ANZCA and FPM keynote speakers

Harriet W Hopf, MD is Interim Associate Vice President for Faculty, Professor of Anesthesiology, and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. After receiving her BA from Yale and her MD from Dartmouth Medical School, Dr Hopf completed surgical internship at the University of Minnesota and anesthesia residency and research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She was Professor of Anesthesia and Surgery at UCSF before moving to the University of Utah in 2006. Her research focuses on preventing surgical site infections and reducing the environmental impact of anesthesia practice. She is an associate editor for Anesthesiology and on the editorial board of Wound Repair and Regeneration. Dr Hopf has focused on mentoring throughout her career, leading to recognition by the UCSF Graduate Students Association with the inaugural UCSF Faculty Mentorship Award in 1999, the YWCA Utah Outstanding Achievement Award in Medicine & Health in 2013, and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Mentoring Excellence in Research Award, also in 2013. In recognition of her efforts to improve the educational and working environment for women, she received the University of Utah’s Linda K Amos Award for Distinguished Service to Women in 2017.

Professor Philip Peyton is Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia at Austin Health in Melbourne, and Professorial Fellow in the Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Clinical Trials Network, and has been a co-investigator in several large clinical trials, including the MASTER, ENIGMA and RELIEF Trials. He is leading the international multicentre ROCKet Trial, and is passionate about improving the quality of evidence informing practice in anaesthesia through large clinical trials. He is also an expert in the physiology and pharmacology of lung gas exchange during anaesthesia, and its potential application to advanced cardiovascular monitoring in patients undergoing major surgery.

Dr Brummett is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan where he is the Director of Pain Research and more broadly the Director of Clinical Anesthesia Research. He also serves on the editorial boards for Anesthesiology and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He is the co-director of the Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN), which aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the US through appropriate prescribing after surgery, dentistry and emergency medicine. In addition, his research interests include predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain and failure to derive benefit for interventions and surgeries primarily performed to treat pain. In particular, Dr Brummett is interested in the impact of a fibromyalgia-like or centralised pain phenotype on analgesic outcomes. He is the Co-PI of multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and other federal and state funding agencies.

Dr Mary Suma Cardosa is a visiting Consultant Pain Management Specialist at Hospital Selayang, Selangor. She obtained a Masters in Anaesthesiology from the University of Malaya in 1991, FANZCA in 1993 and FFPMANZCA in 1999.

Upon returning to Malaysia after completing her Pain Fellowship at the Pain Management and Research Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Dr Cardosa set up a multidisciplinary pain clinic in Selayang Hospital, the first in a Malaysian Ministry of Health hospital. She went on to do further pioneering work in developing pain services in Malaysia, starting the first cognitive behaviour therapy based pain management program in Southeast Asia. She has been responsible for training many other pain specialists in Malaysia and was a key person in the implementation of “Pain as the 5th Vital Sign”, and “Pain Free Hospitals” in the MOH.

Dr Cardosa is the President of the Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain (MASP) and a council member of the International Association for the Study of Pain. She is also Past-President of the Malaysian Medical Association, the Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists and the Malaysian College of Anaesthesiologists.

Dr Poree holds the position of Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California in San Francisco where he serves as the director of the neuromodulation service. He earned a PhD from UC Berkeley, where he investigated analgesic properties of endogenous peptides on spinal neurons. He continued his research on spinal circuits at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he investigated the neural circuits connecting the sensory and autonomic nervous systems. He later investigated the analgesic properties of alpha2 agonists in models of neuropathic pain while pursing his medical degree and anaesthesia residency training at Stanford University. He completed his pain fellowship training at the University of California at San Francisco and worked in private practice for 15 years before returning to UCSF to direct the neuromodulation program.
He serves as a member of the board of directors for the North American Neuromodulation Society and the International Neuromodulation Society.

Marcus is the Clinical Director of Surgical and Perioperative Services at the Royal Hobart Hospital. He has had numerous appointments in senior roles including director of anaesthesia and has a current active clinical anaesthesia load. He is involved in clinical research and has developed the LMAGastro over the past six years with Teleflex after identifying the difficulties anaesthetists face with sharing an airway with the endoscopists and thought it could be done better.

He is a senior Final Fellowship ANZCA Examiner and is on numerous committees. He is a former RAAF Medical Officer and Specialist on the RAAF reserve with experience in aviation medicine and aeromedical retrieval. He is one of the co-founders of the Primary Trauma Care (PTC) program and has a passion for global outreach service.

Marcus was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medicine in the field of Anaesthesiology and perioperative medicine as a clinician in 2018.

He is married with three children and is a private pilot with an aerobatic endorsement.

Professor Ellen O’Sullivan trained in anaesthesia in the UK and US and spent 10 years as a consultant at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool. Now a consultant in St James Hospital Dublin, Ireland, she specialises in airway management. She has been involved in the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) since its foundation and was elected President of DAS in November 2009. In 2016 she was appointed the Difficult Airway Society Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management. Her present role is the International Liaison Officer of DAS. She is very active in research in this area and has been part of a number of guideline groups. She was the chair of the first WAMM meeting in 2015 (world airway management meeting) and is executive director of WAMM2019 to be held in Amsterdam.

International and third world work forms an important part of her career to date with early contributions to validating what later became the LifeBox Pulse-Oximetry project. She led a team to deliver oximeters to every anesthesia provider in Malawi and more recently completed a Capnography project there. This has led to the setting up of the Global Capnography Project (www.GCAP.blog).

Donal Buggy is full Professor of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Consultant in Anaesthesia at Mater University Hospital, University College Dublin. An elected member of council of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland, he chairs the CEPD-Education committee and is convenor of Irish Congress of Anaesthesia. He is editorial board member of BJA and the ESA’s Research Committee. A clinician scientist in perioperative interventions’ on postoperative patient outcomes, he is chairman of EU COST Action 15204, Euro-Periscope, a collaborative network of researchers in the Europe, investigating the potential influence of anaesthesia and analgesia on cancer outcomes.

Dr Shahridan bin Mohd Fathil obtained his MBBS from the University of Malaya in 1996. He underwent anaesthesia training initially in Malaysia, and then Ireland and England. He has also completed a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship in Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was appointed as a consultant and later senior consultant with JurongHealth, Singapore for nearly six years until April 2017. He was also appointed as clinical senior lecturer with NUS Yoong Loo Lin School of Medicine and was the trainer for the basic and advanced regional anaesthesia modules of the NUHS Anaesthesiology Residency at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. He is a consultant anaesthesiologist in Gleneagles Medini Hospital, Malaysia. His passions are ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and point-of-care ultrasound. He was the past convenor for the special interest group in regional anaesthesia, College of Anaesthesiologists, and is the member of the executive committee of the college and also the president for the Society of Critical and Emergency Sonography, Malaysia. He has been on humanitarian relief work in post-disaster missions in Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan as well as quality assurance relief work in Malawi.