Professor Bernhard Riedel, MB.ChB, FCA, FANZCA, FAHA, FASE, MMed, MBA, PhD Bernhard is the Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with an honorary academic appointment at the University of Melbourne. His academic interests lie in the field of onco-anaesthesia, with his collaborative efforts investigating the role of prehabilitation prior to major surgery and the impact of the perioperative adrenergic-inflammatory response and anaesthetic technique on tumor-progression signaling as methods of improving cancer outcomes.