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Michael Avidan is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care. He is also the Director of the Institute of Quality Improvement, Research and Informatics (INQUIRI). His current research interests include: intraoperative awareness, postoperative cognitive alteration, brain monitoring, and postoperative intermediate term outcomes.

George A. Mashour is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, and Director of Neuroanesthesiology. He is also an active faculty member in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Michigan. George’s primary research interests relate to consciousness, intraoperative awareness, relationship of sleep and anesthesia, and neurologic outcomes of surgery.

Jamie Sleigh is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Waikato Clinical School, of the University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand. He grew up in Zimbabwe, and specialised in anaesthesia in the United Kingdom, before moving to New Zealand in 1988. His current research interests include: EEG and anaesthesia, the modelling of brain dynamics in anaesthesia, sleep, and seizures; and the molecular determinants of postoperative pain.

TJ Graetz is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the Associate Program Director for the Critical Care Fellowship Program.

John F. Bebawy is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he is also the Director of Neuroanesthesia Education. His current research interests include intraoperative neuromonitoring, cerebral hemodynamics, and neuropharmacology.

Matthias Kreuzer is a research fellow at the Department of Anesthesiology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technische Universität München (Germany). He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and one in Biomedical Engineering. His main research interests are (nonlinear) EEG and field potential analysis, anesthetic effects on cerebral information processing, and evaluation of the performance of depth of anesthesia monitors.

Denis Jordan is a research fellow at the Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München (Germany). He grew up in Berne (Switzerland) where he graduated in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics before he went to Munich and received a PhD. His primary research interests include analysis methods of signals generated by nonlinear dynamics, their application and evaluation in EEG, EP and fMRI data, and neural mechanisms of consciousness and unconsciousness.

UnCheol Lee is a Research Investigator in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in nonlinear dynamics & complex systems through the Department of Physics, POSTECH, Korea. Dr. Lee was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. His main research interests include complex brain networks, functional connectivity, dynamic state transitions during general anesthesia, and linking anesthesiology to complexity science.

Eric J. Heyer is Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Clinical Neurology and Director of the division of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He obtained his MD and PhD at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx New York. He completed both his Neurology and Anesthesia residencies at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He is a Diplomate of both The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology) and American Board of Anesthesilogy. His research interests include intraoperative neuromonitoring and determining postoperative cognitive dysfunction associated with treatments of carotid artery stenosis.

John Gaudet Van Driest is a clinical fellow in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He grew up in Geneva Switzerland and obtained his MD at the University of Geneva where completed his anesthesiology residency. He is a Diplomate of the European Board of Anesthesiology. His research interests include intraoperative neuromonitoring and postoperative neurological complications.

Adrian W. Gelb is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care at the University of California San Francisco. Prior to moving to UCSF he was the Professor & Chair of Anesthesia at the University of Western Ontario, London Canada. His research and clinical interests include clinical neuroanesthesia, monitoring of cerebral function, and perioperative stroke.

Divya Chander is an Instructor in Anesthesiology and Research Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Her primary clinical interests are in neuroanesthesia, and the use of intraoperative brain monitoring (especially the raw EEG) to safely manage anesthetics. Her research interests pertain to the investigation of neural loci that contribute to the transitions in levels of consciousness and arousal states. Both sleep/wake and anesthesia-induced unconsciousness serve as model systems; optogenetics is used to selectively drive or silence selected populations of neurons to determine their contributions to the network. She also maintains an active connection to space life sciences and the evolution of manned spaceflight. When not researching, her primary loves are dancing and building her telescope.

Heiko A. Kaiser is an Instructor in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, Missouri. He did his training in general and cardiothoracic anesthesia in Berne (Switzerland) and has been a research fellow at Washington University in St.Louis in 2005. He completed medical school and his doctoral thesis at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg (Germany) and is a Diplomate of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists. His main research interests are brain monitoring with EEG, neural correlates of anesthetic-induced loss of consciousness and postoperative delirium.

Max Kelz is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. He also holds appointments in the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology and in the Mahoney Institute for Neurological Sciences at Penn. Max’s primary research interests relate to the neural circuits upon which general anesthetics act to induce unconsciousness and also to the circuits whose function must be restored to permit anesthetic emergence. He has focused his studies in mammals and invertebrates and is keenly interested in the overlap between sleep and anesthesia.

Francisco A. Lobo is an anesthesiologist at the Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto (Portugal) and is a Board member of the EuroSIVA (European Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia). He was a Visiting Professor and Instructor in Anesthesiology at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, in 2005. His primary interest is clinical neuroanesthesia, in particular anesthesia for awake neurosurgery, pharmacology of intravenous anesthesia, EEG, and depth of anesthesia monitoring.

Andrew (Sungkook) Park is a medical student at Washington University in St Louis. He is currently pursuing a year of research under Dr Avidan working on various projects concerning post-operative outcomes, intra-operative awareness, and EEG. He expects to graduate in 2012, and will be pursuing a career in anesthesiology.

Liz Whitlock is an intern in the Anesthesia & Perioperative Care residency program at the University of California, San Francisco, in the UCSF Research Scholars Track. She graduated from Washington University School of Medicine, and worked with Dr Avidan and Dr Mashour on research investigating intraoperative awareness and postoperative delirium.

Paul McNair is a medical student at Washington University in St. Louis. He worked with Dr. Avidan during a summer on various projects concerning intra-operative awareness and EEG. He is expected to graduate in 2014 and anticipates pursuing a career in Anesthesiology.

Bradley Fritz is a medical student at Washington University in St. Louis. He spent the summer of 2011 working with Dr. Avidan on projects focused on EEG monitoring and post-operative outcomes. He expects to graduate in 2014.