Acknowledgements
POQI I conference directors (named authors on all manuscripts)
• Timothy E Miller, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA.
• Andrew D Shaw, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• Michael G Mythen, Department of Anaesthesia, University College London, London, UK.
• Tong J Gan, Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY, USA.
Group A – analgesia
• Matthew D. McEvoy, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA (chair).
• Michael J. Scott, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Hospital, Surrey, UK (co-chair).
• Deborah Gordon, RN, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington.
• Stuart Grant, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA.
• Julie K.M. Thacker, Division of Advanced Oncologic and GI Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA.
• Christopher L. Wu, Department of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, USA.
Group B – fluids
• Robert H. Thiele, Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia School of Medicine, VA, USA (chair).
• Karthik Raghunathan, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, USA (co-chair).
• CS Brudney, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, USA.
• Dileep N Lobo, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
• Dr. Daniel Martin, Royal free Perioperative Research Group, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
• Anthony Senagore, Department of Surgery, University of Texas-Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA.
Group C – infection
• Stefan D Holubar, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH, USA (chair).
• Traci Hedrick, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, VA, USA (co-chair).
• John Kellum, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• Ruchir Gupta, Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY, USA.
• Mark Hamilton, Department of Anaesthesia, St. George’s Hospital and Medical School, London, UK.
Group D – outcomes
• S. Ramani Moonesinghe, Department of Anaesthesia, University College London, London, UK. (chair).
• Mike PW Grocott, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of Southampton, UK (co-chair).
• Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY, USA.
• Thomas J Hopkins, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA.
• Roberto Bergamaschi, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY, USA.
• Stuart McCluskey, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.