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 Journal's Section Editors for this issue.
SECTION EDITORS
Vanessa Neef
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Vanessa Neef
Dr Vanessa Neef, MD graduated in medicine from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. In 2015, she achieved her doctoral degree at the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany.
Currently, Dr Neef is working on a consultant level at the department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany (Director: Professor K. Zacharowski, MD PhD ML FRCA FESAIC), where she also completed her residency. Since 2021, she is Section Head for Obstetrics and Gynaecology within the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany. Dr Neef did her habilitation in 2022 at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. In 2022 she also achieved an MBA in economics in medicine from the University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is a member of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI) and the Professional Association of German Anaesthesiologists (BDA).
Her research interest is on perioperative medicine including Patient Blood Management, evidence-based medicine, patient safety and outcomes research in perioperative medicine. She has published several journal articles in national and international journals as well as book chapters, mainly in the field of Patient Blood Management.
Dr Vanessa Neef has been involved on a voluntary basis at the School Health Screening by the Ministry of Health and Bureau of Public Health of the Republic of Palau, Micronesia.
Christiane Beck
Christiane Beck
Dr Christiane Beck is the leading senior consultant at the Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Hannover Medical School. She has studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, Germany, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Madison, USA and received her degree in 1997 from the University of Göttingen, Germany.
She completed her anesthesiology residency training in 2003 and is a certified anesthesiologist, intensivist and emergency physician.
She achieved her doctoral degree at the Centre for Radiologic Diagnostics, University of Göttingen, Germany in 2000. Dr Christiane Beck habilitated in 2021 at the Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Besides clinical duties, she implemented and coordinates to date preoperative fasting guidelines for children and is co-author of the actual ESAIC Fasting Guideline and coordinator of the German fasting guidelines on this subject.
She is specialized in pediatric anesthesia, anesthesia for complex congenital cardiac surgery and transplant surgery in children and is invited to numerous conferences as a speaker on these topics.
She is member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), the Professional Association of German Anesthesiologists (BDA), the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (ESAIC) the Scientific Working Group for Pediatric Anesthesia and since 2021 Speaker of the Scientific Working Group for Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia of the German Society of Anesthesiology.
Her focus is on the research of pediatric anesthesia. She coordinated a national study on preoperative fasting in children for the Scientific Working Group for Pediatric Anesthesia and is part of the research group of Prof. Robert Sümpelmann.
She has published several journal articles and book chapters mainly on the field of pediatric anesthesia.
She is a passionate mentor for trainees and early career junior residence in building a clinical or scientific career.
Dr Christiane Beck has been involved on a voluntary basis as the leading anesthetist to pediatric cardiac missions to Moldova, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cyprus and Romania. She is in close contact and support to an innovative project MOHKI – the mobile kinderherzen clinic of the kinderherzen association (kinderherzen - Fördergemeinschaft deutscher Kinderherzzentren e.V.) to provide excellent medical infrastructure for cardiac missions in low-income countries.
She is board member of the Kinderherzen-scholarship, founded in 2022, by the kinderherzen association (kinderherzen - Fördergemeinschaft deutscher Kinderherzzentren e.V.) and the Dr Andreas Urban foundation to promote young specialist in the field of pediatric heart medicine.
Wolfgang Buhre
Wolfgang Buhre
Wolfgang Buhre is Anaesthesiologist and Medical Director of the Division of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine at Maastricht University Medical Centre (MumC), The Netherlands. He is also Professor of Anesthesiology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
At Maastricht, he is a member of the School Council and a research fellow in the School of Mental Health and Neurosciences (MhenS) and an associated research fellow in the Care and Public health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University.
He earned his medical degree at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He completed his residency training at the same University and is trained in intensive care medicine and pain medicine. His areas of research are outcome research, artificial intelligence, and modern technology to support decision making in clinical practice.
Wolfgang Buhre is leading the Research Mentorship Program of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (ESAIC). Moreover, he is coordinating investigator in the Academic Research Organization of ESAIC and serves within the society also as industrial liaison member for the Academic research organization (A-CRO).
