ISPAR Group Management Board
Lene Heise Garvey
Denmark
Chair of the ISPAR Group
Lene is a specialist in Anaesthesiology and Allergology based in Copenhagen. She is co-founder and Head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, established in 1999. She is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a consultant in the Perioperative & General Allergy Clinics at Gentofte Hospital. She is secretary of the EAACI Drug Allergy Interest Group and a member of the WAO drug hypersensitivity committee. Research interests include all aspects of perioperative allergy and drug allergy, and mechanisms and treatment of anaphylaxis.
Peter Cooke
New Zealand
Peter is an anaesthesiologist in Auckland, New Zealand. He has joint responsibility for the Auckland Anaesthetic Allergy Clinic in conjunction with the Department of Immunology. The clinic investigates suspected perioperative reactions and receives 100 referrals per year. Peter was one of the founding members of the Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group and he is convinced that the development of an international network will assist scientific progress in this subject area.
Charles Taquard
France
M.D., Ph.D. Medical degree : Graduate from the Strasbourg medical school in 2017 PhD: Strasbourg University in 2021 Current position: Strasbourg university hospital Research interest: anaphylaxis, hemostasis Members of the french society of anesthesia and intensive care (SFAR), GIHP, GERAP, ISPAR.
Thanachit Krikeerati
Thailand
Junior Member
Thanachit is an allergist in Bangkok, Thailand and has a broad interest in allergology, focusing on drug and perioperative allergies. His interest extends to molecular allergology, food allergy, and allergen immunotherapy. He's also interested in systematic reviews, clinical epidemiology, and predictive models.He's also active junior member of AAIAT, APAAACI, and EAACI.
Sarah Green
Australia
Vice-Chair of the ispar group
Sarah is a clinician anaesthesiologist based in Sydney, Australia. She has been involved with clinical, educational, research, and governance responsibilities of the Perioperative Allergy Service at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney since 2011. This service was founded in the 1980s and has evolved to become a cohesive cross-disciplinary unit. Anaesthetists, immunologists, nursing, laboratory, and health administrator staff have conjoint responsibilities to care for more than 300 patients annually, spanning their acute phase treatment, diagnostic evaluation and follow-up of perioperative allergy problems. Sarah is a member of the Australian New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group and is interested in the global reduction of iatrogenic harm in anaesthetic practice.
Didier Ebo
Belgium
Didier is an immunologist/allergist based in Antwerp & Ghent. His main interest is the molecular mechanisms of basophil & mast cell degranulation during immediate drug hypersensitivity reactions. In 2000 he set up a reference centre for the investigation of suspected anaesthetic allergic reactions in Flanders with > 800 patients seen to date. Didier's research interests include in vitro diagnosis of suspected perioperative allergic reactions, validation of IgE assays & basophil activation tests.
Liana Arazi
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Louise Savic
UK
Currently a doctoral fellow with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Louise is investigating the link between antibiotic allergy and outcomes from surgery and developing ways to improve diagnosis for patients who suffer life-threatening anaphylaxis during their operation. Working closely with the national bodies representing anaesthetists, allergists and immunologists, Louise set up and now chairs the UK Perioperative Allergy Network.
Jerry Volcheck
USA
Jerry is an allergist/immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota: he is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. His interest in perioperative allergy began during his Allergy & Immunology fellowship: currently his primary interest is in the clinical evaluation of perioperative anaphylaxis and the importance of communication between the patient and the multiple medical, surgical and anesthesia teams involved in management of perioperative anaphylaxis.
Tomonori Takazawa
JAPAN
Tomonori is an anesthesiologist in Toyama, Japan. He is a professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama. He has been working on identifying the cause of perioperative anaphylaxis over the past ten years. In particular, he is focusing on the molecular basis of anaphylaxis caused by sugammadex. He is the principal investigator of a multicenter study of perioperative anaphylaxis, the Japanese Epidemiologic Study for Perioperative Anaphylaxis (JESPA).
Anna Littlejohns
UK
Junior member
Anna is an academic clinical fellow in anaesthetics in the UK. She is part of the Leeds Perioperative Allergy Service and is a currently developing a structured approach to defining diagnostic certainty in patients with suspected perioperative allergy.