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At the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) held in Auckland, New Zealand, Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey interview ANZCA president David Story and the ASM New Zealand Visitor Tim Walsh about what inspired them to pursue a career in research and how they support emerging research leaders. David Story is Profe...

Recorded in Prato, Italy at the 8th Collaborative Clinical Trials in Anesthesiology meeting. Desiree Chappell and guest co-host Mark Priestley interview Professor Karim El-Boghdadly, Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead for Theatres, Anaesthesia, and Peri-operative Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, as well as an Honorary Reader at King's College London about the periopera...

This month's TopMedTalk Classic was originally aired in 2019 but remains very relevant today. Presented by Dr Jugdeep Dhesi , Clinical Lead, POPS and Consultant Geriatrician, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Trust, and an expert on frailty. This talk explores how our understanding and discussion has improved regarding a condition that is still yet to have a clear, universally accepted, definition. How do w...

Recording from TopMedTalk at EBPOM in Dingle, Ireland, Kate Leslie and Imogen Fecher-Jones interview Oliver Pratt , Consultant Anaesthetist at Salford Royal Hospital, Chair of the Primary FRCA Structured Oral Examinations for the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and a Medical Officer for the Kinder Mountain Rescue Team and Joe Cosgrove , a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at th...

This month's Perioperative Profile features Duminda Wijeysundera , Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and IHPME at the University of Toronto, and a Staff Physician at St. Michael's Hospital, who holds the Endowed Chair in Translational Anesthesiology Research, serves as Head of Science at SPHERE, acts as a Senior Adjunct Scientist at ICES, and is a Trustee for the Inte...

Recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EPBOM) World Congress in London, this TopMedTalk episode, presented by Andy Cumpstey , features Guy Ludbrook , Professor of Anaesthesia and Head of Acute Care Medicine at the University of Adelaide and resident Georgia Cadzow , discussing the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) POQI is a not-for-profit that uses a formal Delphi process to...

Today's TopMedTalk AI podcast was recorded at the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland in London. It features Andy Cumpstey and Desiree Chappell and their guests, John Whittle , honorary associate professor of Perioperative medicine at University College London and   Duncan McPherson , Head of the clinical team at QMD Services and Anesthesiologist and Honorary Professor at Uni...

At the 58th Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) meeting in Montreal, TopMedTalk hosts Mike Grocott and Desiree Chappell interview Heather Nixon , SOAP immediate past president and Section Chief for Obstetric Anesthesiology; Section Chief for Simulation, Education, and Training Department of Anesthesiology University of Illinois, about SOAP's educational mission, governance, ou...

Recorded at ANZCA and the Faculty of Pain Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland, TopMedTalk hosts Andy Cumstey and Kate Leslie interview visiting pain research leaders, Professor Irene Tracey , the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Professor Lesley Colvin , the Chair of Pain Medicine at the University of Dundee and an Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at...

At EBPOM 2026 live from the British Library in London, Joff Lacy and Imogen Fecher-Jones speak with Malcolm West and Tim Baker , clinical co-leads for the National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC), an NHS England mandated and HQIP-funded initiative managed by the Royal College of Anaesthetists to audit major elective surgery in England and publicly funded Jersey. They outline the audit...

This month's TopMedTalk Classic has been digitally remastered for you and we've added the Q&A which wasn't part of the original podcast. We're featuring a talk first broadcast in 2018, featuring BobbieJean Sweitzer , Systems Director, Preoperative Medicine, Inova Health, Falls Church, Virginia, and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia. BobbieJean discusses whether perioperative r...

At the Collaborative Clinical Trials meeting in Prato, Italy, Mike Grocott and co-host Mark Priestley speak with Sachin Kheterpal , University of Michigan Medical School's Associate Dean for Research Information Technology and the Robert B Sweet Professor and Kelley M. Kidwell , Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public...

In this TopMedTalk perioperative profile, host Andy Cumpstey interviews Professor Dan Sessler , Vice President for Clinical and Outcomes Research and Professor of Anesthesiology and Biostatistics at UTHealth Houston (McGovern Medical School), about his career as a perioperative trialist with over 1,000 publications. Sessler describes his scientific family background, early inspiration from clinica...

At The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) and Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) meeting in Montreal, TopMedTalk hosts Mike Grocott and former editor-in-chief Desiree Chappell speak with FAER board members Dr. Rebecca A. Aslakson , Chair and Professor with Tenure, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vermont Health Network and Dr. Michael Gropper , Professor an...

In Scotland at St Andrews, TopMedTalk AI hosts Andy Cumpstey and James Bowness discuss AI in regional anaesthesia with Bernard Victor Delvaux , staff anesthesiologist at the Centre Hospitalier Privé Claude Galien in Quincy-sous-Sénart, France. Bowness describes a regional anaesthesia course using AI-augmented ultrasound imaging, augmented reality simulated needling, and cadaveric ultrasound with r...

Recorded at the excellent ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2025 in San Antonio. Hear Andy Cumpstey and Mike Grocott interview Paul Myles, a Professor of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Here we focus upon his group's approach to large pragmatic, multicenter international trials and the process of selecting and developing study questions within a clinical tria...

This presentation was recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) 2026 Annual Global Meeting. It features Nicolai Bang-Foss , Consultant, head of GI and orthopaedic anaesthesia, Hvidovre University Hospital, Denmark His main research field is the perioperative care of the elderly emergency patient. Specific areas of research have been regional analgesia, transfusion thresholds, o...

Recorded at the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress in London this episode of TopMedTalk sees Andy Cumpstey speaking with a panel of experts about the VITAL trial: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial about volatile vs total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) for major non-cardiac surgery in adult patients. The primary outcome was days alive and out of hospital at 30 days....

At the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland, Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey discuss ANZCA's Emerging Leaders Conference (ELC), a retreat-style program held immediately before the ASM for clinicians within five years of achieving FANZCA, with allowances for career disruptions. Their guests, Dr Saana Taylor FANZCA and Dr Vik Singh FANZCA, co-conveners of this year's ELC, describe shaping this...

From the 58th annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) in Montreal, Mike Grocott and new co-host Joe Larvin speak with SOAP president Ron George about SOAP's growth to over 1,000 attendees and its international, collaborative community. George outlines his career from Dalhousie to UCSF and back to Canada as director of obstetric anesthesia at Mount Sinai Hospi...

This classic TopMedTalk piece was originally cast in April 2020. The debate 'Direct laryngoscopes should be consigned to history', was hosted by The Royal College Of Anaesthetists and carried out by our two guests on this piece, where the debate is outlined in advance. We get into the advantages and challenges behind the two techniques; video laryngoscopy and direct laryngoscopy. The conversation...

Live from Euroanaesthesia 2026 in Rotterdam, Kate Leslie and Andy Cumpstey speak with Laszlo Vutskits and Hugh Hemmings ahead of the "Hot Topics in General Anaesthesiology" lecture. Vutskits discusses reports of devastating neurologic outcomes after minor procedures in previously healthy patients, linked in a Spanish series to a shared mitochondrial DNA haplotype traced to Venezuela, including a r...

Recorded live at the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland, Kate Leslie interviews Professor Alan Merry for a perioperative profile, covering his retirement from clinical practice, ongoing research supervision, and work on environmental sustainability. Merry recounts being raised by a single mother in Zimbabwe, studying medicine at the Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine in Harare, and moving...

At the EBPOM World Congress in London; TopMedTalk's Andy Cumpsty sits down for an exclusive interview with Amy Slogrove , editor-in-chief of the new journal, The Lancet Surgery and Anaesthesiology, ahead of its public launch on 20 July and a planned first issue in early 2027. Dr Slogrove, a South Africa–based pediatrician and epidemiologist, explains the journal's aim - to bring surgery and anaest...

Recorded live at the EBPOM World Congress in London, this episode of TopMedTalk AI features host James Bowness and co-host Amy Gomes speaking with Joe Harris , anaesthesia resident and Innovation Fellow in Anaesthesia at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust and Sanjay Wijayatilake, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Neuro Intensive Care MedicineBarking, Havering and Redbridge...