 2001. Currently he leads Anesthesia Services for Bronchoscopic Surgery as a NORA service and is the Director of the Center for Sedation implementing the anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation. He frequently performs the Therapeutic Whole Lung Lavage procedure to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis patients.

Dr. Abdelmalak is board-certified in Anesthesiology and fellowship trained in Critical Care medicine. His many clinical interests include anesthesia for ENT and bronchoscopic surgery, difficult airway management.

He served the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists as its president in 2015 and currently serves the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) as the Vice-chair of the educational track subcommittee on Ambulatory Anesthesia, the Society for Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA), as a founding member, and its president.

Dr. Lorenzo Ball, born 1984, is Assistant Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Genova and Intensivist at the Intensive Care Unit of Policlinico San Martino Hospital in Genova, Italy.

He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His main areas of research and clinical activiy are focused on respiratory failure, respiratory monitoring and mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit and the operating room.

Ellen O'Sullivan trained in anaesthesiology and intensive care in UK and USA and is now a Consultant Anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland affiliated to Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in airway management and is Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Airway Management and Simulation.

She is Past President of the Difficult Airway Society and was appointed DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management.

Prof O’Sullivan is Past President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and is now Airway Lead Advisor to the College & runs the CAI national airway training. She has a substantial portfolio of clinically relevant research and has co-authored more than 140 scientific papers (H-Index 22), books, website modules etc Clinically she has developed a worldwide reputation in airway management and has lectured and taught workshops internationally. She was a member of the ASA Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway and also sits on the Project for Universal Airway Guidelines Group (PUMA) guideline group. She is an Executive Director of WAAM (World Alliance for Airway Management) and co-chaired the World Airway Meeting, WAMM1, in Dublin 2015 and WAMM2 in Amsterdam 2019. A particular interest of Prof O’ Sullivan’s is Global Anaesthesia and supporting education and training in low & middle income countries. This has led to her involvement in a number of projects in Malawi & Uganda including the Global Capnography Project (GCAP)

Dr. Umair Malik went to medical school at the Aga Khan University, Pakistan, completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at the Cleveland Clinic, OH, followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Minnesota, MN and a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Medical University of South Carolina, SC. He is currently completing his MBA at Johns Hopkins University. Outside of medicine.

David Vaughan is a consultant anaesthetist at Northwick Park and St Marks Hospitals in Middlesex. He qualified and trained in London and was appointed as a consultant to lead the head and neck anaesthesia service.

His research and teaching interests are videolaryngoscopy, complex and awake airway management and the obstetric airway. He is an active member of DAS with whom he was an author on the awake intubation guidelines and acts regularly as an advanced airway skills trainer for DAS, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Association of Anaesthetists.

He is a lifelong Crystal Palace fan and views their continuing Premiership status with deep suspicion. He spends his spare time watching rugby, walking, playing tennis badly, going to the theatre and wishing there was more time in life to do these things. His wife is a remarkably tolerant woman.

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Dr. Sylvie Aucoin completed her anesthesiology training at Dalhousie University in 2010. She practiced as an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at The Moncton Hospital in Moncton, New Brunswick from 2011-2017, and she served as the Chief of Anesthesiology from 2015-2017. She completed a Clinical Fellowship in Perioperative Medicine at University College London Hospital (UCLH) in 2018, as well as the accompanying MSc Perioperative Medicine at University College London (UCL) in 2019. She joined The Ottawa Hospital Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine in 2018.

She held the position of Site Chief, Civic Campus of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine from 2019-2023. She has also previously held other leadership positions in the Perioperative Service Line, including Medical Lead for Surgical Triage in the Covid Context and Perioperative Efficiency Clinical Lead. She is currently a Co-Lead of the TOH Virtual Recovery After Surgery (VRAS), a program she helped found in 2021 as part of the Covid recovery efforts. She is currently the Chair of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society Hospital Chiefs of Anesthesia Section.

Dr. Egan completed his undergraduate education at Brigham Young University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in the humanities. He attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha academic honor society. After completing a preliminary general surgery residency at the University of Utah, Dr. Egan sought postgraduate training in anesthesiology and critical care which he completed at Stanford University. Following residency he pursued fellowship training in clinical pharmacology also at Stanford. He recently completed intensive physician executive training at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Egan is currently staff physician and chair at the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. His clinical practice focuses on neurosurgery and obstetric patients. He is past President of the Medical Staff and Chairman of the Medical Board, and served for over a decade as the Chief of Neuroanesthesia.

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Avery Tung, MD, FCCM, an anesthesiologist and intensivist, has been appointed Chief of the Section of Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care (DACC), effective July 1, 2021. He has served as the director of critical care services for the University of Chicago Medicine’s Burn and Complex Wound Center from 1998 to 2019 and has been the Quality Chief for the department of Anesthesia since 2007.

Tung is a past President of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and past Chair of the Critical Care Educational Track of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting. He has contributed broadly to the improvement of critical care through other leadership roles, including ASA guideline task forces for procedural sedation, difficult airway management and central line insertion, and the 2013 SCCM task force for guidelines for pain, analgesia, and delirium management in the ICU.

He has served on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anesthesiology and respiratory therapy devices panel and the general hospital and personal use devices panel and on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services technical expert panel for sepsis outcome measures. Dr. Tung is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, a prestigious credential that demonstrates a commitment to critical care excellence.