Perioperative Hemostasis & Transfusion Medicine

BIOGRAPHY

He is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care of the Hotel-Dieu University Hospital in Paris, France. He is board certified to practice anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. He holds a Master's degree in Haemostasis and Thrombosis and his PhD dissertation was based on an experimental model of thrombosis in the pig. He heads a laboratory in the INSERM 765 research unit and has developed for many years an experimental model of arterial thrombosis and bleeding in the rabbit.Pr. Samama is the past-president of the Scientific Committee of the French Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (SFAR). He works as an active member of sub-committee 6, Transfusion and Haemostasis of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA) and is also a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).Pr. Samama serves as a consultant for a number of professional journals in anaesthesiology, haemostasis and drug safety, and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and anaesthesiology reviews. He has directed the French Guidelines on Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis and has co-authored the VTE prophylaxis section of American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (8th Edition).