Vladimir Cerny, MD, PhD, FCCM, FESAIC
Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Prof. Vladimir Cerny is a leading expert in anaesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and intensive care, during his career was working as a consultant physician in the USA, KSA and Canada. He serves as Chairman and Professor at Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Intensive Care at Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic), Professor at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Adjunct Professor at at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Current appointments include also the role of Clinical Deputy at the National Institute of Quality and Excellence in Healthcare, under the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, President of the Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (second term), Member of the ESAIC Ethics Committee and Forensic expert in anesthesiology and intensive care. Prof. Cerny is also a researcher with numerous peer-reviewed articles (h-index: 27). Since 2007, he has co-authored all European guidelines on major trauma bleeding and was recently invited to contribute to their 7th edition update. He also chaired the Scientific Committee for the World Congress of Anesthesiology (Prague, 2021). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as Deputy Minister of Health of the Czech Republic and National Coordinator for Intensive Care. In 2024, he was recently appointed by the Ministry of Health to lead a working group focused on reforming and restructuring the Czech intensive care system.