(In alphabetic order):

• Federico Bilotta, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Rome, Italy
• Cornelius Bollheimer, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Aachen, Germany
• Wolfgang Buhre, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Maastricht, Netherlands
• Ulf Günther, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Oldenburg, Germany
• Andreas Hoeft, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Bonn, Germany
• Peter Lee, Department of Anesthesiology, Cork, Ireland
• Idit Matot, Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care Division, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Steffen Rex, Department of Anaesthesiology, Leuven, Belgium
• Rolf Rossaint, Department of Anaesthesiology, Aachen, Germany
• Jacob Steinmetz, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Jos Tournoy, Division of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leuven, Belgium