Meet the editors

Dr. Nieves Saiz-Sapena, MD, Ph.D., is an anesthesiologist at Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Spain. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in anesthesia in specialized fields such as neurosurgery, airway management, hostile environments, and bariatric surgery. She has numerous publications to her credit and is a member of several national and international scientific societies. Dr. Saiz-Sapena has taught at various

institutions in Spain, including Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, and Universidad Catolica de Valencia, both on-site and online.

Fernando Aparici-Robles is a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Valencia and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Valencia, Spain. He has over 20 years of professional experience, especially in interventional neuroradiology. He is the head of the Neuroradiology Section at the Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain. He has participated in the launch and implementation of the Stroke program in Valencia County, which includes thrombectomy procedures. He is an associate professor at the University of Valencia, and formerly an associate professor at Universidad Catolica San Vicente Martir, Valencia. Currently, he is an active member of several scientific societies including ECR, ASNR, and CIRSE, especially involved in Neurointerventional Sections. He also plays a role as a reviewer in a number of national and international scientific journals. Another field he is involved in is education, as the coordinator of the specialist training in Radiology at the Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe.

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island, and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and then

joined the Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, as an assistant professor of surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is a professor of Transplantation Surgery and chief of the Department of Transplantation Surgery at the Aristotle University School of Medicine. He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and PubMed, as well as 35 book chapters. He is a reviewer for more than forty international journals and serves on the editorial boards of several others.

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*by Adam Raskin, Anil Verma and Kofi Ansah*
