Walid Habre MD, PhD

Walid Habre is a Senior Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia and is Head of the Unit of Anaesthesiological Investigations at the Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva University Hospitals, and Full Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland. His paediatric anaesthesia training included a Fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital Anaesthetic Department and the Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia. His main research activity is focused on the anaesthesia management of children with bronchial hyper-responsiveness. He has developed a particular research interest in lung function and heart-lung interactions, which led to more than 170 publications with an H-factor of 27. Additional research focuses on quality improvement projects in paediatric anaesthesia. Finally, he has just completed a 10-year term as deputy-editor of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology