Professor Patrice Forget

Biography

Professor Patrice Forget, M.D. Ph.D., is Clinical Chair in Anaesthesia at the University of Aberdeen (UK), and Honorary Consultant at the NHS Grampian. He is involved in clinical research, focused on mainly pain, perioperative epidemiology and clinical pharmacology. For the last twenty years, as principal investigator and/or national coordinator, he published more than 200 articles, letters or editorials.

He is the Chair of the PANDOS (Pain AND Opioids after Surgery) ESAIC Research Group (European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care).

External Memberships

Board Member of the European Pain Federation EFIC (Honorary Treasurer, Chair of the Societal Impact of Pain partnership with the Pain Alliance Europe)

Active member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Acute and Chronic Pain Subcommittee member.

Past President of the Belgian Pain Society 

Research Overview

For the last fifteen years, as principal investigator and/or national coordinator, I have published more than 200 articles, letters or editorials, questioning current practices and opening new avenues in pain and perioperative medicine.

Current Research

My research programme, mostly focused on pain, combines perioperative epidemiology and clinical pharmacology approaches. 

Collaborations

Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Associate Editor for the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Associate Editor for the British Journal of Pain

Associate Editor for Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Senior Editor for BMC Anesthesiology 

Editor for the Clinical Journal of Medicine (Section: Anesthesiology)

Board member of eCancer

Cochrane collaborator

Reviewer for more than 50 scientific journals.

Teaching Responsibilities

Professor of anaesthesia and pain medicine