17th Annual Meeting of
The Euro-Asian Bridge Society of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons
17-20 October 2024 | Hotel International, Iași, Romania
Matthias Angrés
Matthias Angrés is an anaesthesiologist, intensivist and specialist in emergency medicine. In 2009, he and a group of colleagues founded ROBINAID, an expert organisation that works to establish intensive care services in disadvantaged regions in accordance with internationally recognised standards, focusing on two specialist areas: firstly, the perioperative care of congenital and acquired heart defects, particularly in children (Cardiac Critical Care), and secondly, to improve early detection, monitoring, and goal-directed therapy of patients in life-threatening conditions inside and beyond intensive care unit settings (Emergency Critical Care).In the field of Cardiac Critical Care, ROBINAID has been closely associated for many years with the Aswan Heart Centre in southern Egypt, which is operated by the renowned Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation. This outstanding hospital serves as our guiding concept and joint training center for the expansion of high-quality cardiac services to sub-Saharan Africa.In the field of Emergency Critical Care, ROBINAID collaborates with the Essential Health Higher Institute in Cameroon which is affiliated with the University of Bamenda and the Institute of Emergency Medicine at the University of Witten-Herdecke (Germany). Together, we are establishing Cameroon's first "Faculty of Interprofessional Critical Emergency Care".
Matthias Angrés has been working for his organization on humanitarian projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe for more than 15 years. He also teaches as an honorary professor and guest lecturer at various international academic institutes on the subjects of paediatric cardiac critical care, emergency medicine, and medical ethics. Before devoting himself entirely to humanitarian medicine, he was Medical Director and Chairman of the Department of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine at the Albertinen Hospital, home to one of the leading heart centres in northern Germany and academic teaching hospital of the Medical University of Hamburg.