Rolf Rossaint is a Professor and Head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University Hospital (since 1997). Prior to his present appointment, he was Associate Professor in the Clinics for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina. He has (co) authored over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His clinical and research interests include pulmonary pathophysiology, ARDS treatment, extracorporeal lung assist, xenon anesthesia, coagulation management, and telemedicine in emergency medicine. He developed a holistic telemedicine system for a broad spectrum of different pre-hospital emergency cases, which acts now on a routine basis synergistically to the existing ground- and air-based rescue systems.

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Ph Arbeille is the Director of UMPS, Space Medicine and Physiology Research Unit, at University Hospital Trousseau, France. His area of research is Human adaptation and deconditioning in extreme environment (microgravity, bed rest, confinement...), and Tele-echography (Robotic arm, motorized transducer, 3D capture, remote echograph) for ground and space application.

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C V Rao has obtained his PhD from Washington State University in 1969. He did his Postdoctoral work at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cornell University Medical College. He has joined University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1972 as an Assistant Professor and became Full Professor with tenure in 1979. In 2008, he moved to Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami. He has extensively published in peer reviewed journals, trained more than 60 Post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and students, and gave 200 invited presentations in the US and around the world.

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