Idit MATOT 

Prof. Matot is the Director of the Division of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel. Prof. Matot is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC).

She was also the President of the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA), was the representative for the ISA at the NASC and member of the nomination committee of the ESAIC. Prof. Matot was a member of the Research Committee and Transfusion Committee of the ESAIC, chair of the Geriatric anaesthesia Committee of the ESAIC. Her research interests include both experimental research related to the liver (perfusion, hemodynamics, effects of blood transfusion, the regeneration process), and clinical outcome research in the perioperative period.

Dr. Matot received her MD at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Following medical school she spent 3 years as a research fellow at the Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, studying tone dependent responses in the pulmonary vascular bed. She completed her anaesthesia residency at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem after which she returned to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Department of Environmental Medicine, for further studies on lung injury and few years later to Department of Anaesthesiology at Stanford University, California.

Prof. Matot received multiple prestigious grants including an award grant from the American Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, GIF (German Israel Foundation), ISF (Israel Science Foundation) and more. She has published > 100 peer review papers in prestigious journals and is an invited speaker to many international meetings.