Opening Lectures
Euroanaesthesia is an annual conference that brings together professionals from the fields of anaesthesiology and intensive care. As a way to honour those who have made exceptional contributions to these fields, Euroanaesthesia has established the tradition of opening the conference with the Prof. Ibsen and Sir Macintosh lectures. These lectures are an opportunity to recognise individuals’ outstanding contributions and emphasise their vital role in the medical community. The Prof. Ibsen and Sir Macintosh lectures are highly regarded within the field and are a highlight of the Euroanaesthesia conference.
Prof. Ibsen Lecture
Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture
Prof. Ibsen Lecture
The art of decision-making in medicine
Biography
Dr Victoria Metaxa is a full-time Critical Care and Major Trauma Consultant, at King’s College Hospital in London. She is a King’s College London Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, and has a PhD in neurosciences and an MA in Medical Ethics and Palliative Care from Keele University. Her clinical interests include bioethics, end-of-life care, critical care outreach and the management of patients with haematological malignancies. She is the clinical lead of the Critical Care Outreach Team of King’s College Hospital, as well as the end-of-life ICU lead.
Dr Metaxa is the Chair Elect of the European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM) Ethics section. She is the UK National Outreach Forum board Secretary and the Chair of the Legal and Ethical Advisory Group (LEAG) of the UK Intensive Care Society (ICS).
Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture
Is an anaesthesiologist required on board during mission to Mars?
Biography
Matthieu Komorowski is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and a consultant in intensive care and anesthesiology at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Matthieu holds additional qualifications in space, mountain, diving and hyperbaric medicine. He was previously a medical research fellow at the European Space Agency, and in 2022 he reached the final stages of the European Space Agency astronaut selection.
During his PhD, Matthieu attended MIT as a visiting scholar, and was an associate of Harvard University where he taught on machine learning in healthcare. His research group at Imperial College London has secured around £1.3 million in funding to develop and test artificial intelligence-based tools for sepsis in the NHS.
