Scientific Committee- Vacancy for the Co-Chair Position in Scientific Forum 2 Patients

The Committee

The Scientific Committee provides a European platform for contact and exchange of ideas and scientific initiatives in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care, perioperative, critical emergency and pain medicine, with an aim of producing scientific content for conferences and educational programmes organised by the ESAIC. The committee is organised in 5 Scientific Forums, gathering several expert groups focusing on a specific area of expertise.

The role

The ESAIC Scientific Committee (SC) is seeking to recruit a new Forum Chair for Intensive Care, to fill the position opening in Scientific Forum 2: Patients. This Forum is led by 2 co-chairs, one specialist dedicated to Anaesthesiology and one specialist dedicated to Intensive Care Medicine, coordinating together the activities of the subforums included in their group.

All forum chairs are members of the ESAIC Scientific Committee, as representatives of their forum and specialty.
For this position, we are looking for a specialist in INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE or an anaesthesiologist working primarily in the ICU. In addition, the (co-)chair in FORUM 2: PATIENTS must have a specific expertise in one or more topics below:

• Obstetric critical care;
• Paediatric intensive care;
• Critical Emergency Medicine (trauma and resuscitation);
• Metabolic disease and obesity;
• Cancer;
• Pain medicine.

Key Responsibilities

In this structure, forum chairs are appointed to lead the different forums and have the following duties:

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Providing strategic direction by defining and implementing the scientific strategy and priorities of the forum.
• Ensuring alignment with the latest clinical evidence, innovations, and international guidelines.
• Fostering cohesive vision across forum members based on a culture of innovation, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance the impact, relevance, and accessibility of ESAIC’s scientific congresses.
• Facilitating collaboration with other forums, especially when developing scientific content in overlap with other forums’ specialty.

 Chairs are invited to attend meetings of other forums when deemed relevant.

Operational

• Coordinating the work and decisions within their forum.

This includes ensuring submission of relevant programme proposals along with suggestions for topics and speakers (including themselves) for the scientific programme of the annual Euroanaesthesia Congress, and other ESAIC educational events (webinars, podcasts, e-learning modules, and other formats).

• Reviewing and commenting session proposals submitted for the annual congress by targeted groups of submitters, including other scientific forums, ESAIC committees and ESAIC members.
• Assessing abstracts submitted for presentation at Euroanaesthesia (EA), participating in the Best Abstract process selection and other abstract-related activities during the annual congress.

Additional Responsibilities

• Contributing to or coordinating the content development of any other educational activities linked to the topics covered by the forum.
• Undertaking additional responsibilities as decided by the Scientific Committee and/or Board.

Candidate Profile & Requirements

Eligibility criteria

Only ESAIC active and affiliate members can apply for the forum chair position in the scientific committee. Applicants must have held one of these memberships without interruption for at least the last two years on the date of the application deadline.

Co-chairs of a same forum must work in a different country, in accordance with the ESAIC commitment to diversity. The co-chair currently in office is from Turkey.

They must also bring distinct areas of expertise, to ensure effective coordination of the various topics covered by the Forum.

Compliance with the Nomination policy. Therefore:

• Members of the forum can apply for the chair position as far as the cumulated term of office (member + chair) does not exceed 7 years.
• The chair cannot hold other positions within the same committee and cannot be chair of any other ESAIC committee.

Only applications that meet all of the above eligibility criteria will be considered for review.

Qualifications and skills

Applicants must:

• Have at least 10 years of clinical practice (post-residency) and a proven track record and established international network in the field of intensive care, critical emergency or pain medicine.
• Have a recognised standing within the professional community.
• Be fluent in English, and apt to give lectures and act as speakers and/or moderators in relevant ESAIC scientific and educational programmes, including Euroanaesthesia.
• Have experience in scientific leadership, education, or conference organisation.
• Possess excellent communication, organisational, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrate strong collaborative and inclusive leadership capabilities.

Availability

Applicants must also ensure that they can dedicate sufficient time to this commitment. Timely and continuous communication with the Scientific Committee and ESAIC Headquarters is expected, to ensure the smooth running of the committee’s projects.

Conflict of Interest and Code of Conduct

• Full disclosure of any actual or potential conflicts of interest is required, in line with the society’s policy.
• Applicants are expected to adhere to and uphold the principles set out in the ESAIC code of conduct.

Term of office

The term of office is 3 years, subject to availability and commitment to the chair’s tasks, starting from 1 January 2027.

How to apply

To apply, candidates must:

1. Complete the application form
2. Upload a CV (maximum of 2 sides of A4);
3. Provide a conflict-of-interest (COI) statement, detailing any actual or potential COIs relevant to the role;
4. Confirm that they have read and understood the ESAIC code of conduct.

*All sections of the application form must be completed clearly and in sufficient detail.

Deadline for applications is Monday, 22 June 2026 (23:59 CEST)

More information

For any further information please contact the ESAIC Scientific Team at faculty@esaic.org