Biographie

Prof Patricia Lavand’homme is working in St Luc Hospital, University Catholic of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. She is the director of the Acute Postoperative Pain and Transitional Pain Services. She is dedicated to Orthopedic Anaesthesia, Obstetric Anaesthesia and perioperative pain management. She has a PhD degree in Medical Science. Dr Lavand’homme did a visiting Scholarship Program at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA (in thePain Mechanisms Laboratory of Pr Eisenach). She has served as Chairperson of the Scientific Subcommittee “Acute and Chronic Pain” in the European Society of Anesthesiologists – ESA. She also was part of the IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain) Task Force working with WHO on Pain Classification for ICD-11 (working on chronic postsurgical and posttraumatic pain). She is currently a member of the PROSPECT (Procedure Specific Postoperative Pain Management) working group. Her research interests are the management of postoperative pain in the context of enhanced recovery programmes and the transition of acute to chronic pain after surgery. She is member of several national and international scientific societies.