NWAC Scientific Program
Scientific Program Chairman:
Admir Hadzic
Admir Hadzic, MD, PHD is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the Director of Regional Anesthesia at St Luke's and Roosevelt Hospital Centers in New York City. He is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology. Dr Hadzic is a founder of NWAC World Anesthesia Congress. He is the author of two textbooks in the field of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine and the creator of the New York School of Regional Anesthesia (NYSORA). Dr Hadzic has extensively lectured nationally and internationally, including ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) annual refresher course lectures. Besides medicine, his passions are sports (epee fencing), music (holds the bass chair and blues harmonica at Stone Tone Blues Band and Big Apple Blues), vacuum tube (valve) vintage electronics, music studio engineering, motorcycles riding, white water rafting and travel.
Co-Chairmen
Battista Borghi
Battista Borghi is an Associated Professor of Anesthesiology at the Bologna University. He is also a Member of the ESRA board. Since 1999 he has been a professor for teaching regional anaesthesia and orthopaedic anaesthesia at the Specialisation School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care of Bologna University. He has published more than 300 paper on anaesthesia, especially in orthopaedics: 218 of these were written in full, 64 on impacted journals, on indexed journal and chapters of books in Italian, English and Spanish. He has published 3 books (2002, 2004 and 2006) on regional anaesthesia. He was a Speaker on more than 450 occassions in National and International Congresses. Since 2003 he has been a coordinator of the International Club of Friends of Orthopaedic Anaesthesia.
William Harrop-Griffiths
Advising member Will Harrop-Griffiths is a Consultant Anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital, a constituent hospital of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He is a regional anaesthetist to the core, focussing on brachial plexus blocks above the clavicle, using ultrasound while being ever-so-slightly sceptical about the quality of evidence for its use in the published literature, bragging about his block success rates and preferring punditry to hard graft in the laboratory. His lectures have been described as a "victory of style over content". He takes this as a compliment. His clinical interests are orthopaedic, obstetric and vascular anaesthesia. His non-clinical interests are riding horses and motorcycles. His passions are his family, English grammar and not falling off horses or motorcycles
Sebastian Schulz-Stübner
Sebastian Schulz-Stübner is director of the surgical intensive care unit at Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital, Germany (teaching hospital of the Albert-Ludwigs-University at Freiburg, Germany). He is a Consultant in Anesthesia, Critical and Emergency Care, Pain Medicine and also a trained hospital epidemiologist. He has published in several peer reviewed journals and is author of three major text books covering neurosurgical critical care, regional anesthesia and analgesia, and medical hypnosis.
Knox Todd
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, NY , U.S.A.
John D. Wasnick
John D. Wasnick completed residency in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He currently serves as vice-chair of the anesthesiology department at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and as associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Wasnick is a practicing cardiac anesthesiologist and medical educator. His academic interests are focused upon cardiac anesthesia, physicain education, health policy, and departmental management.
