SwissAnaesthesia
Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Head of Obstetric Anaesthesia, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur
Dr. Brandenberg completed her medical degree in 1996 and became a specialist in anaesthesiology in 2003. Since 2010, she has served as a senior consultant and head of obstetric anaesthesia at the Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, overseeing anaesthetic care for over 2,000 births annually. In 2023, she was appointed lead consultant with a special focus on obstetric anaesthesia, resuscitation, and simulation.
She holds additional certifications as an emergency physician, simulation instructor, and ACLS instructor. She also completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Mediation at the University of Fribourg. Dr. Brandenberg has been an active board member of the Swiss Association of Obstetric Anaesthesia (SAOA) for several years.
Professional Experience
Since October 2022 Senior Consultant (Oberarzt), Department of Anaesthesia University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
October 2019 – September 2022 Consultant Anaesthesist, Department of Anaesthesia, University Heart Center Freiburg – Bad Krozingen, Germany
August 2010 – September 2019 Specialist in cardiac-, and pediatric-cardiac-anaesthesiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
October 2002 – September 2019 Resident and Consultant in Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
January 2001 – September 2002 Resident in Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau
December 1999 – December 2000 Resident in Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Heidenheim
Education & Academic Qualifications
October 2000 Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.), Dissertation: Expression of CD44 in Ovarian Tumors
October 1992 – October 1999 Medical Degree studies, University of Ulm, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
Kurz-Curriculum
3. März 1959 - geboren in Schwarzenbach am Wald/Bayern
1979–1985 - Medizinstudium in Würzburg und Wien
1985–1996 - Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeiten in Tübingen, Heidelberg, Brisbane (Australien), Yale Medical School (New Haven, USA) und UCSD (San Diego, USA)
1993 - Habilitation über „Genetische Programme der Schmerzverarbeitung im Nervensystem“ am II. Institut für Physiologie (Prof. M.- Zimmermann) der Universität Heidelberg
1994–1997 - Stipendiat des Heisenberg-Programms
1996 - Berufung zum C3-Professor für Pharmakologie ans Universitätsklinikum Kiel
2002 - Facharzt für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie
2004 - Koordinator des von der EU im 6. FP geförderten STREP „STRESSPROTECT“
bis 2012 - zahlreiche Teilprojekte in nationalen u. internationalen Forscherverbünden wie SFB, SBB, Forschergruppen sowie europäischen STREP u. COST-Aktionen. Gesamteinwerbung von wissenschaftlichen Drittmitteln: 3 Mio. Euro
bis 2012 - Gutachter für nationale (DFG, MPG) internationale Projekte (EU incl. Marie-Curie-Programm)
2008-2024 - Standard-Lehrbuch Pharmakologie (800 S., Thieme-Verlag) 5. Aufl. 2024
ab 2008 - intensiver Einsatz für Medizinalcannabis als Teil der Schulmedizin
ab 2021 - Leiter u. Mitorganisator des Medizinal Cannabis Kongresses MCC, Berlin
2024 - Dt. Schmerzpreis der Dt. Gesellschaft für Schmerzmedizin
2024 - Verleihung der Salus-Medaille der Apothekerkammer Schleswig-Holstein für die Verdienste um die Fortbildung der Apothekerschaft
bis heute - 200 Pubmed gelistete Publikationen, Hirsch-Index (H-Index) 85
ab 2023 - Gastprofessur an der Paracelsus-Medizinischen Universität Salzburg
FRCA MBChB BSc(Hons) EDRA
Consultant Anaesthesiologist
Rotunda and Mater Misericordiae Hospitals, Dublin
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Irish Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ISRA) Honorary Secretary
I have been a consultant anaesthetist at the Ulster Hospital in Belfast since 2001, where until recently I was the lead for obstetric anaesthesia. It is a busy obstetric unit with about 4000 deliveries per year, and we are perhaps the “spiritual home” of remifentanil PCA which we have offered routinely since 2004. It will come as no shock then that I’ll be speaking about remifentanil labour analgesia, and showcasing the brand new, “hot off the press” OAA guidance on this. I am a member of the OAA executive committee and also a member of our local obstetric anaesthesia group, NIOAN, proof that I truly still enjoy obstetric anaesthesia, despite doing the long Friday shift on labour ward for over two decades! When I’m avoiding work (which I do a lot!) I love running, reading and travelling, so I am delighted to have my first visit to Lausanne.
Dipl. Experte Anästhesiepflege NDS HF
BScN BFH
MScN i.A., Universität Basel
Kantonsspital Baden
George Kohlrieser is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. He is an organizational and clinical psychologist, hostage negotiator, award-winning author, consultant, conference speaker, and media commentator. His research, teaching, and consulting activities focus on high-performance leadership, high-performance teamwork, conflict management, change management, dialogue and negotiation, coaching, stress management, work-life balance, and personal and professional development.
PD Dr. Julien Maillard is an attending physician in the Department of Anaesthesiology at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). His clinical practice focuses primarily on major abdominal and urologic surgeries, as well as non-operating room anaesthesia (NORA). His research explores decision-making processes in old and frail patients undergoing major surgery, with the aim of better understanding postoperative outcomes from the patient’s perspective, including quality of life, functional independence, and decisional regret.
Co-founder of afflux (https://afflux.ch/ ) and EPFL engineer specializing in AI-driven process optimization.
LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanne-tison-ai-afflux-lausanne/
Fondation pour la sécurité des patients en anesthésie
