Dr. Steve Yentis
ANZCA CSM Visitor
Steve Yentis is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and Honorary Reader at Imperial College, London, UK. He trained in London apart from one year in Toronto. His main interests are in obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia, airway management, research methods, use of evidence, and ethics. He is an Executive Member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Anaesthesia, a Council member of the Committee on Publication Ethics, Central Anaesthetic Assessor for the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths, and past Honorary Secretary of the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association. He has published widely, including the book Anaesthesia & Intensive Care A-Z and a book of medical cartoons View from the Head End.

Assoc. Prof. David Scott
Australasian Visitor
David Scott is Associate Professor and Director of Anaesthesia at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne. He graduated from Monash University in 1979 and gained his Fellowship in Anaesthesia in 1986. After spending two years at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston USA, he returned to Australia where he has been Director of the Acute Pain Service at St. Vincent’s since its inception in 1990. He has clinical and research interests in a wide range of areas including Regional Anaesthesia, Acute Pain management, Cardiovascular anaesthesia, and the cognitive effects of anaesthesia and surgery. He has researched and published extensively in these areas - including a number of book chapters. He completed a PhD in 2004 in neuropathic pain and the analgesic effects of cannabinoids and conotoxins and is currently interested in managing neuropathic pain in the acute postoperative patient. He is also an ANZCA Councillor and is currently Chairman of Examinations for the College.

Prof. Catherine Bushnell
FPM CSM Visitor
Professor Bushnell of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, is the Faculty of Pain Medicine ASM Visitor. She is the Harold Griffith Professor of Anesthesia and a Professor of Dentistry and Neurology at the McGill University. Prof. Bushnell has made significant contributions to the understanding of the neural basis of pain. She is a recognised authority in areas of forebrain mechanisms of pain processing and cognitive modulation of pain, and the application of brain imaging and psychophysical testing in the study of pain processing. Prof. Bushnell was awarded the Frederick Kerr Award for Basic Research in Pain from the American Pain Society in 2003 and the Distinguished Career Award from the Canadian Pain Society in 2002. Prof. Bushnell is the President-Elect of the Canadian Pain Society.

Prof. You Wan
Hong Kong Visitor, Pain Medicine
Professor Wan of Peking University, Beijing, China, is the Faculty of Pain Medicine Hong Kong Visitor. He is a Professor and the Director at the Neuroscience Research Institute at Peking University. Prof. Wan is also the Director of The Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education of China. He has published major research on the roles of ion channels and receptors on chronic pain modulation, and is an authority in mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia. Prof. Wan is the recipient of the several national and international awards, including the 2008 IASP Award for Excellence in Pain Research and Management. His contributions have also been recognised by the State Council, People’s Republic of China.

Prof. Vincent Chan
Hong Kong Visitor, Anaesthesia
Prof. Vincent Chan is Professor, Department of Anesthesia of the University of Toronto, Ontario. Prof. Chan received a Bachelor of Science degree (Biochemistry, Honors) in 1976 and his MD degree in 1980 from McGill University, Montreal. Prof. Chan obtained postgraduate training in Anesthesiology at University of Toronto, Toronto and board certification (FRCPC, Anesthesia) in 1986. Prof. Chan is acknowledged by his colleagues as an international leader in the fields of regional anesthesia and pain medicine. He is currently the President of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He has been awarded the Gold Medal Award by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the highest personal award in recognition of his contribution to anesthesia in Canada through excellence in teaching, research, professional practice in the field of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia.

Prof. Spencer Liu
SAHK Visitor
Professor Spencer Liu of the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, United States, is the Society of Anaesthetists of Hong Kong Pain Visitor. He is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Cornell University and the University of Washington, United States. Prof. Liu’s research has focused on the role of regional techniques in anaesthesia and analgesia. He has made significant contributions to the evidence for the use of different regional techniques including nerve blocks, local anaesthetic wound infusion and epidural analgesia in postoperative pain management. Prof. Liu is also a leading authority and advocate in acute pain management.

Prof. Mervyn Singer
HKCA Visitor
Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London. His primary research interests are sepsis and multi-organ failure, infection, shock, and haemodynamic monitoring. Funding for these activities primarily comes from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council and UK National Institute for Health Research, by whom he was awarded Senior Investigator status. He previously developed an oesophageal Doppler haemodynamic monitor that is now in widespread use and has authored various papers and textbooks including the Oxford Handbook of Critical Care.

Prof. Homer Yang
HKCA Visitor
Prof. Yang is the Professor and Chair at the Department of Anesthesia, University of Ottawa. He is also the Head of Anesthesiology at the Ottawa Hospital, overseeing the Civic Campus, General Campus, Riverside Campus, and the Ottawa Heart Institute. Prior to his appointment at the University of Ottawa, he was the Chairman of Anesthesia at McMaster University between 1997 and 2003. Since 1997, he has been actively conducting research on the prevention of perioperative myocardial infarctions, including the use of beta-blockers. He was the Principal Investigator for the MaVS (Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery) Study and one of the two Principal Investigators for the POISE (Perioperative Ischemia Evaluation Study). His current research interest is on the use of wireless remote postoperative ECG monitoring for the prevention of perioperative cardiovascular complications.