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The International VAM Network of Volunteers

ABBASIAN Mohammad, MD
University of Florida
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Farsi

ADHAMI Eftim, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Albanian
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Greek

AHN Wonsik, MD
Seoul National University, Korea
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Korean
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Korean

AL ADAWY SALAMA Wagdy, DVM, BVSCs
Veterinary Surgeon - Racing & Equestrian Club, Doha, Qatar
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.1) to Arabic

AMBRISKO T, DVM, PhD
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Hungarian
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Hungarian

BERGER Jerry, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Clinical director for pharmacokinetic simulations

BIDGOLI B, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Farsi

BLONDEL Pascal
Drager France
Translation of VAM simulation legends to French
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to French

BONDARCHUK EP
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Russian

BOY Jens, MBA
Drager Medical, Inc., USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to German

CHOI Soonhee, PhD Nursing, PhD Ed
Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea
Translation of VAM web pages to Korean

DADAK L, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Czech

DELANVAR Soheil
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Assistance in proofreading Farsi translations while an exchange student at the University of Florida

DIEMUNSCH Pierre
IRCAD-EITS, Hôpital Civil - Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France
External reviewer for French translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

DOBBINS Walter, BSEE
Syn-Tech Systems, Inc., Tallahassee, Florida
While an OPS student at the University of Florida, developed the code for the first Virtual Anesthesia Machine (VAM) simulation and coined the term "Virtual Anesthesia Machine"

DOEUNG Sokchea
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Coordination of translation of VAM simulation legends to Khmer

DROTLEFF Ralf
Drager Spain
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Spanish

ELLIOTT Robert D, MD, FRCPC
Department of Anesthesiology - University of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital - General Campus
Authored orientation help page for the APSF simulation of the anesthesia machine pre-use check

FUJITA Shiro, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Japanese

ELAMIN Elamin M, MD, FACP
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Reviewer of Arabic translation of VAM simulation pages

ELMAJED Husam, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Arabic

FISCHLER Ira, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Conducting studies to evaluate the effectiveness of transparent reality simulation

FAIRWEATHER Peter, PhD
Watson Research Center, International Business Machines (IBM), New York, USA
Provided access to proprietary IBM software that performed machine translation of Chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Spanish

FORTUNA Armando, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Portuguese

FORTUNA de OLIVEIRA Anibal, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Portuguese

GABRIELLI Andrea, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Italian
External reviewer for Italian translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

GAL Sándor, DVM
Log Cabin Animal Hospital, Egyesült Államok, Indiana, Indianapolis, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Hungarian
External reviewer for Hungarian translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

GEBHARDT Baerbel, MD
Phillips Universitaet, Marburg, Germany
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to German

GOKHELASHVILI Alex, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Georgian
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Georgian

GRAVENSTEIN Dietrich, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to German
Collection of video clips for airway device video library

GUTIERREZ Rodrigo, MD
Hospital Mexico, San Jose, Costa Rica
Review and correction of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) machine translated to Spanish by a proprietary IBM software package

GZOBAVA K, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Georgian

HASANPOURDARGAH M, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Farsi

HAUESER Marcus, MD
Phillips Universitaet, Marburg, Germany
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to German

HUANG Yahui, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Nanjing Medical University, China
Translation of anesthesia machine pre-use check simulation to Chinese

JUMANCA Ion-Ovidiu , DVM
Faculté Médecine Vétérinaire St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Romanian

KAMINOH Yoshiroh, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan
Translation of anesthesia machine pre-use check simulation to Japanese

KEIDAN Ilan, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Hebrew

KIM Jong Hoon, MD
Yonsei University, Korea
External reviewer for Korean translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

KUGIMIYA Toyoki, MD, PhD, FACA
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
External reviewer for Japanese translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0 and v 1.1)

LAUDANSKI Krzysztof, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Polish

LEE Tat Leang, MD
National University of Singapore, Singapore
External reviewer for Chinese translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

LI Bingbing, MD
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Chinese

LIEM Edwin B, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Original web author of the airway device section of the VAM web site; worked on later versions of the VAM simulation while on an anesthesia residency research rotation at the University of Florida

LIU Hui, MD
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Chinese

LUITWEILER RL, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Dutch

METREVELI Zaza, MD
Head of Disaster and Emergency Medicine Service, O. Gudushauri National Medicine Center, Georgia
External reviewer for Georgian translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

MIZUTANI Taro, MD, PhD
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0 and v 1.1) to Japanese

MORADI Gholamreza, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Farsi

NAZEMROAYA Behzad, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Farsi

OLYMPIO Michael, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest Baptist University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA
External reviewer for original English version of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

OZCAN Mehmet
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesvile, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Turkish

PAVLIK M, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Czech

PHIRTSKALAVA L, MD
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Georgian

PORTAL Esteban, MD
Translation of instructions for using the interactive models of the alveolar gas equation to Spanish

PORTILLO Conchi
Drager Spain
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Spanish

PROS Try, MD
Calmette Hospital, Cambodia
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Khmer

QIAN Yanning, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Nanjing Medical University, China
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Chinese
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Chinese

ROSS Edward A, MD
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Clinical consultant on CVVH and dialysis simulation

RYU Hogeol, MD
Seoul National University, Korea
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Korean
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Korean

SAGHAEI Mahmoud, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Supervision of translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Farsi

SEUBERT Christoph, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to German

SHAFIK Yasser Mohamed, MD
Military Academy Hospitals, Egypt
Translation of VAM Simulation pages to Arabic

SHI Tao, MD
Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, China
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Chinese

SIKO Barabási Zsombor, DVM
Kolozsvári Állatorvosi Egyetem
Románia, Kolozsvár
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Hungarian

SILVERMAN David N, PhD
Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Consultant on pharmacokinetics; beta tester of pharmacokinetic simulations

SIM Jiyeon, MD
Asan Medical University, Korea
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Korean

SZAJNOWICZ Patricio, MD
Médico residente en Anestesiología Hospital General de Agudos José M. Penna, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Translated FDA 93 pre-use check simulation to Spanish

SONI Shalin
High school intern at the University of Florida, summer 2003
Implemented web pages on the VAM web site

SRENG Chan
Houston, Texas, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Khmer

SUKEGAWA Iwao, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Japanese

SUZUKI Akihiro, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Asahikawa Medical School, Hokkaido, Japan
Translation of anesthesia machine pre-use check simulation to Japanese

TOTH József, DVM, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Hochmoori Állatklinika
Németország, Gescher-Hochmoor
External reviewer for Hungarian translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0)

VINCENT Ana, MD
Médica residente en Anestesiología Hospital General de Agudos Ramos Mejía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Translated FDA 93 pre-use check simulation to Spanish

WAN  Li, MD
Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Translation of VAM pages to Chinese 

WANG Guoxiang, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Hangzhou Red-Cross Hospital, Hangzhou, China
Translation of VAM pages to Chinese

WEI Gary
Beijing Aeon Medical Devices Co. Ltd., Beijing, China
Input on Chinese color code for medical gases

WENDLING Adam, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Clinical adviser and author of hemostasis scenarios

YAMASHITA Masao, MD
Ibaraki Children's Hospital, Japan
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Japanese and Japanese gas color code

YAVAS Sinan, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Helped in development of fospropofol and propofol simulations

ZANGOLGIAH Darush, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Farsi

ZHANG Jianmin, MD
Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing, China
Translation of VAM web site pages to Chinese

ZHANG Rensheng, MD, PhD.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Translation of VAM simulation legends to Chinese

ZITO Geremia, MD
Catholic University of Rome, Italy
Translation of chapter 1 of APSF workbook (v 1.0) to Italian