Opening Lectures
Euroanaesthesia opens each year with the Sir Macintosh and Prof. Ibsen lectures, celebrating the legacy of these two pioneers in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. These sessions are an opportunity to honour professionals for their outstanding contributions and highlight their importance in the medical community. ESAIC is thrilled to welcome influential figures in anaesthesia and intensive care to present ground-breaking ideas or address critical issues in these plenary sessions that officially kick off the Euroanaesthesia conference.
Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture
Prof. Ibsen Lecture
Sir Robert Macintosh Lecture
Anaesthesia in 2050: How emerging technologies will transform our practice?
Anaesthesia in 2050: How emerging technologies will transform our practice?
The great innovations of the 21st century – Artificial Intelligence (AI), synthetic biology and quantum computing – are coming to an operating room near you. How will they change your practice? And what role will you have in the care of surgical patients? I look forward to exploring these themes in the Sir Robert MacIntosh Lecture at Euroanaesthesia 2025.
Biography
Professor Kate Leslie is a specialist anaesthetist and head of research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia. Prof. Leslie’s research interests include anaesthetic depth monitoring and awareness, major perioperative outcomes, sex/gender equity and building the next generation of research leaders. She was a leader of B-Aware, ENIGMA 1-2, POISE 1-3, RELIEF, Balanced and PADDI, and is a chief investigator of ROCKet, LOLIPOP and SNaPP. Prof. Leslie is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges and the Australian Medical Council. She is an editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Miller’s Anesthesia and TopMedTalk. Prof. Leslie was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2016, the second highest national honour in Australia, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Prof. Ibsen Lecture
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for better healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for better healthcare
Artificial intelligence will have a growing impact on day-to-day health care practice with the first AI products widely available. In this lecture, meeting the rationale for AI in health care is first presented. Then, the importance of data for AI is stressed but access to sufficient data is hampered by many ethical and privacy concerns. Methods to develop and validate AI including a number of trends in this field are shown. Finally, applications of two main types of AI are presented – those that lead to more efficiency and those that lead to higher efficacy.
Biography
Professor Andre Dekker, PhD (1974) is a medical physicist and professor of Clinical Data Science at Maastricht University Medical Center and Maastro Clinic in The Netherlands. His Clinical Data Science research group (60 staff) focuses on 1) federated FAIR data infrastructures, 2) AI for health outcome prediction models and 3) applying AI to improve health of patients and citizens. Prof. Dekker has authored over 250 publications, mentored more than 50 PhD students and holds multiple awards and patents on the topic of federated data and AI. He has held visiting scientist appointments at universities and companies in the UK, Australia, Italy, USA and Canada.
