Inge Glambek
Surgeon, specialist in general, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. Past president in Norwegian Surgical Society, Norwegian society for chronic wounds and Norwegian Hernia Society. Board member for 12 years in Nordaf. Retired consulting surgeon in Bergen diaconal hospital Haraldsplass. Former educated musician, and still practicing as a musician and luthier.
Jan Harald Lærum is working as an senior consultant anesthesiologist at Betanien Hospital in Skien.
Former senior consultant at department of day surgery, Telemark Central Hospital.
Main interest in nerve blocks, per and postoperative analgesia and patient satisfaction.
He loves the mountains and you often see him swimming in the fjords
Johan Raeder is anaesthesiologist, recently partly retired from his position as senior consultant and professor at Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo. He is the writer of textbooks in Anaestesiology and Ambulatory Anaesthesia, supervisor of 15-20 PhDs and author of approximately 250 papers (Medline). He was the founder of the Norwegian Day Surgery Association and been involved with the IAAS in the early days. Outside work he is dedicated to family and outdoor activities: cross-country skiing, sailing, biking, hiking and kayack paddling.
Petrin Hege Eide is associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Educating future operating room nurses.
Also serving as research leader for the "Day Surgery Project," where patients' experiences at home following day surgery is highlighted. The projects’ goal is to developing nursing care for this patient group. Nursing in the project, is understood as optimizing the situation and preventing complications. Petrin Eide is the leader of the Norwegian national organizations for operating room nurses.
Jørgen Nordentoft. Senior consultant, Capio Private Hospital, Copenhagen. Denmark. Danish citizen. MD 1982, Aarhus, Denamrk. Specialist in anesthesiology 1991 (Oslo). Work in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Master of Management. Multiple combined jobs in clinic and management in public and private hospitals. Member NORDAF 23 years, 10 years as chairman. Member, IAAS -GA- 15 years, as Norwegian representative together with membership in ExCo 4 years. Former member of IAAS scientific committees and with multiple presentations and chairmanships.
Marc Coppens is anaesthesiologist at the University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Basic and Applied Medical Sciences of the Ghent University. He is head of the ambulatory surgery unit. Marc is president of BAAS, Belgian Association Ambulatory Surgery and board member of IAAS, International Association Ambulatory Surgery. Every now and then he finds time to write scientific articles. Anaesthesia for ambulatory surgery, as well as obstetric anaesthesia are his main topics of interest. When he is not in the hospital, you can find him on his race bike.
Hege Rolstad Skjæveland, Head of Day Surgery unit at Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) since 2018. She has been working as Operating Room nurse, and in several leadership roles at the hospital. Hege has been a Board Member for the Norwegian association of ambulatory surgery (NORDAF) since 2019. Outside hospital she enjoy mountain hiking with her Alaska husky, different kinds of skiing and gardening.
Xavier Falieres was born on 18 Augustus 1963 in France. He studied general medicine and emergency medicine in France.
He moved to Belgium to study anesthesiology and Intensive Care in 1993 and settled in the Netherlands where he is working as peri-operative anesthesiologist since 2002 at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital and Helene Schweitzer clinic, a major teaching Hospital near Rotterdam.
He also graduated in the Netherlands for hospital medical management.
After having been 12 years medical director of the operating theater. He is a member of the board of the ambulatory / short stay department.
He is the president of the Dutch Society for Ambulatory Care and short stay (NVDK).
He is regularly teaching and giving workshops in developing countries.
His major interests in anesthesiology are anesthesia techniques in ambulatory surgery, opioid reduced anesthesia, loco-regional anesthesia, thorax surgery, obstetrics, anesthesia in geriatric patients, orthopedic surgery.