Jennifer Hunter MBE, MB, CHB, PhD, FRCA, FCARCSI (Hon)

Jennifer M. Hunter, MBE, MB, CHB, PhD, FRCA, FCARCSI (Hon) is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK. She graduated with commendations from the University of St. Andrews in 1971 and started her anaesthesia training in Scotland. She then moved to Liverpool where she completed her residency programme before starting an academic career. Her research interests have been based on the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of neuromuscular blocking drugs in health and disease. Her clinical responsibilities have included the management of the critically ill, trauma patients and patients with chronic kidney disease. Professor Hunter has been Honorary Secretary of the Anaesthetic Research Society (1991-6) and in 1989 was the first woman to be elected to the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA). In 1997 she became Editor-in-Chief of the BJA and in 2006 the Chairman of the BJA Editorial Board. Professor Hunter was the Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology from 2006 to 2009, and in 2016 was made an Honorary Life Member of the Society. Professor Hunter has over 240 peer-reviewed publications and has edited three anaesthetic textbooks. She has been an examiner for the FRCA (UK), and for the MMed Anaesth in Kuala Lumpur, Cairo, Riyadh and Hong Kong. She has been an external examiner of 30 PhD/MD theses. For her contributions to anaesthesia and health care, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2011; and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen in 2015.