SAM Secretary Leadship in Airway Training University of São Paulo, MD.; PhD

Following his study in medicine at the University of Istanbul, Turkey, he specialized in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Istanbul Marmara University School of Medicine Turkey. After an observer fellowship at Jena University, Germany, he became Assistant Professor at the Medical School of Marmara University in 2012. In 2015 he was promoted to Associate Professor and he was promoted as full clinical professor in 2020 in Health Sciences University Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. He is currently working as a Senior Consultant in Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar. He is lead for Difficult Airway Response Team, Research and Continuous Professional Development Education in Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital. He is an academic faculty member of Qatar University Medicine as Clinical Professor.

Dr Adam Rehak is a consultant anaesthetist at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and is the director of anaesthesia courses at the Sydney Clinical Skills & Simulation Centre. He is airway lead for Royal North Shore Hospital, co-founder of the Safe Airway Society and an executive member of the ANZCA/ASA Airway Special Interest Group, and is the creator/convenor of the ATTAAC airway management course. He has particular clinical interests in shared airway surgery, neuroanaesthesia & intra-operative neuro monitoring, and human factors and teamwork in airway management.

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia. He is past Clinical Director of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care in Warrington and DAS Professor of Anaesthesia & Airway Management. He trained in Liverpool, North-West England and Melbourne, Australia. Associate Editor of Trends in Anaesthesia & Critical Care. Author of the Difficult Airway Society Extubation Guideline in 2012. Served two terms as Hon. Treasurer of the Difficult Airway Society (2014-2021) and chaired the joint Difficult Airway Society - Intensive Care Society - Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine - Royal College of Anaesthetists working party which produced guidelines for tracheal intubation in critically ill adults. These were published in 2018 and represent the UK airway and critical care communities’ response to the findings, in NAP4, of sub-optimal airway management in ICUs and EDs. Organising committee, World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM) in Amsterdam 2019. Co-authored the DAS ICS AAGBI FICM RCoA guidelines for airway management in COVID19 & the National Patient Safety Improvement Programme COVID19 Tracheostomy guideline in 2020. Faculty member & contributing author of the Beyond Basics ICU airway course (University of Hong Kong). APA-DAS paediatric airway management guideline update group. He presents & runs airway workshops in the UK & abroard. Andy has written chapters in UK/EU & US airway management textbooks & produced the critical care chapter for the UCL Airway Management MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Executive of PUMA (the Project for the Universal Management of the Airway) aiming to produce an international, multi-disciplinary, consolidated guideline for airway management. A founding executive of the international multi-disciplinary SAS (Safe Airway Society) based in Australia. Honorary Member of EAMS (European Airway Management Society). Member of the working party updating the DAS 2015 guideline and co-authored the PUMA / international airway societies Preventing Unrecognised Oesophageal Intubation guideline, 2022.