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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Giustino Varrassi, MD, PhD
Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy. At the moment, he is president of the Paolo Procacci Foundation, Roma, Italy. His scientific interest is mainly in Pain Medicine as shown by the many initiatives he has organized in his career: Founding Member (1993) and Past-President of the European Pain Federation (EFIC), where he has served in the Executive Board for 21 years; Past-President of the Italian Association for the Study of Pain, where he has served in the Council for over 30 years. In these positions, he has organized over 40 international and national congresses. Moreover, he has an intense publishing activity on Pain Medicine and other aspects of his medical specialty. More recently, he has joined NEMA Research Group. as Senior Consultant.
Interests:Anaesthesiology; Pain Medicine; Chronic Pain; Pain Perception

Associate Editor

Giovanni Landoni, MD (Section Editor)
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Faculty of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Interests:Intensive Care and Anesthesia
Diego Fornasari, MD, PhD (Section Editor)
Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine (BIOMETRA), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; CNR - Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
Interests:Pharmacology; Pain Medicine; Clinical Pharmacology; Neuropharmacology
Ozgur Karcioglu, MD, FEMAT (Section Editor)
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Interests:Emergency Medicine; Resuscitation; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Airway Management
Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA (Section Editor)
Department of Anaesthesiology, Creta InterClinic Hospital, Hellenic Healthcare Group, Heraklion-Crete, Greece
Interests:Regional Anesthesia; Cardiac Anesthesia; Pain Medicine
Joseph V. Pergolizzi, MD (Section Editor)
NEMA Research, Inc, Naples, USA
Interests:Pain Medicine; Acute and Chronic Pain; Anesthesiology; Perioperative Care
Jean-Louis VINCENT, MD, PhD
Department of Intensive Care Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles Route de Lennik, Brussels, Belgium
Interests:Intensive Care; Sepsis; Acute Circulatory Failure (Circulatory Shock); Oxygen Transport; Haemodynamic Monitoring
Marco Cascella, MD
Division of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
Interests:General Anesthesia Research; Pain Research; Cancer Pain Management; Infectious Diseases in ICU
A. S. Albahri, PhD
Iraqi Commission for Computers and Informatics (ICCI), Informatics Institute for Postgraduate Studies (IIPS), Baghdad, Iraq
Interests:Expert System; Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM); Artificial Intelligence; Information Security in Medical Informatics and Clinical Practice

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