Leadership
ISPAR Group Management Board
Approved current leadership profiles, roles, countries, specialties and biographies.
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Lene Heise Garvey
Lene is a specialist in Anaesthesiology and Allergology based in Copenhagen. She is co-founder and Head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, established in 1999. She is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a consultant in the Perioperative & General Allergy Clinics at Gentofte Hospital. She is secretary of the EAACI Drug Allergy…
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Sarah Green
Sarah is a clinician anaesthesiologist based in Sydney, Australia. She has been involved with clinical, educational, research, and governance responsibilities of the Perioperative Allergy Service at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney since 2011. This service was founded in the 1980s and has evolved to become a cohesive cross-disciplinary unit. Anaesthetists, immunologists, nursing, laboratory, and health…
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Charles Taquard
M.D., Ph.D. Medical degree: Graduate from the Strasbourg medical school in 2017 PhD: Strasbourg University in 2021 Current position: Strasbourg university hospital Research interest: anaphylaxis, hemostasis Members of the french society of anesthesia and intensive care (SFAR), GIHP, GERAP, ISPAR.
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Didier Ebo
Didier is an immunologist/allergist based in Antwerp & Ghent. His main interest is the molecular mechanisms of basophil & mast cell degranulation during immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions. In 2000, he set up a reference centre for the investigation of suspected anaesthetic allergic reactions in Flanders with > 800 patients seen to date. Didier’s research interests…
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Jerry Volcheck
Jerry is an allergist/immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota: he is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. His interest in perioperative allergy began during his Allergy…
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Jose Julio Laguna
Jose Julio Laguna Martínez Allergology and Clinical Immunology Specialist and Head, Allergy Department, Allergy-Anaesthesia Unit at Universitary Hospital Cruz Roja. Madrid Spain. Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedicine at Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid. Board Member, EAACI Drug Allergy Interest Group, Member, WAO Drug Hypersensitivity Committee, Secretary, Drug Allergy Interest Group, Spanish Society of Allergy and Clinical…
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Liana Azi
Dr. Liana Maria Torres de Araujo Azi is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. She has been actively involved in national and international multicenter studies on perioperative hypersensitivity and has co-authored several key publications and national guidelines on the topic in collaboration with the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (SBA)…
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Louise Savic
Currently a doctoral fellow with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Louise is investigating the link between antibiotic allergy and outcomes from surgery and developing ways to improve diagnosis for patients who suffer life-threatening anaphylaxis during their operation. Working closely with the national bodies representing anaesthetists, allergists and immunologists, Louise set up…
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Tomonori Takazawa
Tomonori is an anesthesiologist in Toyama, Japan. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama. He has been working on identifying the cause of perioperative anaphylaxis over the past ten years. In particular, he is focusing on the molecular basis of anaphylaxis caused by sugammadex. He…
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Anna Littlejohns
Anna is an academic clinical fellow in anaesthetics in the UK. She is part of the Leeds Perioperative Allergy Service and is a currently developing a structured approach to defining diagnostic certainty in patients with suspected perioperative allergy.
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Thanachit Krikeerati
Thanachit is an allergist in Bangkok, Thailand and has a broad interest in allergology, focusing on drug and perioperative allergies. His interest extends to molecular allergology, food allergy, and allergen immunotherapy. He’s also interested in systematic reviews, clinical epidemiology, and predictive models.He’s also active junior member of AAIAT, APAAACI, and EAACI.