Editor-in-chief

JEN-KOU LIN

Department of Surgery

Veterans General Hospital, National Yang Ming University

Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China

Biography

Dr. Ramsay is chairman of the department of anesthesiology and pain management, a position that he has held since 1989. He is also co-medical director of OR services. He serves as a member of the Baylor University Medical Center Board of Trustees and is also a member of the Medical board. He is director of anesthesia for the liver transplant program and has personally provided anesthesia for over 1000 liver transplant recipients. Dr. Ramsay is Past President of the International Liver Transplantation Society and is currently a member of their Scope Committee. He is on the Editorial Board of Liver Transplantation and has published chapters in 10 text books on various topics related to the liver including Busuttil and Klintmalm’s “Transplantation of the Liver”. He has published over 58 manuscripts related to liver transplantation in peer reviewed journals. He is a professor at Texas A & M Health Science Center and he holds a clinical professorship in anesthesiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and also in the department of periodontics at Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A & M University. In addition, Dr. Ramsay is the developer of the Ramsay Sedation Scale, a measurement designed for interpreting the depth of sedation for patients in the critical care unit. This scale has been adopted around the world. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and numerous chapters in text books. He is a member of the Sedation Analgesia Guidelines Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. This group came out with new guidelines for the management of Pain, Agitation and Delirium in Adult ICU patients in January 2013. As President of Baylor Research Institute (BRI), he leads clinically relevant research efforts for Baylor Health Care System (BHCS). Since joining the organization, Dr. Ramsay has developed a successful infrastructure that has increased the number of clinical trials from 250 to more than 900 active trials today. The mission for BRI is expressed in the following statement, “To improve the medical care and well-being of our community – nationally and internationally – through innovative, clinical research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of the Baylor Health Care System.” He executed a collaboration agreement with Roche pharma that supports very early research projects and accelerates their completion. This was a pilot project and has now been replicated at many academic centers around the world. He is currently involved in a number of clinical research projects for which he is the principal investigator. His current research includes the role of nitric oxide in ameliorating the reperfusion injury in liver transplantation. He also is a principal investigator on several NIH-funded clinical trials to improve the outcomes of trauma victims.

Case Reports and Series in Surgery (Case Rep Series Surg) (ISSN 2733-2241)

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Case Reports and Series in Surgery is open access and broad scope journal covering various surgical specialties. The journal is dedicated to publishing case reports and case series in surgery and surgical techniques.

The journal accepts authentic, scholarly, innovative and clinically informative submissions to the international audience of surgeons, researchers, trainees and all clinicians in surgical domain and subspecialities. The case reports and case series must be such as to enhance the understanding of disease progression, management and clinicopathologic correlations.

CRSS covers areas of surgery such as general surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric surgery, trauma and orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oncosurgery, liver surgery, renal surgery, transplantation surgery, Colorectal Surgery and various other related surgical research and practice.

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Current Issue Volume 2, Issue 1

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