Dr. Naveen Malhotra is a senior Indian anaesthesiologist, pain physician, academician, and professional leader. He has expertise in anaesthesiology, cardiac anaesthesia, pain medicine, perioperative care, and critical care. He has served in senior academic positions at PGIMS, Rohtak, and held leadership roles in the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA), including President. He has contributed extensively to medical education, research, publications, and professional conferences.

Dr. Maria Benedetto, MD, is a Consultant in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Sant’Orsola in Bologna, Italy. She specializes in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care, with clinical and academic interests including heart and lung transplantation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO), cardiac surgery, and perioperative management of critically ill patients.

Dr. Benedetto has contributed to research and academic publications in cardiac anaesthesia, intensive care, heart failure, transplantation, ECMO, and perioperative patient management. She has also been involved in education and professional development within cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care. Her work reflects a strong focus on advanced perioperative and critical care management for complex cardiothoracic patients.

She is based at Sant’Orsola University Hospital, one of Italy’s major centres for cardiothoracic and vascular care.

Dr. Hana Damirji is an anaesthetics and intensive care trainee currently working at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, UK. She completed her medical training in London, graduating from University College London in 2015 with distinction and also obtaining first class honors in Neuroscience iBSc. Previous publications include the initiation of a debriefing session for intensive care trainees, which NHS Improvement listed as one of the top 10 quality improvement measures of 2017. ​

Richard Novak MD is an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Novak is board-certified in anesthesiology and internal medicine, and is also the Medical Director at Waverley Surgery Center in Palo Alto, California and a member of the Associated Anesthesiologists Medical Group in Palo Alto, California.

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013.Author of the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Author of more than 100 publications about treatment of variety of diseases rebalancing the internal energy using Hippocrates thoughts.

Dr. Avneet Kaur is a general surgery postgraduate resident at VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi. She has an avid interest in the research and enthusiastic about surgical oncology. She is curious about the unusual presentations of the diseases and has been an active member of the conferences organized by the institution.

Dr. Tahir Akbar is specialist pain physician and anesthesiologist at Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE. Holding fellowship in anesthesiology and post-graduation in regional anesthesia, he has special interest in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia, acute and chronic pain management. He is lead member of APS team. He is actively involved in educational activities and teaching his juniors and nursing staff.