Airway/Respiratory Physiology

BIOGRAPHY

Albert Dahan is Professor of Anesthesiology at Leiden University Medical Center and the Head of the Anesthesia and Pain Research Unit. He is staff anesthesiologist at the university hospital.

Professor Dahan's research focuses on the study of the cardiovascular system in relation to pain, analgesia and sedation. His main research interests are the influence of anesthetics on breathing and the ability to reverse respiratory depression; the description and modelling of anesthetic and analgesic effects on electroencephalograms; modelling studies on opioid behaviour; physiological and pharmacological studies on pain and pain relief; and studies on the physiology and pathophysiology of the control of breathing.