Professor Laurence Weinberg BSc, MBBCh, MRCP, DPCritCareEcho, ExecDipOL(Oxford), MD, PhD, FANZCA Professor Laurence Weinberg is Director of Anaesthesia at Austin Health, Melbourne, Professor in the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of the Austin Health Human Research Ethics Committee. He leads a department of more than 130 anaesthetists across two campuses, with responsibility for the safety, quality, and governance of anaesthesia services and for strategic developments including perioperative medicine services, simulation, and enhanced recovery programmes. His clinical expertise is in anaesthesia for cardiothoracic surgery, complex aortic surgery, and major hepatobiliary surgery including liver transplantation, with a particular focus on high-risk patients undergoing high-risk procedures. He also practises transoesophageal echocardiography and leads departmental education in airway management, TOE, and cardiac and perfusion crisis management. Professor Weinberg’s research interests span perioperative fluid therapy, goal-directed haemodynamic management, postoperative acute kidney injury, perioperative outcomes in the very elderly, transplant anaesthesia, and perioperative ethics and decision-making. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 38), has been principal investigator for over 30 randomised controlled trials, and has attracted more than $8.5 million in research funding, including NHMRC grants as Chief Investigator for the BEST-Fluid and CLIP-II trials. He is an invited speaker at national and international meetings, a reviewer for leading anaesthesia journals, and an active supervisor and mentor of PhD, honours, and medical students and anaesthesia trainees.