Health Sciences of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva. He was elected president of the Israel Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA-1981-1983) and acts as an elected member of the National Council of ISA since 1974. He was a member of the WFSA Committee for Education between the years 1996-2004 and initiated the Beer Sheva educational project for Eastern Europe young anesthesiologists (1992-2005) and the International School for Instructors in Anesthesiology (ISIA-2006-2012). Dr Gurman's main scientific topics of interest include: depth of anesthesia, pro- fessional stress of the anesthesiologist, prevention of VAP, prevention of one lung ni- tubation, history of anesthesia. He is author and coauthor of more than 100 scientific papers published in peer review journals. He is also a writer and publishes in three languages: English, Hebrew and Romanian. Dr Gurman was accorded the title of doc- tor honoris causa of five medical universities in Europe. Present appointments: Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Medical adviser for the Director of Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva Chairman, Executive Committee of ESCTAIC (The European Society for Computing and Technology in Anesthesia and Critical Care) since October 2012 Chief Editor, European Society of Anesthesiologists NEWSLETTER(since July 2012).