Meet the editors

Dr. Víctor M. Whizar-Lugo graduated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Hospital General de México, and a residency in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México City. He also completed a fellowship in the Anesthesia Department, Pain Clinic, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Currently,

Dr. Whizar-Lugo works as an anesthesiologist at Lotus Med Group. He is also a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. He has many publications on anesthesia, pain, internal medicine, and critical care to his credit. He has edited four books and given countless conferences at congresses and meetings around the world. He has been a member of various editorial committees in anesthesiology journals, past chief editor of the journal *Anestesia en México*, and is currently the editor-in-chief of the *Journal of Anesthesia and Critical Care: Open Access*. He is the founding director and current president of Anestesiología y Medicina del Dolor (www.anestesiologia-dolor.org), a free medical education program.

Dr. Guillermo A. Castorena-Arellano graduated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine, Anesthesia, and Critical Care at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México City. He is a research fellow in Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Currently, he is Professor of Anesthesiology at the Fundación

Clínica Médica Sur-UNAM. Dr. Castorena-Arellano has many publications on anesthesia, pain, internal medicine, and critical care to his credit. He has edited a book on perioperative medicine and has given numerous conferences at congresses and meetings around the world. He is the past president of the Mexican Society of Anesthesia and the Mexican Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

José Ramón Saucillo-Osuna MD graduated from the Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, and he specialized in anesthesiology at the Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente, Mexico. He is one of the most important pioneers in Mexico in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia. Dr. Saucillo-Osuna has lectured at multiple national and international congresses and is an adjunct professor at the Federación Mexicana

de Colegios de Anestesiología, AC, former president of the Asociación Mexicana de Anestesia Regional, and president of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Anestesia Regional Mexican chapter.
