Charles-Marc Samama, MD, PhD, FCCP

Charles Marc Samama is 63 yo.

He is currently the Chair of the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, AP-HP.

Centre–Université de Paris (Cochin, Necker and HEGP university hospitals), Paris, France. Professor Samama is the past-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) and also the past-Chair of the new Scientific Subcommittee on Perioperative and Critical Care Thrombosis and Hemostasis of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).

He is the current President of the Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology. He has published more than 235 peer-reviewed articles and reviews (H index = 45).

He has co-authored the Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines 8th edition (“Prevention of venous thromboembolism”) and 9th edition (“Prevention in VTE in non-orthopaedic surgical patients”).

He is co-authoring the 10th edition (“Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Agents”). He has co-authored the 2013 ESA Guidelines on Management of severe perioperative bleeding and the 2017 update. He chairs the ESA Task Force for the prevention on perioperative venous thromboembolism (guidelines published in February 2018 in the Eur J Anaesthesiol, IF 4,5). Ongoing update.