Meet the editors

Dr. Nissar Shaikh, MD, EDIC, DID, FCCM, is a senior intensive care consultant and surgical intensive care fellowship director at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar. He is an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and an associate professor at the College of Medicine, Qatar University. Dr. Nissar has made numerous oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences. He has 150 peer-reviewed publica-

tions in critical and acute care to his credit as well as 3 books and 30 book chapters. He has won three prestigious awards for distinguished services from Hamad Medical Corporation.

Theodoros Aslanidis received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Plovdiv Medical University, Bulgaria, and his Ph.D. from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. After serving as a medical doctor in the Hellenic Armed Forces and as a rural physician in Outhealth Centre, Iraklia and Serres General Hospital, Greece, he completed specialist anesthesiology training at Ippokrateio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, critical care

sub-specialty training at AHEPA University Hospital, and a Prehospital Emergency Medicine postgraduate program at the Hellenic National Centre for Emergency Care. He served as an EMS physician and emergency communication center medic before moving to his current post as consultant-researcher in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Paul General Hospital, Thessaloniki. He is also a senior lecturer at the College of Offshore and Remote Medicine, Pretty Bay, Malta.
