Editor Profiles

Anesthesia and perioperative care for solid organ transplantation

Dr. Bezinover is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Director of Transplant Division at Penn State University’s College of Medicine in Hershey, PA.

He graduated from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and completed his medical training in the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. His clinical and scientific interests focus on perioperative care for patients requiring organ transplantation. After moving to the United States, he became the Director of the Transplantation Division at Penn State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. His current research investigates the causes of hemodynamic instability during liver transplantation, hypercoagulability in end stage liver disease, and problems related to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Dr. Bezinover has published widely on these topics, and has given many national and international presentations on organ transplantation and the management of cirrhotic patients. He is active in the ASA Transplantation Committee, International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), and Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE).

Dr. Bezinover joined BMC Anesthesiology in 2018 as Associate Editor, and in 2019 as a Section Editor.

Pain management and analgesia

Prof. Patrice Forget, M.D. Ph.D., attended medical school at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). He is anesthesiologist teaching and taking patients in charge in the operating room and the chronic pain management unit at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel).

He is involved in clinical research, studying pain and the impact of surgery and anesthetic drugs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) on cancer outcomes at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). For the last ten years, as main investigator and/or national coordinator, he published more than 100 articles, letters and/or abstract. He is vice-president of the Belgian Pain Society, Cochrane and REDCap consortia member.

He joined BMC Anesthesiology in 2014 as Associate Editor, and in 2015 as Section Editor.

General pharmacology and pharmacokinetics

Dr. Jun Lin is an attending physician in Anesthesiology at Stony Brook University Hospital and a faculty member at State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.  Dr. Lin completed his medical education, graduate study in pharmacology and residency in medicine at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.  He was awarded a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and a M.D. from State University of New York.  Dr. Lin conducted his Residency training in Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a Diplomate of American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Lin has been elected to the Association of University Anesthesiologists in 2016 and has served on national committees including American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Abstract Review Subcommittee on Anesthetic Action and Biochemistry, ASA Educational Track Subcommittee on Ambulatory Anesthesia, Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology PGA Sub-Committee on Residents Research Contest. 

In addition to clinical work, Dr. Lin has led his own research group and publish extensively.  His research includes novel effects and mechanisms of anesthetics, ion channel physiology and pharmacology, and cancer pharmacology. 

Anesthesia and perioperative care for solid organ transplantation

Dr. Fuat Saner graduated from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany and completed his medical training in the Horst-Schmidt- Kliniken Hospital in Wiesbaden. His clinical and scientific interests focus on perioperative care for patients requiring organ transplantation. After moving to Essen, he became Director of Surgical Critical Care in the Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery at Medical Center University Duisburg-Essen.

His current research investigates the causes of hemodynamic instability during after liver transplantation, coagulation disorder in end stage liver disease and infection post liver transplantation. Dr. Saner has published widely on these topics and has given many national and international presentations on liver transplantation and the management of cirrhotic patients. He is active in the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), and Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE, since 5/2018 President) and the national Critical Care society (DIVI) in the liver failure group.

Critical Care

Dr. Todd Sarge is Director of Critical Care for the Dept. of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA USA and Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at the Harvard School of Medicine. Clinically, his time is divided between attending the Surgical Critical Care Units and providing anesthesia care in the general operating rooms.  Research interests include ventilator management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Acute Lung Injury and application of point of care ultrasound for the management of critically ill patients.