Speakers from Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina will have presentations in WCA24, Singapore.
Dr. Seda Banu AKINCI earned her M.D. from the Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She trained in Anesthesiology in the same university after which, she completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. She has served on the Medical Faculty at Hacettepe University since 2001.
She believes the standardization of anesthesia and ICU education across different programs both within and between countries is very important and cooperation between different countries can help to improve this standardization. During her management of different ICU’s (postoperative, mixed medical and surgical, and COVID Unit, lately), she has spent years to improve communication, well-being and team work between different professionals including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, and other health care personnel. She organized many courses regarding ultrasonography, mechanical ventilation, airway management, sedation and analgesia in the ICU. She currently is a member of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine (ICCM) Committee of World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) and serves on the editorial boards of many national and international scientific journals. She has actively worked for the scientific preparation of national /international symposiums and congresses. She is especially interested in experimental research in sepsis. She is also actively engaged in clinical trials on critically ill patients with COVID-19.
Dr. Basak Ceyda MECO, MD, DESAIC, FESAIC is a professor of anaesthesiology, specialized in neuroanesthesia and geriatric anesthesia, in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey (2001) and completed her anesthesiology and ICM residency at the same university (2007). She is a member of the ESAIC examination committee, Part II subcommittee, Patient Safety and Quality Committee and Scientific Forum 2 -The Geriatric Patient committee in ESAIC. Dr. Meco is the chair of the Turkish Society of Anesthesiology- national examination committee and is a section Editor of the Turkish Journal of Anesthesiology and Reanimation. Her major research interests include neuroanaesthesiology, geriatric anesthesiology and perioperative cognitive functions. She collaborated and co-authored 76 scientific publications (original articles, case reports, and reviews) in national and international journals and 12 books chapters.
Prof. Fatma SARICAOGLU. MD Prof at Hacettepe University Dep. of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, ANKARA President of Regional Anesthesiology Society. Executive Board Member of European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA)
Adisa Sabanovic ADILOVIC Since 2009, She has been employed at the Cantonal Hospital Zenica in the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care. In 2013 acquired the title of specialist in anesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care. She started the subspecialization of pediatric anesthesiology in 2017 at University Children’s Clinic Tiršova in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. She became a member of the organizing committee of the pediatric anesthesia WFSA in 2020.
Their presentations are :
Seda Banu Akinci Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee, Ankara, Turkey
Probiotics – To Give or Not to Give?
Approach to Undifferentiated Febrile Illness
Basak Ceyda Meco, ANKARA UNIVERSITY, ANKARA, Turkey.
The SBI Fast-Track Implementation Approach at the University of Ankara
Fatma Saricaoglu, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Comparing 3 Techniques of QLB – Are They Created Equal?
Paediatric Blocks – RA for Thoracic Surgery in Children
Adisa Sabanovic Adilovic, Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship




