In November 2000, Dr JB (Iain) Glen became SIVA's first Honorary Member. In 2018 he received a prestigious award from the Lasker Foundation in New York City.
The 2018 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award honors John B. (Iain) Glen (retired from AstraZeneca), who discovered and developed propofol, a chemical whose rapid action and freedom from residual effects have made it the most widely used agent for induction of anesthesia in patients throughout the world. In 2016, the World Health Organization deemed propofol an “essential medicine” and at the time of that decision, more than 190 million people had received the drug.
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Delegates will have the opportunity to attend the society dinner on Thu 28th November at the Meeting venue (Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Broad St, Bristol BS1 2EL). You can add the dinner to your booked package at any time from your delegate home page.
Extended Abstract submission deadline: 18 October 2019
We will again accept abstracts for this meeting. The trainee winner of the poster competition will receive a cash prize.
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Regrettably we have taken the decistion to postpone SIVA 2020 due to CoViD-19. Our new meeting dates are:
The joint AAGBI-SIVA guidelines for the safe practice of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) are available online:
TIVA guidelines (Anaesthesia)This guideline was developed jointly by SIVA and AAGBI. The authors include Dr A F Nimmo and Prof A R Absalom (both past SIVA presidents).