Dr. Sessler attended medical school at Columbia University, and subsequently completed pediatric and anesthesia residencies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently Vice-president for Clinical Research at UTHealth in Houston. Dr. Sessler has published more than 1,000 full papers including three-dozen in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA. More than 145 of his papers were accompanied by editorials, and more than 30 were cover articles for major anesthesia journals since 2010. His papers have been cited 70,000 times in peer-reviewed articles per Scopus — making him the world’s most published and cited perioperative investigator (H Index 126). He is among the top 0.01% of cited scientists in any field. He has given more than 500 invited presentations, including more than two-dozen eponymous lectures. Dr. Sessler has been a principal or co-investigator on grants totaling $100 million. He founded and directs the Outcomes Research Consortium. The Consortium is the world’s largest anesthesia research group; it publishes a full paper every other day, for a total of more than 2,300 papers.
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Alparslan Turan, M.D. attended the University of GAZI Medical School and completed residency at Trakya Medical School. Dr. Turan currently is Professor of Anesthesiology at Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University and Vice Chair of the Department of Outcomes Research at the Cleveland Clinic. He is on the editorial board of several journals and serves as the reviewer for more than 30 others. Dr. Turan’s grants total more than $8 million, and he has published more than 250 research papers. His main interests are perioperative outcomes, postoperative pain, regional anesthesia, and persistent surgical pain. An award for Clinical research has been dedicated to his name by Turkish Anesthesiology Society. He also has received multiple awards for his clinical research from various societies.
