Atabak Najafi, MD, the executive secretary of the congress told reporters that the congress would kick off on Wednesday with the heads of anesthesiology associations and other high-ranking academicians from 27 countries and with Ministers of Health and Labor, the head of Iranian Medical Council and primary insurance company directors giving keynote speeches; “notable among the prestigious guests will be William Wilson, MD, Anesthesiologist, University of Adelaide anesthesiology department, Ronald D. Miller, MD, a top-rated anesthesiologist and one of the best-known anesthesia authors in the world, Maximilian Jonas, MD, Consultant Intensivist in the University Hospitals Southampton in Britain, Donat Spahn, MD, Anesthesiologist and Professor and Chairman of the Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, Michael Ramsay, MD, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC), Dallas, Texas, Miray Karnekull, MD, Anesthesiologist in Stockholm, Sweden, Don Langrois, MD, Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive care medicine, Paris, France, and Dr. Kammerzell Sergej of Germany.
Hedayatollah Eliasi, Houshang Fahim, and Abdolrasoul Farid will also be guests of honor in the congress. Najafi added that the Congress would focus on anesthesia, special care, pathology, and legal and ethical issues on anesthesia, and some educational issues. “Apart from anesthetic experts, internists and surgeons, ICU nurses, and all sub-classes of ICU will receive special privileges in terms of occupational promotions,” he emphasized.