How to Pass the EDAIC

Andrey Varvinskiy is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Torbay Hospital in Devon, UK. He is an examiner for both the Royal College of Anaesthetists since 2010 and the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) since 2006 and has been an ESAIC examinations Committee member since 2005 and Chairman 2018-2020. He specialises in airway management, regional anaesthesia, ophthalmic anaesthesia, and education. He graduated from the Arkhangelsk State Medical Institute (USSR) in 1986 and trained in surgery and anaesthesia at University Hospital of Arkhangelsk. After graduation, he continued to work at the same hospital as an Attending Specialist and Lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care till 1995, before moving to the UK. After completion of a full UK postgraduate training programme in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, in 2001 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Torbay Hospital.

He is a UK Resuscitation Council certified BLS/AED, ALS Instructor and Course Director. Being multilingual, he has acted as a medical translator for several anaesthetic textbooks from English into Russian including "Miller's Anesthesia". He is a keen triathlete, cyclist, and swimmer.

Mario Zerafa graduated MD from the Medical School of the University of Malta, in 1987. He completed most of his Anaesthesia and Intensive Care training in the UK, specializing in Paediatric Anaesthesia at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. In 1998, he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Adult Cardiothoracic and Paediatric Anaesthesia at Mater Dei Hospital, Malta and Senior Visiting Lecturer in Anaesthesia within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta. In 2004 he was appointed the Founding President of the Malta Resuscitation Council. He is an ERC certified instructor in BLS/AED, ILS, EPILS, EPALS, ALS, European Trauma Course and Generic Instructor Course.
Over the past two decades Dr Zerafa has held multiple European posts in Anaesthesiology: Past EDAIC Part II Subcommittee Chairperson 2016-2020; EDAIC Examinations Committee Member 2009-2021; EDAIC Part 2 examiner since 2011; ESAIC Council member for Malta 2015-2019, and more

Sue Hill graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences in 1977 then completed a PhD in the Department of Pharmacology (1981). The majority of her anaesthesia training was at Southampton General Hospital where she was appointed a consultant from 1995 until retirement in 2017, specialising in Neuroanaesthesia. She was appointed as an Examiner for Part I to the Royal College of Anaesthesia (1999 - 2009) and became a member of and then chairman of the Primary FRCA MCQ subcommittee. She remained a member of the RCoA Examination Committee until my retirement in 2017, and was awarded the Humphrey Davy medal for Audit. She was appointed to the EDAIC Examination group in 2008, becoming Chairman of the Part I subcommittee (2010-2016). Dr Hill also established the On-Line Assessment (OLA) and also chaired that subcommittee (2012-2016) prior to her appointment as Chairman of the EDAIC (2016 - 2018). She also has a BSc in Mathematics from the OU (2006), specialising in Statistics and Computing.