charles marc samama

Charles Marc Samama is 65 years old. He is the Chair of the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, AP-HP Centre – Université Paris Cité (Cochin, Necker and HEGP University Hospitals), Paris, France.

Professor Samama is the past-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 and of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. In January 2022, he has joined the Steering Committee of the World Thrombosis Day.

He is the past-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and also the founding Chair of the Scientific Subcommittee on Perioperative and Critical Care Thrombosis and Hemostasis of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).

Professor Samama has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and reviews (H index = 50, Web of Science). 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 co-authored the 2013 ESA Guidelines on Management of severe perioperative bleeding and the 2017 update (ongoing update). He chairs the ESAIC Task Force for the prevention of perioperative venous thromboembolism (guidelines published in February 2018 in the Eur J Anaesthesiol, IF 4, 18).