Prof Bruce Biccard

We are delighted to welcome Professor Bruce Biccard, the Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Science at the University of Oxford, to the Aotearoa NZ Anaesthesia ASM international keynote speaker line-up!

Prof Biccard will join us in both the opening and closing plenaries to deliver his two talks:

Improving patient care across Africa

Clinical importance versus statistical significance

The talks delve into some of his research interests in perioperative medicine, perioperative outcomes and global surgery.

A proponent of international collaborative research, Professor Biccard collaborates with the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG), which has delivered the African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS), the ASOS-2 Trial, the African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study (ACCCOS), the African Surgical Outcomes Study in Paediatric patients (ASOS-Paeds), and the African Critical Illness Outcomes Study (ACIOS). He is the co-lead for the NIHR Global Health Group on Perioperative and Critical Care and a National Research Foundation (NRF) A-Rated Scientist.

He is also the author and publisher of his book Safer Surgery for Africa: Challenges and Solutions.