Professor Carolyn Weiniger is the Director of Obstetric Anaesthesia in the Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.

She serves as an Editor of the International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia, and Chair of the Obstetric Anaesthesiology Subcommittee of the European Society of Anaesthesiologists. She has authored over 100 original research papers, reviews and chapters, mainly related to safe obstetric anaesthesia practices including respiratory depression associated with opioid administration, anaesthesia for external cephalic version and placenta accreta spectrum. She is an Editor of the newly published first edition of Principles and Practice of Maternal Critical Care.

Professor Weiniger is President of the International Congress of the Israel Society of Anaesthesiologists (ICISA 2023), to be held 7-9th November 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. This landmark event for the Israeli and International Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain community will be held in the 75th year of Israel’s Independence, celebrating 75 years of Anaesthesia in Israel.