Scientific programme

Dr n. med. Tomasz Torliński

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Royal College of Anaesthetist w Londynie

Dr n med Tomasz Torliński jest konsultantem w Anestezjologii i Intensywnej Terapii w University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT, kierownikiem ds dydaktyki w intensywnej terapii w Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham oraz Faculty Tutor w Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetist w Londynie. W Polsce uzyskał drugi stopień specjalizacji oraz doktorat pod kierownictwem śp. Prof. Laury Wołowickiej, a Wielkiej Brytanii Fellowship of Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine pod kierownictwem Prof. Juliana Biona. Jego zainteresowania, rozwijane w ramach pracy klinicznej i akademickiej w Polsce (Poznań), Stanach Zjednoczonych (St. Louis i Hershey) oraz Wielkiej Brytanii (Birmingham) od początku oscylują wokól intensywnej terapii w urazach wielonarządowych i oparzeniach, oraz edukacji medycznej, w tym multidysciplinarnego podejścia oraz umiejętności miękkich. Jest stypendystą NAWA w ramach pilotażowego programu NAWA Medyk w Uniwersytecie Medycznym w Białymstoku.

Prof. Charles David Deakin, MA MD FRCP FRCA FFICM FERC

Resuscitation and PreHospital Emergency Medicine, University of Southampton’ and 'Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care'

Previous and other appointments:
University of Southampton (Aug 2012 - present)
- Honorary Professor of Resuscitation and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine
University of Surrey (Jan 2012 - present)
- Honorary Chair, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Jun 2006 - present)
- Divisional Medical Director
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (Jan 2007 - present)
- Medical Director
Research training and experience:
Introduction to Good Clinical Practice eLearning (Date) 28th November 2019
Relevant publications:
Deakin CD, Thomsen J, Lofgren B, Petley GW. Achieving Safe Hands-On Defibrillation Using Electrical Safety
Gloves - A Clinical Evaluation. Resuscitation 2015; 90: 163-167.
Brooks B, Chan S, Lander P, Adamson R, Hodgetts GA, Deakin CD. Public Knowledge and Confidence in the
Use of Public Access Defibrillation. Heart 2015; 101(12): 967-71.
Gates S, Quinn T, Deakin CD, Blair L, Couper K, Perkins GD. Mechanical chest compression for out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Resuscitation 2015; 94: 91–97.
Whittaker A, Calver A, Corbett S, Deakin CD, et al. Predictors of in hospital mortality following out of hospital
cardiac arrest: insights from a single centre consecutive case series. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2016.
Deakin CD, Koster R. Chest compression pauses during defibrillation attempts. Current Opinion in Critical Care.
2016; 22: 206–211.
Pocock H, Deakin CD, Quinn T, Perkins GD, Horton J, Gates S. Human Factors in Prehospital Research:
Lessons from the PARAMEDIC trial. Emergency Medicine Journal 2016; 33(8): 562–568.
Hawkes C, Booth S, Ji C, Cooke MW, Deakin CD, et al; OHCAO collaborators. Epidemiology and outcomes from
out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in England. Resuscitation 2017; 110: 133-140.
Deakin CD, et al. Effects of Epinephrine on Cerebral Oxygenation During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A
prospective cohort study. Resuscitation 2016; 109: 138-144
Rajagopal S, Kaye CR, Lall R, Deakin CD, et al. Characteristics of patients who are not resuscitated in out of hospital cardiac arrests and opportunities to improve community response to cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2016;
Template CV for research applicants Version 2, January 2007 109: 110-115.
Deakin CD, England S, Diffey D. Ambulance Telephone Triage Using NHS Pathways to Identify Adult Cardiac Arrest. Heart 2016 103: 738-744.
Brooks B, Deakin CD. Exothermic warming blankets: a case of full thickness burns and the relationship between oxygen concentration and ensuing heat generation. Emergency Medicine Journal 2017; 34: 472-474
Deakin CD, England S, Diffey D, Maconochie I. Can Ambulance Telephone Triage Using NHS Pathways Accurately Identify Paediatric Cardiac Arrest? Resuscitation 2017: 116: 109-112.
Marti J, Hulme C, Ferreira Z, Nikolova S, Lall R, Kay C, Smyth M, Kelly C, Quinn T, Gates S, Deakin CD, Perkins GD. The cost-effectiveness of a mechanical compression device in out of hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2017; 117: 1-7.
Deakin CD, Potter R, Sidebottom D. Can Rescuers Accurately Deliver Subtle Changes to Chest Compression Depth if Recommended by Future Guidelines? Resuscitation 2018; 124; 58–62.
Deakin CD. The Chain of Survival: Not all links are equal. Resuscitation 2018; 126: 80-82.
Deakin CD, Anfield S, Hodgetts GA. Underutilization of public access defibrillation is related to retrieval distance and time-dependent availability. Heart 2018; 104: 1339-1343.
Sidebottom DB, Potter R, Newitt LK, Hodgetts GA, Deakin CD. Saving lives with public access defibrillation: A deadly game of hide and seek. Resuscitation 2008; 128: 93-96.
Freeman S, Deakin CD, Nelson M, Bootland D. Managing Accidental Hypothermia: A UK-wide Survey of Prehospital and Search and Rescue Providers. Emergency Medicine Journal 2018; 35: 652-656.
Soar J, Perkin G, Maconochie I, Böttiger BW, Deakin CD et al. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation: 2018 update - antiarrhythmic drugs for cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2019; 134; 99-103.
Fothergill RT, Emmerson AC, Rajeshwari I, Lazarus J, Whitbread M, Nolan JP, Deakin CD, Perkins GD.
Repeated adrenaline doses and survival from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2019 138: 316–321.
Petley GW, Albon B, Banks P, Roberts PR, Deakin CD. Leakage current from transvenous and subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs): A risk to the rescuer? Resuscitation 2019; 137: 148-153.
Deakin CD. Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest. State of the Future of Resuscitation. JEMS March 2019; p.16.
Perkins GD, Kenna C, Ji C, Deakin CD et al. The effects of adrenaline in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with shockable and non-shockable rhythms: Findings from the PACA and PARAMEDIC-2 randomised controlled trials. Resuscitation 2019; 140: 55-63.
Foster AG, Deakin CD. Accuracy of Instructional Diagrams for Automated External Defibrillator Pad Positioning.
Resuscitation 2019; 139: 282-288.
Pocock H, Thomson M, Taylor S, Deakin CD, England E. Optimising ambulance service contribution to clinical trials. British Paramedic Journal 2019 In press.
Deakin CD, Quartermain A, Ellery J. Do Patients Suffering an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Present to the Ambulance Service With Symptoms in the Preceding 48hrs? European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. 2019 In press.
Perkins GD, Kenna C, Ji C, Deakin CD et al. The influence of time to adrenaline administration in the Paramedic 2 randomised controlled trial. Intensive Care Medicine 2019 In press.
Nolan JP, Deakin CD, Ji C, Gates S, Rosser A, Lall R, Perkins GD. Intraosseous versus intravenous administration of adrenaline in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a secondary analysis of the PARAMEDIC2 placebo-controlled.
Intensive Care Medicine 2019 In press.

Univ.‐Prof. Dr. med. Bernd W. Böttiger

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany

Professor Böttiger studied Medicine at the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg. After he was trained as anesthesiologist at the Enzkreisklinikum and the University of Heidelberg, he started his research career at the Max‐Planck‐Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany. During the same time, Professor Böttiger was also involved in medical research at several Universities in the United States. From 2002 until 2007 Professor Böttiger worked as a Chief Senior Physician and Vice Chairman of the Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Böttiger is now Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne. From 2009 until 2016 he was board member of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI). Furthermore, he is Chairman of the German Resuscitation Council (GRC) since 2012. He is working for the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) since 2008, initially as Chairman, since 2013 ‐ 2020 as Director Science and Research and since 2020 as Treasurer. Since 2014 Professor Böttiger is member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Since 2015 he is board member of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) and since 2017 he is elected as member of the advisory board of the DIVI‐foundation. For the period of office from 2017 he is elected as a member and since 2021 as Chair of the Scientific Committee “Critical Emergency Medicine” of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). Furthermore, he is reelected as a member of the “Advanced Life Support” (ALS) task force of the European (ERC), and he is delegate to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) for the period of office 2017 – 2020. Since 2019 Professor Böttiger has been elected as International Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA). Professor Böttiger is specialized in Emergency Medicine and his research focus is resuscitation, especially bystander CPR, KIDS SAVE LIVES and cerebral reperfusion.

Job title and affiliation:
Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital of Cologne, Germany

Jacek B. Cywiński, MD, FASA

Professor of Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcome Research
Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Jacek B. Cywinski was born in Poland, where he earned his medical degree at the Wroclaw Medical University. He completed his anesthesiology residency and a cardiothoracic fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and was appointed a faculty member at the Department of General Anesthesiology upon graduation. Dr. Cywinski is currently the Quality Improvement Officer and the Director of the Transplant Anesthesia at the Department of General Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He holds an academic appointment as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He has a joint faculty appointment in the Transplant Center and Department of Outcome Research, Cleveland Clinic.Dr. Cywinski is board certified in anesthesiology and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. His clinical and research interests include anesthesia for vascular and liver transplantation surgery, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, as well as preoperative patient evaluation, optimization, and risk stratification. Additionally, he prides himself on striving for patient safety and quality improvement. He also has been actively involved in exploring opportunities for machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare. In doing so, he has been working closely in the Center for Perioperative Intelligence at the Cleveland Clinic, which focuses on big data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Cywinski is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the International Liver Transplantation Society. Besides, he has been invited to speak at both national and international meetings.

Dr. Cywinski has authored numerous published research articles and book chapters on a variety of topics: clinical outcome, solid organ transplantation, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence and quality improvement in healthcare.

Dr hab. n. hum., dr n. med., Anna Paprocka-Lipińska

Zakład Etyki Medycznej Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego

Lekarz specjalista anestezjologii i intensywnej terapii, specjalista medycyny ratunkowej. Kierownik Zakładu Etyki Medycznej Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego, łączy pracę kliniczną z działalnością naukową i dydaktyczną. Autorka monografii: Wpływ postępu w dziedzinie chirurgii na powstanie i kształtowanie się gdańskiej anestezjologii w latach 1945-1970, Zarys dziejów gdańskiej kardiochirurgii w latach 1948-1989, Powstanie i rozwój lecznictwa bólu przewlekłego w Polsce w latach 1945-1991 oraz monografii wydanej w j. angielskim: Dutch roots in the foundation of open-heart surgery in Gdańsk, a także publikacji z zakresu etyki i deontologii zawodowej.

Professor Kai Zacharowski, MD PhD ML FRCA

Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt

Prof. Kai Zacharowski, MD PhD ML FRCA holds the position of the Ordinarius and is the Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the University Hospital Frankfurt since 2009. From 2006 until 2008 he was the Chair of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Bristol. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in both clinical and basic aspects of patient safety, Patient Blood Management and clotting, big data in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine, innate immunity, cardiovascular and critical care medicine. Professor Zacharowski received his MD from the German University of Mainz and his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London (where he was working with the Nobel laureate Prof. Sir John Vane → discovered how aspirin works). Since 2016 he is one of the few members of the oldest academy of science in the world (Leopoldina). His scientific contributions are published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Medicine, Lancet, NEJM and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and were awarded with numerous awards for Innovative Clinical Research. He is serving as Editorin-Chief for the Journal of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine as well as an Editorial Board member of numerous journals in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesia and is the CEO of the Lohfert Foundation and the Founder & CEO of the PBM Foundation. Kai is serving as President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care for the years 2020-2021 and practicing Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine in Frankfurt.

Jacek B. Cywiński, MD, FASA

Professor of Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcome Research
Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Jacek B. Cywinski was born in Poland, where he earned his medical degree at the Wroclaw Medical University. He completed his anesthesiology residency and a cardiothoracic fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and was appointed a faculty member at the Department of General Anesthesiology upon graduation. Dr. Cywinski is currently the Quality Improvement Officer and the Director of the Transplant Anesthesia at the Department of General Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He holds an academic appointment as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He has a joint faculty appointment in the Transplant Center and Department of Outcome Research, Cleveland Clinic.Dr. Cywinski is board certified in anesthesiology and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. His clinical and research interests include anesthesia for vascular and liver transplantation surgery, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, as well as preoperative patient evaluation, optimization, and risk stratification. Additionally, he prides himself on striving for patient safety and quality improvement. He also has been actively involved in exploring opportunities for machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions in healthcare. In doing so, he has been working closely in the Center for Perioperative Intelligence at the Cleveland Clinic, which focuses on big data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Cywinski is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists and the International Liver Transplantation Society. Besides, he has been invited to speak at both national and international meetings.

Dr. Cywinski has authored numerous published research articles and book chapters on a variety of topics: clinical outcome, solid organ transplantation, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence and quality improvement in healthcare.

Dr David Borshoff

Metropolitan Anaesthesia Group

David Borshoff is an anaesthesiologist in Perth, Western Australia.
He graduated from the University of Western Australia, completing his anaesthetic training at Royal Perth Hospital and further post fellowship training at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, UK.
He subspecialised in cardiac anaesthesia and was a member of the Royal Perth Cardiothoracic Unit Transplant team until 2014, after which he became the Director of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at St John of God Murdoch Hospital in Western Australia. He is now working fulltime in private practice and is chairman of the Metropolitan Anaesthesia Group.
Dr Borshoff is also the author of the popular Anaesthetic Crisis Manual, co-editor of The Resuscitation Crisis Manual and Perfusion Crisis Manual, and maintains his interest in aviation and patient safety, cognitive aids and human factors.