Directors

Eric Buchser is currently the head of Anaesthesia and Pain Management Services at the Neuromodulation Centre at the Hopital de Morges, Switzerland, and a consultant in anaesthesia at the University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Buchser specialised in anaesthesia in 1983 after obtaining a federal diploma in medicine and a doctorate in medicine. His postgraduate training included clinical fellowships at the Pain Clinic at the University of Washington in the United States and in the Anaesthesia Department at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

He is well published in the area of pain management and neuromodulation and has written several book chapters. Professor Buchser is a reviewer for the European Journal of Anaesthesia and the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and has multiple teaching duties, including being an examiner at the Swiss Examination of Anaesthesiology. He is a member of several national and international societies and a founding member of the Swiss Society of Palliative Care Medicine.