Dr. Hugo E.M. Vereecke (°04/07/1972) became a medical doctor at the Ghent University, Belgium (1997) and consultant anesthesiologist (2002) at the University Hospital Ghent, Belgium.
After finalizing his PhD Thesis (2007) on improving anesthetic drug titration using neuro-physiological monitoring, he proceeded an academic career at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) (2010-current), the Netherlands, where he became an assistant professor in anesthesia (2012-current).
He is involved in multiple study-projects related to anesthetic pharmacology, such as: the improvement of pharmacokinetic-dynamic models for anesthetic drugs; using interaction models to predict responsiveness during anesthesia; exploring the use of electroencephalographic derived information to individualize titration of anesthetic drugs.
Dr. Hugo E.M. Vereecke currently combines his academic position with a clinical consultancy at the general hospital AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV, Brugge, Belgium (2016-current). He is an experienced lecturer and educator in his domain of expertise. He is co-promotor of several PhD’s and masterthesis. He volunteered in several professional societies and committees: the medical ethical
committee (2014-2016), the sedation committee (2012-2016) and chair of the incident notification commission (2012-2016) at the UMCG, program director, co chair and chair of the scientific programs of several annual meetings of ISAP (San Diego (2015) , Chicago (2017), New Orleans (2022) and the virtual meetings during the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021. He is the former treasurer
(2017-2018), secretarial officer (2018-2019), vice-president (2019-2020), president-elect (2020- 2021), and president (2021-2022) of the International
Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology (ISAP). He was active member of forum 1 of the European Society of Anesthesia and Intensive care (ESAIC) (2018-2023). He is a board member of EuroSIVA(2023-current). His publication list includes peer reviewed research papers, book chapters and
editorials in several national and international scientific journals.
Thank you to our Sponsors for supporting EUROSIVA Lisbon 2025!
We are pleased to express our deepest gratitude to Fresenius, Masimo, Neurowaves, and BD for their generous support of Lisboa 2025 – Make TIVA Simple Again, our upcoming postgraduate course on IV Anesthetic Pharmacology and Perioperative Monitoring. The event will take place on May 23–24, 2025, at the Main Auditorium, Edifício Egas Moniz, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. This high-level academic gathering has been awarded 15 CME credits by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), underscoring the
